<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558</id><updated>2024-09-05T13:57:05.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ThePowerOfMelanin</title><subtitle type='html'>GOD IS THE HUMAN (SUBCONSCIOUS) MIND, THE SUPREME (STATE OF) BEING. God is the &amp;quot;combined collective consciousness of the our ancestral intelligence that is locked within the central genetic core, seed, and root of our true inner essence (DNA &amp;amp; RNA).</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-6141260164712613286</id><published>2011-04-12T14:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T14:45:41.065-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Care about the Truth?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepowerofmelanin-21&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=1557788901&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepowerofmelanin-21&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=0970755805&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepowerofmelanin-21&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=0802716342&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This goes out ONLY TO THOSE WHO CARE to inform, not to spread fear or panic, about a very important mission called &quot;Mission Pharaoh&quot; or &quot;The Khufu Project&quot; that is today in it&#39;s final stage. &lt;br /&gt;
It is a real undertaking to save Earth and mankind from catastrophic events in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2012 three great events will merge: &lt;br /&gt;
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1. The beginning of a new era every 2000 years. The end of the time of the Pieces and the beginning of the time of Aquarius. The stars will support different attributes and open new doors for us.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. The Great Cycle (resetting of the cosmic time every 26.000 years). We will line up with the center of the Milky Way where a black whole is located, which releases an energy that we will be exposed to. This energy will be 50% stronger than the energy that we are exposed to now. It is a higher consciousness and we will be changed. Not from one day to another, but we will experience true spiritual growth.&lt;br /&gt;
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3. The Small Cycle (The passage of Nibiru / Planet-X).&lt;br /&gt;
The NASA, the ESA, and other organisations, the powerful and the Governments know very well about this. It happens every 12.500 years and the last time it caused a global flood. &lt;br /&gt;
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They know that they can not evacuate everybody, they don&#39;t have the resources to accommodate the world population and that is why they keep quiet about it. They have been approached in open letters talking about the solution for many years but they ignored it.&lt;br /&gt;
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NASA has issued a public warning regarding solar storms: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/10mar_stormwarning.html&lt;br /&gt;
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An X-flare could cause a power grid disruption of 12 to even 24 months.&lt;br /&gt;
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But there is hope. The Great Pyramid of Giza (located at the center of the axis of the Earth). It is a gigantic generator that uses the goemantic network of the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;
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Once activated it can restore the magnetosphere of the Earth which has a giant breach (Dec. 16th 2008 5 NASA Themis satellites discovered a breach in Earths magnetosphere 10 times bigger than anything thought to exisct: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/16dec_giantbreach/) and protect the Earth from the influences of the sun, which is releasing coronal mass ejections (solar storms or flares) due to the influence of this giant intruder in our solar system, Planet-X (a.k.a. Nibiru). &lt;br /&gt;
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It is the real cause for global warming, which in fact is occurring on other planets in our solar system as well and it&#39;s gravitational pull is causing Earths tectonic plates to shift.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was build before the Pharaoh era, 6.500 years ago (not 4.500 years ago, that was the time of it&#39;s restoration by Pharaoh Cheops) by a higher civilization from a planet in the belt of Orion with the help of the Egyptian civilization in order to save us from the catastrophic events in 2012. Right now, while Egypt is going through great changes, excavations around the Giza Plateau are in the works and hopefully excavations on the Plateau itself will begin this year.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt is the answer. It is &quot;The Sign of Time&quot; and it is also a sign of peace, showing us that we are not and never have been alone. People from other planets who watch us cared enough to visit us in the past, to teach us and to build with and for us a generator that has the capability to restore the protective shield of the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;Project Khufu&quot; / &quot;Mission Pharaoh&quot; is REAL! As real the catastrophic events that are become more and more, like the flood in Australia covering a region as big as Germany and France combined, the typhoon in Australia, the recent volcanic activity in Japan, in Colombia and in Indonesia, the Bulusan volcano eruption in the Philippines, the deadly earthquake in New Zealand, the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the mysterious bird and fish dying in Maryland&#39;s Chesapeake Bay, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Sweden, England, Brazil and New Zealand due to a geo-magnetic flux from the sun, the shifting of Earths magnetic pole: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;All these things are real and they are just a taste of the great influence that Planet-X and the activity of the sun have on the Earth. Ancient Civilization knew about the passage of Planet-X and they knew that this cycle occurs every 12.500 years.&lt;br /&gt;
