The Beck Protocol consists of four self-administered treatments:
1. Blood electrification: Groundbreaking research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (disclosed in patent #5,188,738) showed that pulsed microcurrents of electricity would affect bloodborne viruses and bacteria (such as AIDS and Hepatitis C) in ways that prevents these organisms from being able to multiply and grow. The original patent was for a complicated, surgically implanted device. While suffering from his own serious health issues, Beck used the information presented by this patent to develop an innovative, low-cost device that accomplished a similar process quite simply and easily via tiny electrical impulses generated in a small box powered by a 9-volt battery. These microelectric currents are passed through the blood inside the user’s wrist veins where they pass close to the skin’s surface, via electrodes that are wetted with a salt solution as they are held snugly in place by an elastic wristband.
2. Colloidal silver: Silver has been used medically for more than 100 years. Severe burn victims are typically treated with silver based ointments, which help fight infection when oral antibiotics are ineffective. The groundbreaking research of orthopedic surgeon and medical researcher, Dr. Robert Becker (totally different guy, easily confused with Bob Beck due to similar names), as related in his phenomenal book, The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, showed that in addition to killing bacteria, molds, and viruses, charged silver particles also positively affect the body’s bioelectric healing mechanisms. In fact, Dr. Becker saved several patients from amputation using charged silver particles to heal infections that had become gangrenous and bones that were not mending in spite of medical treatment with massive doses of antibiotics and other allopathic medicines. It was the physicist, Bob Beck, who built on Dr. Becker’s research and invented the simple modern colloidal silver generator that makes ionic colloidal silver using three 9-volt batteries, distilled water, and pure silver wire. A “nebulizer” can be handy for turning a colloidal silver solution into a fine mist that one may inhale to help battle lung infections.
3. Magnetic pulsing: After working with his blood electrification invention, Bob Beck realized that there were organs of the body that did not receive a high flow of blood, and that these organs could benefit if they were directly stimulated with microelectric currents. He invented an electromagnetic pulse-generating device that stimulates microelectric currents directly inside organs and glands located within the body via the mechanism of electromagnetic induction. Conventional permanent magnets cannot generate these currents, since it takes a strong rapidly fluctuating magnetic field to generate this effect.
4. Ozonated water: Beck found that many people, himself included, experienced fatigue and other flu-like symptoms after they started drinking colloidal silver and doing the blood electrification. It was proposed that this was caused by toxins released when the body’s foreign organisms were killed. Beck found that drinking highly oxygenated water, made by bubbling ozone through drinking water, helped the body eliminate these toxins and avoid the flu-like symptoms.
Many naturopathic doctors, and other alternative health practitioners, are helping people to combat viruses, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and serious chronic illnesses, such as AIDS, various cancers, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome using the Beck Protocol, often combined with various herbal cleanses and treatments.
You can find all of the experimental Beck Protocol instruments and supplies at Sota Instruments (www.sota.com). You can also find an excellent instructional pamphlet and DVD on the Beck Protocol at Sharing Health From the Heart, Inc. (www.sharinghealth.com).
The FDA's Shelf-Life Lie
by Ed Corcoran
Everyone who knows me is aware that I’m a big proponent of natural medicine and homeopathic remedies, and I think even more people know that I’m no friend to the pharmaceutical industry. I believe that nature can provide everything we need to maintain health and stay disease-free, but like most survivalists, I’m a “belt and suspenders” kind of guy. Which means I believe you should always have a back-up plan (and a back-up for your back-up, if possible) in the event that your primary plan just isn’t feasible.
In terms of lifestyle, the use of natural and homeopathic medicine is essential for a long, healthy, self-reliant life and is much safer and more beneficial than synthetic drugs. However, natural solutions to the medical problems you’re likely to encounter in a crisis situation may be unavailable, impractical or ineffective - depending on the nature of the problem and the urgency of treatment. Even more so if you need to care for people other than just yourself and your immediate family. For those reasons, I think it’s always a good idea to stock-pile some basic medications to treat medical emergencies such as: infection, pain, inflammation, Lyme disease, Giardia, dysentery, etc.
The problem that most people bring up whenever I talk about storing pharmaceuticals is their finite (and relatively short) shelf-life. Pharmaceuticals are expensive and no one wants to throw away large quantities of medications every two years or so - the average stated shelf life of most drugs – if they end up not using them.
The truth is; many people are beginning to realize that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry have been lying to us for decades. In 1979, drug manufacturers were required by the FDA to provide an expiration date for all pharmaceuticals. No one really questioned these dates until 1985, when the U.S. military realized that they were faced with throwing away about $1B in expired medications. This prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to request that the FDA conduct tests to determine the true shelf-life of the drugs the military stores.
The FDA agreed to conduct these tests as long as the DoD payed $250M to fund them and agreed to never publicly disclose the findings. And the Shelf Life Extension Program (SLEP) was born.
