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Researchers have made a critical breakthrough toward developing a vaccine for the 2019 novel coronavirus by creating the first 3D atomic scale map of the part of the virus that attaches to and infects human cells. Mapping this part, called the spike protein, is an essential step so researchers around the world can develop vaccines and antiviral drugs to combat the virus.

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In a comparison of 0.25mg/kg and 0.40mg/kg doses of the newer and more convenient clot-busting medication tenecteplase, there was no advantage in increasing the dose above 0.25mg/kg in stroke patients who planned to have mechanical clot retrieval. In addition, administering tenecteplase may decrease the need for mechanical clot removal.

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After 50 years of research and the testing of over 1,000 drugs, there is new hope for preserving brain cells for a time after stroke. Treating acute ischemic stroke patients with an experimental neuroprotective drug, combined with a surgical procedure to remove the clot improves outcomes as shown by clinical trial results.

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Superbug infections kill 35,000 people in the US annually. A team of researchers has found that a treatment known as AB569 kills pseudomonas aeruginosa in humanized cells in mouse models. The treatment does not harm these humanized cells.

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Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work better when they include plant-based relatives of cholesterol because their shape and structure help the genes get where they need to be inside cells.

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In this video, which is Part 2 of a two-part series, Brian Hoyer and I answer your questions about electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation. Brian is a leading EMF expert¹ and a primary consultant for my new book, "EMF*D," which is being released today.

In the video, Brian shares his personal journey and training, which includes nutritional therapy and continued education at the Klinghardt Academy.² As a nutritional therapist, Brian would see patients that just didn't seem to fully recuperate.

Once he began implementing EMF shielding techniques taught by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, they'd suddenly experience significant improvements. In some cases, they didn't even need supplements or certain medications anymore. For example, many patients struggling with leaky gut significantly improved simply by sleeping in a shielded room every single night. Brian says:

"We talk so much … [about] the ancestral way of movement and all those sorts of things. But … what's the ancestral energetic environment? Now we have all of these modern exposures to these pulsating currents and voltages of electricity in a vastly different frequency range than we've ever been exposed to in the history of mankind.

Approaching that whole gamut of energy from this more ancestral perspective, I realized it's not only what we put into our body. It's also what we put our body into — this environment — that needs to change. If we can mimic the ancestral environment, then all these dormant healing responses wake up and the body starts to heal itself …

We've come up with a priority system on where you need to shield the most to get the most bang for your buck. And then also, what to worry about and what not to worry about when it comes to your EMF exposures, and what you can do when you are exposed."

Your EMF Questions Answered, Part 2

We cover a wide variety of really good questions in this interview. Due to the length of the interview, we broke the video into two parts. Part 2 (above) tackles the next set of questions. A few basics are summarized below.

You can download the free 55-page transcript to get all the details. This and much more is also detailed in my new book, "EMF*D."

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Three Areas of Priority When Shielding 

Your bedrooms are clearly the most important part of your home in terms of needing EMF shielding. If you can create a shielded environment there, then you're essentially replicating the ancestral environment where there's no electricity for eight hours or so every night.

This is a crucial time, as this is when your body needs to be in a parasympathetic state, detoxing, repairing and rejuvenating itself.

"In a typical scenario, in a person's bedroom, their [body] voltage could be anywhere from 500 millivolts at the lowest … up to 10,000, 15,000 millivolts on their body all night long, [so] you've got this contraction of your muscles happening," Brian says.

"Think about the way that electricity impacts the body. How do we restart a heart? We pump voltage into it. It makes your heart muscle contract … I think one of the reasons we're so magnesium deficient in our modern culture is because we've got this constant exposure to this alternating current [causing] micro-contractions all night long and all day long in our muscles.

That depletes us of magnesium, which is trying to relax our muscles. So, we've got this constant tension going on all the time. If you have that at night while you're sleeping, your body can never really get into that full parasympathetic state so that you can actually do the healing and restoration that you need ...

