Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Letter to the Senate on S. 324 Melanie Blocker Stokes Act Daniel Burdick

Here bellow is my Letter to the Senate I sent versions of first to my Oregon Senators and then to many of the other Senators.

Appropriate music.

Pete Seeger
Which Side Are You On?

Pop Will Eat Itself
Ich Bin Ein Auslander

I have written the below letter in support of those people who are opposing the Melanie Blocker Stokes initiative. I differ from the majority of these dedicated individuals in that I focus equal attention on the current medical truths, being swept under the rug in this fiasco, about Omega-3s and other nutrient factors in pregnancy. This is germaine. Such considerations represent the medical aspect in maternal psychological health. In an alternate, legitimate action, focused on the welfare of children and adults, rather than their exploiation, here is where the light would be shown.

Branding pregnancy as a mental illness
Byron Richards March 17, 2008
http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html

Dr. John Breeding Mandatory Psychiatry Screening Scam, Mothers Act
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzb2gD1fWpE

Evelyn PringleMothers Act fules multibillion dollar industry
Apr 7, 2009
www.counterpunch.org/pringle04072009.html

Essential fatty acids for pregnancy and breast feeding
By Oscar Umahro
www.jirehhealthhk.com/health_detail.php?id=7

"Animal studies show that severe EFA deficiency during pregnancy leads to more severe deficiencies in mental and sensory capability (20) . There also appears to be a connection between maternal omega-3 status and the length of gestation: The lower the serum levels of omega-3 fatty acids, the greater the chance of giving birth prematurely (22, 25) . Finally, women with postpartum depression lack omega-3 fatty acids compared to women who gave birth without any problems (16).

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Psychiatric Disorders
http://www.groupadpsych.org/files/2003/omega3.pdf
Mothers selectively transfer DHA via a placental membrane fatty acid-binding protein to their fetuses to enable optimal neurological development during pregnancy (Campbell et al., 1998; Dutta-Roy, 2000; Martin et al., 2000).

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Dear Senator ____________,

The MOTHERS ACT has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 324 introduced Jan 26 2009).

The orchestration -- the manipulation of events and messages -- by the drug companies in recent decades (as well as other vested interests) is more far-ranging than people can generally understand.

This Melanie Blocker Stokes initiative, I believe, is duplicitous through and through. They have set up a dummy independent concerned group [1], and acquired well-known supporters, (such as Brooke Sheilds and Valeria Plame Wilson) [2]. They've created a cunning catch phrase: "The Mothers Act" -- How can you "Vote No" on the Mothers Act? They've provided a matching, well-worded, favorable explanatory blurb to portray the legislation.

With congressional backers in place, pharmaceutical lawyers crafted this legislation so as to be seemingly well intended and partially veil the true specificity [3] of its intent (e.g., it is for "research and for providing "comprehensive treatment"). In actual fact it leads straight to increasing profit points in their market [4]. It provides them one more target niche for selling psychopharmaceutical products. This is also viewed by them in terms of the new group of prescribing doctors involved. Loren R. Mosher writing of drug companies' sales campaigns explains that, for them, this is "expanding the prescriber base" [2].

The irony is that, their rallying flag, their martyr, for whom the bill is named, Melanie Blocker-Stokes, committed suicide after she did receive the psychiatric industry favored version of medical treatment, consisting, in her case, of three different drug cocktails and then electrical shocks across her head. The people who lie behind S. 324 are dissembling -- they merely use her name as another propaganda device, in full understanding of the nature of their many deceits.

The brain by dry weight is 60 percent fat. Mothers give their babies DHA Omega 3 fat in utero and in breast milk, removing it from their own body and brain if needed [5]. If people want to truly interest themselves in babies' and mothers' well-being, and in peripartum psychosis and depression, then they should look towards loving support for mothers and babies, social and occupational considerations, and on the medical side, getting them good Omega 3 fats, Zinc, B Vitamins, and Vitamins E and C.

There is no need to do "research" and, meanwhile, give contrived "screening tests" to women as a pretext for deceiving them about the advisability of taking these foreign chemical agents which target the nervous system, i.e., fluorinated SSRI drugging agents (that have long been known to cause homicidal and suicidal ideation), benzos, and neurotoxic "atypicals." These manipulative tactics aim to force-feed these drugs to pregnant and nursing mothers en masse.

The real research is already done and available. Fluorinated phamaceuticals [6] are overly toxic and not appropriate to broadly prescribe to mothers, while Zinc, Folate and EPA/DHA oil are amongst the items to give mothers if one actually wants to help them and their babies' psychologic and neurologic well-being.

Sincerely,

Daniel Burdick




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[1] Front Groups

Front Groups: Examples of Manufacturing Grassroots Support
Bonner and Associates
John Davies
Burston-Marsteller
http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/envcrisis/fronts/grassroots/examples.html


Pushing Prescriptions
Surrogates for Their Agenda: How the drug industry uses non-profits to push its interests
By Alexander Cohen
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/rx/report.aspx?aid=721
"PhRMA internal planning documents, obtained in 2003 by the New York Times, detailed budget plans for that fiscal year beginning in July and described a massive grassroots assault, budgeting almost $9.4 million for third party op-eds and articles, Washington, D.C.-area advertising, media relations consultants and other public relations efforts. Other highlighted areas of interest included spending more than $12 million to ally with doctors, patients, universities and minority groups and a minimum $2 million to policy and research groups."

Burston-Marsteller
www.burson-marsteller.com/About_Us/Regional_Leadership/Lists/RegionalLeadership/DispForm.aspx?ID=38
"Rafael Casas-Don rejoined Burson-Marsteller as Managing Director, Regional Practice Chair of the HealthCare Practice for Burson-Marsteller Latin America in 2007." "He has conducted pro-bono work for organizations such as NAMI and several HIV and AIDS outreach organizations."

Astroturf -- The Big Business of Fake Grassroots Politics
Walter Truett Anderson Jan, 1996
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=18742ff01ca47064f33f58a05e73ce0e

SENATOR MENENDEZ APPLAUDS GRASSROOTS SHOW OF FORCE ON BLOG DAY
Written by Susan Dowd Stone on April 20, 2009 - 9:40am
http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=311689
www.empowher.com/news/herarticle/2009/04/20/menendez-author-legislation-combat-postpartum-depression-applauds-grassro

Senator Grassley: Letter to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/us-senator-charles-grassley-letter-to-nami

“Based upon reporting in the New York Times, I have come to understand that money from the pharmaceutical industry shapes the practices of non-profit organizations which purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions.”

Non-Profit Organizations with Ties to Industry
www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html

"[A] November/December 1999 Mother Jones article, 'An Influential Mental Health Nonprofit Finds Its "Grassroots" Watered by Pharmaceutical Millions,' by Ken Silverstein. The article focused on the enormous amount of funding which NAMI receives from pharmaceutical companies, with Eli Lilly and Co. taking the lead by donating nearly $3 million to NAMI between 1996 and 1999. In fact, according to Silverstein, NAMI took in a little more than $11 million from 18 drug companies for that period." {Senator Grassley's comments, in investigating NAMI thus far, suggest that NAMI is controlled by industry influence and funding, actually though, one can take as read that NAMI was initially created by industry counterintelligence. That is the take home message as to what all this evidence points up. Dan.}

"Schizophrenia Treatment and the New COPE Program"
http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/APA-Annual-Meeting-Media-Briefings-Schedule-10912-2/
Results of a multinational survey of the attitudes and perceptions of healthcare professionals, patients and their caregivers. The launch of COPE, a new program providing practical and useful information for understanding and coping with psychosis-related disorders on a day-to-day basis, also will be announced.
Sponsored by: Zeneca Pharmaceuticals/NAMI/ burson marsteller

Let Them Eat Prozac
www.healyprozac.com/GhostlyData/default.htm
"Ghost writing has now evolved beyond journal supplements and there are grounds to think that a significant proportion of the articles on therapeutics in main stream journals such as JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, the BMJ and the Lancet may be written with help from medical writing agencies."

Rima Laibow and Ret. Gen. Albert Stubblebine: A Modern Major General Exposed?
Various health freedom advocates, their supposed fellows, now suspect their “Natural Solutions Foundation” to be a false front, "controlled opposition" group.
Here are three good references.
Jonathan Campbell 2007 www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_486/articles_486.htm
Real health advocates? www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1029074
Disinformation http://educate-yourself.org/lte/actionabledisinformation23dec08.shtml

How Florida Fell In Love With Antipsychotics April 14, 2008
www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/how-florida-fell-in-love-with-aytypicals

"Four years ago, Lilly and several other drugmakers proposed the creation of The Florida Behavioral Health Collaborative. And they provided $10 million to the state to get it up and running. Soon, an expert panel was convened and recommended state standards, and national scholars with financial ties to drugmakers that sell atypicals were invited to participate."

More on Glaco and Avandia The New York Times
http://seroxatsecrets.wordpress.com/page/30/
"GAMIAN-Europe
"The Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks was founded by the drug company Bristol Myers Squibb in March 1997, bringing together 12 organisations including Depression Alliance from the UK . GAMIAN-Europe, registered in Belgium , does not detail its funding on its website, apart from acknowledging drug company grants for specific projects. It told the Guardian that nearly half (45%) of its €234,000 (£160,000) income in 2006 came from Eli Lilly, manufacturers of Prozac. Other antidepressant makers also contributed."
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[2]

A Primer for Understanding “Big Pharma’s” Market Tactics
Loren R. Mosher, Richard Gosden and Sharon Beder http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/sbeder/drugcompanies.html

2. Sales campaigns:

Generation of a “media hype” via celebrity endorsements, articles placed by public relations agencies and direct to consumer advertising. The latter is a relatively new technique (1997) that has proven highly successful.

Expanding the prescriber base: The company will focus its detailers efforts on getting primary care doctors comfortable with prescribing their new “safe, effective and well tolerated” drug that has ordinarily been the province of a particular specialty group. This has been an extraordinarily successful technique with both the SSRI anti-depressants (i.e. 60% or more of SSRI prescriptions are written by non-psychiatrists) and the “atypical” anti-psychotic drugs.

Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker
www.naturalnews.com/011353.html

Strategies of Drug Companies to Optimize the Sales of Their Psychiatric Drugs
Robert Whitaker Video at Dresden
http://ki-art-multimedia.de/dresden/robert.htm

[3] Written so as to partially veil the extant specificity of intention.

A) Our Bodies Ourselves -- A Non-profit organization
www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/04/melanie-blocker-stoke-mothers-act-on-postpartum-depression-passed-house-moves-to-senate

Rachel Says:
April 23, 2009 at 10:12 am
As far as I can tell, there is nothing at all in the bill that mandates or even privileges antidepressant treatment.

