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		<title>Grounding your bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grounding your bed allows your body to reach it&#8217;s natural state during sleep and will take out inflammation&#8230;
The website for the grounding equipment
//www.barefoothealth.com/info/products.html?gclid=CLWwn8j8l58CFaM45QodyUsoLw
for  a replacement earth tap ($12.00) and replacement connection cord (9.00)
(unless  you can afford one of their bedpads&#8230;
and
www.lessemf.com/personal.html for either
anit static mat ($16.95) or
biogrounder  ($29.95)
OR
/www.lessemf.com/fabric.html
for one of their  fabrics [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grounding your bed allows your body to reach it&#8217;s natural state during sleep and will take out inflammation&#8230;</p>
<p>The website for the grounding equipment</p>
<p>//www.barefoothealth.com/info/products.html?gclid=CLWwn8j8l58CFaM45QodyUsoLw<br />
for  a replacement earth tap ($12.00) and replacement connection cord (9.00)<br />
(unless  you can afford one of their bedpads&#8230;<br />
and<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html" target="_blank">www.lessemf.com/personal.html</a> for either<br />
anit static mat ($16.95) or<br />
biogrounder  ($29.95)<br />
OR<br />
/www.lessemf.com/fabric.html<br />
for one of their  fabrics and just use an allegtor clip you can get at any radio shack.<br />
I&#8217;ve  used their ex-static fabric while traveling for under the bed sheet  grounder&#8230; I think it was two yards which would be about $30 for a  grounded bed instead of the bedpad&#8230;<br />
I&#8217;ve also used their  nutrashield fabric, but that was for a night shirt I made..  nice fabric to work with a bit more expensive&#8230;</p>
<p>You can also get a faraday cage from LessEMF if you would like to sleep in a space that has all the electronic radio waves going to ground&#8230;</p>
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		<title>EI Homeless Center</title>
		<link>http://www.benderbubble.com/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bubble project&#8217;s goal is to obtain funds to purchase a safe living and working environments for people with Environmental Illness.    Rev Linda Bender has preliminary scoped out several spaces that would work and for a decent place, they run between one and six million dollars, depending on how many people can be supported with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bubble project&#8217;s goal is to obtain funds to purchase a safe living and working environments for people with Environmental Illness.    Rev Linda Bender has preliminary scoped out several spaces that would work and for a decent place, they run between one and six million dollars, depending on how many people can be supported with the space and of course location.<span id="more-15"></span></p>
<p>Getting many $30 donations&#8230;.</p>
<p>Linda is naturally a giver and finds it hard to ask for help.  Due to her disabilities, she feels like she is at her end and that only God can provide.  She has prayed and fasted for several days and came up with the task of telling her need to churches and seeing how God&#8217;s people will respond.</p>
<p>She keeps thinking with enough hearts touched there can be a miracle. She has no clue what God has planned, but hopes there is enough hearts out there to make this project come to fruition.</p>
<p>It is all possible, but to Linda it still seems impossible&#8230; She knows God majors in the impossible and just takes this step of faith of putting the need out there for folks to respond.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing your heart!</p>
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		<title>Half life</title>
		<link>http://www.benderbubble.com/?p=121</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Multiple Chemical Sensitivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time 1/2 the material gets out of the blood stream is called a half  life&#8230; it a term in the drug industry so like if amoxicillin&#8217;s half life is  ten days&#8230; So ten days after you stop, half the last dose is out of the blood stream ..and twenty days it will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The time 1/2 the material gets out of the blood stream is called a half  life&#8230; it a term in the drug industry so like if amoxicillin&#8217;s half life is  ten days&#8230; So ten days after you stop, half the last dose is out of the blood stream ..and twenty days it will be 25%&#8230; and so on&#8230; the bulk of  rebound/detox effects happen at the half life time<span id="more-121"></span>..that is one reason  to continue taking something even if you are feeling better&#8230; (Realize out of blood stream could mean settled in tissues or with the fat, but we are assuming it has taken an exit path for this discussion.  I encounter antibiotics in the lungs months after dose have been stopped.)</p>
