Persecution of natural Cancer Therapists : Melbourne Indymedia

Considering the rising rate of cancers
Considering the Corporate cancer Industry profits
Considering the probable causes (nuclear weapons and power industry, carcinogens in petrol & diesel etc )
it may be time to have personal medical tests for cancer for your readers and to also consider ALL possible treatments & not just those the mad monk Tony Abbott signs off on ?

PERSECUTION OF NATURAL CANCER THERAPISTS

Walter Last

There is widespread suppression of natural cancer therapies, and persecution of successful therapists. The undisputed leader in this field is the USA, and other governments and medical authorities happily follow the US example.

The rationale for this suppression is the claim that natural cancer therapies have not been scientifically proven to be effective, and such treatment, even if harmless, would delay the more effective conventional cancer treatment. This argument would be laughable if it were not so tragic for millions of sufferers.

Nevertheless, one part of this argument is true. Natural therapies are not scientifically proven to give better results than conventional treatment. Medical authorities, of course, control all research funds and facilities, and nothing is given to natural therapists to prove their case. When conventional medical institutions investigated natural remedies, it was done in such a way that a negative outcome was guaranteed.

This happened, for instance with laetrile. Thousands of patients and various scientific studies have shown it to be effective. The official trials by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA), which had banned laetrile even before the trials had begun, were declared negative. The initial tests actually were positive until a known therapy resistant strain of tumors was used. Even insiders charged that these tests had been rigged to make sure that they failed.

It was similar with the official vitamin C trial. Natural therapists know that high dosages must be continued more or less indefinitely and that it is extremely dangerous to stop treatment abruptly. In this decisive official trial 10g daily was given to 'terminal' patients for two months and then stopped abruptly. No patient died during treatment but the high rate of death after the treatment was stopped was seen as proof that the treatment had failed.

However, natural therapists do not rely on individual remedies. Commonly they use a holistic program, including cleansing, diet, herbal and nutritional remedies, as well as emotional and mind therapies. Conventional medical researchers are completely ignorant in this area; even if they wanted to, they would not be able to test holistic cancer therapies. Only holistic cancer therapists are qualified to do so. Yet instead of receiving any resources to proof their methods, they have been ruthlessly persecuted for the last hundred years.

The medical profession had an excellent chance to properly investigate nutritional cancer therapy when a US Senate Committee moved strongly to provide extensive funds for research of the treatment used by Dr Gerson because Senators were so impressed with his results.

However, the American Medical Association lobbied so strongly against research into nutritional cancer therapies that the move was defeated in the Senate, although by only four votes.

Albert Schweitzer wrote of the man the AMA regarded as a quack: 'I see in him (Dr Gerson) one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine' and, 'A medical genius who walked among us.'

I am sure history will show eventually who the real cancer quacks were. Because of such influential support Gerson was not dragged before the courts like other successful cancer therapists, but the Gerson clinic had to be moved to Mexico to escape the pressure.

Royal Ray Rife fared even worse. He invented a powerful microscope that enabled him to see the virus form of a cancer microbe that he then succeeded in destroying with a specific electro magnetic frequency. Initially he had the support of the AMA, University departments and the prestigious Franklin Institute and Smithsonian Institution and many individual doctors reported good results.

Cancer apparently could be reliably cured. But this caused a sudden change of mind of the AMA. The Rife instruments everywhere were destroyed; Rife had to flee while an associate who had carried on after the ban spent three years in jail.

The Rife saga unfolded during the 1930's and 40's but is currently restaged with the persecution of Gaston Naessens. He, too, invented a powerful microscope to observe the effect of treatments on the cancer microbe. From this he developed a remedy, called 714X, which is injected into a lymph node. His fame for curing leukemia spread so rapidly in the 1960's that even the more tolerant French authorities felt obliged to put him on trial for practicing medicine without a license.