Why would the FDA not want the American public to know the true shelf-life of SLEP tested drugs? When questioned, the administration claimed they insisted on non-disclosure because the average consumer doesn’t store drugs in the same controlled conditions as the military, and therefore those expiration dates would not apply to folks like you and me.
While it’s true that most people keep their medications in perhaps the worst place in the home (the bathroom medicine cabinet), the tests the FDA conducted subjected medications to much higher levels of heat and humidity (to simulate years of exposure) than would ever be encountered in anyone’s bathroom. Their findings were that 90% of the drugs they tested retained their potency for several months to several years past their expiration dates - even under harsh conditions. It seems more likely that the FDA was more concerned about protecting the revenues of the drug manufacturers than informing the American public of the truth.
Since the U.S. military is one of Big Pharma’s biggest customers (if not the biggest), the industry was already taking a huge hit when the DoD got hip to the truth about expiration dates. If it were widely known to the public that the medications we buy actually retain their potency 2 to 10 years (in some cases, up to 15 or 18 years) longer than their given expiry date, then millions of Americans would stop replacing their medications after the expiration date has passed, translating into a huge drop in revenue – especially in the over-the-counter (OTC) market.
It also seems a little fishy that the FDA insisted on the non-disclosure condition before any tests were conducted. This tells me that they already knew what their “findings” were going to be, and they were engaging in some preemptive damage control.
Why would the FDA be concerned about protecting Big Pharma’s bottom line? A complete answer to that question alone could fill an entire book, let alone a magazine article. But it can be summed up succinctly by saying that the FDA (as with many, if not all government “watchdog” agencies) has been thoroughly infiltrated at the highest levels by former CEOs, CFOs and industry leaders (in other words: shareholders) from the largest pharmaceutical and agricultural corporations. Adding to that, the fact that Bi
g Pharma has an enormous, deep-pocketed lobbyist contingency (outnumbering all the members of Congress!) it becomes clear where the interests of the FDA really lie.
This may all sound like a grand “conspiracy theory”, but the infiltration of corporate influence can be found in just about every administration, agency and commission in our federal government. There’s no law preventing the FDA from appointing former industry executives to high-ranking positions in the agency, but it certainly represents a decided conflict of interest! When you constantly hear about recalls, class action lawsuits and drugs that were hurriedly approved for the market which ended up seriously harming or even killing the trusting victims who took them, (I won’t even get into the health and life threatening side effects that the FDA deems “acceptable”) it becomes clear who the FDA is really looking out for.
For the military’s part, they’ve held up their side of the bargain in keeping the secret. I can tell you, it’s not easy to find any information from government sources online. A Google search for “SLEP” or “Shelf Life Extension Program” will yield several links to military websites, yet all of my attempts to access these pages has resulted in an “Untrusted Connection” warning. I have to assume that the reason the certificates for these sites remain unverified is to scare people away. I chose to ignore the warnings and proceed to these pages. Nothing disastrous happened. I was pretty sure that a government website wasn’t going to give me a virus, though they probably track the IP addresses of all visitors and install a cookie on your machine.
If that makes you uncomfortable, I did come across a URL that will take you to numerous downloadable, military SLEP documents (in either PDF or Word doc format) which include sample tables of some of the drugs tested and their respective shelf-lives. The URL is about five miles long and incredibly cryptic, which makes it impractical to manually copy it from a printed page without any errors. So, I’ve set up a redirect where you can easily access these documents. Just go to:
http://survivalist.fm/slep.
In most cases, drugs that are well past their expiration date are perfectly safe to take. Meaning; they won’t make you sick or kill you if you take them. There are a few drugs that become toxic as they get older, but with most medications, they simply become inert, or less effective as time goes by. According to Joel Davis; former FDA head of expiration date compliance – The majority of pharmaceuticals (with few exceptions) are probably as durable as those the agency has tested for the military - “Most drugs degrade very slowly,” he said. “In all likelihood, you can take a product you have at home and keep it for many years, especially if it’s in the refrigerator.”
Here is a short list of drugs that should never be taken after the expiration date:
Nitroglycerine
Insulin
Mefloquine (Malaria treatment)
Liquid Antibiotics
Water Purification Tablets
Medications in tablet form are far more stable than powders or liquids. Many antibiotics, for example, are available in powdered or liquid form and should be avoided for long-term storage. While I haven’t been able to find any hard data on the longevity of medications in capsule and gel cap form, I would imagine that they’re not as stable as their tablet counterparts (since they contain powders and liquids, respectively). Also, tablets that become discolored, produce a strong odor, or develop a powdery residue have probably exceeded their useful shelf-life and should be discarded.
When storing drugs for optimal shelf-life, it’s usually best to keep them in sealed containers under refrigeration - or at least in a cool, dry place away from heat, sunlight and humidity.