<p>The half life time also tells you about how to treat a client with  something like GABA which has a half life of 2-3 hours would need to  repeated throughout the day if you want its relaxing effect to for the  full day or within an hour of an exam if you are just using it to relax  through the tough situation&#8230;</p>
<p>Also major side effects only last as long as I would say the half life  times two&#8230; (no scientific evidence, just my opinion.)  If you have a client who stopped something and it has been  two times since the half life, then most likely the item is not the  cause of the reaction unless they are really sensitive and having a  homeopathic reaction to the energy signature that is still in them with a  quarter of the amount&#8230;</p>
<p>Half lifes also are estimates, so they really depend on digestion rates  and reabsorption rates&#8230; typically small meals are digested in 1-2  hours with large meals 3-4 hours&#8230; a drug on an empty stomach could be 1/2  hour absorption&#8230;  The food taken with it could be a carrier so something like GHB product XYREM for narcalaspy when used with alcohol is absorbed quicker into the blood stream and yet Syntrhoid for hypothyroidism has reduced absorption when taken with calcium products&#8230;.</p>
<p>The food stays in the intestines for 2-3 days  unless they are not moving their bowels a few times a day then it can be  up to 5-6 days&#8230;(Optimally the person should be letting out about as  much as they put in about an hour or two ago.)  As most things are  absorbed through the intestines walls, the product can keep getting  reabsorbed which I&#8217;m sure plays into the half life rate&#8230;</p>
<p>If a client is having a reaction including fuzzy brain, one of the  fastest ways to end it is an enema or laxative to clear out the material  the are reacting to from the colon&#8230;  Also applying Reiki or  acupressure to the middle of the stomach with the intention of speeding  along the materials in the colon has worked for me&#8230;  Another would be  to use fiber (psyllium) and benonite clay since the clay will attract  and absorb the toxins&#8230; and the fiber make the material move out  faster&#8230; anyway you go make sure they are properly hydrated&#8230; just  some water (2 16 oz glasses taken 45-60 minutes apart) can help them move it all out&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Cell phone exposure</title>
		<link>http://www.benderbubble.com/?p=99</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay I got nabbed this week.  Was doing lunch/dinner (Linner?) with my father and his girlfriend.  As usual we went on an off time so that I would get less exposures.  The only other patrons in the room were two young mothers with their preschoolers.
The neon lights above our table was in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay I got nabbed this week.  Was doing lunch/dinner (Linner?) with my father and his girlfriend.  As usual we went on an off time so <span id="more-99"></span>that I would get less exposures.  The only other patrons in the room were two young mothers with their preschoolers.</p>
<p>The neon lights above our table was in a high ceiling so it shouldn&#8217;t have been a major problem&#8230; but then I started feeling the electric burns in back of my neck and arm&#8230; I moved my chair out of the range and still was getting it in the arm&#8230; Finally my father&#8217;s girlfriend offered to switch places with me when she saw I was reacting&#8230;</p>
<p>The waitress was curious why I switched places and I was honest to say I&#8217;m allergic to cell phones and someone&#8217;s is burning me.. I was  surprised that she didn&#8217;t react&#8230;</p>
<p>Within minutes of the exposure I became a zombie, unable to focus on the conversation at the meal, almost as if I was watching TV and tuned out the noise.  I knew they were speaking and I smiled and agreed and even laughed when they laughed, but couldn&#8217;t tell you the conversation.  I was wondering if that is partially what it is like for the autistic children&#8230; it was like not being there&#8230;</p>
<p>My muscles became very week as if I had the flu and it took two days to feel better again &#8211; but I still don&#8217;t feel myself yet, maybe a couple more days&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Metallic Taste/Smell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was an interesting find on a note board, when searching for a new symptom of my candida die-off.. rusty/metallic smelling body odor&#8230;I haven&#8217;t been able to substantiate the information, but the technical details made me think this is true since the die-off is known to increase the aldehydes&#8230;.  