Your cortisol is going up, your melatonin is going down, you're not getting that restorative detoxification of the brain and your lymphatics are not detoxing optimally."

The area in which you eat is the second priority, as your body needs to be in a parasympathetic (relaxed) state in order for your digestion to function properly. An alternative strategy is to eat at your dinner table, and about an hour afterward, which is when your main digestion is taking place, go into your shielded space and relax for a while. "People who have digestive issues who do that have seen amazing results," Brian says.

The third priority would be if you're using a sauna for detoxification. Making sure your sauna has low or no EMF is an important consideration, as it will impact your ability to detox. Working with Sauna Space, Brian has helped develop a shielded near-infrared sauna.

"It's a drastic reduction in the wireless frequencies that you're exposed to. It's basically like having a portable shielded room," Brian says. "That allows your body to get into a deeper parasympathetic response, deeper detox, and we've seen some amazing results in people who are electro-sensitive using these saunas …

For my standards, I want the body to be in a parasympathetic state when you're in your sauna, so we're looking at [an EMF reading of] 0.3 milligauss or less in the sauna. That's the goal."

Remedial Strategies for 6 Types of EMF Stress

Brian tests homes for six primary stressors:

Wireless frequencies — "Anything from the FM radio station up through about 900 megahertz resonates with the human body and the skin, and the conductivity that's on the skin," Brian says, pointing out that while many are worried about the millimeter wave part of 5G, he's far more concerned about the 600-megahertz band that's been opened up for T-Mobile's 5G network. It penetrates deeper and goes farther than any of the 5G networks. Most cellphone companies have been using 900 to 2000 megahertz, so T-Mobile's network is a much lower frequency, which allows it to cover a greater area. "A lot of the assessment is hunting down Wi-Fi sources and telling people how to minimize them. Like don't leave your printer plugged in and turned on, because it's always emitting Wi-Fi and you only use your printer, what, once a week? And then Apple TVs, smart TVs — even remotes for the Roku. Sometimes they'll have Wi-Fi built into them that are constantly emitting," Brian says.

Electric fields from voltage, wiring in the walls, and appliances and devices plugged into your light sockets. Most commercial buildings, condos and hotels are not an issue, as building codes require the electrical wiring to be in a metal conduit, which essentially eliminates the electric fields behind the walls. Few residential homes have that, however, as it's not part of code in most areas. If you're building your home, you can install shielded wiring from the start, although it does cost more. If your wiring is not shielded, the solution would be to turn off the electricity, although that still might not solve the problem. In my own home, there was an electric current running through the floor as well, which remained when I turned off the electricity to my bedroom. "Ultimately, in my experience, everybody needs the RF shielding and wireless protection," Brian says, "Our solution for that is to have a canopy over the bed that's a conductive fabric that you can ground, so that the electric fields can't get in, and something on the floor as well. The ultimate solution is to paint the bedroom with shielding paint [that's] grounded as well, so even if the power is on — provided you have nothing plugged into the wall — you are not getting electric fields coming in. And then we have to do the floor as well."

Magnetic fields occurring from wiring errors, motors, power lines and transformers outside the home, as well as metal pipes with current, usually when you are on a municipal water supply

Dirty electricity

Geopathic stress that comes up from the earth

Artificial lighting (color spectrum and flicker rates). The best types of light bulbs are incandescent bulbs with higher wattage, as they have the most natural color spectrum and lowest flicker rates. Brian recommends using 100 watt or 150 watt incandescent bulbs whenever possible. But one needs to be careful as they create loads of heat, and many fixtures will not accommodate them. Brian also recommends the 250-watt near-infrared light bulb from Sauna Space, called Photon.3 It's $350 and can be used in your sauna, as a heat lamp and to improve the quality of your indoor lighting.

The testing and assessment Brian's company, Shielded Healing, offers takes about four hours, and starts at around $1,000 for a studio apartment. For larger homes, tack on $100 per bedroom and per 1,000 square feet. The fee includes a free retest, to make sure all of your remediation strategies are in fact working.