Naessens fled to Canada where he again became famous for his cancer cure. Despite strong support from influential circles Naessens had to face new court trials in Canada in the 80s for practicing medicine without a license (Problems for Naessens have since ceased with recognition of the central chemical preparation in his therapy - Trimethyl-bicyclo-nitraminoheptane Chloride or 714X - by Health Canada under its Canadian Drug Emergency Program). He reportedly has helped to cure more than a thousand patients with advanced cancer and AIDS.

I may add that 'practicing medicine without a license' does not mean that these people pretended to be medical doctors, but rather that curing cancer in these countries is legal only for licensed medical practitioners. Bad luck for the patients of these licensed doctors that they do not know how to do it.

However, there are some outstanding doctors who know what to do but then are not allowed to do it. Only methods approved by the conventional medical associations may be used, otherwise a doctor may lose the license to practice.

This happened to the Danish doctor Kristine Nolfi. She had cured her own cancer with a hundred percent vegetarian and organic raw food diet. Then she helped her patients in the same way. Her fame spread throughout Scandinavia. Twice she was dragged before the courts and was lucky only to lose her license.

Dr Issels was the most successful cancer therapist in Germany. He was the first to have cancer patients replace their amalgam fillings and remove dead and infected teeth. Basically he used the Gerson diet. The medical association took him to court for using unauthorized therapies and he received a suspended jail sentence.

Wilhem Reich was not so lucky. Earlier he had been a leading psychiatrist and was regarded as the heir to Sigmund Freud's position. However, he fell into disgrace when he published his sexual theories, especially when he linked suppressed sexual energies with cancer.

In trying to escape persecution he immigrated to the USA. He experimented with bio-energy collectors or orgone accumulators and also used a powerful microscope to demonstrate that cancer cells and cancer microbes were killed by this orgone energy.

Reich, like Rife and Naessens, made his observations using live tissue, while conventional microbiologists only use dead and stained specimens. Therefore, they could not see what Reich and the others saw and they denied that it existed. Reich published successful results of 15 cases of 'terminal' cancer, which alerted the FDA.

Reich declined to defend himself, saying that a court was not the place to evaluate scientific research. This error of judgment landed him in Federal jail where he eventually died. All his equipment was destroyed and his books and writing officially burned - six tons of his published works, in fact. That was in 1957

Dinshah Ghadiali was the pioneer of color therapy in the USA. Despite much support from doctors and countless patients for the effectiveness of his treatment with cancer and other diseases, he received many large fines and jail sentences. His stock of spectrochrome projectors was destroyed and his books and other writings officially burned. Radionics practitioners in the US had a similar fate with equipment destroyed and Ruth Drown jailed.

In the beginning of this century a leading American doctor wrote that most cases of cancer he saw had been operated on or radiated and the cancer had returned worse than before. However, in those without previous medical treatment he claimed a cure rate of 95% by using homoeopathic remedies. Homoeopathy was speedily outlawed in the USA.

William F Koch was probably the most famous medical cancer therapist in the US and widely respected in influential circles. His homoeopathic oxidation catalyst was used worldwide but banned in the US. Six hundred doctors came to his court trial to testify on his behalf and to report the many thousands of patients that they had cured with his method. He had to be acquitted but tired of constant persecution he immigrated to Brazil immediately after the trial in 1953.

Jason Winters cured himself of cancer with various herbs that he started selling. He had to move to the Bahamas to escape the FDA but was hassled even there.

Harry Hoxsey was the most famous herbal cancer therapist in the US. He had clinics in various states, and thousands of satisfied patients attested to the effectiveness of his herbs. Despite being arrested more often than any other therapist for practicing medicine without a license, the courts confirmed the therapeutic value of his herb mixture and even the AMA reluctantly admitted that some of his remedies had merit.

Within a two-year period Harry Hoxsey was arrested about 200 times for practicing medicine without a licence. The brother of the district attorney who initiated these arrests had advanced cancer. Unbeknown to his lawyer brother, he went to Hoxsey and was cured. On learning about this, the district attorney quit his job and became the defence lawyer of Harry Hoxsey.??

