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The author, Tony Isaacs, is a natural health researcher and author of books and articles about natural health including "Cancer's Natural Enemy" as well as song lyrics and humorous anecdotal stories. Mr. Isaacs also has The Best Years in Life website for baby boomer's and others wishing to live longer, healthier and happier lives and he serves as a featured writer and consultant to the nationally famous Utopia Silver colloidal silver and natural supplement company. |
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Comments on all articles by Tony Isaacs (512)    Tony Isaacs  Success Against HIV and Cancer in South Africa Anonymous: (9 days 23 hours ago.)  Why isn't this info headline news in the mainstream media??? Comment by Tony Isaacs (512) Tony Isaacs (9 days 22 hours ago.)The answer is simple - because the mainstream media is beholden to mainstream medicine who places hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising with them each year, and so they parrot the mainstream medicine line that only FDA approved drugs are real medicine and safe, while natural supplements, vitamins, minerals and other alternatives are ineffective and dangerous. This despite the fact that there are over 126,000 deaths from properly prescribed and taken drugs each year and no more than a handful at most from natural alternatives.
Big Pharma is a trillion dollar a year profit-oriented empire whose only marketplace is our bodies - and they brook no competition. You cannot continue to be profitable and increase your profits if you allow more effective, less expensive and far safer competition which you cannot patent and control. As a matter of fact, you cannot continue to increase profits if you cure anything either. Perhaps that explains why over 95% of the FDA approved drugs, which are patented compounds, synthetics and unnatural isolates not found in nature, have side effects which often lead to other conditions requiring still more drugs in a never ending cycle of managed illness instead of actual lasting cures.
It is a great model for profits, but a horrible one for health and humanity.
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Herbert Ley
Former U.S. FDA Commissioner A Brief History of the Oleander Plant Luella May from Pontotoc, MS: (148 days 13 hours ago.) Michael, I can tell you without a benefit of a doubt, that oleander works. There are people alive today that otherwise would not have made it. People who mainstream medicine sent home to die. Furthermore, Oleander has passed Phase I Trials with the FDA. And furthermore, Dr. Robert Newman, of M. D. Anderson in Houston, has led and participated in many of the major studies on oleander and it is currently undergoing phase I trials at MD Anderson for a new pill formulation. So, yes, oleander does indeed work. Tony Isaacs from Utopia, TX: (148 days 14 hours ago.) I suppose that explains why the book has been roundly praised at alternative and natural health sites and has sold in 20 countries around the world without a single request for a refund? You sound to me like a mainstream troll. I wonder what your comments will be about the recently completed peer reviewed study that demonstrates that oleander extract induces autophagic cell death in pancreatic cancer cells or the upcoming publication of a clinical trial where oleander extract was 100 percent successful in stabilizing and reversing HIV symptoms? I spent thousands of hours researching and writing about the subject - you obviously took one look and made an uninformed condemnation. - The author Tony Isacs from Utopia, TX: (155 days 22 hours ago.) When exactly did God and nature become quacks, Michael? The real quacks are the mainstream medicine people and their system of managed illness that only treats symptoms, pays little attention to prevention, diet, nutrition and lifestyle, and tries to suppress and ridicule nature - which is often far safer, more effective and less expensive - because it represents such a huge threat to their trillion dollar a year empire. Treating illness by prescribing side effect laden drugs (over 95% of all FDA drugs have significant side effects) which lead to yet more conditions that require still more drugs in a never ending cycle for the rest of your life may be a wonderful model for profits, but it is a horrible one for humanity. Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues Anonymous: (224 days 1 hour ago.) I think the missing point is how unfair, even illegal, the FDA rules are and the way they selectively enforce them to bar natural competition and leave the dangerous drugs and substances such as Aspartame on the market to the ultimate harm of the public. Rules that enable them to warn and harrass chrry growers, or the makers of a tea which has hundreds of PubMed cited studies vouching for it are absurd. They are a rogue agency, clearly controlled by monied interests, which serves the public poorly and they have overstepped their authority to interfere with the God given unalienable rights of US citizens to decide for themselves how to address their own very private and personal health issues and what they do or do not wish to put in their bodies. There is the story that needs to be written over and over again, and I am one of the ones doing so. As you know, us journalists are not big fans of censorship. Opposing opinion is welcome as long as it is not carried out ad infinitum or presented in an uncivil manner. I would probably have been kinder in my response if you had not begun your post with "what the author isn't telling you". Anonymous: (224 days 18 hours ago.)  