The cost for remediation can vary widely, depending on what you need and whom you hire to do the job. For a typical 12 by 12-foot room, you can expect to pay about $1,000 to $1,500 for shielding materials, depending on how many windows you have, as shielding windows tends to be costly.

While it's certainly a worthwhile investment that will pay dividends in terms of health, the cost may be too high for many. They still need a solution though. With Brian's help, my team has created an EMF-shielded sleeping tent, which will be among the most effective yet least expensive approaches available. We hope to have it available before the summer. After three years of development, the final prototype was recently finished.

There's No Getting Around the Need to Measure Your Exposures

When looking to buy or rent a home, key areas to avoid would be near a cellphone tower or powerline. Higher elevations like hilltops are also typically higher EMF areas, while rural areas tend to have lower saturation (provided you're not near a cellphone tower).

That said, you cannot identify low-EMF areas simply by looking at the location anymore. Regardless of where you live, you're likely to have one or more of the EMF stressors reviewed above, and will need to remediate them. In the end, the only way to tell if EMF is a problem in any given location is to measure it. 

"We don't know until we turn on the meters and can measure it," Brian says. "What I tell people is, yeah, generally speaking, the higher [elevation] you get, the more exposed you will be, but usually you're going to have to shield anyway.

If you can take an FM radio and get a radio station, you're being exposed to radio frequency radiation. And even people out in the middle of nowhere, like a national forest, a lot of times they'll still have radio-frequency exposure.

It's not natural. It's not something our ancestors were exposed to and it's something that you need out of your life at least while you're sleeping. Go through that priority system we've talked about ... Mitigate where you can and do some biological inputs using the solutions that we talk about …

You also have to test the ground current that's going into the ground and the dirty electricity, and if there are wiring errors. You need a really good screening tool in order to pick the right property. Also, rule out a massive exposure that's going to be more difficult to shield. We have come across that in some of the inner-city areas where it's really high …"

In an article on his blog, he adds:⁴

"It's important to understand that the PULSATION isn't natural. We don't receive modulated digital radio frequencies in nature. We get analog signals and they are MUCH weaker. The strongest radio signals we receive from natural sources from the cosmos are about a ONE HUNDRED BILLIONTH OF A WATT.

That means 1 microwatt of RF energy is about 1 million times stronger than the strongest RF pulse we would have received ancestrally."

Everyone Needs EMF Shielding

A key take-home message here is that virtually everyone needs to consider doing EMF remediation these days. Everyone needs an EMF-free space, at least during sleep, in order to prevent accelerated aging and everything that goes with it.

Remember, your body rejuvenates and detoxes during sleep, but if your body is bombarded with EMFs all night long, it won't be able to effectively perform those crucial cleanout and regenerative functions. To learn more, be sure to download the transcript of this discussion. We cover questions like:

What meter do you need to measure the six EMF stressors and what are the ideal, healthy levels?	How can you protect yourself from your neighbor's Wi-Fi?
What's the greatest, most harmful source of EMF exposure?	Why is it that partial shielding can make the situation worse rather than better?
What produces most of the dirty electricity in your home and what's the most effective way to filter it?	Are AirPods, wireless battery-operated headsets and hearing aids safe to wear all day?
How can you protect yourself from the EMF in your car?	Do EMF-shielding clothing actually work?
Which supplements can help ward off the negative effects of EMF, and how do they work?	Can you watch TV without Wi-Fi?
Will a satellite Wi-Fi dish expose you to harmful EMF?	Could 5G worsen autoimmune diseases or chronic infections such as Lyme disease?
What are the two most common EMF exposures in most homes, and how do you remediate them?

For the answers to these and many other questions, be sure to watch Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview, or download the 55-page transcript.