For those who don&#8217;t understand [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was an interesting find on a note board, when searching for a new symptom of my candida die-off.. rusty/metallic smelling body odor&#8230;I haven&#8217;t been able to substantiate the information, but the technical details made me think this is true since the die-off is known to increase the aldehydes&#8230;.  <span id="more-97"></span></p>
<p>For those who don&#8217;t understand the tie in&#8230; environmental allergies are worse in a body with Candida overrun&#8230; kill the Candida and reduce the reactions once you get through the die-off period which makes everything worse&#8230; eventually the scales tip and the pain is worth the gain&#8230; just be prepared for going into the fire when you start the process.  It is not easy and it take months.<br />
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<p>A &#8216;metallic&#8217; smell is just body odour</p>
<p>The pong from handling iron or copper comes from your own skin.<br />
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After you&#8217;ve grasped an iron railing, a door handle or a piece of steel cutlery, your hand often gives off what seems to be a metallic odour. But Dietmar Glindemann of the University of Leipzig, Germany, and his co-workers say that you&#8217;re not smelling the metal at all.</p>
<p>They have found that the musty odour comes from chemical compounds in your skin, which are transformed in an instant by the touch of iron. They report the results in the international edition of Angewandte Chemie.</p>
<p>Copper has a similar effect, accounting for the metallic smell created by handling coins made of copper alloys. &#8220;When a shopkeeper hands you a coin,&#8221; says Glindemann, &#8220;you&#8217;re smelling his body odour.&#8221;</p>
<p>The smelly reactions induced by these metals create &#8220;the sensory illusion that it is the &#8216;metal in itself&#8217; that we smell right after touching it&#8221;, the researchers say. In other words, a &#8216;metallic&#8217; smell is only deemed to be so by association.</p>
<p>Glindemann began studying this question years ago when he became curious about the garlic-tinged metallic aroma of iron after it has been touched by a sweaty palm. He found that acids naturally present in sweat induce reactions between carbon and phosphorus impurities typically present in iron, generating smelly, volatile molecules called organophosphines.</p>
<p>But the &#8216;metallic&#8217; smell left on your hands after you handle iron or copper was different from the scent of metals touched by acid in the lab. &#8220;This problem tortured me for five or six years,&#8221; Glindemann says.</p>
<p>The breakthrough came when he teamed up with environmental chemist Andrea Dietrich at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She was trying to understand why people often complain of a metallic taste in drinking water.</p>
<p>Exploring the issue of metallic taste led her to think about metallic smell. That took her to Glindemann, and they cracked the problem together.</p>
<p>The researchers captured the vapours emitted from the skin of people who had handled iron objects, and studied their chemical composition. The gases contained several compounds called aldehydes and ketones, which often have strong and distinctive smells. The odour of preserving fluid, or formaldehyde, makes for the characteristic reek of old anatomy labs, for example, while the ketone acetone makes the distinctive solvent whiff of nail-varnish remover.</p>
<p>These compounds are produced by rapid reactions between iron or copper and oils on our skin.<br />
Is that mushrooms?</p>
<p>One such compound in particular, called 1-octen-3-one, which is found in the vapours above skin touched by iron, is particularly smelly. Humans can detect it at very low concentrations, and experience it as a mushroom-like, metallic odour.</p>
<p>The researchers think that every person generates a subtly different blend of odorant molecules when they touch metal, and that this blend may change if the individual has a disease such as cancer. So analysing the chemicals in &#8216;iron smell&#8217;, for example, might provide a kind of medical diagnostic tool. &#8220;We&#8217;re now working to see if the smell caused by iron on skin provides a fingerprint of disease,&#8221; says Glindemann.</p>
<p>The reactions could also explain Dietrich&#8217;s question of why drinking water sometimes tastes metallic: organic food particles could be reacting with rust in the water to help form the odour compounds.</p>
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		<title>Donating Space/Assessment Criteria</title>
		<link>http://www.benderbubble.com/?p=88</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donating your space can be a great benefit for the Environmentally Ill and yourself in this economy.  You can get tax breaks for either the rental of the space or the space itself..  You have to check with your accountant as to how that would best work for you. But if you are trying to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donating your space can be a great benefit for the Environmentally Ill and yourself in this economy.  You can get tax breaks for either the rental of the space or the space itself..  You have to check with your accountant as to how that would best work for you.<span id="more-88"></span> But if you are trying to sell the property and can&#8217;t in the current economy, renting the space can allow you to hold off selling it until market values return.  You would also have someone in there to help protect the space.</p>
