T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I.

T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I.

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The end of the world as we know it…

It will be darker.
Without a grid, candles and batteries will provide some transition period until fire once again rules the night. Tough indoors for most of us without a fireplace or woodstove, so it will be darker than we are used to. The day will likely start when the sun comes up and end shortly after the sun goes down, much like the early days of America. With darkness, comes a some weird, but expected medical risks. There will be more bugs and animals getting close to you. Bugs and wild critters don’t much like the light bulb, so without it, they will feel emboldened and walk right up to you much more often than now. If they bite or scratch you while nearby, that will be weird and you will react accordingly, but your infection risk goes up in the dark. Your injury risk also goes up as you can’t see as well, making it much more likely that you will fall down and go boom, but also that you will bump into things and go ouch. Either way, infections and injuries will increase in a darker world.

It will be colder.
Again, no grid. This one only applies to cold nights and cold climates, but you get the basic idea. From a health standpoint, this really doesn’t make for much risk as long as you are inside and avoiding exposure. Blankets and another human to cuddle with (friendly or non-friendly) will keep you warm most of the time. In the winter, hopefully you have an upstairs to go to which is usually quite a bit warmer even in the coldest places. The small, higher rooms will maintain heat much better than larger, open spaces. Basically, those old movies where everybody piled in the same bed were right. Gone will be the days where little Suzie Loo Hoo gets her own room and privacy, at least at bedtime. Get some cold weather gear that is decent even when you live in southern localities that get rare cold weather, because you won’t have the option WTSHTF. Have enough blankets for everyone to layer their beds for the lowest record colds in your area. Take Vitamin C in the wintertime, especially if you are not getting enough fruits and vegetables. Winter colds spread with close contact, but you also need to interact with other humans. Stay away from people that are running fevers and sick, especially those with bad coughs that could be flu or pneumonia. Frostbite can almost always be avoided as long as you are not outside exposed to wind and freezing temperatures without any insulation, but it is possible on noses, toes, ears and fingers left outside covers at night. Fireplaces and woodstoves will be essential to anyone above the Mason Dixon line, so be prepared.

It will be warmer.
What? Didn’t we just talk about colder? There are two seasons, not everyone has cold but everyone has hot. Being from MN originally, it is just miserable in July and August sometimes, but can miserable from June to September. Northern MN is about as far north any human could really live, WITH a grid. If you live there now, plan on moving south—seriously. But with the beauty of southern living comes the heat that can really make for some real sticky situations. Heat stroke can kill people, but again exposure avoidance is the key. If you have a two story house now or after the grid goes down you acquire one, live in the lower level or basement in the summertime. Heat stroke is really only a risk if you stay “very heated” for shorter periods of time or “somewhat heated” for longer periods of time. When it is blast-furnace hot, stay in lower levels, caves, or at least shade with a breeze or hand or foot powered fan. Know your local topography and any potential natural cooling sources. Caves, springs, lakes, etc. will really be a necessity for cooling without a grid in very southern climates. If nothing else, dig yourself a hole like those weird Aussie animals and lay in the cool dirt. At night, if it cools down, get as much cool air into your structure or just sleep outside (protected from bugs if possible).

It will be wetter.
Maybe. No guarantees, but as roofs leak and walls crack, water will get in without a repair mechanism (Home Depot). Houses don’t last forever, especially when exposed to cold and hot extremes due to no temperature control inside. Walls don’t like freezing and thawing, and they don’t like getting to 100 plus degrees. In a wet climate, you will likely see more water inside sooner, along with hard frost areas. Being outside more gathering materials and food will make it more likely that you will get caught in rain, and having to slog through the woods hunting and fishing for food will make for some wet feet at the least. Best protection against foot related problems is wear dry, clean socks. My best medical advice is to get some socks and have plenty of them.

It will be dirtier.
Now, this we can guarantee. No grid equals no dishwasher, no laundry room, no water pump. That makes dirt the winner and us the stinky losers. More dirt means more infection risk. Have some soap. Have a source of water for bathing or at least strip down nude during non-lightning downpours and scrub up with what soap you are able to stockpile. Hopefully, all the neighbors will be doing it too so nobody will notice your shame. There is just no substitute for clean skin, so figure out how you can clean clothes, shoes, and bodies. Soap can be made from some common materials that are readily available, but I like the idea of a gross of hard soap bars on my shelf. Granted, we won’t likely be washing up for supper every day, but having soap for a regular bath or rain shower will be worth it’s weight in gold, maybe more at some point in the future.

It will be more work.
Well, that just sucks for you lazy people, because we are going to eat you first. Just kidding, you taste bad, but you will want to make sure that you can contribute in some meaningful way to your new society of local weirdoes. King Gamer has no meaningful contribution, kids. There will be more gathering, more hunting, more walking. There will be more thinking work too, figuring out how to do things differently with all the stuff you forgot to get or never even thought about living without. With work, especially work you are not used to doing, there is more risk of injury or overuse strains and sprains. Think about what you are good at and use your skills accordingly. If you can’t do much else, get really good at shooting and weapons and you will have a place at the table every night, King Gamer. Put your skills to use or whoever has the food is likely to give you less. Even if it’s your dad! (Message to son). People teamed together will survive much easier than those on their own, unless Rambo himself is involved in the discussion. But even Rambo can’t live without others, so start talking to your friends and family about who can do what best, have some non-powered tools in your shop, and keep in reasonable physical condition for walking and work if it falls to you.