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2012 IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! It is a time of great changes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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id=&quot;stand-first&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Tissues taken from cancer victim Henrietta Lacks in 1951 have made big profits for the drug companies, but today her surviving children can&#39;t afford health insurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;third-party-tool last-line buzz&quot; sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;59&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;ITV Archive&quot; height=&quot;276&quot; src=&quot;http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2010/4/3/1270287457912/ITV-Archive-001.jpg&quot; width=&quot;460&quot; /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;content&quot; sizcache=&quot;1&quot; sizset=&quot;61&quot;&gt;&lt;div data-global-auto-refresh-switch=&quot;on&quot; id=&quot;article-wrapper&quot; sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;64&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;main-content-picture&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Henrietta Lacks: more than 60 million tonnes of her cells have been grown since her death. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;article-body-blocks&quot; sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;64&quot;&gt;&lt;div sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;64&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;On 4 October 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;cancer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; in Baltimore&#39;s Johns Hopkins hospital. The mother of five children, Henrietta was 31 and, although poor, was remembered as being strikingly pretty. Apart from that, there seemed to be nothing special about her life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;But in death Henrietta was transformed. Cells removed from her body – without her family&#39;s permission – were subsequently used by doctors to revolutionise medicine. By mixing them with special plasma, they succeeded in growing her tumour cells in the laboratory. It was the first time that a human cell line had survived outside the body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;65&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Since then, HeLa cells – named after Henrietta Lacks – have become a medical workhorse, benefiting hundreds of millions of patients thanks to their role in the development of polio vaccines, in&amp;nbsp;vitro fertilisation techniques, genetics &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;research&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;, the understanding of cancers, and the manufacture of drugs for herpes, influenza and many other illnesses. More than 50 million tonnes of Henrietta&#39;s cells have been grown since she died, while their use is acknowledged in more than 60,000 scientific papers, with 10 new studies added to the list every day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Yet Henrietta&#39;s body lies in an unmarked grave, while her children have revealed they did not learn for more than 20 years that their mother&#39;s cells were still alive and had been used to create an entire branch of medical science.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It is a disturbing story that has just been propelled into the US bestseller lists thanks to science writer Rebecca Skloot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div sizcache=&quot;0&quot; sizset=&quot;66&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Skloot has taken the case of Henrietta Lacks and her cancer cells and used it to fashion a penetrating analysis of the behaviour of modern doctors while at the same time treating the reader to a moving biography of Henrietta and her children. Published in the US by Crown, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which you can click the link at the bottom of this post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Part of the book&#39;s American success is undoubtedly due to the skilful handling of Henrietta&#39;s story. According to one critic, it reads like a mixture of &lt;em&gt;Erin Brockovich&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Andromeda Strain&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;However, the provocative subject matter – &quot;a stew of race, class, medical paternalism, well-meaning if blinkered researchers and changing rules governing patient privacy&quot;, according to another critic – has also been important in propelling it into the bestseller lists. Certainly, for a country that is only now facing up to the consequences and implications of universal health insurance, the story of Henrietta Lacks is a telling one. One of Lacks&#39;s sons asks Skloot: &quot;If our mother is so important to science, why can&#39;t we get health insurance?&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Loretta Pleasant – no one knows how she became Henrietta, says Skloot – was the great-great-granddaughter of slaves and worked in tobacco plantations herself. She loved dancing and was described by a relative as &quot;the sweetest girl you ever wanna meet&quot;. She married David Lacks, a fellow worker and cousin, and the couple later moved to Baltimore in search of work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;After giving birth to her fifth child, Joe, Henrietta revealed that she was suffering serious bleeding. She was examined by doctors at Johns Hopkins – the only hospital in the area that treated black patients – and was eventually diagnosed with cervical cancer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A sample of her tumour was taken and given to Dr George Gey, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Gay had been trying for decades to find ways to keep human tumour cells alive in test tubes so that he and other researchers could use them to uncover the causes of cancer and various illnesses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In this case, Gey treated the cells with a &quot;witches&#39; brew&quot; of chemicals, including &quot;the plasma of chickens, purée of calf foetuses, special salts and blood from human umbilical cords&quot;, according to Skloot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In the past these techniques had failed. However, Henrietta&#39;s cancer cells proved to be highly aggressive and capable of division at an extraordinary rate. Within months, she was riddled with tumours and despite radiation therapy (provided in a ward designated for &quot;coloureds&quot;) she died in excruciating pain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At the same time Gey found that her tumour cells were actually dividing and growing in his laboratory, a first for science. He began sending samples around the world and ordered his 21-year-old assistant, Mary Kubicek, to take more cells from Henrietta while her body lay in the hospital&#39;s autopsy room. No one consulted the dead woman&#39;s family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In the mortuary, Kubicek looked down at Henrietta&#39;s body and noticed her toenails were covered in chipped, bright red polish. &quot;I nearly fainted,&quot; she told Skloot during the author&#39;s research for the book. &quot;I thought, &#39;Oh Jeez, she&#39;s a real person&#39;. I started imagining her sitting in her bathroom painting those toenails and it hit me for the first time that those cells we&#39;d been working with all this time and sending all over the world, they came from a live woman.