This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness infectious disease epidemiologists, public health scientists and concerned citizens have come together online to state their grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach called “Focused Protection” in a document titled The Great Barrington Declaration.

Over 550,000 concerned citizens, over 11,000 medical & public health scientists and over 30,000 medical practitioners from all over the world have stated their concerns that current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.

https://gbdeclaration.org/

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This Week In Wellness “Independent” Australian researchers Nutrition Research Australia (NRAUS) are asking people to #rethinkthepink suggesting that pink salts contain low levels of nutrients and potentially harmful levels of heavy metals.

The study looked at 31 samples of pink salts commercially available in Australia and suggested that the contents were unpredictable and inconsistent in nature. The level of nutrients in the pink salt varied widely with some containing no iron and others 17mg of iron per 100g and some containing 53mg of calcium whilst others contained 574mg.

https://nraus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Media_Release.pdf

https://nraus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Backgrounder_on_NRAUS__Team.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3zEbiGRXLqpE7RABar_fPAboUeOsIVIJ2grl45oKmHP4zkBq0__7X-yKI

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This Week In Wellness the FDA has re-evaluated its recommendations on amalgam fillings in teeth. The FDA have now acknowledged that the mercury vapour released from these devices may cause harmful health effects in “certain groups”. In particular pregnant women, nursing women, children (especially those under 6), people with neurological disease such as MS, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s, people with impaired kidney function and people with a “heightened sensitivity to mercury”.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issues-recommendations-certain-high-risk-groups-regarding-mercury-containing-dental-amalgam

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This Week In Wellness a new review has found that e-cigarettes triple the chances of a non-smoker taking up regular cigarettes.

Researchers from the Australian National University’s national centre for epidemiology and population health looked at 25 studies on e-cigarette use and smoking and found that every single one of them showed that e-smokers were more likely to become smokers. Especially the youth.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/30/vaping-increases-the-chances-of-regular-smoking-threefold-australian-review-finds

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This Week In Wellness Jenny Mikakos, the Victorian health minister who last year controversially called for a review into Chiropractic care for children, despite there being no reports of harm, 98% of parents saying it helped and 99.7% of parents reporting a positive experience, is under fire again. This time from her own premier.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has told the inquiry into the state’s hotel quarantine scheme that he “regarded Minister Mikakos as accountable for the Program. The CCC (Crisis Council of Cabinet) was provided with regular reports by Minister Mikakos containing data relevant to Victoria’s response to the public health emergency,”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-inquiry-daniel-andrews/12704116

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/health-minister-knew-about-private-security-in-hotel-quarantine/12702376

https://www.bettersafercare.vic.gov.au/reports-and-publications/chiropractic-spinal-manipulation-of-children-under-12

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This Week In Wellness I have officially launched pre-sales of my new book Rock Bottom.

Whether you feel like you are at Rock Bottom, on your way there or on your way back this book has some timeless, practical advice to help you smooth out the journey.

Bouncing back from Rock Bottom need not always be a complex recovery process that requires a degree in psychiatry to understand. Sometimes you just need real, simple actionable advice that you can understand and follow step by step to find peace, healing and confidence.

http://drbretthill.com/shop/books/rock-bottom-paperback/

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This Week In Wellness phase 3 trials of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca in conjunction with Oxford University have been suspended after an “unexplained illness”. The potential vaccine, which Australia has already secured 33.8 million doses of, has had it’s trials paused in order to allow for a review by an independent committee. Australia has also locked in 51 million doses of a potential vaccine being developed by the University of Queensland and CSL meaning that with those two commitments alone they will have access to a number of vaccines more than triple the Australian population.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-09/coronavirus-vaccine-on-hold-patient-adverse-illness-astrazeneca/12643812

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This Week In Wellness 13 medical practitioners have penned an open letter to Victorian Premier Dan Andrews about his approach to Covid19 lockdowns and the controversial State of Emergency Bill. This letter has since been supported by a further 270 medical and allied health professionals via an online submission called the Covid Doctors Network, a phrase that strangely shows no results when Googled.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/victorian-doctors-pen-desperate-letter-to-dan-andrews-about-controversial-state-of-emergency-bill/news-story/477352005ec852b6dd4b0e8f31f97441

https://600230e9-a39b-48cd-8ff1-3b49ca999143.filesusr.com/ugd/886b40_76e8e8aa2bf8497a8420940bb6e9d909.pdf

https://www.coviddoctorsnetwork.com/

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This Week In Wellness excessive fructose consumption has been linked with leaky gut and fatty liver disease according to a study co-authored by a large group of scientists from all around the world.

Whilst fructose is found naturally in fruit, honey and even in root vegetables it has become prolific in the diet due to the use of high fructose corn syrup to sweeten processed foods, especially in America. Whilst the link between fructose and fatty liver disease has been shown before this is the first time it was shown that it was in fact the leaky gut (also caused by the fructose) that preceded the liver damage.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824131807.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-020-0261-2

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This Week In Wellness a very low carbohydrate diet has been shown to help older adults with diabetes lose weight, improve body composition and improve insulin sensitivity in just eight weeks when compared to a low-fat diet.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820151337.htm

https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12986-020-00481-9

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