Radiation Protection: A Holistic Health Approach

Radiation effects:

            • Anti-oxidant depletion- leads to various types of cancer

• Nausea, vomiting, diarreah, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite,

skin damage (swelling, itching, redness, and hair loss)

• Long-term effects: loss of IQ, mental illness, esp. depression

Clean Radiation Free Water

• Reverse Osmosis combined with an Ion exchange filter

• Water Distillation combined with an Ion exchange filter

Clean Food- Foods lower on the food chain

• Animals and dairy concentrate radioactive particles 30 times higher than plants

• Anti-oxidants packed in fruits and vegetables can reduce damage caused by radiation.

• Increase the intake of cruciferous vegetables, cabbage, and beets

• Eat alkalizing foods

Natural Cellular Defense Liquid Zeolite

• Removes almost all radioactive materials out of the body

• Removes heavy metals, herbicides and pesticides, free radicals, cancer cells, viral particles, alkalizes the body

• Increases immunity, helps with nutrient absorption, reduces allergy symptoms; a good source of anti-oxidants, calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, and iron

• Dosage: Take 10 drops of Liquid Zeolite 4 times daily for at least 3 months, preferably longer.

Main Radioactive Isotopes from Nuclear Fall-out

Radioactive Iodine-131

            • Half-life is 8 days, therefore more dangerous right after radiation exposure

            • Linked to thyroid cancer and thyroid disease

• Iodine deficient people (est. 72-99% of the population) will uptake radioactive iodine into their thyroid instead of the healthy iodine that keeps thyroid, breasts, ovaries, uterus, and prostate healthy.

Natural Healthy Iodine: potent anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal that increases our body’s ability to fight infections

            • Increase intake of healthy iodine to protect against radioactive Iodine

            • High occurring sources of iodine:

• Sea Vegetables: Kelp, Arame, Hiziki, Kombu, and Wakame. Kelp has the highest amount of Iodine on the planet and one serving offers 4 times more than a daily minimum requirement.

• Strawberries, potatoes, navy beans, cranberries, Himalayan crystal sea salt, seafood, and dairy all have naturally occurring iodine

• Also helps regulate estrogen production, protects hormones that stabilize mental health and body weight, keeps

Radioactive Strontium-90

1.   Behaves like calcium in the body

2. 70-80% passes through the body
3. 20-30% deposits in bone and bone marrow

• Reduces the body's supply of white blood cells and platelets.

• This renders people more prone to infection as well as uncontrolled bleeding

4. Linked to bone cancer and leukemia
5. Increase Ca intake through leafy green veggies and/or Cal Mag

Radioactive Cesium-134 and 137

1.     Behaves like potassium in the body

2.     Taken up by cells throughout body, esp. muscle tissue

3.     Increased risk of cancer due to high gamma radiation   

4.     Increase high-potassium foods to prevent Cesium uptake:

• avocados, sea vegetables, leafy green veggies, coconut water

• Prussian Blue helps body to excrete Cesium 137

Other superfoods that help the body to fight radiation:

Bee pollen: increases anti-bodies that help fight radiation

Spirulina, and chlorella

Siberian ginseng, chaparral, and aloe vera taken at 1oz twice daily

gotu kola, and ginko biloba.

Holistic Doctor Gabriel Cousens’ blog:

http://www.treeoflife.nu/DRCOUSENS/DRCOUSENSBLOG/tabid/364/language/en-US/~/Default.aspx?tabid=364&PostID=153&language=en-US

Week 14: Cognition

Is to live to know?

To live is not to know. To live and to seek, to meditate, study, and to love is to know. There are plenty of ignorant and useless consumers walking around like emotional zombies, spiritually devoid of any greater truth than their next fix or fleeting satisfaction or struggle, vamping other people of their emotional energy who in turn spread the heart-break and headache like an emotional virus that goes around and around until the whole planet is filled with victims and predators in some vicious, cancerous cycle….what do these people know other than scripted patterns that keep them knowing their true power and intrinsic divinity?

Memory & Magic

Our brains filter out a huge amount of information and see what they expect to see- which means magicians- by manipulating what we expect to see- can influence our minds towards certain events and away from others. Distraction is a way of influencing the sensory input we experience so that we only see what the magician wants us to see.

Cell Biology Quiz

I myself was forced to call myself a molecular biologist because when inquiring clergymen asked me what I did, I got tired of explaining that I was a mixture of crystallographer, biophysicist, biochemist, and geneticist, and explanation which in any case they found too hard to grasp,” Francis Crick

How would you now describe yourself?