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Few others, apart from Skloot, appear to have made this connection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Today there is a thriving medical industry based on Henrietta&#39;s cells, and thousands of scientific careers have been launched through their exploitation. Yet it was not until 1973 that her children discovered, by accident, that their mother&#39;s cells, now immortalised, had become a major boon to medicine and that many people had become rich from marketing them. (Gey – who died in 1970 – did not make money from HeLa, however, and is credited with being interested mainly in using them as a research tool.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Henrietta&#39;s family had fared badly over those two decades, deprived – as they had been – of their mother while they were young. One child, Elsie, was deaf and mute and possibly retarded, and was shipped off as a child to the Crownsville state hospital in Maryland, which had formerly been known as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland. She died there aged 15.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The treatment of Henrietta and her children reveals an unpleasant aspect of medicine in the US, where African Americans were routinely used – until relatively recently – as the subjects of highly unpleasant sets of experiments. These included the Tuskegee syphilis study, carried out between 1932 and 1972, in which scientists watched how untreated syphilis slowly and painfully killed African American men even though an effective treatment, penicillin, had been developed by the 1940s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At the same time, &lt;em&gt;The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks &lt;/em&gt;raises the critical issue of the rights of patients whose tissue has been removed and used as the basis for new treatments and drugs. Who owns that tissue and what rights do providers of samples have over their own cells?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At present, virtually all judgments on these issues have been made in favour of scientists and drug companies. In agreeing to treatment in hospital, patients are effectively giving up ownership of the cells of their samples, it has been decreed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nevertheless, numerous groups – including the American Civil Liberties Union – say that in many cases companies are too eager to establish ownership of patent rights on discoveries made from donated tissue samples. And as more and more such discoveries are made, the controversies surrounding such issues can only intensify.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The issue is summed up by Henrietta&#39;s daughter Deborah, with whom Skloot struck up a close friendship during her research on the book. &quot;Truth be told, I cannot get mad at science, because it helps people live, and I&#39;d be a mess without it. But I won&#39;t lie. I would like some health insurance so I don&#39;t got to pay all that money every month for drugs my mother&#39;s cells probably helped make.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #cccccc;&quot;&gt;Must read books - &lt;em&gt;Henrietta Lacks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepowerofmelanin-21&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=076791547X&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepowerofmelanin-21&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=1400052181&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/1516321134185143219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/henrietta-lacks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/1516321134185143219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/1516321134185143219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/henrietta-lacks.html' title='Henrietta Lacks'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-5966410134876042888</id><published>2011-04-08T10:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T10:09:27.503-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Floride &amp; the Pineal Gland</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland - a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell damage caused by free radicals. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It is now known - thanks to the meticulous research of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/luke-1997.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dr. Jennifer Luke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; from the University of Surrey in England - that the pineal gland is the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#summ&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#soft&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;soft tissue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; of the adult pineal gland contains more fluoride than any other soft tissue in the body - a level of fluoride (~300 ppm) capable of inhibiting enzymes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The pineal gland also contains &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#hard&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;hard tissue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; (hyroxyapatite crystals), and this hard tissue accumulates more fluoride (up to 21,000 ppm) than any other hard tissue in the body (e.g. teeth and bone).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;After finding that the pineal gland is a major target for fluoride accumulation in humans, Dr. Luke conducted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#animals&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;animal experiments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; to determine if the accumulated fluoride could impact the functioning of the gland - particulalry the gland&#39;s regulation of melatonin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Luke found that animals treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin, as reflected by reduced levels of melatonin metabolites in the animals&#39; urine. This reduced level of circulating melatonin was accompanied - as might be expected - by an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#animals&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;earlier onset of puberty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; in the fluoride-treated female animals. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Luke summarized her human and animal findings as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;In conclusion, the human pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body. Fluoride is associated with depressed pineal melatonin synthesis by prepubertal gerbils and an accelerated onset of sexual maturation in the female gerbil. The results strengthen the hypothesis that the pineal has a role in the timing of the onset of puberty. Whether or not fluoride interferes with pineal function in humans requires further investigation.