Amy Philo Says:
April 20, 2009 at 1:27 am
As a mother who was screened, drugged, involuntarily hospitalized, and who experienced the frequent reaction to antidepressants of HOMICIDAL ideation, hallucinations, and suicidal urges, I have been warning people for years about the dangers of antidepressants and other drugs. Those who condone and promote drugs are either ignorant, misled, or have other motives for doing so.
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B) Senator Blocking MOTHERS Act Is Obstetrician (Seriously) April 20, 2009
http://postpartumprogress.typepad.com “the language of the bill was changed”

"Senator Menendez has worked hard to reach across the aisle and ensure that the language of the bill was changed to accommodate the concerns of Republicans as well as outside parties like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. There is no mandatory screening, for instance. There should be no concerns remaining that would prevent you from getting behind the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act and helping mothers."
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C) New Mothers and Postpartum Depression
Expecting Executive -- Helping You Manage Life's Details
http://blogspot. expectingexecutive.com/2007/ 06/14/new-mothers-and-mental- health-ppd.aspx

"How about making a little bit easier on expecting mothers and new mothers by including counseling/coaching as part of the prenatal and postnatal well baby program? How about making sure that doctors are truly checking on the mental well being of the mother and not just the physical well being?" "I believe that all new mothers need proactive mental health care. The delivery of a woman's baby results in huge physical, hormonal and emotional changes...let's stop insinuating that all new mothers should be able to gauge their mental well being and reach out for help if they need it." "I suggest that all expecting mothers should be introduced to and spend some time with a mental health counselor before their babies are due."
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D) Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS ACT Becomes Shaky Platform for Frustrated Anti-Pharma Faction
Written by Susan Dowd Stone on April 7, 2009 - 10:06am
www.empowher.com/news/ herarticle/2009/04/07/melanie- blocker-stokes-mothers-act- becomes-shaky-platform- frustrated-anti

"...tactics are being used to frighten the very population the bill is designed to help –mothers suffering from postpartum mood disorders. Such misrepresentations have the potential to derail the long awaited deliverance of help which could reverse and end such suffering….which affects over 800,000 women a year.

The detractors are crafty. Notice they don’t offer a link to the actual language of the bill on their websites, because if they did…. readers would quickly discover that The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act does not promote medication, in fact, it specifically does NOT fund medication. Nor does The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act mandate screening.

In the light of day – these false arguments are easily refuted by simply reading the bill. Legislators and organizations confronted with these allegations do just that….they read the bill and then thankfully call to endorse it."
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E) “Medications don’t work for everyone so this is more about preventative research” http://grow.corsakti.com/?p=173

There She Grows April 20th 2009 Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act: combat Post-Partum Depression

“Some people who consider themselves anti-pharma also oppose the act, possibly under the impression that it is simply another “cause” to aid drug-pushers. There is also the infuriating notion still held by many (thanks, tom cruise) that conditions such as depression are imagined, and that psychiatric treatment is BS. However, there is nothing in the bill that forces women to be screened for the condition OR to be medicated. Medications don’t work for everyone so this is more about preventative research, support and education.”


[4] Profit Points.

Testimony to Texas House Select Committee
Hearing on Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care
www.wildestcolts.com/safeEducation/hupp.html
October 4, 2004
John Breeding, PhD, Director
Texans For Safe Education

Quote:

Psychiatric Diagnoses of Children are not Real Physical Diseases

"I suppose the justification is that these children are sicker, more “mentally ill” than the general population, so in fact they are fortunate to be in our care because they receive needed “treatment.”

I am here to tell you that many of us know better, and to support you in your important, deliberate investigation of this matter. The fact is we responsible adults are failing our children. We call it medicine, but the plain truth is twofold. One, children are profit points for Big Pharma. Two, we are using extremely potent and dangerous psychotropic drugs in an effort to make our children submit to a system that fails to meet their real needs, educational and otherwise.

These drugs are potent and dangerous. I won’t say anymore about that. What makes it even more disgraceful is that we are drugging our precious children without evidence of real disease. As difficult as this is for many to believe, the plain truth is that there is no scientific validation of any of the supposed childhood psychiatric illnesses, which are said to justify giving our children these powerful, addictive, toxic and harmful drugs. Psychiatric diagnoses are entirely subjective."


"Are Kids Being Overdosed?" by Anne Stanton
http://psychdata.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

Letters to the Editor: 5/24/07

"Being a foster child is not a medical condition. And yet psychiatry has laid claim to between 60 and 90 percent of foster children nationwide, drugging them all, putting their final stamp on them—the conspicuous physical sequelae of their drugging/poisoning--things like the grotesque, uncontrollable movements of tardive dyskinesias, or of what looks for all the world like a typical case of advanced-age, Parkinson’s disease, but for the fact it is seen in a five-year old—the handiwork of psychiatry.

By rejecting the fact that these children need love, structure, discipline and an education, but instead, imposing a system that makes them profit-points and intoxicates and poisons them we will surely rue the day when, at 18 or 21, they age-out and spill out into society totally unloved, unprepared, full of the realization that this is what was done to them—this and only this. Their cost in terms of life-long disability will be but a fraction of the cost we will pay for having “pimped” them to the for-profit, psychiatry-big pharma cartel."
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"Profit-points," as a term in use in production, marketing, and investment connections -- is not a term I have actually used in conversation myself. Anne Stanton and Dr. John Breeding use the term well so I used it. - Dan Burdick.


[5] Mother's medical need for Omega-3, Zinc, B-Vitamins and Vitamin C.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Psychiatric Disorders
www.groupadpsych.org/files/2003/omega3.pdf

"The physiology of pregnancy involves the mobilization of polyunsaturated fatty acids from maternal stores to the fetus, and supplementation with essential fatty acids may ensure adequate supplies for the needs of the mother and the developing fetus. Hornstra et al. (1995) demonstrated that maternal essential fatty acids, especially the DHA proportion, progressively decrease during pregnancy.

Without sufficient dietary intake, mothers become depleted of DHA, and depletion of maternal n-3 fatty acids has been noted during pregnancy (Otto et al., 1997). Lactation may increase the period needed for DHA to return to normal levels (Otto et al., 2001). Multiple births exacerbate the DHA deficiency (Al et al., 2000). Maternal DHA can be reduced by 50% during pregnancy and not fully restored at 6 months postpartum (Holman et al., 1991; Al et al., 1995).

Mothers selectively transfer DHA via a placental membrane fatty acid-binding protein to their fetuses to enable optimal neurological development during pregnancy (Campbell et al., 1998; Dutta-Roy, 2000; Martin et al., 2000)."

Pregnancy is a time of increased nutritional requirements
www.jirehhealthhk.com/health_detail.php?id=7

“The essential fatty acids (EFAs) and some of their derivatives are of utmost nutritional importance during pregnancy and lactation (8) . During the last trimester of pregnancy and the first months after birth, major developments in the growth and maturation of the infants central nervous system (CNS) and sensory apparatus, such as the eyes, take place.”

"Omega-3 and omega-6 fats are both important, but cannot be interchanged as they are not the same, very much like both vitamin C and E are important vitamins and antioxidants, without one being able to do the job of the other one. Only getting enough of one is better than not getting enough of either, but getting enough of both and in a balanced ratio is the best."

"The reason why DHA has been emphasized so much is very likely the general deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids in modern industrial diets and the general imbalance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Ideally, it should be no more than 4-5:1, but research estimates that modern diets often contain in excess of 14:1 (24) ; other studies show that the ratio is in between 10:1 to 25:1 (22). Too little of either of these fatty acids can lead to impaired development and functioning of the childs central nervous system (18, 19, 21) with the suspected possibility of lowered IQ and decreased visual acuity (6) ."

"Animal studies show that severe EFA deficiency during pregnancy leads to more severe deficiencies in mental and sensory capability (20) . There also appears to be a connection between maternal omega-3 status and the length of gestation: The lower the serum levels of omega-3 fatty acids, the greater the chance of giving birth prematurely (22, 25) . Finally, women with postpartum depression lack omega-3 fatty acids compared to women who gave birth without any problems (16). "


Malcolm Peet 2003
EPA in the treatment of schizophrenia and depression: rationale and preliminary double-blind clinical trial results
“There is considerable evidence that current psychotropic drugs can have adverse as well as beneficial effects on the natural history of mental illness. The administration of drugs which have potent effects on neurotransmitters and their receptors will inevitably lead to compensatory changes in brain biochemistry." " It is increasingly recognized that some psychotropic drug side effects are not merely an inconvenience, but are potentially life threatening.” "There is no doubt that different approaches to the treatment of mental illness are urgently required and that new developments are unlikely to come from permutations of existing neurotransmitter and receptor approaces."

Essential Fatty Acids, DHA and the Human Brain
Meharban Singh
http://medind.nic.in/icb/t05/i3/icbt05i3p239.pdf

"It is recommended that the pregnant and nursing woman should take at least 2.6 g of omega-3 fatty acids and 100-300 mg of DHA daily to look after the needs of her fetus and suckling infant. The follow-up studies have shown that infants of mothers supplemented with EFAs and DHA had higher mental processing scores, psychomotor development, eye-hand coordination and stereo acuity at 4 years of age. Intake of EFAs and DHA during preschool years may also have a beneficial role in the prevention of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and enhancing learning capability and academic performance."
Indian journal of pediatrics. 2005 Mar;72(3): 239-42

Alternative Treatments for Postpartum Mood Disorders
By Sarah R. Fields
Dr. Bowman checks approximately 180 parameters. In cases of postpartum psychosis, high levels of kryptopyrroles-which indicate low levels of zinc and vitamin B6-signal that serotonin and GABA neurotransmitters are not being produced in adequate amounts. In addition, most postpartum psychosis patients exhibit elevated blood copper, which is associated with elevated norepinephrine levels and can contribute to depression, anxiety, psychosis, or violent behavior.

CCHR The Drugging of "Post Partum Depression"
http://www.granitescientific.com/granitescientific%20home%20page_files/ppd%20and%20chem%20imbalance.pdf

The Link Between Diet and Behavior
www.foodforthebrain.org/download.asp?id_Doc=96
"However, the conversion of shorter-chain EFAs to longer-chain PUFAs in humans is poor. It is also affected by many diet and lifestyle factors including excessive consumption of saturated fats, hydrogenated fats and trans fatty acids; lack of co-factors such as zinc, magnesium, vitamins B3, B6 and C; viral infections and the presence of hormones released in response to stress"

Supplementation with a combination of Omega 3 fatty acid and antioxidants (vitamins E and C) improves the outcome of schizophrenia
Meena Arvindakshan, Madhav Ghate, Prabhakar K. Ranjekar, Denise R. Evans, Sahebarao P. Mahadik www.sepeap.es/revisiones/archivos/10418.pdf

Healthy Mom and Baby
http://www.vitalchoice.com/healthymom/index.cfm

Mothers who ate more seafood than was considered to be safe according to U.S. guidelines had children who were more advanced. They had higher IQs, better social skills, were more communicative and more physically accomplished. Those children whose mothers had eaten no fish performed worse on all the same measures.
As Dr. Hibbeln wrote in their report:
• "We have found that when women had low levels of seafood consumption, the outcome is exactly the opposite of what was assumed by the United States Advisory. Unfortunately, the advice appears to have had the unintended consequence of causing harm in a specific developmental domain – verbal development – where protection was originally intended.
• "We recorded no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption.
• "In contrast, we noted that children of mothers who ate small amounts, 340 grams per week, of seafood were more likely to have suboptimum neurodevelopmental outcomes than children of mothers who ate more seafood than the recommended amounts."
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[6]

Doctor: Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs By Russell Blaylock
[ Dr. Blaylock is a board certified neurosurgeon, author and lecturer.]
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/19/194210.shtml?s=lh

SSRI RISKS: NEW DATA OR RENEWED SCRUTINY?
www.freedomhealthrecovery.com/ssri.html
By David Healy, MD, Ph.D
"Even before Prozac was licensed at the end of 1987 regulators in Germany had raised the issue of suicidality."