<p>So we would have to do an assessment of the space for a viable living/work space for the environmentally ill person.  If it can not be used by them, the space will be provided either to another homeless person or sold off or rented to obtain funds to be used to acquire a viable space for an environmentally ill person.</p>
<p>Some of the assessment criteria</p>
<h3>Mutliple Chemical Sensitivity</h3>
<p>1) No Molds</p>
<p>2) No Chemicals- if near forest/farm what is the spraying policy /chemicals?</p>
<p>3) No Paneling / new carpets</p>
<p>4) No New Renovations/ construction which isn&#8217;t approved by our MCS organization</p>
<p>5) Heating system not causing problems</p>
<p>6) Check out what is west of the property to see prevailing winds don&#8217;t bring in chemicals from construction plants, gas stations, forests, farms, etc</p>
<p>7) Not close to the road where traffic brings in fumes</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Check to see close to support places, doctors, hospitals, shopping</p>
<h3>For Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity add:</h3>
<p>1) 2 miles from a train system</p>
<p>2) Check cell phone towers</p>
<p>3) Check radio towers</p>
<p>4) Check how much wifi traffic</p>
<p>5) Not close to neighbor&#8217;s lights/ electrical equipment</p>
<p>6) Check power issues for home and neighbor hood with Guassmeter</p>
<p>7) Check Geomagnetic stresses &#8211; black water streams and quarries/mines</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Check proximity to power lines / power boxes / power plants</p>
<p>9) How many TV/ Radio stations are there?</p>
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		<title>Hats &amp; Clothes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite protective devices is a thick leather hat that I picked up in my travels while hiking in Tasmania&#8230; Here is a picture of me and my hat visiting the Grand Canyon.
I use other hats, but none as protective as this one, This one will keep me from getting head achy electrical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sw2009-013.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-84" title="sw2009 013" src="http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sw2009-013-300x193.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="193" /></a>One of my favorite protective devices is a thick leather hat that I picked up in my travels while hiking in Tasmania&#8230; Here is a picture of me and my hat visiting the Grand Canyon.<span id="more-83"></span></p>
<p>I use other hats, but none as protective as this one, This one will keep me from getting head achy electrical burns from many overhead lights in stores &#8211; not all lights, but many&#8230; it will block out many of the frequencies.  I&#8217;m guessing those thick cow hides really do the trick&#8230;</p>
<p>The creator is</p>
<p>Richard &amp; Chris Siedentopf</p>
<p>tazhatz@southcom.com.au</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salamanca.com.au/tazhatz" target="_blank">www.salamanca.com.au/tazhatz</a></p>
<p>My hat has been my companion for ten year now and I just treated myself to two more my last birthday.    If I recall, they were $45 each plus shipping&#8230; Well worth the investment.  Part of the value is that they are completely crushable and travel easily- as they fold down flat.   I dealt with Richard, he doesn&#8217;t know the health value, I&#8217;ve described here&#8230;</p>
<p>Either way, a good hat can be very protective.  If you want to add another protective layer to it, check out the fabrics at www.LessEMF.com&#8230; I&#8217;ve used the fabrics to do other hats of mine and yes, it protects your head, but it can not stop it&#8230; it moves them to the edges of the fabric&#8230; for example I made a long sleeve dress out of one of the materials and my wrists were getting the electropollution that it was capturing&#8230;  so be careful and know what you are actually doing&#8230; I figured centralizing the impact to my wrists was worse than allowing my body to get bits and pieces all over&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Estrogen / Nuerotransmitter&#8217;s link</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the more exciting item&#8230;. The mercury poisoning took out my endocrine system&#8230; when tested I was below menopausal at the level of a teenager even though my cycle was regular and predictable down to the hour&#8230;  Went on HRT which helped a lot but I&#8217;ve been trying to get off the estrogen since my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the more exciting item&#8230;. The mercury poisoning took out my endocrine system&#8230; when tested I was below menopausal at the level of a teenager even though my cycle was regular and predictable down to the hour&#8230;  Went on HRT which helped a lot but I&#8217;ve been trying to get off the estrogen since my body seems to have been thrown into menopause&#8230; and the environmental doctor has me on new amino acids and to rebalance the HPA Axis (endocrine basis).  This HPA Axis controls the sex hormones&#8230;<span id="more-81"></span>I&#8217;m praying that everything will come into line once the underlying item is addressed.</p>