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Online Papers &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; the Pineal Gland: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;FULL TEXT - html:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.icnr.com/jluke/fluoridedeposition.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Luke J. (2001). Fluoride deposition in the aged human pineal gland. &lt;em&gt;Caries Research&lt;/em&gt; 35:125-128. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;FULL TEXT- pdf:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;style109&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;• &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fluoridealert.org/luke-1997.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Luke J. (1997). PhD Thesis: The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt; (298 pages)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;EXCERPT - html:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/luke-1997.html&quot;&gt;Luke J. (1997). &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/luke-1997.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Articles of Interest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; the Pineal Gland: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/IFIN-269.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; the Pineal Gland: Study Published in Caries Research&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; IFIN Bulletin, March 2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/news/17.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Oxidative Stress: Yet more evidence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;em&gt;FAN Science Watch September 30, 20&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;summ&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;04&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summation &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;“The single animal study of pineal function indicates that fluoride exposure results in altered melatonin production and altered timing of sexual maturity.&lt;/span&gt; Whether fluoride affects pineal function in humans remains to be demonstrated. The two studies of menarcheal age in humans show the possibility of earlier menarche in some individuals exposed to fluoride, but no definitive statement can be made. &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;Recent information on the role of the pineal organ in humans suggests that any agent that affects pineal function could affect human health in a variety of ways, including effects on sexual maturation, calcium metabolism, parathyroid function, postmenopausal osteoporosis, cancer, and psychiatric disease.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: National Research Council. (2006). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/epa/nrc/index.html&quot;&gt;Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA&#39;s Standards&lt;/a&gt;. National Academies Press, Washington D.C.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;p221-22.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;&quot;In conclusion,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; the human pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;Fluoride is associated with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; depressed pineal melatonin synthesis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt; by prepubertal gerbils and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; an accelerated onset of sexual maturation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;in the female gerbil. &lt;/span&gt;The results strengthen the hypothesis that the pineal has a role in the timing of the onset of puberty. Whether or not fluoride interferes with pineal function in humans requires further investigation.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Th&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;gap&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;esis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 177.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Never Studied before 1990s&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&quot;It is remarkable that the pineal gland has never been analysed separately for F because it has several features which suggest that it could accumulate F.&lt;/span&gt; It has the highest calcium concentration of any normal soft tissue in the body because it calcifies physiologically in the form of hydroxyapatite (HA). It has a high metabolic activity coupled with a very profuse blood supply: two factors favouring the deposition of F in mineralizing tissues. The fact that the pineal is outside the blood-brain barrier suggests that pineal HA could sequester F from the bloodstream if it has the same strong affinity for F as HA in the other mineralizing tissues. The intensity of the toxic effects of most drugs depends upon their concentration at the site of action.&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; The mineralizing tissues (bone and teeth) accumulate high concentrations of F and are the first to show toxic reactions to F. Hence, their reactions to F have been especially well studied. If F accumulates in the pineal gland, then this points to a gap in our knowledge about whether or not F affects pineal physiology. It was the lack of knowledge in this area that prompted my study.&quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. The&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;soft&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;sis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 1-2.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Accumulation of Fluoride in &lt;u&gt;Soft Tissue&lt;/u&gt; of Pineal Gland: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;After half a century of the prophylactic use of fluorides in dentistry, we now know that fluoride readily accumulates in the human pineal gland. In fact,&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; the aged pineal contains more fluoride than any other normal soft tissue&lt;/span&gt;. The concentration of fluoride in the pineal was significantly higher (p &amp;lt;0.001) than in corresponding muscle, i.e., 296 ± 257 vs. 0.5± 0.4 mg/kg (wet weight) respectively.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. &lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;hard&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 167.