Fluoride in drugs harmful
www.blackstarsecurity.com/2009/01/06/what-levels-of-fluoride-are-harmful/
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/gulfwar.htm

SSRI Time Line www.baumhedlundlaw.com/safety/bhlaw-ssridocs.php
Google: “During the treatment with the preparation [fluoxetine] 16 suicide attempts were made"

“One issue that will be addressed for the first time is: Why did the German drug regulatory agency (BGA) approve Prozac in 1991 after denying Eli Lilly the license to market the drug in Germany in 1984 without explicit label warnings about the increased suicide risk the drug poses ?

The Elephant in the Morgue Sam Smith, Progressive Review www.prorev.com/2007/04/elephant-in-morgue.htm
In coverage of School Shootings one topic has been kept of the table: the consistent use of anti-depressants by the murderers.

Flouride Is In Your Drugs And Water - Enormous Effects www.whale.to/v/blaylock.html
By Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD 11-3-7

"Almost everyone has at least heard the recent news stories citing links between certain antidepressant drugs and suicides and even school shootings. Several surveys have shown that a majority of school shooters were taking SSRI- type antidepressants before they committed their heinous acts. What most people have not heard is that in most cases these were fluorinated drugs (Paxil and Prozac, etc.), the chemical structure of the drug included the toxic element fluorine.

A growing number of studies are showing that fluorine added to drugs and to drinking water can have a profound and prolonged harmful effect on the brain. At present, I am reviewing all the studies done on fluorinated pharmaceutical drugs and their effects on the brain. What I have found is shocking. There is a strong link between the use of many of these drugs and violent behavior, including homicides and suicides.

In 2002, a number of murder/suicides occurred on the military base at Fort Bragg , N.C. , which were linked to the fluorinated anti-malarial drug Lariam. The Canadian military experienced a similar rash of murder/suicides and uncontrollable aggression among its soldiers taking the drug as well.

According to the "Physician's Desk Reference," used by doctors to prescribe medications, the commonly used fluorinated antibiotics Floxin, Levaquin, and Cipro can cause nightmares, psychotic reactions, paranoia, agitation, manic reactions, aggression and hostility, hallucinations, and even depersonalization, all symptoms associated with acts of homicide and suicide.

In fact, in their own clinical trials, pharmaceutical companies found homicides, homicidal acts, homicidal ideation, and aggressive behavior to be a side effect of the fluorinated medications. In addition, it was found that children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) taking the medications experienced hostility episodes 17 times more often than depressed patients.

Of particular concern was the finding that 1.1 percent of healthy, psychiatrically normal people who took an SSRI anti-depressant experienced one or more hostile episodes, while none taking the placebo had such an event. Medications remain in the brain for prolonged periods after discontinuing the medication, more so with fluoxetine (Prozac) than Paxil.

In 1990, about 220 fluorinated pharmaceutical drugs were on the market. Now some 1,500 are under development. With millions of people taking these classes of fluorinated drugs, events similar to those at Virginia Tech are bound to occur. This incident was a great tragedy. I send my prayers for all those who were killed and injured and especially to their families.

It has been estimated that such side effects with these anti-depressant medications, as well as other fluorinated medications, are grossly underreported to the regulatory agencies. One study estimated only 1 percent to 10 percent of cases are ever reported. Why more people are not affected may be related to the abnormal brain chemistry of depressed and OCD-affected people.

What is unusual about the effect of fluorinated drugs is that they trigger planned violence rather than just violent outburst. This is what we also witnessed in the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. Make sure that the medication your doctor prescribes is not a fluorinated one."

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The Melanie Bocker Stokes Act and related issues

Dr. John Breeding Mandatory Psychiatry Screening Scam, Mothers Act
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzb2gD1fWpE

Amy Philo, Unite For Life http://www.uniteforlife.org/

Evelyn PringleMothers Act fules multibillion dollar industry
Apr 7, 2009
www.counterpunch.org/pringle04072009.html

In a March 30, 2009 speech on the House floor, Congressman Rush identified the target of this piece of legislation when he claimed that, "60 to 80 percent of new mothers experience symptoms of postpartum depression while the more serious condition, postpartum psychosis, affects up to 20 percent of women who have recently given birth."

After the House voted to pass the legislation on that day, the Congressman stated: "H. R. 20 will finally put significant money and attention into research, screening, treatment and education for mothers suffering from this disease."

However, he only mentions screening and treatment for postpartum depression. The true goal of the promoters of this Act is to transform women of child bearing age into life-long consumers of psychiatric treatment by screening women for a whole list of "mood" and "anxiety" disorders and not simply postpartum depression.

Enough cannot be said about the ability of anyone with a white coat and a medical title to convince vulnerable pregnant women and new mothers that the thoughts and feelings they experience on any given day might be abnormal.

The constant watching and barrage of questions such as are you depressed, are you anxious, are you moody, are you fearful of motherhood, are you sleeping well, are there changes in your eating habits, will predictably have the net effect of convincing many women that normal thoughts and emotions are a sign of mental disorders.

The Mothers Act - A Dangerous Prescription for Mothers and Infants
http://mothersact.wordpress.com/

Pat Risser
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Veterans+pat+risser&btnG=Search
"Like the Mothers Act, the Veterans Mental Health Treatment First Act is a transparent effort by Big Pharma to expand the psychiatric drug market."

Drug Your Fetus Big Pharma Hits on Pregnant Women
By EVELYN PRINGLE November 2006 www.counterpunch.org/pringle11212006.html

If Big Pharma cared one iota about the unborn fetus, at a bare minimum, it would call off its hired-guns traveling around the country peddling SSRI antidepressants to pregnant women by convincing doctors to prescribed the drugs and ignore the studies and FDA warnings that say SSRIs are associated with serious birth defects.
Less than a month ago, on October 16, 2006, the first lawsuit in the nation was filed against GlaxoSmithKline in which an infant charges that his life-threatening lung disorder was caused by exposure to the SSRI Paxil in the womb during his mother's pregnancy.


Dangers of Psych Drugs in Pregnancy Byron J. Richards, CCN March 21, 2008 www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron52.htm

Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness By Byron J. Richards, CCN
March 13, 2008
www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron51.htm

Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 1:59 pm Column: Evelyn Pringle www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00076.htm

Paxil Babies: The Dangers of Antidepressants
By Bruce E. Levine June 6, 2008
Increasing Use of Antidepressants by Pregnant Mothers

“Receiving little attention in 2007 was the study "Increasing Use of Antidepressants in Pregnancy," published by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Medical records of 105,335 pregnant women enrolled in Tennessee Medicaid from 1999-2003 revealed that antidepressant use during pregnancy increased from 5.7 percent in 1999 to 13.4 percent in 2003.”

Manie's Story (Birth Defects Caused by Antidepressant)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJmHX-eVK

BIGPHARMAVICTIM the STORY of MANIE http://bigpharmavictim.blogspot.com/

Mental Health Screening, Psychiatry & Pharma Marketing Scam John Breeding, Ph.D.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9E71FaJ5M

The Pharmacaust: The Destruction of the "Mentally Ill" Robert Whitaker and Loren Mosher, M.D.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vkRt46QMms

Big Pharma & Psychiatry & FDA, Mental Health for a Profit Dr. John Breeding www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz9MfBx51ps

When Mothers Kill, Postpartum Depression, Andrea Yates Dr. John Breeding www.youtube.com/watch?v=pecCbMtqjos
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The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act S.324 Mom's Opportunity to Access Health

Stress Testing the MOTHERS Act
Kelly Patricia O'Meara May 7, 2009

Mothers Act -- A Dangerous Prescription for Mother and Child http://mothersact.wordpress.com/

Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry
Motherhood and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex
Evelyn Pringle April 7, 2009

Mandatory Mental Screening for Postpartum Depression
— The Brave New world of Coerced Drugging
Dr. David W. Tanton, Ph.D. February 10, 2009

Drug Your Fetus
Big Pharma Hits on Pregnant Women
Evelyn Pringle November 21, 2006

The Emerging Medicalization of Postpartum Depression: Tightening the Boundaries of Motherhood by Pam Regus 2007
http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07312007-190817/unrestricted/Regus_Pam_200708_ma.pdf

Discover and Recover Resources for Mental Wellness
The Mothers Act: Dangerous Legislation….that Needs to be Stopped

BRANDING PREGNANCY AS MENTAL ILLNESS
Byron Richards, CCN March 13, 2008

DANGERS OF PSYCH DRUGS IN PREGNANCY
Byron Richards, CCN March 21, 2008

National postpartum illness screening effort stalls
by ELISE YOUNG May 15, 2008
www.northjersey.com/news/nationalpolitics/18963399.html

Controversy Swirls Around MOTHERS Act Furious Seasons April 15, 2009
www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2009/04/controversy_swirls_around_mothers_act.html

HR20-New Mother's Mandated Mental Health Test-JUST PASSED HOUSE! April 15, 2009 www.dailypaul.com/node/89836

Mental Health in Northfield Mn
Mother's Mandated Mental Health Test, H.R. 20, S.324

NO WAY To The MOTHERS Act!!!! Local News Clips (PPD, drugs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViPhj8VPko

The Mother's Act - Mandatory Screening of Moms for Depression is Like a Bad Movie Rerun
April 20, 2009 by Evelyn Pringle, health freedom writer

COPES Foundation Coalition Of Parents Enduring Suicide
http://copesfoundation.blogspot.com/2008/03/chaada-unite-copes-foundation-icfda.html
The supporters of The MOTHERS Act have been engaging for the past few years in an aggressive attempt to pass an incredibly broad federal law which will transform the U.S. market for “antidepressant” or “antipsychotic” drugs from a voluntary pool of patients who are encouraged by commercials to seek help from their doctors, to a government-sponsored screening program to select patients who are deemed to need “antidepressant” or “antipsychotic” drugs from among the female childbearing-age population. These promoters of the bill have had vast resources and ample time to obtain support and backing from the legislators they have influenced.

It is especially shocking to see it being promoted at a time when our society is being terrified by frequent shootings and murder-suicides which have been preceded by the perpetrator’s use and sometimes improper discontinuation of antidepressant drugs, and in the wake of several notable celebrities’ deaths which were the result of prescription drug toxicity. The evidence against these drugs is frightening, and the reality is that, if The MOTHERS Act is passed, those who are the most innocent and vulnerable and in need of protection FROM these drugs will instead be put ON these drugs, and placed in serious danger from all of the negative drug effects - including spontaneous abortion, a tenfold increased risk of psychosis for postpartum women, birth defects, suicide, and homicide (YES, THIS IS A LISTED ANTIDEPRESSANT SIDE EFFECT).The bill creates funding for development of new drugs at taxpayers’ expense. Doctors will be under greater pressure to prescribe drugs to pregnant and postpartum women due to federal law which would ensure the promotion of earlier “detection” and “treatment.”