<p>Anyway I am super sensitive to EMF again &#8211; very painful, but exciting because I may have found a key to the puzzle&#8230;   When I did research on the EMF sensitivity there were two people groups that experienced it quite frequently but temporarily&#8230; women going through the change and those getting off or addicted to (can&#8217;t remember but believe) cocaine&#8230;</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t had the time to do research, but I&#8217;m hoping there is a link and maybe the cocaine does a number on the hormones &#8211; or if you look at the people&#8217;s groups you find a common pattern of wacked out neurotransmitters&#8230;  I think I read that &#8216;they&#8217; were surmizing that all groups had lower skin resistance to electricity&#8230;</p>
<p>I do get excited for the strangest things huh????  I&#8217;ll keep you updated when I find out anything&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what will result, but I have a lead in my little hobby to find out what is the cause of this lovely illness.</p>
<p>Blessings</p>
<p>2/21 research update &#8211; There is a link to cocaine and estrogen&#8230; rat studies show that those exposed to estrogen had a different experience to estrogen than those who were not&#8230;Also estrogen increase the dopamine levels&#8230;</p>
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<h3>Titre du document / Document title</h3>
<p>Estrogen influences cocaine-induced blood oxygen level-dependent signal changes in female rats</p>
<h3>Auteur(s) / Author(s)</h3>
<p>FEBO Marcelo ;  FERRIS Craig F. ;  SEGARRA Annabell C. ;</p>
<h3>Résumé / Abstract</h3>
<p>We investigated the effect ofestrogen on cocaine-induced brain activity using blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging. Ovariectomized (Ovx) rats without estrogen and Ovx rats with estrogen (0vx+E) were given a single saline or cocaine injection (15 mg/kg, i.p.) for 5 d. After 7 d of withdrawal from injections, rats were challenged with cocaine during functional imaging. Acute cocaine administration produced positive BOLD activation in the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, striatum, ventral tegmental area, and hippocampus, among other brain regions. Positive BOLD signal changes were lower in 0vx+E than in Ovx rats. With repeated cocaine administration, 0vx+E rats showed enhanced BOLD signal changes in the nucleus accumbens, ventral tegmental area, and hippocampus compared with acutely treated animals. Our results indicate that estrogen influences the effects of acute and repeated cocaine administration on BOLD signal changes. The data suggest that in females with estrogen, cocaine-induced neuronal activity is enhanced after repeated cocaine administration. It is possible that the actions of estrogen within the aforementioned brain regions potentiate the behavioral response to cocaine observed in female rats.</p>
<h3>Revue / Journal Title</h3>
<p>The Journal of neuroscience  								 <strong>ISSN</strong> 0270-6474  							 <strong>CODEN</strong> JNRSDS</p>
<h3>Source / Source</h3>
<p>2005, vol. 25, n<sup>o</sup>5, pp. 1132-1136 [5 page(s) (article)]</p>
<h3>Langue / Language</h3>
<p>Anglais</p>
<h3>Editeur / Publisher</h3>
<p>Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, ETATS-UNIS  	 		(1981) 	 (Revue)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Body burning</title>
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I am so glad you went to the emergency and not wait for things to get better on their own&#8230; I don&#8217;t know about the acid in the sinus&#8230;  mucus is normally base&#8230; My thought is the burning you feel is from the salt clearing out on infection or killing the bacteria.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dearest friend-</p>
<p>I am so glad you went to the emergency and not wait for things to get better on their own&#8230; I don&#8217;t know about the acid in the sinus&#8230;  mucus is normally base&#8230; My thought is the burning you feel is from the salt clearing out on infection or killing the bacteria.</p>
<p>But it could be a basic chemical reaction that you are feeling the electrical component to it because you are so<span id="more-76"></span> sensitive.  Or perhaps the salt is killing off bacteria, the death would theoretically create an energy release like any living thing dying and your super sensitive body is picking it up as burning.</p>
<p>From my own personal experience &#8211; When I was first fighting the system wide candida, there was mass die-off.  It was the worst experience.  It felt like someone was burning me all over my body- like someone pouring acid on me or cigarette burns.</p>
<p>It sent me screaming to try to release the pain in some way. For the first three days of treatment I was in burning pain and crying/screaming.  I seriously considered taking my life to get out of the horror &#8211; it was that bad.</p>