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Accumulation of Fluoride in &lt;u&gt;Calcified Tissue&lt;/u&gt; of Pineal Gland: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;In terms of mineralized tissue,&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; the mean fluoride concentration in the pineal calcification was equivalent to that in severely fluorosed bone and more than four times higher than in corresponding bone ash, i.e., 8,900 ± 7,700 vs. 2,040 ± 1,100 mg/kg, respectively. &lt;/span&gt;The calcification in two of the 11 pineals analysed in this study contained extremely high levels of fluoride: 21,800 and 20,500 mg/kg.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. &lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;teeth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 167.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analagous to Dental Fluorosis?&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Fluoride is now introduced at a much earlier stage of human development than ever before and consequently alters the normal fluoride-pharmacokinetics in infants. But can one dramatically increase the normal fluoride-intake to infants and get away with it? &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;The safety of the use of fluorides ultimately rests on the assumption that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/teeth/fluorosis/&quot;&gt;developing enamel organ&lt;/a&gt; is most sensitive to the toxic effects of fluoride. The results from this study suggest that the pinealocytes may be as susceptible to fluoride as the developing enamel organ.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 176.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Alongside the calcification in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/teeth/fluorosis/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;developing enamel organ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;, calcification is also occurring in the child&#39;s pineal. It is a normal physiological process. A complex series of enzymatic reactions within the pinealocytes converts the essential amino acid, tryptophan, to a whole family of indoles. The main pineal hormone is melatonin (MT)... &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;If F accumulates in the pineal gland during early childhood, it could affect pineal indole metabolism in much the same way that high local concentrations of F in enamel organ and bone affect the metabolism of ameloblasts and osteoblasts.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Any adverse physiological effects of fluoride depend upon the concentration at various tissue sites. &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;Can pinealocytes function normally in close proximity to high concentrations of fluoride? &lt;/span&gt;One would predict that a high local fluoride concentration would affect pinealocyte function in an analogous way that a high local fluoride concentration affects: i) bone cells, since histological changes have been observed in bone with 2,000 mg F/kg (Baud et al, 1978); ii) ameloblasts, since &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/teeth/fluorosis/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;dental fluorosis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; develops following fluoride concentrations of 0.2 mg F/kg in the developing enamel organ (Bawden et al, 1992). The consequences are disturbances in the functions of bone and enamel, i.e., changes in structure (poorly mineralized bone and enamel).&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; If the pineal accumulates fluoride at an earlier age than in previous decades, one would anticipate that a high local concentration of fluoride within the pineal would affect the functions of the pineal, i.e., the synthesis of hormonal products, specifically melatonin... The controlled animal study carried out in this study produce compelling evidence that fluoride inhibits pineal melatonin output during pubertal development in the gerbil.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;animals&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 168-169.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Earlier Puberty in Animals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;The section on the effects of fluoride on the physiological signs of sexual maturity in the gerbil was a preliminary, pilot study. There were not enough subjects to make any firm conclusions so an interpretation of the data is conjectural. However, &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;the results do suggest that the HF (High-Fluoride) females had an accelerated onset of puberty as judged by several indices of pubertal development in rodents&lt;/span&gt;. At 7 weeks, the HF females were significantly heavier than the LF females (p &amp;lt; 0.004); as heavy as the HF males and LF males. The ventral gland in the HF female developed significantly earlier than in the LF female (p &amp;lt; 0.004). Vaginal opening occurred earlier in the HF female than in the LF female (p &amp;lt;0.03).&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. Unive&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;humans&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rsity of Surrey, Guildford. p. 173-174.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Earlier Puberty in Humans? &lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#top&quot;&gt;back to top&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;The first step in assessing a health risk by a substance to humans is the identification of its harmful effects on animals. A health risk to humans is assessed using results from human epidemiological studies in conjunction with results from animal studies. &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;The Newburgh-Kingston Study (Schlesinger et al, 1956) showed an earlier age of first menarche in girls living in the fluoridated Newburgh than in unfluoridated Kingston&lt;/span&gt;. The current animal study indicates that fluoride is associated with an earlier onset of puberty in female gerbils. Furthermore, more research was recommended on the effects of fluoride on animal and human reproduction (USPHS, 1991). This project has contributed new knowledge in this area.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, G&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; name=&quot;mech&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;uildford. p. 177.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mechanism of Action:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&quot;The most plausible hypothesis for the observed significant decrease in the rate of urinary aMT6s excretion by the HF (High-Fluoride) group is that fluoride affects the pineal&#39;s ability to synthesize melatonin during pubertal development in the gerbil. &lt;/span&gt;Fluoride may affect the enzymatic conversion of tryptophan to melatonin. Although melatonin was the hormone investigated in this project, fluoride may also affect the synthesis of melatonin precursors, (e.g., serotonin), or other pineal products, (e.g., 5-methoxytryptamine). This would depend on the position(s) of the susceptible enzyme(s). For some unknown reason, pineal calcification starts intracellularly. Calcium has been demonstrated in pinealocyte mitochondria. Therefore, it may be a mitochondrial enzyme that is sensitive to the effects of fluoride, e.g., tryptophan-5-hydroxylase. Alternatively, fluoride may affect pinealocyte enzymes which require a divalent co-enzyme because such enzymes are particularly sensitive to fluoride.