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Washingtonwatch.com

S. 324, The Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act

www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_324.html#toc0

Detailed Summary

Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act or the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act - Encourages the Secretary of Health and Human Services to continue: (1) activities on postpartum depression; and (2) research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and treatments for, postpartum conditions.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health may conduct a nationally representative longitudinal study of the relative mental health consequences for women of resolving a pregnancy in various ways.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants for projects for the establishment, operation, and coordination of effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with a postpartum condition and their families. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such projects provide education and services with respect to the diagnosis and management of postpartum conditions. Authorizes such projects to include: (1) delivering or enhancing outpatient home-based health and support services; and (2) providing education to new mothers and their families about postpartum conditions to promote earlier diagnosis and treatment. Sets forth grant requirements.

Directs the Secretary to study the benefits of screening for postpartum conditions.

Prohibits the Secretary from utilizing amounts appropriated under this Act to carry out activities or programs that are duplicative of activities or programs that are already being carried out through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


Status of the Legislation

Latest Major Action: 1/26/2009: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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When Mothers Kill: America's Serotonin Nightmare (SSRIs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaq54C2R-GY&feature=PlayList&p=8F76BCB2763008C9&index=2

Folic acid supplements prior to conception associated with reduced infant prematurity
May 11, 2009 Life Extention Foundation

Folic acid may protect against fetal heart defects, study suggests
Canadian Press 5-13-09
www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=8255&Section=Vitamins

Pregnancy is a time of increased nutritional requirements
www.jirehhealthhk.com/health_detail.php?id=7

Thumbs Down Book Review
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
By La Leche League International
Review by Sally Fallon

Mandatory Psychiatry Screening Scam, Mothers Act
Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8dvjy_mandatory-psychiatry-screening-scam_news
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzb2gD1fWpE

Big Pharma & Psychiatry & FDA, Mental Health for a Profit
Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz9MfBx51ps

When Mothers Kill, Postpartum Depression, Andrea Yates
Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pecCbMtqjos

Beat Depression w/out Psychiatry Antidepressant Drugs
Dr. Vincent Bellonzi, D.C., C.C.N.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-QvEBpREwc&NR=1


The Medical Monopoly: Protecting Consumers or Limiting Competition?
by Sue Blevins December 15, 1995
www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1105&full=1

Individual Choice and Freedom to Contract

Professional licensure laws and other regulatory restrictions impose significant barriers to Americans' freedom of choice in health care. Clark Havighurst, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University, has pointed out, "Professional licensure laws have long made the provision of most personal health services the exclusive province of physicians. Obviously, such regulation limits consumers' options by forcing them to use highly trained, expensive personnel when other types might serve quite well."[12]

Yet the freedom to contract--the right of individuals to decide with whom and for what services they will dispose of their earnings--is one of the fundamental rights of man. As Chief Justice John Marshall said in Ogden v. Saunders, "Individuals do not derive from government their right to contract, but bring that right with them into society . . . [e]very man retains [the right] to . . . dispose of [his] property according to his own judgment." Indeed, legal philosophers and ethicists, such as Roger Pilon, Richard Epstein, and Stephen Mecado, convincingly argue that the rights of property and contract are fundamental rights upon which all others are based.[13]


Flouride Is In Your Drugs And Water - Enormous Effects
Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD 11-3-7
www.whale.to/v/blaylock.html
"Almost everyone has at least heard the recent news stories citing links between certain antidepressant drugs and suicides and even school shootings. Several surveys have shown that a majority of school shooters were taking SSRI- type antidepressants before they committed their heinous acts. What most people have not heard is that in most cases these were fluorinated drugs (Paxil and Prozac, etc.), the chemical structure of the drug included the toxic element fluorine."

Doctor: Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs
Russell Blaylock Friday, April 20, 2007
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/19/194210.shtml?s=lh
"The death of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech contains a number of lessons, many of which should have been learned from previous incidences, such as the Columbine high school shootings. Having treated a number of gunshot wounds in my neurosurgical practice over 25 years, I can appreciate the personal horror it entails, for the victims who survive and by the parents of those who were injured and died."

MSG, Aspartame, fluoride, SSRI, Dr. Blaylock on the Jeff Rense program
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4441850934333661734

Undernews: THE ELEPHANT IN THE MORGUE April 2007
Progressive Review, edited by Sam Smith
www.prorev.com/2007/04/elephant-in-morgue.htm
"Let's say that of the 24.8 million people using anti-depressants, only one one hundredth of one percent have violent reactions. According to the drug industry and the media, the risk therefore is infinitesimal. But because of the huge number of users, percentages don't really matter - you still have 2,480 potential mass murderers roaming the land.This doesn't mean you ban use of the drugs, but it certainly means the government and the media stop covering up the problem and face it honestly."

The Aftermath Of Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Fen-Phen, & Many Other Serotonergic Drugs
Dr. Ann Blake Tracy

University Police: Illinois Campus Shooter, Stephen Kazmierczak
On "Medication" February 2008
Kurt Nimmo Truth News

THE ILLINOIS SHOOTINGS: MISSING PIECES TO HELP SOLVE THE PUZZLE
By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
www.wnho.net/illinois_shootings_missing_pieces.htm

Letter to NIMH: Published NIMH Prozac Trial Report Concealed Suicide Attempts by Teens
www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/06/23.php

Fuel for a Killer
What Drugs Had Cho Taken? April 28 2007
By FRED GARDNER

SUPPRESSED EVIDENCE
www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/07/05/letters.html
Kip Kinkle is seeking a retrial. After the recent Virginia Tech murders by Seung-Hui Cho, I wonder if his lawyer and people in general are paying enough attention to the antidepressant defense. Michael Moore, who did the Bowling for Columbine documentary which asked why the school shootings were happening, found no adequate explanation. Moore has since found out about the suppression of information by the drug companies and FDA about these drugs inducing suicidality and homicidality. At the Drug Awareness site online, it opens with a video on this, where Michael asks why the drug marketers aren't in jail yet.

Kinkle's lawyer should speak to neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock about the florinated SSRIs. We should multiply our anger at the murderers by a million and apply it to the pharmaceutical/medical profiteers who suppressed the evidence from the beginning and continue to do so now.

Daniel Burdick, Eugene

September 14, 1990 - Lilly memo between John Heiligenstein (Lilly) and Leigh Thompson - Heiligenstein says: "We feel caution should be exercised in a statement that "suicidality and hostile acts in patients taking Prozac reflect the patient's disorder and not a causal relationship to Prozac - - - - Postmarketing reports are increasingly fuzzy and we have assigned ‘Yes, reasonably related' on several reports.". . . "You may want to note that trials were not intended to address issue of suicidality."


Time-line presented to the jury in the Forsyth v. Eli Lilly Trial. It was presented during closing arguments by the plaintiffs. It lists Lilly's internal documents. The plaintiffs allege that it shows that Lilly knew about Prozac-induced suicidality and violence (even before Prozac was approved for marketing in the United States) and that this was withheld from the public.

Max Talbot Sept. 1990 Memo on SSRI Fluoxetine "One possible strategy if FDA presses for an additional labeling change vis-a-vis suicide is a class-wide (i.e. ALL antidepressants) cautionary note; however we should take this position only as a last resort." Thompson replies: "that report MUST move swiftly through approval and to Dr. Leber's (FDA) hands - - he is our defender."

Brendan T. Carroll, MD Serotonin syndrome: How to avoid, identify, & treat http://neurosciencealliance.com/_wsn/page12.html
The serotonin syndrome (SS), neuroleptic malignant syndrome NMS, and catatonia share many clinical similarities (i.e., cognitive, behavioral, neuromuscular, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction with variable hyperthermia). However, SS results from treatment with serotonergic agents, while NMS results from dopamine-blocking agents.

Many Doctors Refuse to Recognize the Lethal Risks
Serotonin Syndrome May 8, 2007
By EVELYN PRINGLE


Children in Clinical Research: A Conflict of Moral Values

Vera Hassner Sharav, MLS
President, The Alliance for Human Research Protection

Sharav, V. H. 2003. Children in clinical research: A conflict of moral values. The American Journal of Bioethics
3(1):InFocus. http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/AJOB/3/1/sharav.pdf

Marketing happiness--Prozac:
The launching in 1988 of Eli Lilly’s fluoxetine (Prozac), the first of the new antidepressants (called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI) was a watershed in psychotropic drug marketing. It set the stage for news reports, such as a 1990 cover story in Newsweek, which extolled Prozac as “the breakthrough antidepressant is easier to prescribe and has fewer side effects. And that makes patients -- and doctors -- happy.”187 Prozac and other SSRIs that followed were promoted as “magic bullets” safer, more effective, with few, and significantly milder side effects than earlier drugs. Prozac sales climbed from $135 million in 1988 to more than $2.8 billion in 2001.188 Institutional psychiatry has been richly rewarded for collaborating with pharmaceutical companies, uncritically extolling the wonders of SSRIs (and atypical antipsychotics) in the scientific literature, at conferences and in the media.189 SSRIs have been touted as a breakthrough, safe treatment for depression and the prevention of suicide, as well as a wide range of “conditions” such as grief, shyness, and social dissatisfactions—in a word, allpurpose psychoanalgesics.190 Although scientific evidence of the drug’s efficacy was lacking,191 promotional endorsement by doctors, celebrities, and advocacy groups coupled with their wide application for newly invented “conditions” added to the perception that SSRIs are safe, “magic bullets.” It is puzzling that evidence has not shown a decreased rate of suicide since the advent of antidepressant drugs, so it is unclear on what basis it has been claimed

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Midwives were supressed by the A.M.A. after it was assimilated by the Rockerfeller syndicate. Real male medical doctors were put in charge, as it were - obstetrics, gynecology, fetus-frightening, C-sections and cigars. Herbalism was suppressed as unscientific, old wives tales, superstitious, primatives' nedicne. When their own chemists isolated essential minerals and vitamins 50 years later, treatment with these was likewise suppressed as unscientific, mistaken quake alternative medicine.

Here is a letter I wrote "to midwives" about this and about the Melanie Blocker Stokes, Mothers Act., which I enailed to 4 or 5 midwives organizations in Vermont and now post hete.

To Midwives - Mg and EFAs in Pregnancy, Pernicious "Mothers Act" in Senate S. 324


Daniel Burdick

Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM
To: Midwives

I join with the opposition of the "Mothers Act" with activists such as Amy Philo and John Breeding, Ph.D.


Magnesium and EFAs are needed in pregnancy and they are tied to inflammation and "depression".