A federal report to Congress agreed with Hoxsey's allegations that the AMA, the FDA and the National Cancer Institute had conspired to suppress a fair investigation of his methods. Nevertheless, in 1963 he had to move his clinics to Mexico to escape the mounting pressure.

Dr Johanna Budwig was a fat researcher with the German Government. She was prevented from publishing her discovery of fatty residues from margarine in soft tumors and lost her job.

Lawrence Burton, a biochemist, developed a method to effectively stimulate the immune system of cancer patients. In 1977 he was forced to move his clinic to the Bahamas. But even there the clinic was closed because his vaccines were reportedly contaminated with the AIDS virus.

In 1985, a group of his cancer patients complained to the US Congress about the clinic closure. A subsequent congressional hearing found that these damaging reports, which originated from the National Cancer Institute and were spread by the AMA, were false.

The persecution of natural cancer therapists and clinics continues unabated into the 1990s. Commonly FDA agents raid clinics with drawn guns and confiscate remedies and equipment used in natural therapies as well as patient files and other documents. Even if therapists are not dragged before courts, many will be bankrupted by these actions or simply give up.

The Burzynski cancer clinic operated with the approval of the FDA and was rather successful using a cancer remedy derived from urine. Nevertheless the clinic was raided several times and Dr Burzynski brought before four federal grand juries. Each time he was acquitted. A committee of the US Congress is investigating the FDA on charges of abusing the grand jury process in order to harass and persecute Dr Burzynski.

Jimmy Keller had been cured himself with alternative therapies of advanced metastatic cancer. For the next thirty years he developed a non-toxic program for helping others with this disease. He had to retreat to Mexico where he was practicing legally, but in 1991 he was kidnapped by the FBI, taken to Texas for trial and put in jail. The charge was that a contact person in the United States had told patients over the phone that he had an effective cancer treatment.

Now that all successful cancer therapists have been eliminated from the USA a grave-like silence covers the cancer battlefield.

This decisive victory of the US Cancer Establishment has served to secure the position of conventional cancer therapy also in other western countries. Holistic cancer therapists everywhere must be careful to operate on a small scale and not appear to be successful to avoid being dragged before the courts if a 'terminal' patient in their care should not make it.

How scientific do you now think our official cancer treatments are? Would it not be more scientific to allow proper trials of holistic therapies rather than trying to put successful cancer therapists in jail?

However, in the dark night of this dismal cancer saga there is also a glimmer of light.

Dr Samuel Epstein, as the spokesman of a group of 65 US cancer researchers, has just gone public to declare that the 'Cancer Establishment' has hoodwinked the public into believing that progress has been made. He said cancer rates are rising and little effort has been made to prevent this cancer epidemic that is highly preventable.

Furthermore, following a directive of the US Senate, the cancer establishment has now softened its strong opposition to natural cancer therapies, although even in 1999 it still managed to get the "Father of Oxygen Therapies' Ed McCabe into jail, and Dr Hulda Clark ('The Cure of All Cancers') arrested for practicing medicine without a license. In addition, manufacturers and retailers of electrical equipment and remedies for holistic cancer treatment continue to be persecuted in most western ?democracies?.

However, ultimately this situation is not really the fault of the vested interests because it is in their nature to be selfish. The real responsibility lies with governments, which should act in the interests of their citizens, and not for the benefit of selfish interest groups.

Phthalates are plasticizers, chemicals that make our pipes more flexible and our upholstery more comfortable.

But phthalates are also one of about 70 suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) present in products ranging from makeup to detergents to children's toys. EDCs are now present in the bodies of every man, woman, child and fetus in the United States.

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/The-Plastic-Poisons-That-Surround-Us-17361.aspx

Pioneer zoologist Theo Colborn, in her book Our Stolen Future, reported countless examples of reproductive disorders among wildlife. Colborn traced the disorders to chemical exposure, and suggested that EDCs profoundly affect the endocrine system by mimicking natural hormones and blocking their uptake to the receptor sites.