I am well aware of the "revolving" door of the FDA. You can mock me and question my journalistic ethics all you want but I stand by what I wrote: That company was raided because they ignored years of warning letters and refused to comply with regulations that other herbal supplement comply with EVERY SINGLE DAY. Thank you for letting me present an opposing view point. A lot of authors would've simply hit "delete" and moved on. Anonymous: (224 days 22 hours ago.) If your post is an indication of how you covered the article then shame on your for not pointing out how unfair the FDA rules are, and looking at the Full Life side of the story instead of what you were obviously fed by the FDA and their minions. I am a journalist myself, and I was taught to always make sure of your sources from both sides of any issue. When it comes to journalists who cover mainstream medicine and FDA generated scare stories, it appears that such teachings are largely ignored these days. Remember, the FDA is the same agency that insists Aspartame is safe, Stevia is dangerous, and which kept Vioxx on the market for Merck while tens of thousands of deaths piled up. I suggest you purchase a copy of "Fight for Your Health - Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America" by a highly respected journalist, Byron Richards. And perhaps take a look at "Healthcare for Dummies - How the Rich Got Richer and the Sick Got Sicker" which can be found in the article directory on my own website tbyil dot com. Now, if you had properly reported the Charantia raid, here is the other side of the story you would have reported, as did Mike Adams of NewsTarget: (NewsTarget) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continuing its campaign of censorship against truthfully-described herbal supplements, seized $71,000 worth of Charantea herbal supplements last week in a raid involving U.S. Marshals. The company, Fulllife Natural Options, was accused by the FDA of marketing an "unapproved drug" due to the truthful marketing claims that accurately describe the blood sugar lowering effects of the product's main ingredient: Bitter Melon fruits. According to the Food and Drug Administration, there is no such thing as an herb, food or supplement that has any biological activity whatsoever on the human body (other than simply providing calories), and any person who dares to make such a claim is immediately considered to be in violation of the FDA's authority. Any substance that has any therapeutic effect whatsoever on the human body is considered by the FDA to be a "drug" and must be approved as such -- a lengthy process costing about $800 million and requiring the favor of an agency that practically works for Big Pharma. The FDA is well known for its censorship efforts against nutritional supplements. Earlier this year, the agency sent threatening letters to 29 cherry growers, warning them to remove all links to scientific literature describing the anti-inflammatory effects of phytonutrients found in cherries. Merely linking to such studies from a web page, the FDA warned, instantly transformed cherries into drugs requiring FDA approval. The FDA believes that the dissemination of scientific information about the health benefits of fruits, vegetables and plants simply cannot be tolerated." And, instead of just giving the slanted mainstream version, you might have also included a response from those who were actually raided. In case you were not aware of it, here it is: Safe, Reliable Diabetic Supplement Seized by FDA Over Website Wording By Dante Abelarde Dear Sirs, With reference to "Approximately $71,000 of Dietary Supplements Seized at FDA Request" here is our view of the recent FDA seizure of our food supplement product Charantea Ampalaya Bitter Melon Tea and Capsules. We fear such negative impressions created by the FDA's move may harm what is otherwise a safe, reliable and well-known natural remedy used by diabetics around the world. We would like to clarify to the public at large that the FDA's move was a result of their negative interpretation of the wordings on our website found at (website of charanteausa) and has nothing to do at all with Charantea's efficacy or safety. Again, the trouble with the FDA is only rooted with the wordings and is not due to any safety or efficacy issues of the product. And much of the literature the FDA apparently took offense to was referring to the actual Bitter Melon plant's well-established benefits and the studies establishing its hypoglycemic properties and not to the finished product. In fact, even the public information website of the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health, contains over 365 individual scientific studies conducted worldwide on the Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia Linn.) since the 1970s. We have merely made this and other similar helpful information available to our customers on our website so that they may be better informed and make informed decisions. We have been coordinating with the FDA for several months before this recent incident, trying to comply with their requirement that there be no implied claims to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease (these are only allowed for pharmaceutical drugs). For this, we have adjusted our website claims and testimonials several times in the past few months. We have records of our email correspondence with the FDA agent in charge of our