When it comes to acquiring large quantities of prescription medications, one of the most popular methods is to buy them online from pharmacies in Canada, Mexico, India and other sources outside of the U.S. However, there is a myth that has been circulating around the internet regarding the legality of this practice that you should be aware of. I’ve seen statements on various survival forums and blogs (and even from the Council of State Governments) claiming that there is an exemption in federal law that allows for the personal importation of a 90-day supply of prescription drugs (excluding narcotics and controlled substances) from foreign pharmacies. But according to the FDA, this loop-hole simply doesn’t exist:
“Recent advertisements in U.S. newspapers and magazines claim that Congress has made the personal importation of drugs a legal practice. Other advertisements and certain Internet sites state that personal importation of up to a 90-day supply of prescription medications is legal. Neither of these claims is true.” - From the U.S. Food & Drug Administraton Website
While it may not be technically legal for individuals to import prescription drugs from other countries, the FDA has never enforced this ban, or prosecuted (persecuted?) a single person or state official for this practice. The two biggest reasons are:
1. The federal customs agents and border inspectors charged with enforcing the ban are reluctant to deny the poor and elderly access to cheap medications that they would otherwise not be able to afford.
2. Top level FDA officials concede that due to the huge volume of drug parcels that enter the country (an estimated 10 million each year), it is simply impossible for customs and FDA officials to inspect every package that crosses the border, or is sent through the mail. Thanks to the “War on Terror”, the agency is stretched pretty thin just complying with Homeland Security objectives.
Common sense will tell you that a law which cannot be enforced is not a law at all. If by chance, your package is identified as possibly violating the law and some FDA inspector decides it’s worth the waste of time to kick up a fuss, the worst that will happen is you will be notified that your package has been detained and you will be asked to explain why they should release the medication to you. If you do not reply, or if they find your explanation unsatisfactory, the package will simply be returned to its point of origin (many reputable online pharmacies will refund your payment if the package is refused by customs).
More information about the FDA’s official policy on the personal importation of prescription drugs can be found here:
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Testimony/ucm115170.htm
If you decide to purchase medications from a foreign pharmacy online, make sure you do your homework first. The risk of receiving counterfeit, ineffective or even dangerous drugs is very real. Check around and carefully research each vendor before placing your order. Don’t just go for the cheapest price you can find. Also, make sure that the company you deal with will issue a refund in the unlikely even that your package is returned by U.S. Customs.
For the record: I neither endorse nor promote the violation of federal, state or local laws. This information is provided for educational purposes only. What you do with this information is up to you. Neither myself, Survivalist Magazine or CDI Publications accept any liability for the legal or medical consequences that may result from your actions.
SURVIVAL GROUP MEDIC
THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT
by Dr. Bones
DISCLAIMER: The information given and opinions voiced in this article are meant for use only in the event of societal collapse. The practice of medicine or dentistry without a license is punishable by law.
SURVIVAL MEDICINE VS. COLLAPSE MEDICINE
What is survival medicine? I define it as medical care rendered in a situation where standard medical care, training and facilities are not available. Survival medicine would involve medical care rendered during wilderness hikes, ocean voyages and sojourns in undeveloped countries. The basic assumption is that there are trained doctors and hospitals, but they are unavailable at the time that medical care is required, perhaps for a significant period of time. Eventual evacuation of the ill or injured individual is still the primary goal, because modern medical facilities still exist. This is different from what I would call “collapse medicine”. In a societal collapse, there is no access to modern medical care; furthermore, there is no HO
PE of accessing such care in the foreseeable future. This fact leads us to make adjustments to our strategy if we are going to be effective in maintaining the health of the community.
Wilderness medical classes, Emergency Medical Technician and even Military Medical Corps training presupposes that you are rendering care in the hope of later transporting your patient to a working clinic, medical center, emergency room or field hospital. This training is very important to have, but must be modified when no such units are going to be accessible, as would be the case in a collapse.
The first way to help assure your medical well being is very basic. Don’t be a lone wolf! The support of a survival group - even if it’s just your extended family - is essential if you’re going to keep it together when things fall apart. Daily chores, growing food, filtering water, and all the other day-to-day activities that you will be required to perform are taxing. Being the sole bearer of this burden will negatively impact your health and decrease your chances of long-term survival. Now is the time to communicate, network and put together a group of like-minded people. Look for those with skills that you don’t possess, like medical training, experience in homesteading, or animal husbandry. Have regular meetings, decide on priorities and set things in motion! Put together Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C and work together to make their implementation successful.
The second way to assure your medical well-being is a key area which must be considered as part of your preparations, yet is rarely emphasized. That is to optimize your health prior to any catastrophe occurring. To do this, you must accomplish the following goals: Maintaining a normal weight for your height and age, maintaining a healthy diet, keeping fit, and managing chronic medical issues in a timely fashion. If you need to get that bum knee fixed, get it scheduled!
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