This can disrupt everything from development and behavior to reproduction and immunity.

Even the tiniest hormone variation at certain critical points in fetal development can affect a child's future health. Two years ago, a study showed that pregnant women with higher urine concentrations of phthalates were more likely to give birth to sons with incomplete male genital development, a disorder that previously had been seen only in lab rats.

In December 2006, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to ban baby products containing certain levels of phthalates.
Common Ground March 2007

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

I've previously reported on plastics' ability to make you sick by mimicking or blocking sex hormones, causing disruption of your endocrine system. And right at the top of this list of these harmful chemicals are phthalates.

Much of this interesting article delves into the studies, some of which we have shared with on the site in the past, showing how exposure to these harmful chemicals can hasten puberty in children.

Plastics may indeed have been the "wave of the future" for industry some 40 years ago, but we're paying for it dearly with our health today. Your body must constantly endure these exposures to petroleum-based industrial chemicals contained in things most people take for granted, like bottled water and cosmetics.

What should really alarm you is that the EPA has had everything in place to develop a screening program for endocrine disruptors since 1996, thanks to the Food Quality Protection Act -- considered for its time to be the most ambitious toxicology program ever conceived -- yet not one test has been conducted to date.

In the meantime, the EPA keeps on approving chemicals at a clip of some 700 annually, relying heavily on the manufacturers that make them to be completely honest about their safety.

Particularly vulnerable are your children, who are exposed to plastics in the hospital and through baby bottles and toys. One of the simple ways you can regularly avoid some plastics is by storing your food in glass. Personally I use Ball jars and a Food Saver attachment that vacuums out the air in the jar. This setup, in my mind, is about as good as you can get to store your food.

In shopping for cosmetics you will want to find varieties made without plasticizers and paraben, and will also want to avoid flame retardants found in furniture and mattresses.

Please don't wait for the EPA to get around to creating a testing protocol, as that is still at least two years away from becoming a reality. Start avoiding environmental toxins today by following the common-sense, easy-to-follow tips I posted last year.

The city of San Francisco has adopted the right approach, following the lead of the European Union, which requires testing before approval along the lines of the Precautionary Principle. This is the seemingly obvious idea that new chemicals should be proven completely safe before they are introduced into the general populace.

The United States tends to take an "innocent until proven guilty" approach to chemicals instead, approving them wholesale and only backtracking when one turns out to be dangerous. That may be a good principle to use in court trials, but when it comes to industrial chemicals, it's nothing more than a dangerous game being played with everyone's health.

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How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins
By Rachael Droege

There are many upsides to living in a modern, high-tech society (like having access to the Internet and digital cameras and MP3 audio players to name a few of my favorites.) But as with most things in life and in nature, whether you call it yin and yang, balance or the principle that opposites attract, with the upside comes a significant downside.

For all of the conveniences and advances that we have grown so accustomed to comes a slew of environmental toxins -- chemicals and other materials largely from industry and carelessness -- that have very much saturated our water, our food and the very air we breathe.

Many of these toxins are things that you can't see, smell or feel, at least not right away. One of the major problems with them is just that. We don't realize that we're being affected until we come down with a chronic disease after years of subtle and often consistent exposure to a combination of these toxins.

This makes it almost impossible to pinpoint a specific environmental toxin as the source of illness, yet when you look at the facts -- the increasing numbers of cancers, immune system disorders, neurological problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, allergies and hormonal disturbances that are facing the nation -- it is hard NOT to take notice. Consider these statistics:

• Some 77,000 chemicals are produced in North America

• Over 3,000 chemicals are added to our food supply

• More than 10,000 chemical solvents, emulsifiers and preservatives are used in food processing

• 1,000 new chemicals are introduced each year

Where do all of these chemicals end up? They are absorbed into our groundwater, rivers, lakes and oceans, spewed into our air, and added, quite intentionally, to our food supply.

