Pat Sullivan Blog

Why is Dr. Carolyn Dean moving to Hawaii?

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

In my inbox from Dr. Carolyn Dean:

Hello Folks,
Here is the latest news.

1. I'm moving from New York to Maui June 1, 2008 on the first leg of developing a medical spa in Costa Rica in 2010 in Guanacaste Province. It's called VidaCosta Spa el Puente and I am Medical Director. It will be a 5-Star spa using solar power, wind power, state-of-the-art waste reclamation, salt water pools, infinity pools, tennis courts, basketball courts and much more.

Green Our Vaccines with Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on June 4

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

Sitting in my Inbox from Jenny McCarthy:

A Call To Action and Invitation From Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey

"WE ARE HERE, WE ARE HERE, WE ARE HERE....AND WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY!"

Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey invite all organizations (in the autism community AND others) who support the removal of unnecessary toxins in vaccines to join them at the Green Our Vaccines Rally in Washington, DC, on June 4th. This invitation is open to the autism community at large along with health organizations, environmental organizations, and other organizations who support our mission of greening vaccines and reducing the aggressive vaccine schedule for children.

For complete details & information on this rally, please go to: www.tacanow.org
Date:  June 4, 2008
Location: Washington DC
Time:  9am to 12:30pm
If your organization would like to be listed as a supporting organization for this rally, please send an email to: lisa@tacanow.org

I thought it was great news when Jenny McCarthy (yes, that Jenny McCarthy) appeared on Oprah last year talking about autism and how a few mumbo-jumbo biomedical treatments cured her son.  And now she's using her celebrity in such a positive way!

Maybe she can jump on the anti-amalgam bandwagon as well?  Consumers for Dental Choice sure would love the help pointing out that mom's of autistic kids are 4,976 times more likely to have mercury amalgams than mother's of non-autisitics.

Ok, I completely fabricated that last stat, but mercury amalgams (aka. "silver fillings") in mommy's mouth HAS to add to the toxic load of Junior since we know that cord blood levels of mercury are elevated in moms with amalgams compared to moms without.

Additional: Video of Jenny McCartney talking about Autism on Wade Rankin's blog. 

Is There any Hope for the Dietary Supplement Industry?

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

Marc Ulman is one of the most respected lawyers in the Dietary Supplement business.  Among dozens of other accomplishments and accolades, he is the lead counsel of the Dietary Supplement Education Alliance, which is how I met him.

Yesterday he wrote Attacks on the Industry — How Should We Respond? questioning how to best respond to two recent attacks on the Dietary Supplement Industry.

I posted the following comment to that post (don't know why it's showing up as private comment??):

Good question Marc.  I contest that the long-term answer is what kept my company (Jigsaw Health) from being approved as a member of DSEA -- un-redacted customer product reviews on the same page as the Buy Now button.

Allow me to explain...

Two New Online Chapters ofWellness Piece By Piece

The story continues...

I have posted 2 NEW ONLINE CHAPTERS of my book, Wellness Piece By Piece: Brain Trauma & Mold.

Brain Trauma - New Online Chapter of Wellness Piece By Piece

Like Mold, Brain Trauma has become another major piece of the health puzzle for me, as many of you know, and I have written about it extensively here in the past. So, I have organized all the posts and made it a new online chapter of Wellness Piece By Piece. The Brain Trauma chapter...
 

Mold - New Online Chapter ofWellness Piece By Piece

Mold has become another major piece of my health puzzle. So I have organized all my posts on the topic as a new online chapter of Wellness Piece By Piece. The Mold chapter...

Mercury and Vaccines

Here is a good and balanced view of the controversy over mercury, vaccines and autism.  Personally, I agree with his view in general.  Also, his view as a research neuroscientist that even small amounts of toxins can cause the brain to not function well is right on. 

Another thing I think important is to spread out the vaccination schedule for the child.  We used to vaccinate on a much slower schedule.  The rise in autism appears to coincide with an acceleration in that schedule beginning around 1991.  Challenging a childs immune system with so many vaccinations when their immune system (and most other systems) are not yet fully developed does not seem wise.  Here is a more user friendly recommended schedule from a doctor Miller.

Pat Has a New Job

I have been busy and not blogging at all.  I have a new gig.  I became the CEO of Flypaper.net about 3 months ago.  We launched the public beta this past Monday.  We showed the product at Demo 08.  We won one of the coveted 10 Demogod awards for best of show out of 77 new cool companies.   

Flypaper is likely going to be the biggest thing I have ever done.  Considering that ACT! has sold over 4MM copies and is still going strong after 20 years now, that is quite a statement.  But I believe it is true. 

Flypaper bridges the huge gap between Microsoft's Powerpoint and custom Flash programming.  To do anything really cool on the web you have to hire an expensive Flash programmer to do it for you.  What gets delivered to you cannot be edited or changed except by that programmer.  That all changes with Flypaper.

Flypaper is totally free.  Everybody asks, "so how are you going to make money?"  There are LOTS of ways for us to make money when we have millions of users of Flypaper.  It is really an amazing application that you can use for both business applications AND Social networking applications like Myspace, Facebook, Linkedin etc.

Go download it here.  And then tell all your friends about it.

Jigsaw Health continues to grow and do very well.  They just don't need much help from me so it is nice to have something to do again!!

Pat

Pumpkin Seeds and Magnesium

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

WebMD published an article for Men's Health called, "The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating".  Pretty cool list of exotic foods I'm going to try and add to my diet.

And of course, since I'm such a magnesium zealot, this note about pumpkin seeds really jumped out at me:

10. Pumpkin seeds

These jack-o'-lantern waste products are the most nutritious part of the pumpkin.

      Why they're healthy: Downing pumpkin seeds is the easiest way to consume more magnesium. That's important because French researchers recently determined that men with the highest levels of magnesium in their blood have a 40 percent lower risk of early death than those with the lowest levels. And on average, men consume 353 mg of the mineral daily, well under the 420 mg minimum recommended by the USDA.

      How to eat them: Whole, shells and all. (The shells provide extra fiber.) Roasted pumpkin seeds contain 150 mg of magnesium per ounce; add them to your regular diet and you'll easily hit your daily target of 420 mg. Look for them in the snack or health-food section of your grocery store, next to the peanuts, almonds,  and sunflower seeds.

           

Germany's Favorite Laxative

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

LOL!!  These guys stole our toilet paper idea.