1. Simply speaking, I am a shamaniacal energy exorcist (and actual exorcist which is a job only a true Scorpio could really ENJOY), which is another way of saying I’m a mad genius artist healer philosopher mystic rebel crystal shaman whose taken to Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism, yoga, writing, music and dance. You could get even more complicated (which is an occasional underpinning of a highly complex being) and say that my true self (without this Earthly body) is an ancient alien tantric cat warrior spirit from Sirius B who is just passing through Earth during this 3^rd to 5^th dimensional shift to code the grid and its inhabitants with novel and secret information to wake people the fuck up. My methods are many and my motives are vast. I believe in love, truthful wrath, and unconditional forgiveness. I’m like a ghetto Jesus as a foxy femme fatale.

Why might it be wrong to maintain that genes contain the information that specifies a human being?

2. When we say that DNA has the only role in specifying the information responsible for making a human being, we are mistakenly separating DNA from the rest of the organism’s autopoetic and interrelated network of interactions that comprises and composes the total human organism. Nothing in an interrelated autopoetic system is separated from anything else in the system. An organism does express certain qualities based on its genetic composition, but that DNA and genes aren’t the only factor in the different expressions and behaviors of cells and interactions in the holistic human being. The complex set of interactions.

How close do you feel we are to reaching a sustainable population level?

3. A large portion of the human race is going to have to die due to any number of causes, including but not limited to: nuclear fall-out, cancer, solar storms, ice age, starvation, and other geological, health, and government created disasters before the human race is anywhere close to reaching a sustainable population level. While human population is growing at a rate of 10,000 per hour, right-wing activists are picketing “Abortion is Murder,” signs, as if the human species is any more sacred than the hundreds of thousands of species our collective presence is helping to destroy completely. Humanity is responsible for causing at least half the creatures of Mother Earth to become extinct, creatures that are responsible for the diversity that keep ecosystems functioning. With hundred of species becoming extinct every year for the last 400 year since the Industrial Revolution, ecosystem services formerly provided by such species cause a loss of ecosystem services like recycling waste, providing fresh oxygen, food, clean water, new clothes, food to eat, and other crucial services that help sustain us.

Biochemistry Week 13: Living Diversity

 1. In what ways do you feel we have changed our attitudes to ecosystem services?

The kind of wreckless dominate nature tendency man has had is starting to crack and give birth to an interest in creating a global network of biodiversity science to study the intricacies of different ecosystems and what is needed to keep it all in balance so that we have a healthier relationship to nature which in turn will take care of us. Scientists are taking not just a scientific look at biodiversity, but an economic and practical one too to see how to best prioritize biodiversity issues and how to promote individual human behavior to intervene or adapt to ecosystem losses. A global network of biodiversity conscious warriors would at its best not just include scientists but indigenous peoples and participants in all interdisciplinary fields (including the social realm to spread awareness).

We are waking up to the fact that it is going to take a group effort based on The Law of One to save the planet, her species, and out health which is dependent on the health of the  different ecosystems’ species.

2. Discus why top predators are a healthy sign in an ecosystem.

Top predators like sharks are a healthy sign in an ecosystem because they naturally keep the balance of other wildlife ocean as it should be. In one study of a part of the Atlantic where sharks were virtually eliminated, 12 species that they fed upon became more abundant and caused great harm to the ecosystem. For example, the cownose rays- which the sharks usually fed upon- grew to out of control numbers and destroyed the population of bay area scallops. There were less scallops available for human consumption and no scallops to help clean and filter ocean water.

Sharks tend to hunt efficiently, which means they eat the sick and old fish of other species. This is actually good for the prey fish species as it helps prevent the spread of disease amongst the fish, outbreaks that are potentially devastasting. Sharks strengthen the gene pool of prey fish species by eating is weakest and sickest members, which leads towards greater numbers of strong and healthy fish who in turn reproduce greater numbers of strong and healthy fish for human consumption, keeping everyone healthier.

3. Chocolate’s health effects?

In health cases where the heart is not getting enough blood flow, dark chocolate eaten regularly can help coronary blood flow. The less sugar and fat the chocolate has, the better its impact on your health, especially if heart attack is a risk, in which case saturated fat would be best kept to a minimum in chocolate treats. However, chocolate is a hot food, and so a person has excess heat, eating chocolate in smaller quantities may be advised.

Biochemistry Week 13: Living Diversity

Examine your own immediate environment for diversity of species.