The Effects of Toxins on Your Body

A study in last year's British Medical Journal estimated that perhaps 75 percent of most cancers are caused by environmental and lifestyle factors, including exposure to chemicals. Another report, this one by the Columbia University School of Public Health, estimated that 95 percent of cancer is caused by diet and environmental toxicity.

This is really not surprising when you consider that estimates show most Americans have somewhere between 400 and 800 chemicals stored in their bodies, typically in fat cells. Some of the short- and long-term effects of these toxins include:

• Neurological disorders (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia, etc.)

• Cancer

• Nutritional deficiencies

• Hormonal imbalances

• Enzyme dysfunction

• Altered metabolism

• Reproductive disorders

• Fatigue

• Headaches

• Obesity

• Muscle and vision problems

• Immune system depression

• Allergies/Asthma

• Endocrine disorders

• Chronic viral infections

• Less ability to tolerate/handle stress

The 10 Most Common Toxins

The following toxins are among the most prevalent in our air, water and/or food supply. This list is by no means all-inclusive, as thousands of other toxins are also circulating in our environment. Keep reading to find out tips to avoid these toxins and others as much as possible.

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PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls): This industrial chemical has been banned in the United States for decades, yet is a persistent organic pollutant that's still present in our environment.

Risks: Cancer, impaired fetal brain development
Major Source: Farm-raised salmon. Most farm-raised salmon, which accounts for most of the supply in the United States are fed meals of ground-up fish that have absorbed PCBs in the environment and for this reason should be avoided.

2 Pesticides: According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 60 percent of herbicides, 90 percent of fungicides and 30 percent of insecticides are known to be carcinogenic. Alarmingly, pesticide residues have been detected in 50 percent to 95 percent of U.S. foods.

Risks: Cancer, Parkinson's disease, miscarriage, nerve damage, birth defects, blocking the absorption of food nutrients
Major Sources: Food (fruits, vegetables and commercially raised meats), bug sprays

3 Mold and other Fungal Toxins: One in three people have had an allergic reaction to mold. Mycotoxins (fungal toxins) can cause a range of health problems with exposure to only a small amount.

Risks: Cancer, heart disease, asthma, multiple sclerosis, diabetes
Major Sources: Contaminated buildings, food like peanuts, wheat, corn and alcoholic beverages

4 Phthalates: These chemicals are used to lengthen the life of fragrances and soften plastics.

Risks: Endocrine system damage (phthalates chemically mimic hormones and are particularly dangerous to children)
Major Sources: Plastic wrap, plastic bottles, plastic food storage containers. All of these can leach phthalates into our food.

5 VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds): VOCs are a major contributing factor to ozone, an air pollutant. According to the EPA, VOCs tend to be even higher (two to five times) in indoor air than outdoor air, likely because they are present in so many household products.

Risks: Cancer, eye and respiratory tract irritation, headaches, dizziness, visual disorders, and memory impairment
Major Sources: Drinking water, carpet, paints, deodorants, cleaning fluids, varnishes, cosmetics, dry cleaned clothing, moth repellants, air fresheners.

6 Dioxins: Chemical compounds formed as a result of combustion processes such as commercial or municipal waste incineration and from burning fuels (like wood, coal or oil).

Risks: Cancer, reproductive and developmental disorders, chloracne (a severe skin disease with acne-like lesions), skin rashes, skin discoloration, excessive body hair, mild liver damage
Major Sources: Animal fats: Over 95 percent of exposure comes from eating commercial animal fats.

7 Asbestos: This insulating material was widely used from the 1950s to 1970s. Problems arise when the material becomes old and crumbly, releasing fibers into the air.

Risks: Cancer, scarring of the lung tissue, mesothelioma (a rare form of cancer)
Major Sources: Insulation on floors, ceilings, water pipes and healing ducts from the 1950s to 1970s.

8 Heavy Metals: Metals like arsenic, mercury, lead, aluminum and cadmium, which are prevalent in many areas of our environment, can accumulate in soft tissues of the body.