case, informing her of the changes and asking her to see if our changes were satisfactory as it was their interpretation that mattered, not ours. She refused to comment several times, citing that the FDA does not give advice on this and that compliance is solely our responsibility. We agree that compliance is our responsibility. However, because only the FDA's own interpretation of what implies a claim or not is what will bring them to take damaging action, we feel it unjust to have our repeated requests for their comments to be ignored and to suddenly have a crippling blow struck against an otherwise honest business. We are a small business, with no resources for expensive lawyers to guide us through the labyrinthine maze the FDA seems to have set up for dietary supplements. We will probably close down as we have been told to stop selling despite our customer requests for Charantea. If we cannot sell, our business cannot survive. Charantea is currently freely available and well-accepted around the world including Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Only in the USA has it been considered an illegal drug. We have not given up. We are still trying to find a way to do business that is acceptable to the FDA's opinion, and are determined to renew our efforts to comply with their requirements. We would like to thank all the people who have expressed their support for our company and in Charantea, and to our customers, whose approval is ultimately what really matters. Anonymous: (224 days 23 hours ago.) I covered the Charantea raid as a journalist and what the author of the above article isn't telling you is that FulLife Natural Options had been receiving Warning Letters for YEARS prior to the raid. (Their warning letters are a matter of public record at fda.gov.) FulLife wasn't raided because they were selling an herbal product; they were raided because they refused to play by the rules that hundreds of other herbal manufacturers follow without incident. Linda Dean: (227 days 14 hours ago.) This was a very good . My sister saw the news and she knows I use Colloidal Silver for sinus infections and called me to let me in on the "blue man" You just can't get people to understand the use of Colloidal Silver because whatever the news tell them, they believe. Oh well, I know it works for me, I have not had a antibotic prescription for sinus infections in years. Colloidal Silver has been wonderful. Anonymous: (230 days 12 hours ago.) Several things about this news story that strike me as odd right off the bat: First of all, the man is really blue. I mean really blue. When people contract argyria (i.e., skin graying) from ingesting excessive amounts of colloidal silver over long periods of time, they usually turn grey, not blue. That’s because the excessive silver buildup in their body has worked its way to the skin (the human body’s largest organ of elimination), and when the sun strikes the skin it tarnishes the large number of silver particles lodged there, turning the skin slate grey. It is quite possible this man actually has a heart disease resulting in cyanosis (skin bluing from oxygen deficiency in the blood). Nevertheless, he says his condition is the result of taking colloidal silver for the past 14 years, so we have to take his word for it. As I have been warning for the past 12 years, drinking excessive amounts of colloidal silver on a daily basis for long periods of time will indeed result in argyria for many people, particularly those with poor kidney and liver function. That’s because the excessive daily intake of silver particles is more than their kidneys and liver can expel at any one time. This can result in a residual buildup of the silver particles in the body’s tissues each time a person drinks more silver than their excretory organs can expel. Eventually, over time, the body tries to push this residual buildup of silver from the tissues out toward the skin, at which point the skin turns grey upon exposure to sunlight. Also, the news story doesn’t tell us how much colloidal silver this man was taking daily. This is a typical ploy of the corporate news media. They want you to believe that any amount of colloidal silver is potentially dangerous, when that is in reality the farthest thing from the truth. But to create the illusion, they don’t bother to tell you how much colloidal silver was taken each day for those 14 years, even though that is the most critical factor in the story! As one experienced colloidal silver user stated in a blog regarding this news video, “This idiot would had to have drank Colloidal Silver by the gallon to have that happen to him!” While we disavow the name-calling, the point is well taken. You have to try real hard to discolor your skin by drinking colloidal silver. It is actually easier to turn your skin orange from drinking too much carrot juice than it is to turn your skin gray (or blue) from drinking colloidal silver. We also noticed that in the original news video of this story from CNN, the man is shown using a conventional colloidal silver generator distributed by a company in Canada. We are familiar with the company that makes the exact generator displayed in the news video, and personally like the people behind the company. We have spoken with them several times in the past, and they are clearly very sincere about helping, educating and empowering people to be responsible for their own health. But as we have warned you for many years now, most conventional colloidal silver generators produce overly-high levels of