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 172-173. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fluoride &amp;amp; Pineal Gland &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion: &lt;span class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/#top&quot;&gt;back to top&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Fluoride is now introduced at a much earlier stage of human development than ever before and consequently alters the normal fluoride-pharmacokinetics in infants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;But can one dramatically increase the normal fluoride-intake to infants and get away with it? &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;The safety of the use of fluorides ultimately rests on the assumption that the developing enamel organ is most sensitive to the toxic effects of fluoride. The results from this study suggest that the pinealocytes may be as susceptible to fluoride as the developing enamel organ.&lt;/span&gt; The possibility of a species difference between humans and gerbils does not allow the extrapolation of the gerbil data to humans. However, if increased plasma-fluoride levels cause a decline in the levels of circulating melatonin during early human development, significant physiological consequences may have already occurred. Changes in plasma melatonin concentrations are serious functional disturbances because melatonin has many functions in the organism. The pinealogists have not completely unravelled the mechanisms by which the pineal gland performs its tasks in the brain. The neurochemical phenomenon elicited by melatonin in CNS are unclear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The first step in assessing a health risk by a substance to humans is the identification of its harmful effects on animals. A health risk to humans is assessed using results from human epidemiological studies in conjunction with results from animal studies. &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;The Newburgh-Kingston Study (Schlesinger et al, 1956) showed an earlier age of first menarche in girls living in the fluoridated Newburgh than in unfluoridated Kingston. The current animal study indicates that fluoride is associated with an earlier onset of puberty in female gerbils&lt;/span&gt;. Furthermore, more research was recommended on the effects of fluoride on animal and human reproduction (USPHS, 1991). This project has contributed new knowledge in this area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I do not intend to discuss the relative merits of the claims made by the anti-fluoridationists that chronic ingestion of low levels of fluoride has harmful effects on human health, i.e., increases the risk of cancer, affects the immune system, and hastens the aging process. These claims could be associated with the effects of fluoride on&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt; the pineal because the gland has been linked to oncogenesis, immunocompetence, and, in recent years, to the process of aging. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;In conclusion, the human pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body. Fluoride is associated with depressed pineal melatonin synthesis by prepubertal gerbils and an accelerated onset of sexual maturation in the female gerbil. &lt;/span&gt;The results strengthen the hypothesis that the pineal has a role in the timing of the onset of puberty. Whether or not fluoride interferes with pineal function in humans requires further investigation.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;underline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 176-177.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/5966410134876042888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/floride-pineal-gland.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5966410134876042888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5966410134876042888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/floride-pineal-gland.html' title='Floride &amp; the Pineal Gland'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-7813687416504594681</id><published>2011-04-07T09:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T10:00:14.997-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The reason for white denial</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Collective Narcissistic Personality Disorder according to Dr. Francis Cress Welsing;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance [ exaggerates achievements]. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;2) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power beauty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;3) Believes that he or she is special and unique. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;4) Requires excessive admiration. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;5) Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations, favorable treatment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;6) Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;7) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;8) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;9) Shows arrogant behaviors or attitudes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;According to DSM-IV an individual must meet at least 5 of the above for a diagnosis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/7813687416504594681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/reason-for-white-denial.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/7813687416504594681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/7813687416504594681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/reason-for-white-denial.html' title='The reason for white denial'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-5903734715227396810</id><published>2011-04-06T11:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T11:54:37.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who are you??</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Here you are in the third dimension, have you ever wondered why? Have you ever looked in the mirror, saying, &#39;who am I&#39;? Have you ever asked why you are melanised but nobody else in thworld is?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psalm 82:6 - Ye are Gods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You took a special journey here, to complete a missing, experiencing&amp;nbsp;the third dimension.