Okay, so technically I know this challenge has more to do with species outside the human race, but I cannot help but take this golden ghetto opportunity to shed light on the peculiar diversity of creatures of San Francisco’s 16^th and Mission barrio. Just this past week, I have seen hookers, crackheads, a tough Mexican homie with a mohawk checking me out, fashionistas, crazy schizophrenics (or maybe meth heads?) screaming at people who didn’t exist, skinny pissed off crackheads, Jesus freaks trying to save the crackheads, sweet Mexican women serving me huevos con nopales, Occupy yoga girls serving free food and teaching free yoga on the crackhead corner, revolutionary squatting roommates who have given up on capitalism and have a Free Store, alterna girls with tattoos, bike punk clown types downstairs at the experimental venue “The Lab,” and my favorite star of the ghetto- whom my boyfriend and I lovingly refer to as “Homie.” Homie is our wheel-chaired beggar friend outside of Walgreens who sounds like he had his vocal chords half ripped out of his throat and who won our hearts with his “I love my Mom” tattoo on his chest and the day he lovingly ushered me into Walgreens like the Queen of the Ghetto. Other than that, I’d say the only other “species” that live in my immediate environment are my tattooed Colombian rockstar boyfriend and the mold that lives under the fridge. There’s probably some microscopic bacteria and other things I don’t want to know about that live in our studio apartment in the Red Brick Building on 16^th St.

May Chocolate help keep people slim?

Whose to say if the catechins in chocolate that improve lean muscle mass and reduce weight- balance out the amount of saturated fat and sugar in the chocolate that most people eat? I think a more informative article would have included what percentage dark chocolate bars in the standard dark chocolate bars that people eat still helps reduce weight. Obviously, ingesting a raw cacao treat with low glycemic agave nectar is going to have different effects on the body than a 60% dark chocolate bar loaded with cocoa butter and sugar. And let’s not even talk about the abomination of chocolate known as milk chocolate. I think adding raw chocolate to smoothies with banana, kefir, almond milk, almond butter, green food powder, and protein powder is one of the best combination of ingredients I ever thought up to put in a blender.

Plutonium

After our conversation about the stockpile of plutonium held in Japan and its cooperating countries, I decided to do a little online research about plutonium, and this is what I found:

The main carcinogenic property of plutonium-239 comes from the energetic alpha radiation it emits. Once in the body, plutonium-239 is preferentially deposited in soft tissues, notably the liver, on bone surfaces, in bone marrow and other non-calcified areas of the bone, as well as those areas of the bone that do not contain cartilage. It can have especially harmful effects in the bone marrow, where blood is produced.The greatest health danger from plutonium-239 is from inhalation, especially when it is in the common form of insoluble plutonium-239 oxide. The risk from absorption into the body via ingestion is generally much lower than that from inhalation, because plutonium is not easily absorbed by the intestinal walls, and so most of it will be excreted.

 

Biochemistry Week 12

Meiosis, Mitosis, and the Creation of the Universe

Bio-chemistry doesn’t always inspire a complex mix of feelings wavering between primordial wow-ness mixed with wonder at the possibility of some grand orchestrating force that some people call “God” and that I might refer to as a multi-dimensional pantheistic playing field where higher dimensions interface with material reality mysterious and inexplicable ways. In this multi-dimensional mystical reality circus, I sometimes wonder how EXACTLY non-physical entities (Gods, angels, demons) influence material reality, or does science have creation all figured out with the Big Bang theory and quantum physics? The fact that nature seems to have synchronistically worked out both asexual reproduction (mitosis) and sexual reproduction (meiosis) to the effect that babies are given EXACTLY half of the chromosomes of each parent- to me- seems like some kind of small miracle that I have a hard time believing nature- in a strictly material or Darwinian natural evolution sense- just came up with by mere coincidence subject to survival of the fittest. Now I’m no creationist, but who or what inspired the process of mitosis whereby the innate intelligence of a cell causes its nucleus to split, creating two identical nuclei, or the equally small miracle of meiosis whereby an egg or sperm “know” that its chromosomal half is just around the bend in a hopefully suitable mate’s matching parts? If we are biologically dependent on the other sex’s chromosomes to create new life, might we also be emotionally or spiritually interdependent as well? Such musings conjure up images of Tibetan consorts sitting in yab yum- god and goddess dependent on the other to create the universe.