Fatty acid tied to depression and inflammation By Anne Harding
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22major+depression%22+Interleukin-6+inflammation&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
_________________________________________________________________________________ "Magnesium is needed to activate the enzyme (D6D) that converts dietary fatty acids into DHA, the most abundant fatty acid in brain cell membranes. Deficiencies in DHA have been associated with numerous neurological disorders – from attention-deficits to Alzheimer's disease." www.studiop.com/articles/antiox_mag.html Doctors eagerly prescribe expensive patented drugs, while low-cost nutrients like magnesium remain overlooked. If the 68% of Americans who are magnesium deficient took corrective action, the need for many of these prescription drugs would be reduced.______________________http://www.mgwater.com/_________________________________________________ Nicholas V. Perricone, MD www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/nov2005_cover_perricone_01.htm Scientists are rapidly acknowledging the role of inflammation in many diseases and chronic conditions. However, I believe this will be the first book that will clearly demonstrate how this subclinical, microscopic, invisible inflammation is responsible for a great number of metabolic problems, resulting in accelerated aging, serious health threats, unwanted weight gain, and obesity. If this was not bad enough news for adults, there is now alarming new evidence that this diet-related inflammation is also causing weight gain and obesity in young children and adolescents, resulting in diseases and conditions such as type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which normally do not manifest until much later in life. My research has shown that the chief therapeutic intervention to prevent weight gain (regardless of age) is the anti-inflammatory diet
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Essential Fatty Acids and Human Brain by Meharban Singe
http://medind.nic.in/icb/t05/i3/icbt05i3p239.pdf

The Emerging Medicalization of Postpartum Depression by Pam Regus
http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07312007-190817/unrestricted/Regus_Pam_200708_ma.pdf

Pregnancy is a time of increased nutritional requirements
www.jirehhealthhk.com/health_detail.php?id=7

“The essential fatty acids (EFAs) and some of their derivatives are of utmost nutritional importance during pregnancy and lactation (8) . During the last trimester of pregnancy and the first months after birth, major developments in the growth and maturation of the infants central nervous system (CNS) and sensory apparatus, such as the eyes, take place.”

"Omega-3 and omega-6 fats are both important, but cannot be interchanged as they are not the same, very much like both vitamin C and E are important vitamins and antioxidants, without one being able to do the job of the other one. Only getting enough of one is better than not getting enough of either, but getting enough of both and in a balanced ratio is the best."

"The reason why DHA has been emphasized so much is very likely the general deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids in modern industrial diets and the general imbalance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Ideally, it should be no more than 4-5:1, but research estimates that modern diets often contain in excess of 14:1 (24) ; other studies show that the ratio is in between 10:1 to 25:1 (22). Too little of either of these fatty acids can lead to impaired development and functioning of the childs central nervous system (18, 19, 21) with the suspected possibility of lowered IQ and decreased visual acuity (6) ."

"Animal studies show that severe EFA deficiency during pregnancy leads to more severe deficiencies in mental and sensory capability (20) . There also appears to be a connection between maternal omega-3 status and the length of gestation: The lower the serum levels of omega-3 fatty acids, the greater the chance of giving birth prematurely (22, 25) . Finally, women with postpartum depression lack omega-3 fatty acids compared to women who gave birth without any problems (16). "

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Magnesium is important for the body's enzymes in the converion of LA linolenic acid into EPA and DHA fatty acids. Thus it is directly tied to issues of needed healthy fats. Magnesium is important in many ways and is widely difficient in the USA. -- Paul Mason is an interesting and commendable person who has created the expert, magnesium, website. It is actually pretty enjoyable.

Magnesium Water www.mgwater.com/preg.shtml

How Many Americans Are Magnesium Deficient?
www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/sep2005_awsi_01.htm

Benifits of Antioxidants and Magnesium
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=magnesium+d6d&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Psychiatric Disorders
www.groupadpsych.org/files/2003/omega3.pdf

"The physiology of pregnancy involves the mobilization of polyunsaturated fatty acids from maternal stores to the fetus, and supplementation with essential fatty acids may ensure adequate supplies for the needs of the mother and the developing fetus. Hornstra et al. (1995) demonstrated that maternal essential fatty acids, especially the DHA proportion, progressively decrease during pregnancy.

Without sufficient dietary intake, mothers become depleted of DHA, and depletion of maternal n-3 fatty acids has been noted during pregnancy (Otto et al., 1997). Lactation may increase the period needed for DHA to return to normal levels (Otto et al., 2001). Multiple births exacerbate the DHA deficiency (Al et al., 2000). Maternal DHA can be reduced by 50% during pregnancy and not fully restored at 6 months postpartum (Holman et al., 1991; Al et al., 1995).

Mothers selectively transfer DHA via a placental membrane fatty acid-binding protein to their fetuses to enable optimal neurological development during pregnancy (Campbell et al., 1998; Dutta-Roy, 2000; Martin et al., 2000)."

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To Midwives,


The Mothers Act gives an oportunity to focus on and realize how ruthless so-called medical psychiatry (and the medical racket in general) is. Their lack of ethics, and the manipulative nature of their every message and their every activity is something difficult to fully embrace with the topic supposedly being medicine or psychology. Their medicine is a psyop dysinformation campaign determined to con and force the maximum amount of the highest-cost fake medical nostrums into the maximum number of people. It is not medicine it is warfare.

Mandatory Psychiatry Screening Scam, Mothers Act
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzb2gD1fWpE

It is predatory capitolism. At the end of the 1800s and the beggining of the 1900s the Robber Barrons took over medicine in the USA. The non-human ruthlessness and dishonesty seen in the Melanie Blocker Stokes Mothers Act is a continuation of
bussiness as usual started then and preoceeding through the first half of the century. the second half. to now.

Midwifery by women was ousted, by the A.M.A. and the medical racketering wing of the preditory capitolists. Midwifery was replaced by modern scientific medicine - Obstetrics and Gynecology - men with medical licences from the AMA and the universities, now controlled by the rich. Child birth in hosptial with modern care saw an increase in mortality.

True to form in their medical manipulations, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Act would prevent mothers from receiving medical treatments such as DHA, flax oil (ALA), zinc, magnesium, Vitamin C and foist on them instead ersatz and poisonous medicines. Along with these ertatz treatments comes the substituted artifical medical knowledge. In this conmans' fake version of medical matters expectant mothers and new mothers and their babies will offer a growth market to pharmaceutical companies ever attempting to increase their product sales and profit. Mothers will be diagnosed by professional, who, in their opinion, using word-tests and observation, determine the mothers to fit into this or that category of D.S.M. "disorder." With an appropriate diagnostic number from the manual to label the mother they can then bill her or her insurance for the screening interview or diagnostic interview, any counseling, development of a treatment plan and profitable toxic patent drugs.

OMEGA-3's MAY TREAT DEPRESSION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

"Post-partum depression is common in women after they give birth. Pregnancy uses up huge amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Women with the lowest blood levels of omega-3s are the ones most likely to suffer post-partum depression."

These patent drugs usually contain in their molecule either chlorine (Clonidine, Xanax, Zoloft) or fluorine (Prolixin, Paxil, Prozac). Fluorine is the most reactive of all known elements, and is consequently not a part of organic molecules, such as fats, proteins, DNA, amino acids, enzymes, sugars, nor is it employed within living cells as a salt as chlorine and sodium are. See: Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock Fluorinated drugs Aspertame

Each of their diagnostic categories of "disorders" has certain qualities: the cause is not known and calls for further research, there is no medical diagnostic test (i.e., no blood test, no urine test, no hair test, no biopsy) and so a professional objective diagnosis is the standard used, employing psychological tests, word tests, questioniers, interverview - things of a non-medical nature, treatments for each category include billable patented, trademarked, foreign to the body, drug agents. The exact way in which these drug agents work is not fully known it is stated. The drugs are not curative but work to manages or suppress signs and symptoms, as they are taken on an ongoing basis -- which they have been previously shown to be effective at doing -- as evidence-based, effective, theraputic interventions, by designing and conducting scientific, double-blind journal-published tests. These tests, and their analytical results, are propaganda -- sham affairs -- fabricated, funded, controlled, and ghost written by the pharmaceutical companies.

Stigma is another of these qualities. The disease or disorder (whatever) -- people can feel stigmatization about, and so we don't want that to happen,and we don't want people to be relectant to get treatment, so, there is a need to address stigma as part of a national campaign to reduce stigma and increase awareness so as to get more people diagnosed and treated. Get them the help they richly deserve. Zyprexa. Stigma. Awareness.

Paying attention to a debilitating disorder By Chris Zdeb
http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Paying+attention+debilitating+disorder/1269776/story.html
thought of as a kid's disease. people can get treatment for ADHD and get on with their lives The disorder can't be cured, but there is treatment available -- medications There's still a stigma to having a psychiatric disorder, he explains. the exact cause is uncertain, he adds.

BRANDING PREGNANCY AS MENTAL ILLNESS Byron J. Richards, CCN
www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron51.htm
"As the bill freely acknowledges “The causes of postpartum depression are complex and unknown.” In a mysterious leap of faith the bill says that this condition requires medication to treat it even though such medication has never been proven clinically effective and carries serious side effect risks for the mother and baby, including cardiovascular birth defects."

Thus, actual issues are considered as a marketing opportunity to subvert by these wealthy enemies of the people, and transformed by these machinations of theirs into ersatz pseudo-diagnoses. Actual diagnoses and treatments are excluded and their Orwellian double-think version congeals and pervades.

Please oppose these people that present manipulative propaganda as medical knowledge.

Flax oil is very good. I want to mention here the importance of magnesium. Magnesium deficiency in the U.S.A. is epidemic at this time and this is connected to inflammatory releated diseases such as type two diabetes, depression and Alzheimer's. For Flax (which has the essential fat, ALA) to be transformed by the body's chemical assembly operations from ALA to the longer EPA, then to DHA (used in the brain cell walls) requires available magnesium and other nutrients. Flax is said to often not be an adequate substitute for neutriceutical grade EPA/DHA fish oil because once a person is already ill then the difficult processing steps that the body has to perform, to make flax into these more complex oils, is something that the person, may be better able to do once they are well again. Besides the need for ceratin nutrients for the conversion enzymes, oxidation is another consideration. Care should be taken that these oils be protectedfrom heat light and oxygen when they are outside the body. Then too, inside the body Vitamin E is needed protect these oils and vitamin C to recycle the vitamin E. A person who had high oxidative stress would not benefit from Omega 3s if they were not given with antioxidants starting with Vitamin E and C.

Magnesium in Pregnacy,
and Americans Deficient in Magnesium
www.mgwater.com/preg.shtml

Physiologically speaking, there are two fatty acids that are truly "essential". These are Linoleic Acid (LA) and Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA). www.fatsforhealth.com/introduction/faqs.php

The New Breastfeeding Diet Plan: Breakthrough Ways to Reduce Toxins & Give Your Baby the Best Start in Life by Robert Rountree
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=magnesium+enzyme+epa+dha+%22The+New+Breastfeeding%22&btnG=Search

Comparing Omega 3's from Fish and Flax Seed Oil www.omega3sealoil.com/Chapter4_3c.html "A deficiency of any of the vitamins and mineral co-factors (vitamin B3, B6, C, Zinc and Magnesium) required by elongase and Delta-6 desaturase may inhibit conversion of EPA and DHA"


Stand Up,

Dan Burdick

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The Medical Monopoly: Protecting Consumers or Limiting Competition? by Sue Blevins
www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1105&full=1

The following examples show how the medical monopoly has used the power of government to restrict the practice of a variety of nonphysician health care providers.