Risks: Cancer, neurological disorders, Alzheimer's disease, foggy head, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, decreased production of red and white blood cells, abnormal heart rhythm, damage to blood vessels
Major Sources: Drinking water, fish, vaccines, pesticides, preserved wood, antiperspirant, building materials, dental amalgams, chlorine plants

9 Chloroform: This colorless liquid has a pleasant, nonirritating odor and a slightly sweet taste, and is used to make other chemicals. It's also formed when chlorine is added to water.

Risks: Cancer, potential reproductive damage, birth defects, dizziness, fatigue, headache, liver and kidney damage.
Major Sources: Air, drinking water and food can contain chloroform.

10 Chlorine: This highly toxic, yellow-green gas is one of the most heavily used chemical agents.

Risks: Sore throat, coughing, eye and skin irritation, rapid breathing, narrowing of the bronchi, wheezing, blue coloring of the skin, accumulation of fluid in the lungs, pain in the lung region, severe eye and skin burns, lung collapse, reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS) (a type of asthma)
Major Sources: Household cleaners, drinking water (in small amounts), air when living near an industry (such as a paper plant) that uses chlorine in industrial processes.

Tips to Avoid Toxins

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It's impossible in this day and age to avoid all environmental toxins. What you can do, however, is limit your exposure as much as possible with the following tips:

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Buy and eat, as much as possible, organic produce and free-range, organic foods. If you can only purchase one organic product it probably should be free range organic eggs. Fortunately most grocery stores now have these available. If they don't contact the store manager and encourage them to carry them. Additionally I believe raw milk products are a key to staying healthy. They are best obtained locally but many people have a great challenge finding them. I have made special arrangements with a dairy in the only state that raw milk products are legal, California, so you can easily obtain them.

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Rather than eating fish, which is largely contaminated with PCBs and mercury, consume a high-quality purified fish or cod liver oil like Carlson's. Contact your favorite health food store for it or another high quality brand or use our store for your immediate convenience. Another option is to have your wild-caught fish lab tested to find out if it is a pure source (we've found a delicious Alaskan wild red salmon that is mercury- and PCB-free and safe).

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Avoid processed foods -- remember that they're processed with chemicals!

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Only use natural cleaning products in your home. Most health food stores will have these available or you can search online for them. You can also choose the PerfectClean ultra-microfiber cleaning cloths. Due to their ultra-microfiber construction, you can use them with only water (so you eliminate the need for cleaning your home with chemicals).

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Switch over to natural brands of toiletries, including shampoo, toothpaste, antiperspirants and cosmetics. Same sources here, either your local health food store or you can search on line.

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Avoid spraying insect repellants that contain DEET on your body. There are safe, effective and natural alternatives out there, like Neem-Based Botanical Outdoor Gel.

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Remove any metal fillings as they're a major source of mercury. Be sure to have this done by a qualified biological dentist. Although nearly any dentist is technically qualified to replace your amalgam fillings, far less than 95 percent have any clue on how to do it properly so your risk of mercury exposure is minimized. Please avoid the mistake I have seen THOUSANDS of patients make and have your fillings replaced by a non-qualified dentist. I made this mistake myself nearly 20 years ago. Do it right the first time and save yourself the expense and grief. If you don't personally know a qualified biological dentist, many people find one by contacting several of the health food stores in their area and asking the employees who they know. This is typically an excellent resource as they are usually networked quite well in the local health community.

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Avoid using artificial air fresheners, dryer sheets, fabric softeners or other synthetic fragrances as they can pollute the air you are breathing.

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Avoid artificial food additives of all kind, including artificial sweeteners and MSG

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Get plenty of safe sun exposure to boost your vitamin D levels and your immune system (you'll be better able to fight disease).

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Have your tap water tested and, if contaminants are found, install an appropriate water filter on all your faucets (even those in your shower or bath).

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Seek to build your health up through the nutrition insights detailed in my Total Health Program, and then limit your use of drugs (prescription and over-the-counter) as much as possible. Drugs are chemicals too, and they will leave residues and accumulate in your body over time.

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