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Tim’s DVD Reviews

not sound too serious but if it turns out to lead to cancer or something more Cancer, Nutrition, and Healing:
exotic like, I don’t know, growing a second head, that could be serious. At A Personal Odyssey
this point there are no studies that prove any of these dire consequences, by Jerry Brunetti
but cell phones have only been around in significant numbers for about Acres, USA
ten years. Studies didn’t show that ten years of smoking had a significant Jerry Brunetti was diagnosed with non-
effect on health either but as time goes on, the picture gets clearer. Safety Hodgkins lymphoma approximately ten years
standards that do exist have been set by engineers and physicists, not health ago. He consulted several doctors and oncologists
professionals. Given the track record of our health system, the cynical side and carefully studied his options and had lots of
of me can’t help wondering whether that really matters. tests done so he knew exactly what he was deal-
This movie will probably be a little slow-paced for the ADHD types. ing with. The oncologists told him that without
Cell phone lovers will want to stick their fingers in their ears and loudly chemotherapy he had six months to two years to
sing “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares” off-key. Those of us live. After careful consideration he decided to try
who grew up eating fast food, breathing in lead paint and trusting our something that had a better chance of working.
government to look out for our safety might want to know that in 1996, About five years later he made this video, in
Congress passed a law against objections to cell towers for health reasons. which he still looked very much alive even
While health consequences may not be proven yet, we are unquestionably though he didn’t follow all the expert advice he
involved in yet another very large and dangerous experiment. A glow-in- was given. That was about five years ago. I saw
the-dark THUMBS UP for this one. him in person a couple of months ago at our last
conference and he still looked very much alive.
Dirt, The Movie So how did he do it?
Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow He took a very broad spectrum approach
Common Ground Media that included detoxification, nutrition, herbs,
Dirt starts off with a bang, literally. A large cosmic bang is not what low-dose naltrexone and life-style improvements.
I would expect in a movie about dirt, but I kind of like it. Eventually they One of the things the tests revealed was high lev-
get around to talking about dirt and soil. I personally make the distinction els of mercury, so carefully removing amalgams
that soil is full of life and dirt is what’s left when you kill all of that life. containing mercury was a priority. He also took
One way to kill the soil is to subject it to monoculture for long periods of steps to deal with other heavy metals.
time. Even when done organically (USDA organic standards, that is) as Another component of his protocol was
it was in the Great Plains for several decades, the end result was a dust hyper-immune milk. Without going into too
bowl. The main theme of the movie is the critical importance of healthy, much detail, he infused his blood into a healthy
living soil. cow which then developed immune factors in her
It would be interesting to see at least a summary of all the civiliza- milk to deal with any pathogens in his blood. He
tions that have destroyed their soil and then died out, but they make no then drank her milk.
mention of that in the movie. They do mention cows a couple of times but While I wouldn’t necessarily go along with
cows don’t get the attention I think they deserve for their key role in build- every detail of his protocol, it is very good overall
ing healthy soil. They also repeatedly annoy me with many references to and I won’t argue with success. It is a pleasant
climate change as if that is something new that hasn’t been going on for relief to see a cancer video that recognizes the
hundreds of thousands of years. These irritations made my thumb feel very importance of good fats and animal foods, in
heavy but the pyrotechnics were just good enough to give me the strength contrast to the pile of videos that tell us to eat
to barely hold my THUMB UP for this one. like rabbits. THUMBS UP.

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