Midwifery

At least 36 states restrict or outright prohibit the practice of lay midwifery.[46] Consequently, only 5 percent of all births are attended by midwives in this country,[47] compared with 75 percent of all births in European coun- tries.[48] Americans' low usage of midwifery does not correlate with high-quality birth outcomes: the United States has the second highest caesarean rate in the world[49] and the fifth highest infant mortality rate among Western industrialized nations.[50]

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Eco-FrontierBy Paul DeRienzo
http://nwo.media.xs2.net/articles/herbalabortion.html

"In 1910 about half of all babies were delivered by midwives who were either African American or immigrants. Obstetricians pressured states to outlaw midwifery, and largely succeeded despite a John Hopkins study indicating that midwives were better able to handle childbirth than medical doctors.

Until the resurgence of feminism in the 70’s midwifery was illegal in New York State and medical school training programs for midwives usually accept only Registered Nurses. Nurses themselves were part of the backlash against women doctors in the mid-19th century."

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The Medical Racket By Wade Frazier

"There have been some victories in the area of childbirth. After the medical profession nearly rendered them extinct, midwives have staged a comeback in America. In Washington State in the year 2000, House Bill 2031 was passed, and my medical insurance company was forced to provide coverage for midwifed births.

Western medicine is a money machine. America spends more than one trillion dollars a year ($1.3 trillion in 2001) on health care. A tiny fraction is spent on prevention, and the prevention is worse than the disease in many instances, and even causes disease.[19] Instead, nearly all the money goes to dramatic interventions, dominated by drugs and surgery. Dr. Julian Whitaker once challenged his readers to try naming a common mainstream medical treatment in America that was not a drug or surgical procedure. Whitaker bet that they could not.[20] The entire Western medical paradigm may be built on a shaky foundation."

http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm

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Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America

"By 1910 and the introduction of Owen's first bill, naturopaths had endured a decade of arrests and prosecutions for practicing medicine without a license. Indeed, the founder of naturopathy was arrested before he had even adopted the name naturopathy. In 1899 Lust was hauled into court..."
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Modern Medicine, Part I: How Healing Illness Became Managing Illness January 27, 2009 by: Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist www.naturalnews.com/025428.html

Just Say No to the Mothers Act April 26 2009
by Evelyn Pringle www.bestsyndication.com/?q=node/28438

"The customer base the psycho-pharmaceutical industry is hoping to corral through passage of the Mothers Act is the more than four million women who give birth in the US each year. That number was 4,317,119 in 2007, according to the CDC.

The Act's passage, after eight years of solid efforts, would set the stage for the screening of all pregnant women for a whole list of mental disorders. The bill has already passed in the US House of Representatives ..."

NAMI - Drug Money Laundering is Illegal April 18th 2009
by Evelyn Pringle
www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/nami-drug-money-laundering-is-illegal.html

"The National Alliance for Mental Illness is the latest member of the psycho-pharmaceutical cartel whose Big Pharma money trail is under investigation by the US Senate Finance Committee, with Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley leading the charge..."

“Stress Testing The MOTHERS Act” by Kelly O’Meara May 7th 2009
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/stres-testing-the-mothers-act-by-kelly-omeara/

The Bitter Pill
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/tag/pregnancy/

The MOTHERS ACT Dangerous Legislation That Needs To Be Stopped
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/the-mothers-act-dangerous-legislationthat-needs-to-be-stopped/

The Lawlessness of Big Pharma
www.naturalnews.com/019497.html

Melanie Blocker Stokes Initiative duplicitous through and through
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/mothers-act-a-letter-to-a-us-senator/

Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal and Zyprexa For Off-Label Use
Evelyn Pringle June 2006
www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/00223/zyprexa_Off_Label.html


DBSA e-Update April 2008: Advocacy
Help Debunk Rumors and Lies about Postpartum LegislationShow Your Full Support Now!
www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_eupdate0408_complete&printer_friendly=1
"Unfortunately, complaints have been circulating lately on the Internet, asking readers to block passage of this critical legislation. These outspoken opponents include a psychologist with a counseling background, an osteopathic physician, an Alaska-based lawyer who specializes in public land law and a holistic health care practitioner and master herbalist, known for his criticism of psychiatry. None of these "experts" have any expertise in mental health, obstetrics, pediatrics or any other field related to postpartum mood disorders. They claim that the legislation is a conspiracy by large pharmaceutical companies to push new mothers to take unnecessary medication."

LE Magazine, March 2005 - Report: The Making of Killer E
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Life+extension+foundation+%22High-Dosage+Vitamin+E+Supplementation+May+Increase+All-Cause+Mortality%22&btnG=Search
But the question remains: why did the Annals of Internal Medicine publish such nonsense? The answer was clearly stated in that same publication. The point was to make public policy. The “killer E” meta-analysis was a call for an end to all “high-dose” supplements, a dare to American institutions to reverse their policies on vitamin E, and a challenge to “regulators and policymakers” to control which vitamins Americans take. Who are these people who want to control which vitamins we take?

Women's Multivitamin Study: 'A little, too late' study, designed to fail
http://idealhealthhosting.com/drmacblog/WHIanalysis.pdf

The New Breast Feeding Diet Plan

Gabe Mirkin, M.D. OMEGA-3's MAY TREAT DEPRESSION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/N228.html
"Post-partum depression is common in women after they give birth. Pregnancy uses up huge amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Women with the lowest blood levels of omega-3s are the ones most likely to suffer post-partum depression."

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Psychiatric Disorders
www.groupadpsych.org/files/2003/omega3.pdf

"The physiology of pregnancy involves the mobilization of polyunsaturated fatty acids from maternal stores to the fetus, and supplementation with essential fatty acids may ensure adequate supplies for the needs of the mother and the developing fetus. Hornstra et al. (1995) demonstrated that maternal essential fatty acids, especially the DHA proportion, progressively decrease during pregnancy.

Without sufficient dietary intake, mothers become depleted of DHA, and depletion of maternal n-3 fatty acids has been noted during pregnancy (Otto et al., 1997). Lactation may increase the period needed for DHA to return to normal levels (Otto et al., 2001). Multiple births exacerbate the DHA deficiency (Al et al., 2000). Maternal DHA can be reduced by 50% during pregnancy and not fully restored at 6 months postpartum (Holman et al., 1991; Al et al., 1995).

Mothers selectively transfer DHA via a placental membrane fatty acid-binding protein to their fetuses to enable optimal neurological development during pregnancy (Campbell et al., 1998; Dutta-Roy, 2000; Martin et al., 2000)."

Pregnancy is a time of increased nutritional requirements
www.jirehhealthhk.com/health_detail.php?id=7

“The essential fatty acids (EFAs) and some of their derivatives are of utmost nutritional importance during pregnancy and lactation (8) . During the last trimester of pregnancy and the first months after birth, major developments in the growth and maturation of the infants central nervous system (CNS) and sensory apparatus, such as the eyes, take place.”

"Omega-3 and omega-6 fats are both important, but cannot be interchanged as they are not the same, very much like both vitamin C and E are important vitamins and antioxidants, without one being able to do the job of the other one. Only getting enough of one is better than not getting enough of either, but getting enough of both and in a balanced ratio is the best."

"The reason why DHA has been emphasized so much is very likely the general deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids in modern industrial diets and the general imbalance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Ideally, it should be no more than 4-5:1, but research estimates that modern diets often contain in excess of 14:1 (24) ; other studies show that the ratio is in between 10:1 to 25:1 (22). Too little of either of these fatty acids can lead to impaired development and functioning of the childs central nervous system (18, 19, 21) with the suspected possibility of lowered IQ and decreased visual acuity (6) ."

"Animal studies show that severe EFA deficiency during pregnancy leads to more severe deficiencies in mental and sensory capability (20) . There also appears to be a connection between maternal omega-3 status and the length of gestation: The lower the serum levels of omega-3 fatty acids, the greater the chance of giving birth prematurely (22, 25) . Finally, women with postpartum depression lack omega-3 fatty acids compared to women who gave birth without any problems (16). "

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Magnesium is needed to activate the enzyme (D6D) that converts dietary fatty acids into DHA, the most abundant fatty acid in brain cell membranes. Deficiencies in DHA have been associated with numerous neurological disorders – from attention-deficits to Alzheimer's disease. www.studiop.com/articles/antiox_mag.html

Doctors eagerly prescribe expensive patented drugs, while low-cost nutrients like magnesium remain overlooked. If the 68% of Americans who are magnesium deficient took corrective action, the need for many of these prescription drugs would be reduced.
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Nicholas V. Perricone, MD
www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/nov2005_cover_perricone_01.htm
Scientists are rapidly acknowledging the role of inflammation in many diseases and chronic conditions. However, I believe this will be the first book that will clearly demonstrate how this subclinical, microscopic, invisible inflammation is responsible for a great number of metabolic problems, resulting in accelerated aging, serious health threats, unwanted weight gain, and obesity.

If this was not bad enough news for adults, there is now alarming new evidence that this diet-related inflammation is also causing weight gain and obesity in young children and adolescents, resulting in diseases and conditions such as type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which normally do not manifest until much later in life.

My research has shown that the chief therapeutic intervention to prevent weight gain (regardless of age) is the anti-inflammatory diet.

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Malcolm Peet 2003
EPA in the treatment of schizophrenia and depression: rationale and preliminary double-blind clinical trial results
“There is considerable evidence that current psychotropic drugs can have adverse as well as beneficial effects on the natural history of mental illness. The administration of drugs which have potent effects on neurotransmitters and their receptors will inevitably lead to compensatory changes in brain biochemistry." " It is increasingly recognized that some psychotropic drug side effects are not merely an inconvenience, but are potentially life threatening.” "There is no doubt that different approaches to the treatment of mental illness are urgently required and that new developments are unlikely to come from permutations of existing neurotransmitter and receptor approaces."

Essential Fatty Acids, DHA and the Human Brain
Meharban Singh
http://medind.nic.in/icb/t05/i3/icbt05i3p239.pdf

"It is recommended that the pregnant and nursing woman should take at least 2.6 g of omega-3 fatty acids and 100-300 mg of DHA daily to look after the needs of her fetus and suckling infant. The follow-up studies have shown that infants of mothers supplemented with EFAs and DHA had higher mental processing scores, psychomotor development, eye-hand coordination and stereo acuity at 4 years of age. Intake of EFAs and DHA during preschool years may also have a beneficial role in the prevention of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and enhancing learning capability and academic performance."
Indian journal of pediatrics. 2005 Mar;72(3): 239-42

Alternative Treatments for Postpartum Mood Disorders
By Sarah R. Fields
Dr. Bowman checks approximately 180 parameters. In cases of postpartum psychosis, high levels of kryptopyrroles-which indicate low levels of zinc and vitamin B6-signal that serotonin and GABA neurotransmitters are not being produced in adequate amounts. In addition, most postpartum psychosis patients exhibit elevated blood copper, which is associated with elevated norepinephrine levels and can contribute to depression, anxiety, psychosis, or violent behavior.

