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worry about avoiding the problem. The main toxins just to give you some idea how prevalent they are. Things that make
discussion in this disk is about why we become the list are birth control pills, fluoride, bleach, tap water, hygiene products,
obese. What should not come as a surprise to sunscreen, off-gassing from plastics and almost anything new, BPA, drugs
our regular readers is that watching calories is a and cleaners.
waste of time. Our culture has been doing that Disk Five talks a little about real food and points the listener to Sally
obsessively for decades. How is that working Fallon Morell and the Weston A. Price Foundation. Christoff argues that
out? Christoff also speaks in detail about how bacteria are not the enemy in our day to day lives, and real food comes
the body’s defense mechanisms work and why from living soil. I can’t argue with that.
they can make it hard to lose weight if you don’t Disk Six continues to emphasize the importance of good soil and
understand that subject. genuine organic food. Christoff describes how ridiculous our unhealthy
We poison ourselves every day in many di- lifestyle can be by giving us the mental picture of an obese American
verse and creative ways. Small children are more grabbing a bag of fast food and enough snacks to last for the hours he will
susceptible than adult men to a given amount sit propped up in front of his TV watching mindless, mentally debilitating
of poison. The reason is simple. Size matters. entertainment. He may fall asleep for a few hours in front of the TV, then
The theory is put forward that one of the body’s force himself to wake up with a jug of high-octane coffee so he can go
defense mechanisms against constant low-level work at a job that is just a paycheck to him.
poisoning is to get bigger. I don’t know if this Disk Seven is more philosophy than anything else and Disk Eight is
explains every instance, but Christoff makes a a bit of a mixed bag. With eight total disks, this will take a long time to
very interesting case and backs it up well. listen to. If you have a CD player in the car you can listen to it while you
Disk Three discusses the immune system drive around for a few weeks. For Disks One through Six in particular I
and the many things in western civilization that give a thumbs UP.
assault it. Any one thing by itself is unlikely to
be a big deal, but between lack of good nutrition Burzynski: The Movie
and exposure to a long list of chemicals, life can Written, directed, and produced by Eric Merola
be difficult.
Christoff goes into some detail on one Dr. Burzynski is a medical doctor and PhD biochemist who has discov-
chemical which most people are addicted to. ered the genetic mechanism that can cure most human cancers. Numerous
Healthy plants do not suffer greatly from insects interviews are presented with patients of Dr. Burzynski who have been
because they have a natural insecticide. Coffee cured. His treatment has no negative side-effects. While his treatment
plants have this. It is called caffeine. It may not protocol doesn't produce a one-hundred percent success rate it is far better
kill anybody immediately but continuous accu- than conventional chemotherapy or radiation, and often successful with
mulated exposure will cause problems eventu- childhood brain tumors which are otherwise almost always fatal.
ally. Human metabolism and energy increase the Other pharmaceutical companies routinely receive multi-million dol-
same way with caffeine as with any low level lar grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to conduct research
poison in the system. This raises a few questions and clinical trials. The U.S. government currently prohibits any tax-payer
which he didn’t address. If all healthy plants have money to be granted to Dr. Burzynski’s FDA-approved clinical trials.
some form of natural insecticide, what are the The movie documents how the FDA is controlled by the pharmaceutical
implications for a healthy diet? Not all plants companies it is supposed to be regulating on our behalf.
have the same effect on human metabolism as In the 1980s Burzynski battled with the Texas Medical Board, which
coffee so is there something else affecting us had asked for successful cases to review, which Burzynski provided. There
besides the insecticide component of caffeine? was no further word for two years. Then the board came back, pretended
My curiosity is not completely satisfied here but the cases were not successful and accused him of breaking a law that
it is an interesting point. doesn't exist. After several amendments to the charge, the case went to
Disk Four continues with the short list of trial in 1993. Burzynski won. That, however, was just the beginning.
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