silver (i.e., ppm, or silver by weight) in every batch, and the particle size of the silver is also often overly-large. So you have to be very careful if you are using a conventional colloidal silver generator. This is precisely the reason why we chose to distribute the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, which allows you to produce silver particles so small it takes a Transmission Electron Microscope operating at a whopping 175,000x magnification to see them. In comparison, silver particles produced by conventional colloidal silver generators can generally be seen under a standard microscope operating at only 20,000x magnification. This means the silver particles produced by the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator are an astonishing 875% smaller than those produced by conventional colloidal silver units. In other words, they are far smaller than any blood cell, blood vessel, virus, bacteria, or fungus. You can see a Transmission Electron Microscope photograph of these tiny sub-microscopic silver particles by going to our home page at TheSilverEdge (dot com) and scrolling down until you get near the bottom of the page, where you will see it on the right-hand side. As you will see, the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator produces silver particles as small as .0008 microns, which is eight ten-thousandths of a single micron. As far as we know, these are the smallest silver particles produced by any low-voltage colloidal silver generator on the face of the earth. This is probably why the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is now the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator. Finally, this gentleman’s contention that his skin turned blue from rubbing colloidal silver on it, rather than from drinking it, is…well…rubbish. If the colloidal silver actually did cause his condition, then it was from drinking it in excessive quantities over long periods of time. If he rubbed anything on his skin and turned it blue, I can assure you it was not colloidal silver. This man is apparently blue nearly from head to toe. It is highly unlikely he was rubbing colloidal silver all over his body. And even if he was, it would not have turned him into a Smurf. Also I would be extremely remiss if I did not point out one more vital fact in regards to this news video: Out of the estimated seven to 10 million regular colloidal silver users in the United States alone, this is only the second or third person the news media have been able to find in the last 20 years (to my knowledge, anyway) who has “turned blue.” (For the inside scoop on the last news media “blue man,” see our web site at TheSilverEdge(dot com)and scroll down to the link titled “Did Colloidal Silver Turn This Man Blue?” As you will see, the news media claimed a man turned blue from taking colloidal silver back in 2002, but that story turned out to be highly exaggerated.) At any rate, I still find it absolutely amazing that the news media will find two or three people who get this benign but unsightly skin condition out of the literally millions of regular colloidal silver users in the U.S. and Canada, and then broadcast it from the rooftops as if it were the norm. But they won't mention the astonishing 2.2 million people who suffer serious and quite often life-threatening adverse reactions from prescription drug use every single year, or the 100,000 Americans KILLED each year from prescription drug use, which is 30 times more than all of the U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war! Let’s see now: two or three people turning blue in 20 years from excessive colloidal silver usage, versus 100,000 people a year being flat-out put into their graves by common drugs their doctors prescribed them. Which is more newsworthy? I’ll leave that up to you to decide. This man’s case is obviously an extremely rare one. But it is a good example of what we have been saying for years: In much the same way you wouldn’t eat a half a bottle of vitamins a day unless you want to endure some potentially nasty side effects over time, you also can’t take excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily without eventually provoking a nasty side effect called argyria. Most people are intelligent enough not to take the kind of huge daily dosages that would be necessary to stain your skin like this man has apparently done over the course of the past 14 years. But there are still many web sites out there that claim colloidal silver has “no side effects whatsoever” and that you can “drink all you want with no risk.” Those are blatantly untrue statements. And we have been sounding the alarm against such statements for years. Again, just as you can’t take all of the vitamins you want every day without risk, so you can’t drink all of the colloidal silver you want each day without risk. If you take excessive quantities of colloidal silver daily for long periods of time, you do indeed risk contracting argyria (i.e., skin graying). It is not a guarantee you will become argyric. But it is a very real risk. The key to avoiding side effects from colloidal silver, or from any other natural supplement for that matter, is the same one your mother taught you when you were a little child: “Don’t overdo it; use MODERATION in all things.” If an ounce of colloidal silver a day works good for you, then for goodness sakes don’t start thinking that maybe 16 ounces a day will be even better. It is that “more must be even better” mentality that ultimately produces these rare