The Drugging of "Post Partum Depression" CCHR
http://www.granitescientific.com/granitescientific%20home%20page_files/ppd%20and%20chem%20imbalance.pdf

The Link Between Diet and Behavior
www.foodforthebrain.org/download.asp?id_Doc=96
"However, the conversion of shorter-chain EFAs to longer-chain PUFAs in humans is poor. It is also affected by many diet and lifestyle factors including excessive consumption of saturated fats, hydrogenated fats and trans fatty acids; lack of co-factors such as zinc, magnesium, vitamins B3, B6 and C; viral infections and the presence of hormones released in response to stress"

Supplementation with a combination of Omega 3 fatty acid and antioxidants (vitamins E and C) improves the outcome of schizophrenia
Meena Arvindakshan, Madhav Ghate, Prabhakar K. Ranjekar, Denise R. Evans, Sahebarao P. Mahadik www.sepeap.es/revisiones/archivos/10418.pdf

Healthy Mom and Baby
http://www.vitalchoice.com/healthymom/index.cfm

Mothers who ate more seafood than was considered to be safe according to U.S. guidelines had children who were more advanced. They had higher IQs, better social skills, were more communicative and more physically accomplished. Those children whose mothers had eaten no fish performed worse on all the same measures.
As Dr. Hibbeln wrote in their report:
• "We have found that when women had low levels of seafood consumption, the outcome is exactly the opposite of what was assumed by the United States Advisory. Unfortunately, the advice appears to have had the unintended consequence of causing harm in a specific developmental domain – verbal development – where protection was originally intended.
• "We recorded no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption.
• "In contrast, we noted that children of mothers who ate small amounts, 340 grams per week, of seafood were more likely to have suboptimum neurodevelopmental outcomes than children of mothers who ate more seafood than the recommended amounts."

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John Hopkin's Video on natal nutrition www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvlIoKVdNY
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Lipids in Health and Disease 2004
http://life-enthusiast.com/index/Concerns/Depression/Depression_and_Essential_Fatty_Acids

Omega-3 fatty acids play a critical role in the development and function of the central nervous system. Emerging research is establishing an association between omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic, eicosapentaenoic, docosahexaenoic) and major depressive disorder. Evidence from epidemiological, laboratory and clinical studies suggest that dietary lipids and other associated nutritional factors may influence vulnerability and outcome in depressive disorders.

Relationships between omega-3 status and post-partum depression have also been investigated. In a cohort of 380 Australian women, plasma DHA was investigated at 6 months post-partum. Logistic regression analysis indicated that a 1% increase in plasma DHA was associated with a 59% reduction in the reporting of depressive symptoms [24]. It is well known that during pregnancy there is a significant transfer (up to 2.2 g/day) EFAs to the developing fetus [7]. Increased risk of post-partum depressive symptoms has recently been associated with a slower normalization of DHA levels after pregnancy [25].
Suicide attempts have also been associated with low levels of RBC EPA. In a study involving 100 suicide attempt cases in China compared to 100 hospital admission controls, there was an eightfold difference in suicide attempt risk between the lowest and highest RBC EPA level quartiles [26]. The seasonality of depression and suicide has been described by investigators, with more deaths in spring and summer vs.autumn and winter. Total serum cholesterol has been highly significantly synchronized with the annual rhythms in violent suicide deaths [27]. Recently, investigators found that EFA levels also vary by season, with peaks of EPA and DHA from August to September. The parent omega-3 and 6 levels did not have a seasonal variation, suggesting a seasonal interference with delta-5-desaturase conversion. The authors of this study suggest that the seasonal variation in EPA or DHA may, in part, explain seasonality of violent suicide occurrence [28].

Codex Alimentarius
www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=a-0RSvyiE4fQswP0z43vDQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=codex+%22controlled+opposition%22&spell=1

Understanding CODEX www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Codex.htm

We Become Slent Video Narrated by Dame Judi Dench
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=451097355502728465



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Susan Stone of Postpartum Progress informs us that, before stopping to do pro bono, non-profit work to support passage of the Melanie Blocker Stokes, Mothers Act, she had a "six-figure" annual income in marketing at Coca-Cola. http://postpartumprogress. typepad.com/weblog/melanie_ blocker_stokes_postpartum_ depression_act/

As to what sort of treatment they anticipate providing to these mothers with the the diagnoses of having these their numinous diseases (disorders, depressions, conditions, issues, illnesses, whatever) -- that a person can't "get over"-- once they have their Mothers Act passed by the Senate, Susan Stone writes that, "there are people for whom medication does not work," so we can see from her words that they do not anticipate drugging everyone. That is... if they try drugging a woman a few times, and it turns out that this woman is one of the ones for whom in fact "mediciation does not work" then, they can try something else. It is not all about drugs Susan Stone is telling us.

"there are people for whom medication does not work" EmpowHer Susan Stone
www.empowher.com/news/ herarticle/2009/04/07/melanie- blocker-stokes-mothers-act- becomes-shaky-platform- frustrated-anti



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A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of extract of Ginkgo biloba added to haloperidol in treatment-resistant
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ginkgo+biloba+haloperidol++Zhang&btnG=Search

Dehydroepiandrosterone DHEA for "negative symptoms"
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dehydroepiandrosterone+negative+symptoms+schizophrenia

DHEA and Cortisol -- stress hormones
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dehydroepiandrosterone+cortisol+%22major+depression%22

DHEA Article by James South www.smart-drugs.com/JamesSouth-DHEA.htm

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Hibbeln, J. R., T. A. Ferguson, et al. (2006). "Omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies in neurodevelopment, aggression and autonomic dysregulation: opportunities for intervention." Int Rev Psychiatry 18(2): 107-18.
http://lansbury.bwh.harvard.edu/epa_reviews_2006.htm
Mechanisms by which aggressive and depressive disorders may be exacerbated by nutritional deficiencies in omega-3 fatty acids are considered. Early developmental deficiencies in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) may lower serotonin levels at critical periods of neurodevelopment and may result in a cascade of suboptimal development of neurotransmitter systems limiting regulation of the limbic system by the frontal cortex. Residual developmental deficits may be manifest as dysregulation of sympathetic responses to stress including decreased heart rate variability and hypertension, which in turn have been linked to behavioral dysregulation. Little direct data are available to disentangle residual neurodevelopmental effects from reversible adult pathologies. Ensuring optimal intakes of omega-3 fatty acids during early development and adulthood shows considerable promise in preventing aggression and hostility.
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1: Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Apr;25(3):463-93.

Oxidative stress and role of antioxidant and omega-3 essential fatty acid supplementation in schizophrenia.

Mahadik SP, Evans D, Lal H.
Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA. Mahadik@psych.mcg.edu
1. Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder that has a lifetime risk of 1% and affects at young age (average age at the onset 24 +/- 4.6 years) in many cultures around the world. The etiology is unknown, the pathophysiology is complex, and most of the patients need treatment and care for the rest of their lives. 2. Cellular oxidative stress is inferred from higher tissue levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS, e.g., O2*-, OH*, OH-, NO* and ONOO--) than its antioxidant defense that cause peroxidative cell injury, i.e., peroxidation of membrane phospholipids, particularly esterified essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (EPUFAS), proteins and DNA. 3. Oxidative stress can lead to global cellular with predominantly neuronal peroxidation, since neurons are enriched in highly susceptible EPUFAs and proteins, and damages DNA is not repaired effectively. 4. Such neuronal peroxidation may affect its function (i.e., membrane transport, loss of mitochondrial energy production, gene expression and therefore receptor-mediated phospholipid-dependent signal transduction) that may explain the altered information processing in schizophrenia. 5. It is possible that the oxidative neuronal injury can be prevented by dietary supplementation of antioxidants (e.g., vitamins E, C and A; beta-carotene, Q-enzyme, flavons, etc.) and that membrane phospholipids can be corrected by dietary supplementation of EPUFAs. 6. It may be that the oxidative stress is lower in populations consuming a low caloric diet rich in antioxidants and EPUFAs, and minimizing smoking and drinking. 7. Oxidative stress exists in schizophrenia based on altered antioxidant enzyme defense, increased lipid peroxidation and reduced levels of EPUFAs. The life style of schizophrenic patients is also prooxidative stress, i.e., heavy smoking, drinking, high caloric intake with no physical activity and treatment with pro-oxidant drugs. 8. The patients in developed countries show higher levels of lipid peroxidation and lower levels of membrane phospholipids as compared to patients in the developing countries. 9. Initial observations on the improved outcome of schizophrenia in patients supplemented with EPUFAs and antioxidants suggest the possible beneficial effects of dietary supplementation. 10. Since the oxidative stress exists at or before the onset of psychosis the use of antioxidants from the very onset of psychosis may reduce the oxidative injury and dramatically improve the outcome of illness.
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I had GREAT results with DHA for my second pregnancy.

My first pregnancy I had very intense mood swings for the first few months & then after my son was born I had a lot of post partum depression -- for a good 6 months and probably somewhat to a year post partum. It was very difficult.

I had read about taking DHA a few years later. I took it daily for about 6 months before I conceived my second son. Between that and seriously cutting back on white flour & white sugar, I had no wild mood swings during the pregancy & no post partum at all.

What's even more remarkable for me (and leads me to believe that both the DHA and diet helped) was that my husband left while I was pregnant, so I took care of our toddler son alone & went through pregnancy & post partum alone. So there was a ton of extra stress & I was completely calm & in control unlike the first pregnancy.

I hope this may help other women. I believe it really helped me.