&amp;nbsp;We are not from this materialistic world., and we are not fully HUEman but rather sprit, soul and mind.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/5903734715227396810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-are-you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5903734715227396810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5903734715227396810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-are-you.html' title='Who are you??'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-5963453649515263009</id><published>2011-04-06T11:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T11:54:15.859-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Third Eye</title><content type='html'>The third eye is the a symbol used on earth in mythologies and mysteries. It was first seen in Ancient Egypt, recognised as the eye of Horus. The symbol was passed down for many centuries and it is still used today on the back of an American dollar.The sign is an observer and illusion&amp;nbsp;of reality.&lt;br /&gt;
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Everybody has two eyes, which are focused outwards, the image produced are upside down, but the nerves send signals to the&amp;nbsp;brain to turn&amp;nbsp;the image the right way up. The way that this is a virtual reality, and we have to figure things out to turn the image around.&lt;br /&gt;
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Every living person has the living eye of Horus, living in the mid-section of the brain. It is called the pineal gland which in reality is the seat of the soul. The pineal gland is about the size of a pea, and sits underneath the cranium, behind the cranium, attached to the third ventricle.&lt;br /&gt;
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This gland is unique, and is said to be connected with our spiritual awareness. Most people also think it is our connection with the realm of thought, which&amp;nbsp; the Ancient Greeks also used to believe. &lt;br /&gt;
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This special gland is activated using light, after all our first and second eyes can&amp;nbsp; only see things that are a light source or a reflected source of light.&amp;nbsp; To come back to the subject of the third eye , the third eye as I have mentioned be activated by&amp;nbsp; light , one can sometimes feel pressure when they are connecting to the and spiritual realms.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/5963453649515263009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/third-eye.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5963453649515263009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5963453649515263009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/third-eye.html' title='The Third Eye'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-177251843067315242</id><published>2011-04-05T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T12:34:06.391-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Colours and their magical uses</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;White: protection, peace, purification, chasity, happiness, halting, gossip, spirituality&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Green: healing, money, prosperity, luck, fertility, beuty, employment, youth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Brown: healing animals, the Home&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Pink: emotional love, fidelity, friendships&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Red: lust, strength, courage, powers, sexual potency&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Yellow: divination, psychic powers, mental powers, wisdom, visions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Purple: power, exorcism, healing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Blue: healing, sleep, peace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;Normal&quot;&gt;Orange: legal matters&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/177251843067315242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/colours-and-their-magical-uses.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/177251843067315242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/177251843067315242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/04/colours-and-their-magical-uses.html' title='Colours and their magical uses'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-5361521987697022684</id><published>2011-03-19T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T12:24:04.433-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The POWER of Melanin</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The original inhabitants of every land mass on the globe was Black. And Its completely illogical for anyone to even begin to suggest that somehow ONE SECTION of Afrika was originally inhabited by anyone besides Black people. Individuals who do not recognize or acknowledge the divinity of the black man and woman in past or present time will make arguments to suggest that we were anything but intellectual pioneers in every form and facet -﻿ which is clearly why they attempt to take Khemet from us.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/5361521987697022684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/03/power-of-melanin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5361521987697022684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/5361521987697022684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/03/power-of-melanin.html' title='The POWER of Melanin'/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293230233634873558.post-923448052718012936</id><published>2011-03-19T09:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T09:24:09.624-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://totalblacktv.com/home/product_info.php?cPath=24&amp;amp;products_id=1083&quot;&gt;http://totalblacktv.com/home/product_info.php?cPath=24&amp;amp;products_id=1083&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/feeds/923448052718012936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/03/width425-height349-namemovie-value.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/923448052718012936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/293230233634873558/posts/default/923448052718012936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepowerofmelanin.blogspot.com/2011/03/width425-height349-namemovie-value.html' title=''/><author><name>ThePowerOfMelanin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10940293754869267092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPztSfCsiiQgSjrSg8-jeLGldqFZj0tYJPIMuSTz-NEqknN7ETk6B7a8x73I055zyYIyRsv8XUE4hY8sYPWiiE0rDTftJp9dG_VRciE5nmrZneahdHj0dlSy15g3d-g/s220/11811811811811811811811811811111111111111111.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>