<p>Thankfully I was warned about it from our autistic cousins on the internet when I did the drug research before taking Diflucan.  (You may or may not realize they are Electromagnetic Hypersensitive- at least all the dozen&#8217;s I&#8217;ve encountered.  If you want to know what a chemical does in your body, check out the reactions an autistic child has to it&#8230;)  The treatment has a tendency of burning all over the body for we sensitives.  Had I not known this I may have ended it all.</p>
<p>I think part of that was the death of the fungus- which if I recall correctly releases alcohol into the bloodstream and part was my own body histamines coming to the rescue to take out what was just killed.</p>
<p>You may have had this type of reaction too- salt is a powerful tool&#8230; it has been used for centuries as a preservative for meats.</p>
<p>Looking at it from an electromagnetic hypersenstive&#8217;s point of view each chemical reaction, no matter how minute is an electrical activity &#8211; the exchange of electrons from one molecule to another is just an electrical dance, depending on your sensitivity and where these reactions are occurring in your body (i.e. in the sea of stomach acids or at a nerve synapse) will determine how much you actually feel the chemical reaction.</p>
<p>The key thing here is to recognize that just because you are sensitive and can feel what is happening, doesn&#8217;t mean that it is actually injurious.  I can tell you which part of my brain is working on an issue and I&#8217;ve checked, it matches PET scans of scientific research.  I feel it as heat and burning sensations.  The function of my brain is not a problem just because I can feel it..</p>
<p>It becomes hard to determine when something is really a problem verses just something you feel when you are a sensitive.  But I can tell when an abnormal energy exposure is happening in my brain and it allows me to move away from that source.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long stories, but I&#8217;m hoping this information may help and encourage you in some way&#8230;</p>
<p>Blessings-</p>
<p>Linda</p>
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		<title>Healthy Cell Phone Usage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is written from my research, training and personal experience, for a few friends who have cell phone issues… some of the statements are my conclusions by putting two and two together based on different research and has yet to be proven by any government agency…
Cell phones for anyone is a dangerous tool, they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Cell-phone.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-71" title="Cell phone" src="http://www.benderbubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Cell-phone-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>This post is written from my research, training and personal experience, for a few friends who have cell phone issues… some of the statements are my conclusions by putting two and two together based on different research and has yet to be proven by any government agency…</p>
<p>Cell phones for anyone is a dangerous tool, they seem so innocent, but they have not been effectively evaluated. For the Multiple Chemical Sensitive (MSC)/ Electromagnetic Hypersensitive (EHS) person they are doubly harmful.  <span id="more-68"></span> It wasn’t until I started thinking about this post did I consider maybe they are even part of the major environmental change that is perpetuating the Environmental Illnesses. This is yet to be determined.   Its transmission has been suspected as one of the issues for the honeybee decrease and is known to be contributing to the ozone issue, but this has not been brought out into the general public consciousness.</p>
<p>First for the general public:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Cell phones should be not be used by children, their bodies and their brains are still developing.  Definitely not below the age of 12 because of the brain development, but I would keep the phones away from kids until 21 because of the hormonal impacts.</p>
<p>For the Brain:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We are now getting formal reports that they are unsafe but a simple study by student tests show that they are unsafe years ago.  The student put a raw egg in a cup and had two cell phones talking to each other on each side of the egg and they cooked the egg.   It kind of reminds me of that drug commercial where ‘this is your brain’ showing an egg and ‘this is your brain on drugs’ seeing one fried in a pan…</p>
<p>Hormonal Impacts:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">No one has studied this issue, but science has shown that electric current causes vitamin C to ‘weep’ from our cells, this vitamin plays a key role in our hormones specifically Adrenal stress hormones which when out of kilter wacks out our other hormones because if impact the H-P-A Axis.   (Oops, more pointing to a factor in EI, the H-P-A Axis is involved in senses and allergies.  There might be something here.)  Not to mention the other importance of vitamin C role in the body’s immune system and cholesterol processing.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">As a matter of fact, in one of Bob Beck’s book Body Electric or Cross Currents, he talks about the week that the first cell phone tower went up in the Bronx the doctor’s offices got bombarded with people coming in complaining of flu like symptoms and it wasn’t flu season.  (Wouldn’t that be enough to say we should have evaluated this more before proceeding?)</p>