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Alliance for Human Research Protection Condemns Psychiatric Researchers for Lack of Integrity and Hidden Financial Ties
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by: Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor http://www.naturalnews.com/023420.html "The criminal behavior demonstrated by Dr. Biederman and other top psychiatric disease mongers is now receiving widespread condemnation by even the very newspapers, magazines and news programs that are largely funded by Big Pharma! When the New York Times makes statements that imply psychiatric drugs are dangerous chemicals that promote obesity and diabetes, it's an indication of a monumental shift in the thinking of mainstream Americans. It shows that we're winning the war against psychiatric medicine and it's only a matter of time before these drug-pushing criminals are stopped. Better yet, we hope to see them rounded up, prosecuted, and thrown in prison for the outrageous crimes they have committed by, for example, using the brains of four-year old children in medical experiments involving psychotropic drugs." Psychiatrists Biederman and Wozniac at Cambridge (Harvard) Massachusetes set a leading psychiatic example that Psychitric M.D.s follow. FOX News had this on the death of four year old Rebecca Riley who had been "diagnosed" by a "Psychiatrist" and prescribed "Medications." Her Psychiatrist "doctor" stated that he was following the current example of the leaders. Janet Wozniac is simultaneously employed by a drug company and the Cambridge pediatrics department, and holds stock in the company.FOX Big Outrage www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGaCFF3djr8

Codex http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=451097355502728465
Vera Sharav of The Alliance for Human Research Protection
Screening for Mental Illness in Youth: Good Preventative Medicine
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3534733950229591648&ei=dxRlSZbTJqHaqAOWiozxCg&q=Vera+Sharav&hl=en and at
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/screening-for-mental-illness-in-youth-good-preventive-medicine/1996851661
Vera Sharav Powerpoint Presentationwww.ahrp.org/children/teenscreen/debateNAS0206.ppt
National Academies of Science Sci-Tech Policy Fellows Seminar ...
File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML“Screening for Mental Illness in Youth: Good Preventive Medicine?” Vera Hassner Sharav. President. Alliance for Human Research Protection. February 22, 2006 ...www.ahrp.org/children/teenscreen/debateNAS0206.ppt
TeenScreen Vera Sharav www.ahrp.org/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/search.pl?q=teenscreen
Anti psychiatry. Pro Freedomhttp://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2008/02/federally-funded-perverts-racists-and.html Comparing Omega 3's from Fish and Flax Seed Oil www.omega3sealoil.com/Chapter4_3c.html "A deficiency of any of the vitamins and mineral co-factors (vitamin B3, B6, C, Zinc and Magnesium) required by elongase and Delta-6 desaturase may inhibit conversion of EPA and DHA" In Rhematoid Arthritus drug treatment primarily consist of patented NSAIDS like ibuprofen and aspirin, and Corticosteroids (such as prednisone; methylprenisolone, Medrol®) and some other patented drugs. This is a poor but typical state of affairs since it neglects this issue of treating the bodily systems, and also leaves out of proper consideration non-prescription anti inflammatory treatments such as nettles www.lef.org/magazine/mag2001/jan2001_report_cox2_2.html boswelliawww.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&rlz=1I7ADBF&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=boswellia+%22Boswellic+acids%22+arthritis&spell=1GLA www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&rlz=1I7ADBF&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Gamma+Linoleic+acid+arthritis&spell=1and Curcumin from Turmeric http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=turmeric+curcumin+pain+NF-kappa+B+activation&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

Front Groups

Front Groups: Examples of Manufacturing Grassroots Support
Bonner and Associates
John Davies
Burston-Marsteller
http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/envcrisis/fronts/grassroots/examples.html


Pushing Prescriptions
Surrogates for Their Agenda: How the drug industry uses non-profits to push its interests
By Alexander Cohen
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/rx/report.aspx?aid=721
"PhRMA internal planning documents, obtained in 2003 by the New York Times, detailed budget plans for that fiscal year beginning in July and described a massive grassroots assault, budgeting almost $9.4 million for third party op-eds and articles, Washington, D.C.-area advertising, media relations consultants and other public relations efforts. Other highlighted areas of interest included spending more than $12 million to ally with doctors, patients, universities and minority groups and a minimum $2 million to policy and research groups."

Burston-Marsteller
www.burson-marsteller.com/About_Us/Regional_Leadership/Lists/RegionalLeadership/DispForm.aspx?ID=38
"Rafael Casas-Don rejoined Burson-Marsteller as Managing Director, Regional Practice Chair of the HealthCare Practice for Burson-Marsteller Latin America in 2007." "He has conducted pro-bono work for organizations such as NAMI and several HIV and AIDS outreach organizations."

Astroturf -- The Big Business of Fake Grassroots Politics
Walter Truett Anderson Jan, 1996
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=18742ff01ca47064f33f58a05e73ce0e

SENATOR MENENDEZ APPLAUDS GRASSROOTS SHOW OF FORCE ON BLOG DAY
Written by Susan Dowd Stone on April 20, 2009 - 9:40am
http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=311689
www.empowher.com/news/herarticle/2009/04/20/menendez-author-legislation-combat-postpartum-depression-applauds-grassro

Senator Grassley: Letter to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/us-senator-charles-grassley-letter-to-nami

“Based upon reporting in the New York Times, I have come to understand that money from the pharmaceutical industry shapes the practices of non-profit organizations which purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions.”

Non-Profit Organizations with Ties to Industry
www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html

"[A] November/December 1999 Mother Jones article, 'An Influential Mental Health Nonprofit Finds Its "Grassroots" Watered by Pharmaceutical Millions,' by Ken Silverstein. The article focused on the enormous amount of funding which NAMI receives from pharmaceutical companies, with Eli Lilly and Co. taking the lead by donating nearly $3 million to NAMI between 1996 and 1999. In fact, according to Silverstein, NAMI took in a little more than $11 million from 18 drug companies for that period." {Senator Grassley's comments, in investigating NAMI thus far, suggest that NAMI is controlled by industry influence and funding, actually though, one can take as read that NAMI was initially created by industry counterintelligence. That is the take home message as to what all this evidence points up. Dan.}

"Schizophrenia Treatment and the New COPE Program"
http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/APA-Annual-Meeting-Media-Briefings-Schedule-10912-2/
Results of a multinational survey of the attitudes and perceptions of healthcare professionals, patients and their caregivers. The launch of COPE, a new program providing practical and useful information for understanding and coping with psychosis-related disorders on a day-to-day basis, also will be announced.
Sponsored by: Zeneca Pharmaceuticals/NAMI/ burson marsteller

Let Them Eat Prozac
www.healyprozac.com/GhostlyData/default.htm
"Ghost writing has now evolved beyond journal supplements and there are grounds to think that a significant proportion of the articles on therapeutics in main stream journals such as JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, the BMJ and the Lancet may be written with help from medical writing agencies."

Rima Laibow and Ret. Gen. Albert Stubblebine: A Modern Major General Exposed?
Various health freedom advocates, their supposed fellows, now suspect their “Natural Solutions Foundation” to be a false front, "controlled opposition" group.
Here are three good references.
Jonathan Campbell 2007 www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_486/articles_486.htm
Real health advocates? www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1029074
Disinformation http://educate-yourself.org/lte/actionabledisinformation23dec08.shtml

How Florida Fell In Love With Antipsychotics April 14, 2008
www.pharmalot.com/2008/04/how-florida-fell-in-love-with-aytypicals

"Four years ago, Lilly and several other drugmakers proposed the creation of The Florida Behavioral Health Collaborative. And they provided $10 million to the state to get it up and running. Soon, an expert panel was convened and recommended state standards, and national scholars with financial ties to drugmakers that sell atypicals were invited to participate."

More on Glaco and Avandia The New York Times
http://seroxatsecrets.wordpress.com/page/30/
"GAMIAN-Europe
"The Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks was founded by the drug company Bristol Myers Squibb in March 1997, bringing together 12 organisations including Depression Alliance from the UK . GAMIAN-Europe, registered in Belgium , does not detail its funding on its website, apart from acknowledging drug company grants for specific projects. It told the Guardian that nearly half (45%) of its €234,000 (£160,000) income in 2006 came from Eli Lilly, manufacturers of Prozac. Other antidepressant makers also contributed."
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A Primer for Understanding “Big Pharma’s” Market Tactics
Loren R. Mosher, Richard Gosden and Sharon Beder http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/sbeder/drugcompanies.html

2. Sales campaigns:

Generation of a “media hype” via celebrity endorsements, articles placed by public relations agencies and direct to consumer advertising. The latter is a relatively new technique (1997) that has proven highly successful.

Expanding the prescriber base: The company will focus its detailers efforts on getting primary care doctors comfortable with prescribing their new “safe, effective and well tolerated” drug that has ordinarily been the province of a particular specialty group. This has been an extraordinarily successful technique with both the SSRI anti-depressants (i.e. 60% or more of SSRI prescriptions are written by non-psychiatrists) and the “atypical” anti-psychotic drugs.

Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker
www.naturalnews.com/011353.html

Strategies of Drug Companies to Optimize the Sales of Their Psychiatric Drugs
Robert Whitaker Video at Dresden
http://ki-art-multimedia.de/dresden/robert.htm

Bill is written so as to partially veil the extant specificity of intention

Our Bodies Ourselves -- A Non-profit organization
www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/04/melanie-blocker-stoke-mothers-act-on-postpartum-depression-passed-house-moves-to-senate

Rachel Says:
April 23, 2009 at 10:12 am
As far as I can tell, there is nothing at all in the bill that mandates or even privileges antidepressant treatment.

Amy Philo Says:
April 20, 2009 at 1:27 am
As a mother who was screened, drugged, involuntarily hospitalized, and who experienced the frequent reaction to antidepressants of HOMICIDAL ideation, hallucinations, and suicidal urges, I have been warning people for years about the dangers of antidepressants and other drugs. Those who condone and promote drugs are either ignorant, misled, or have other motives for doing so.
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Senator Blocking MOTHERS Act Is Obstetrician (Seriously) April 20, 2009
http://postpartumprogress.typepad.com “the language of the bill was changed”

"Senator Menendez has worked hard to reach across the aisle and ensure that the language of the bill was changed to accommodate the concerns of Republicans as well as outside parties like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. There is no mandatory screening, for instance. There should be no concerns remaining that would prevent you from getting behind the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act and helping mothers."
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New Mothers and Postpartum Depression
Expecting Executive -- Helping You Manage Life's Details
http://blogspot. expectingexecutive.com/2007/ 06/14/new-mothers-and-mental- health-ppd.aspx

"How about making a little bit easier on expecting mothers and new mothers by including counseling/coaching as part of the prenatal and postnatal well baby program? How about making sure that doctors are truly checking on the mental well being of the mother and not just the physical well being?" "I believe that all new mothers need proactive mental health care. The delivery of a woman's baby results in huge physical, hormonal and emotional changes...let's stop insinuating that all new mothers should be able to gauge their mental well being and reach out for help if they need it." "I suggest that all expecting mothers should be introduced to and spend some time with a mental health counselor before their babies are due."
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Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS ACT Becomes Shaky Platform for Frustrated Anti-Pharma Faction
Written by Susan Dowd Stone on April 7, 2009 - 10:06am
www.empowher.com/news/ herarticle/2009/04/07/melanie- blocker-stokes-mothers-act- becomes-shaky-platform- frustrated-anti

"...tactics are being used to frighten the very population the bill is designed to help –mothers suffering from postpartum mood disorders. Such misrepresentations have the potential to derail the long awaited deliverance of help which could reverse and end such suffering….which affects over 800,000 women a year.

The detractors are crafty. Notice they don’t offer a link to the actual language of the bill on their websites, because if they did…. readers would quickly discover that The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act does not promote medication, in fact, it specifically does NOT fund medication. Nor does The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act mandate screening.

In the light of day – these false arguments are easily refuted by simply reading the bill. Legislators and organizations confronted with these allegations do just that….they read the bill and then thankfully call to endorse it."
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“Medications don’t work for everyone so this is more about preventative research” http://grow.corsakti.com/?p=173

There She Grows April 20th 2009 Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act: combat Post-Partum Depression

“Some people who consider themselves anti-pharma also oppose the act, possibly under the impression that it is simply another “cause” to aid drug-pushers. There is also the infuriating notion still held by many (thanks, tom cruise) that conditions such as depression are imagined, and that psychiatric treatment is BS. However, there is nothing in the bill that forces women to be screened for the condition OR to be medicated. Medications don’t work for everyone so this is more about preventative research, support and education.”