Citric Acid Cycle Animation

The animation we were asked would be more comprehensible if we more extensive chemistry foundation. I felt like I was listening to some quixotic futuristic language, and one that would take me years to learn. The one thing I got out of it is that citric acid cycle helps a cell produce ATP or other molecules out of raw building blocks such as amino acids, fatty acids, and monosaccharides. The other thing I got ouf of it was that I am a chemistry novice. I wish I had more to add.

Do humanity and bacteria share a common ancestor?

At first, I thought, “No way do human beings and bacteria have a common ancestor.” In bacterias’ cells, DNA is not separated from the cytoplasm, whereas in humanity’ DNA, the DNA is located in the cell nucleus. This biological difference seems to point to a lack of relation. However, there is a theory that suggests that all living things on Earth have a common ancestor, and this study has aimed to find the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). The theory suggests that the LUCA is a single cell that existed 3 or 4 billion years ago from which all life as evolved since. The scientific evidence for the common ancestor of humanity and bacteria is that the same exact genetic code is used in humans and bacteria, so that a gene from a human can be place into a bacterium, and the bacterium will make a human protein. This is how insulin is made. Who knew?

BioChemistry Week 11- Chemistry of Life

Biography:

Erin is a tantric yogini, crystal aficionado, singer, clarinetist, pianist, composer, face-painter, Vajrayana Buddhist & Hindu, and believer in the true teachings of the Cosmic Christ. She got her BA in music and studied hatha, Iyengar, bhakti, tantric yoga, dance, Eastern philosophy, and pranic healing outside of school. She is an empathic healer, mystic, masseus, and magician (both sex magic, wicca, and life as a magical practice) with keen insight into human psychology and a novel approach to combining yoga asanas and chakra sounds in order to open all the chakras, including the sacral and throat chakras. She had a full kundalini awakening a few years ago, which was one of the most ecstatic moments of her lie and opened up some past-life and multi-dimensional awareness. She has been around the universe a long time….

Once upon a time in her mid 20s, she accidentally became the clownarchist queen of the L.A. Underground and lived on a fairyland in Topanga Canyon, throwing shocking social deprogramming costume parties, performing Dadaist poetry, performance art, and generally creating all kinds of beautiful madness. Her life was truly like a living fairytale, before crashing down at the height of her fame, divorcing her husband and grieving her father who was murdered. She went from thinking she was going to become a rockstar and model in Europe to having a near-death episode at 27 which sent her fleeing to Tucson Arizona to rest for a few years before the Great Spirit told her move to San Francisco. It was in the ghetto of the Mission that she met her fairy rockstar soulmate who is currently producing and co-writing her first album, a haunting elegy of alien conspiracy and dark emotional landscapes.

Erin is still healing while attending acupuncture school. Her illness gave birth to an intense interest and study in healing, spiritual devotion and discipline, and a passion for crystal jewelry making, including crystal womb belts for female reproductive pain. She is currently getting weekly acupuncture sessions and studying like a prophetic lunatic.

Review of Animation

I may have the image of an animated dog with his head in the toilet forever emblazoned in my mind after checking out the Acids and Bases link. I may not. But what I will always remember is that aspirin, coca cola, citrus fruits, and vinegar are acidic. I actually heard somewhere that coca cola was so acidic it could clean the gunk caked onto your toilet bowl. More chemically speaking, an acidic substance is anything that produces hydrogen ions. A basic substance is anything that produces hydroxide ions. Examples of basic solutions are baking soda, detergents, ammonia cleaners, tums and Rolaids. I learned that when acid and bases react, they form salt and a water. I found a pH chart of common substances like blood and coffee interesting, as chemistry is more intereting when it is connected to the common items of every day living. Some of the other information was dry and technical, and no amount of cute blue bubble boxes and bullet points could make fun or accessible enough to say, yeah, I read it but still didn’t “get it.”

Does the End justify the Means?

“The ends justify the means” is usually a phrase trying to pawn off unethical actions because supposedly, the end result makes it worth the perceived harm of the causes or procedures that go into that end result. My view is that all actions have karma, and it is a fool’s errand to think that shitty procedures produce somehow good outcomes. “The ends justify the means” is a phrase often used to justify war, (including the Gulf War which caused many birth defects of veterans’ children and cancer as a result of the use of depleted Uranium weapons used). “The Ends justify the means” never looks at long-term effects, only immediate gratification for some desired outcome which usually only benefits one party and not the Greater Whole (and really, we are all One). Every single action has karmic repercussion, which is why it’s a stupid phrase to use as an excuse to justify any unethical behavior thinking that if we can just put up with the b.s., we will somehow grow flowers out of it.