<p>Mercury Poisoning?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Cell phone transmissions are based on a mercury chip.  This means they emit mercury frequencies, which stimulate any mercury around them… holding a phone up the jaw that contains silver fillings or root canals is putting the mercury contained within them in an excited state… this releases mercury ions into the mouth which gets absorbed by the body.  This has not been studied, but it is the logical conclusion to thinking about it with a scientific mind.  This same mercury excitement is happening with any of our mercury based technology(which should be banned for public safety in my opinion.) which includes the new high efficient light bulbs.   This is another book about us creating technology genocide.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Never wear a cell phone on the body, especially close to the testes.  It has been implicated in prostate cancer.</p>
<p>Global Impact:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Anytime a satellite is accessed from the ground, be it for TV, GPS or cell phone transmissions the transmission breaks the atmosphere and creates yet another ozone molecule. A book could be written on this along… You figure out the rest.</p>
<p>For the MCS:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Many of us are reactive to oil/gasoline and its associated products.  Plastic is gasoline based. Let the new phone and any components off gas by putting it out of your normal living space open to the air for at least a week.  Then clean the product, with a disinfectant- I use a 10% vodka solution as a natural disinfectant that the body can handle if it isn’t allergic to potatoes. These products were made / packaged overseas and carry environmental residuals with them which could include practically anything.  (Another suspect to EI with my environmental, health and safety hat on – the highest incident to EHS is people in the computer field, could it be some sort of foreign virus or residual on our electronic components made overseas be an initiating factor?)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Help yourself MCS and get some NAET treatments for your reactions.  This works on about 80% of the folks and is worth a try.  Go to <a href="http://www.NAET.com" target="_blank">www.NAET.com</a> to find a doctor.  If you can’t find one near you, I have successfully done remote treatments similar to NAET to deactivate reactions, including to viruses and bacterial reactions.  Check out services at <a href="http://www.wisepotions.com" target="_blank">www.wisepotions.com</a>.</p>
<p>For the EHS:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Follow the above rules and then you have a few issues with the actual phone including the power components, the light component, the speaker component and the transmission component.  NAET may help you too with some of the things.</p>
<p>Power component:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This is the battery in the phone and the charger.  For the charger, simple, have your phone off and charge your phone in the least used room. I use the bathroom.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The battery is a different story.  For the EHS you can drain a battery in a matter of minutes.  This drain went into your body and you need to get it out by grounding.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If you react to batteries, you can also react to different batteries.  Some will burn your hand and others will cause migraines in a matter of minutes. You need to test your phone and the best thing is to keep the phone off as much as possible and when you boot up your phone have it arms length away.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Get a phone that has a good speaker phone and use that as much as possible, don’t hold your phone except when absolutely necessary and only by your finger tips – better if you have a glove on too especially if you have sweaty hands.  Water will cause power transmission.   Also skin resistance to power is lower in woman, especially post menopausal woman who shin is thinner than men’s.  Just pretend you are Scarlet O’Hara and use gloves.</p>
<p>The light component:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Most phones today have a lovely light system controlling the screen and the keypad.  Test your phone at the phone store for these.  They can cause the burning and migraines when you use them.  The only way around this is to get a simple old style phone which I see is happening to target to the elderly market to convert them from using regular phones.</p>