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For many years gray hair was a symbol of knowledge and wisdom. For the most part, it was men who were considered wise. On the other hand, women with gray hair were often seen as “old” no matter their age. But, in the past decade there has been a growing trend to live with your natural color.¹

For some, gray hairs begin appearing when they’re 12 and others find they pop up only as retirement approaches. The process is influenced by genetics, nutrition, illness and stress.² After nutritional supplementation, most treatments for gray hair have centered on hair dyes.

Thankfully, the growing trend to live with gray hair may lead to lowering exposure to toxins commonly found in over-the-counter hair care products. Whether you like gray hair or are trying to put off the day your first strand appears, you’ll find a few simple strategies can help make your head of hair healthier and stronger.

Hair Loses Color From Chronic Stress Response

Legend has it that on the night before Marie Antoinette was beheaded, her hair went completely white.³ Until recently, scientists have disagreed over whether stress is a contributing factor to prematurely graying hair. In a research article published in Nature⁴ scientists report they have found that stress levels may predict how much and how quickly you go gray.

The study’s authors used an animal model to demonstrate how acute stress could quicken the production of gray hair by depleting the body’s supply of melanocyte stem cells.⁵ These cells are important in the production of your hair color.⁶

In 2011, researchers from New York University demonstrated that hair follicle stem cells and melanocytes collaborate in the production of hair color, but the underlying mechanism had not been identified.

The color of your hair is determined by melanocyte stem cells that produce pigment. As you age, the number goes down. This means your hair doesn’t take on a gray pigment but loses pigment and becomes gray. After there is complete loss, your hair turns white.⁷

To test the theory that stress has an impact on whether you can become prematurely gray, scientists exposed mice to three different types of stressors, including psychological stress. During the testing of each one, they found that melanocytes were depleted, leading to white hair on the mice, regardless of the phase of hair growth.

Melanocytes Take Flight Under the Influence of Noradrenaline

In the past, scientists suggested it was the influence of corticosterone during a stress response that caused hair to lose pigmentation and go gray. In this study, testing revealed that wasn’t the case. They discovered the melanocyte stem cells had receptors that respond to noradrenaline. This is a neurotransmitter produced by the body during a high stress response, commonly called a “flight-or-fight response.”

Noradrenaline is produced by the adrenal glands, but even removing the adrenal glands did not prevent the mice from turning gray. It is also produced by the sympathetic nervous system, which the team showed supplies hair follicles. By blocking noradrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system, the researchers could prevent the graying of their hair.⁸

They also found that the hair turned gray in direct correlation with the level of sympathetic nervous system innervation. After tracking melanocyte stem cells, they discovered the cells became active and multiplied when exposed to a lot of noradrenaline.

The movement of melanocyte stem cells away from the follicles under the influence of the neurotransmitter meant the hair had no available pigment. In an accompanying commentary, the author’s concluded:⁹

“Connecting the dots between stress, fight or flight, stem-cell depletion and premature greying opens up several avenues for future research. Beyond developing anti-greying therapies, Zhang and colleagues’ work promises to usher in a better understanding of how stress influences other stem-cell pools and their niches.”

How Does Hair Grow?

For a greater appreciation of the results of the featured study, it is helpful to understand how hair grows. Hair is a fibrous structural protein that grows out of a hair follicle anchored in the skin.

At the base of the hair is a bulb where there are living cells that divide and build the hair shaft. The bulb is fed by the sympathetic nervous system as well as blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients. The rate of growth is somewhat different for everyone, but the average is half an inch per month.

There are three cycles of hair growth. Melanocyte stem cells are most active during the anagen or growth phase; the effects of noradrenaline, as shown in the research, can happen in any phase.