cases of side effects which the news media in turns capitalizes on in order to scare people away from using this otherwise safe and powerfully effective all-natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster, which has been used by tens of millions of people worldwide since it was first invented in the late 1800’s shortly after Edison harnessed electricity. For those interested in learning more about colloidal silver dosage, <snip, please follow the rules of posting comments> Regards and good health! Spencer Jones for TheSilverEdge Tony Isaacs from Utopia, TX: (231 days 23 hours ago.) Do you mean get tested like Bitter Melon, which has a mere 650 studies referenced at Pubmed and has been proven in studies and centuries of use to help combat diabetes and blood sugar problems? The did not stop the FDA from raiding the offices of a seller of Charantia (Bitter Melon) tea and confiscating all of their computers and supplies simply because the company referenced some of those very same studies and that, by the FDA's twisted rules, made the Bitter Melon a drug. Silver has been tested and proven time and again. As noted in the story, it was once FDA approved (in much cruder forms) for no less than 34 prescribed and over the counter products until it was replaced with the more highly controllable, patented and highly profitable sulfa drugs and then antibiotics. There have actually been a tremendous amount of studies conducted on colloidal silver, the consensus of which is that it is a superior pathogen destroyer, and PUbMed contains no less than 628 studies related to colloidal silver. It HAS been proven time and time again and that is why there has also been a corresponding tremendous amount of efforts to suppress the information in the studies and attack colloidal silver for the threat it represents, not to our health, but to the bottom line health of pharmaceutical company profits from their patented drugs. One of the earliest studies is the one conducted by Albert Searle in 1919, demonstrating colloidal silver's effectiveness on 650 different pathogens. Perhaps the best known is the now suppressed study conducted at Brigham Young in 1999, which determined that colloidal silver was a safe and effective alternative to antibiotics. You can still find a summary of this study with a Google search. If you want to see more studies on silver, you can also go to the Utopia Silver website and click on the Silver Bulletin e-magazine and then click on the scientific studies at the bottom of the page. Or you can go to PubMed and do a search for colloidal silver and look at any number of studies. Those studies are pretty eye-opening - because silver is all that is mentioned in the above article and much, much more. As for alternative figures such as Dr Weil, I have no idea why they choose one particular product or another to endorse, but when it comes to such figures as Weil, Barron, Mercola, Sahelian, etc., they are seldom unanimous. The bottom line: silver has been proven to work in both studies and actual use, over and over. To be proven to work according to the FDA's industry serving rules and interpretations would require several hundred million dollars - and no single company could afford to do that because there are now hundreds of colloidal silver (actually ionic silver in most instances) companies and each competitor would be able to market and sell the silver, often at cut rate prices, without having to incur any of the costs of whoever funded the studies. That is why NO natural product is FDA approved such is the game they play and the way they have set up the rules. Note: I am the author of the above article. Thanks for your comments - I hope I have helped with your questions. Anonymous: (232 days 2 hours ago.) I agree that the FDA isn't looking out for our best interests but if colloidal silver was "all that" why aren't integrative and alternative doctors like Andrew Weil recommending it? And, considering the BILLIONS that are spent on alternative remedies every year in industrialized countries, why hasn't some company--any company--done their own testing to PROVE that this stuff really works they way they say it does? Other alternative remedies get tested and their results are published. Diet and Epilepsy - Natural Help for a Vexing Problem Tony Isaacs from Utopia, TX: (270 days 10 hours ago.) Thank you Susan. You are quite correct, it could be very dangerous to try to suddenly cut off or cut way back on your medication. If it were me, I would try to incorporate many of the suggestions and then perhaps ease back very slightly and in increments - ideally under the care of a good naturopathic professional. There are links to order the book on my website The Best Years in Life, or perhaps you can buy it locally or check it our first from the local library if you can get someone to give you an assist. - Best of wishes and may you live long, live healthy and live happy! Tony Isaacs Susan Wesley from Wilkes-Barre,Pa: (270 days 12 hours ago.) I learned a lot from this article & since I don't drive I need to have someone take me to get it! I would LOVE to get off drugs as I know they have SO many side-effects! I already have many of the vitamins mentioned! I hope the book tells me a way to get off drugs as I know that if I cut off seizure drugs abruptly there may be serious consequences!!! Thank-You for the wonderful information!!! I have been on anti-seizure drugs since I've been 9 years old,I am 53 now! Susan Wesley |
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