<p>The speaker component:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The only way around this one is the speaker phone.  If you get a microphone, you still have a speaker in your ear.  If you get a Bluetooth, you still have a speaker in the ear and a wonderful new Bluetooth transmission system to worry about.  I haven’t really investigated them, but I’m guessing there are batteries and plastic components too.  (Sorry to inject my opinion again, but let’s see how many cancers of the ear and behind the ear are going to pop up in the next decade.)</p>
<p>The transmission component.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Now this is what most people evaluate for the safety of the phone.  I’ve broken it down into two issues.  One is the safety and the other is just using the darn thing so your message gets across.  We’ll take usage first.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Me and my other sensitive friends have discovered if you speak on the phone with certain background energies the message gets garbled.  These energies are anything to do with negative emotions – as odd as it sounds, if you are excited, worried, angry, hurried or distressed your chances of the message getting broken up or even the cell phone not connecting to the tower increases.  Our energy bodies are putting out an amazing amount of energy and sometimes the phone is just not compatible.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">To use the phone successfully, you need to be focused, calm and happy.   Before the call, take a deep breath and blow out any stress.  If super stressed, take a 30 second break by closing your eyes and relaxing.  Then get yourself happy some, even putting on a smile or doing a laugh even if fake will tell your body to be happy and change the chemistry which will change the energy frequencies…. I know this sounds really strange, but it is true…  Now place your call.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The actually transmission is what fried the egg.  This is a directional energy beam between the phone and the closest cell phone tower. The phone is in constant communications when on, and I sometimes suspect when off.   I feel the transmission like a sword cutting through me.  I immediately know to move my body.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For your own phone usage in your home, check out <a href="http://www.antennasearch.com" target="_blank">www.antennasearch.com</a> to find your local tower and make sure the phone is on the tower side whenever you use it so its transmission beam doesn’t cross your body. It may still get your hand, but it won’t get your body.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The bigger issue here is when others are using their cell phone or have them on- this relates to GPS systems too.  This is most problematic while driving.  Most of the transmissions are too quick to worry about, like you are driving past a person making a phone call.   The problem comes in when you are paralleling a car that is transmitting and you are in its beam   I feel these like stabs, so it is pretty easy to look around and see if there is something to move away from.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">You need to pay attention to your body and if you feel like a sudden pain came on like a stab or a migraine. Shift lanes or slow down to get away from the vehicle.  I find some trucks seem to have a transmission, I think it is for tracking purposes- like they send out a signal to readers on the road…  The signal is constant even though they may only cross two readers a day.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The other danger on the road that you may be picking up on is radar guns by police.  For me they have a similar stab.   I hope by now you realize you can’t have Easy  Pass without having a transmitter in your car. These are a whole other health issue.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Another is in public places such as airports and airplanes.  Huge problems, first thing is to not stress out too much and know you are going to get exposure that will need time to recover.    The biggest thing is to ask the person to turn off their phones when in your space and if not possible, move away.  I wear a medical alert badge that says I react to many things including electronic equipment and I’ve used that to show people who don’t believe I’m allergic to devices.  This is more than just cell phones, but one one that I very bad is in an airplane and a guy has his cell phone in his pocket that is next to your leg…</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">You need to be vocal… I usually start the conversation with ‘You won’t believe this, but I’m allergic to electricity.’  They usually say something and I then if they don’t believe me I show them my medical alert badge and then say something like ‘Something in your pocket is burning me.’  And then together we work on a solution to resolve the issue… like I say, could you put it in your other pocket? Or they may say I’ll put it in the overhead…</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The barrage of calls upon landing is a problem.  Try to move away from anything that is causing you pain.  There are bigger problems of flying&#8230; that is yet another topic.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Hope this brain dump has helped a bit.  Best this is if you don&#8217;t need to be on the phone.</p>
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