Other Factors That May Increase Hair Loss and Color Change

There are other factors, in addition to stress, that can affect your hair color and increase your hair loss. For instance, the authors of one study of more than 6,630 Latin Americans were the first to identify genes that influence the graying of hair, as well as those that affect hair shape and balding patterns.¹¹

Desmond Tobin, Ph.D., from the University of Bradford in England,¹² has suggested that each hair follicle has something like a biological clock that either slows or stops the activity of melanocytes. He believes your genetics have a large influence on how quickly your hair loses pigment.¹³

Environmental factors, such as smoking, also influence how quickly you turn gray. Based on the results of one study,¹⁴ researchers suggested there was a significant relationship between those who smoked cigarettes and those who turned gray before they turned 30. Oxidative stress from free radicals may also cause damage that triggers gray hair.¹⁵

Hydrogen peroxide is known for its use in bleaching hair. You might not be aware, but your hair accumulates hydrogen peroxide. Researchers¹⁶ have learned that an increasing amount of hydrogen peroxide can induce oxidative damage and that it is “… a key element in senile hair graying, which does not exclusively affect follicle melanocytes.”

According to Harvard Health Publishing,¹⁷ several illnesses can also increase the rate at which you turn gray. A vitamin B12 deficiency may speed the development of gray hair. Neurofibromatosis, thyroid disease, vitiligo, alopecia areata and tuberous sclerosis, an uncommon but inherited condition with characteristic benign tumors, can all increase the rate at which this happens.

Can Supplements Affect Hair Growth?

If you've ever walked the aisles where supplements are stocked, you've probably noticed the multiple combinations advertised to help your hair, skin and nails. Noticeably, they all contain various components they claim will help your hair health. But, growing healthy hair depends on more than what you put ON it; rather, providing your body with structural proteins such as keratin, collagen and elastin is an internal process, too.¹⁸

There are also factors in your body processes and environmental influences that may cause problems with hair health. Intrinsic issues happen inside your body, like processes that affect your levels of proteins, hormones and blood sugar.

To that end, a healthy diet can help protect from or promote inflammation, which in turn can influence visible measurements of the health of your skin, hair and nails. Outside the body, certain external factors can also affect your hair health, such as your exposure to the sun or air pollution.

Knowing this, you can see that, although the pharmaceutical industry promises you an easy answer through hair dye, pills and creams, these are just short-term fixes that often come with unwanted side effects.

Seek out more natural methods instead, using foods to meet your body's nutritional needs and supplements only to fill in what you can’t achieve with a healthy diet. In "Do Hair, Skin and Nail Supplements Work?" I discuss specific supplements that may help hair loss and improve growth.

Consider Natural Hair Care Strategies for Health and Beauty

Now that scientists — and you — know the impact stress has on your potential to go gray early, consider taking precautions to reduce your stress levels. These strategies also protect your heart¹⁹ and help with weight management.²⁰ One of my favorite strategies is the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) that can be done at home or even in public without drawing attention to yourself.

Other options to consider are meditation, breathing techniques and music. You can learn more in my past article, “How Stress Affects Your Body, and Simple Techniques to Reduce Stress and Develop Greater Resilience.” Even if gray hairs have started to peek through, continue to practice stress reduction strategies as they may slow or stop the process and positively affect other aspects of your health.

Ditch the Synthetic Hair Dye

Although people have been using dye for centuries to change their locks — the Egyptians used henna to dye their gray²¹ — many of the processes involve the use of unnatural chemicals.²² Early in the development of synthetic hair coloring products, for example, hydrogen peroxide was used as a bleaching agent.

Other methods have been proposed, but many manufacturers continue to produce hair color with either paraphenylenediamine PPD or a related compound, p-aminophenol. David Lewis, from the University of Leeds in the U.K., finds this concerning:

“Now, I know a lot about dyes and dye stuffs in the textile industry. We would never dream of using this on textiles. Primitive, archaic, all these things come to mind. Why do they persist on putting it on human heads?”

Instead of synthetic products, reach for coconut oil which you may have in your kitchen cabinet right now. You can use it as the base for an at-home hair coloring solution. Not only is it beneficial to your health and beauty when taken internally, it can also be used topically on your skin and hair. Discover how to use it for these and other purposes in my article, “How to Use Coconut Oil for Hair Health.”

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