It will be riskier.
Criminals will thrive WTSHTF and that is just the reality of the situation. After banding together in gangs of losers, it is likely they will continue to kill each other off over cigarettes and booze, especially as it gets rare. Tyrants will form larger gangs of minions and will likely form outlaw towns similar to those visualized in many apocalyptic movies we are all familiar with. Good for them! Rely on yourself and your small community and you will only hear legends of the people having to venture there. Stay small and stay safe. Travel only for truly emergency reasons other than wanting to visit Granny or see the big city. Granny is gone if she isn’t with you and the big city burned to the ground. You lived, now deal with it. Someone has to have weapons and skill in your group. All the guns and ammo in the world does no good in the hands of a cowardly hippy. Be smart, and think about this reality with your neighbors and friends. Find the skilled contribution. From a health standpoint, getting shot decreases your survival rate. But; injuring yourself in the dark, wet, dirty world that is left also increases your risk of infections. Exposure to more outdoors increases your risk of exposure to insects, snakes, and animals that mean to harm you when you get in their way. This also makes for shorter life expectancy. Again, going out for nature walks is just a bad idea in this world. Know you limits and environment, staying inside while the “real men” go out hunting might be your best plan, don’t get defensive anymore or learn how to do it. Whining will likely decrease your survival rate and increase your risk too.

It will leave you hungry.
This increases many of the risks above. Hungry people do stupid, risky things they would not otherwise do to get a meal. You will have to work to get food, instead of driving to the window. Mommy isn’t going to plop down your plate after you played your vidya games all day. You may have to go out in the woods. You may have to help with the seeds, if you have them. You may have to cut up the squirrel, if you can catch it. You may have to start the fire to cook over. You cannot prepare enough food to stockpile forever, although you can make a good try. Seeds and animals are a great idea, especially ones that reproduce on their own like rabbits, goats and chickens. From a health standpoint, the same rules apply then as now—cooking your food until it’s done, not eating old nasty stuff, etc. But as nutrition decreases infection increases, so plan ahead for your nutrition now. See our other pages about nutrition recommendations, but the basics of being able to eat after TEOTWAWKI is beyond my scope and knowledge.

It will leave you thirsty.
Now this is even worse than being hungry. When you see food, you can usually get to it and eat it, but that sure don’t apply to water. Clean, drinkable water is something that you BETTER have at the top of your list. I place it at the end of the list because mine is a medical survival site, not a survival site. If you made it down to here without a water plan, you won’t make it. Dying of drinking bad water is really a tough way to go too. It’s painful, loud, and involves lots of gross fluids. I don’t think I could stress enough your clean water plan. We have one, you should too. You can only survive without water for about 3-4 days, less with exertion. If you are walking all day trying to get somewhere safe without water, you will likely make it about 48 hours. Then it’s over. There are some places left in the world where you can drink water you can see, but you better know where they are and the rules before you do. Otherwise, spend some money after doing some research on the right kind of filter for the future without pumps and magic faucets. We are mostly water, so figure out how to keep your levels up to survival standards.

What's GH 7 and Will It Keep You Younger Longer?

WILL IT KEEP YOU YOUNG LONGER?
by HERBERT BAILEY

Leave the dreams of yesterday, take the torch of knowledge, and build the dreams of the future.

Mine. Marie Curie (25th Anniversary of discovery of radium)

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Publishers Note

Nothing contained in this work shall constitute an expressed or implied endorsement by the publisher of the drug known as Gerovital H3 (GH3), which has not been approved in any manner or form by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Therefore, this drug may not be used or sold in any form in the United States. This book is intended solely to describe the research and studies which have been performed regarding this drug. Should the same be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the conditions of such approval will govern its use and sale in the United States and nothing contained in this work should be deemed to constitute an advocacy or endorsement of any broader or greater use or purpose of said drug than that approved by the Food and Drug Administration, if such approval is ever forthcoming.
 The reader may wish to know why I became interested in Gerovital H3. I heard about GH3 and Ana Aslan around 1958, when the news of GH3 penetrated this country. I wrote about it briefly, then waited for more results.* There were none but the negative reports, since the positive findings, although published in reputable medical journals, were not publicized in the popular press. The major assault against GH3 was in the form of an editorial carried in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 1963, followed by several negative studies reputedly done by carefully following Dr. Aslan's method of administration. (It turned out later that none of the negative studies used GH3; rather they used straight procaine, which as we shall see is far less effective.)

The title of the editorial was, curiously enough, "Procaine-—At Last Its Song Is Ended." Not aware that procaine had tried to sing and had come to a final disastrous off-key note~ I was amazed to find that a lyricist from the AMA had assembled all the negative "orchestration" and declared the song untuneful and therefore unworthy of meriting any further attention by medical men. When I say I was amazed, I am not being entirely factual. The fact is, knowing the leadership of the AMA quite well throughout many years, I was not really amazed, only bemused by the fact that not one shred of positive evidence had been printed in JAMA (there were approximately 250 favorable articles from all over the world at that time, to which the AMA had access). I pondered why doctors and scientists should accept this "Johnny one-note" verdict as absolute truth and would henceforth shy away from the very mention of the word "procaine."

The god had spoken ex cathedra. I knew that this sort of thing had happened many times before in the history of that Authoritarian Body which claims to speak for American medicine, and yet time after time has had to backtrack and cover up for medical blunders. The latter endeavor is somewhat easy for it, since the AMA has one of the best-paid and most powerful lobbies in the United States.

I have had much experience with the AMA s manipulations of the truth, but my most recent personal encounter was with vitamin B. Many readers are probably aware that I wrote the first book for the "layman" on vitamin B, which was widely sold and in which I told for the first time the amazing story of how the news of this vitamin was suppressed, even though thousands of reputable researchers all over the world had published favorable reports.

The AMA and almost all the so-called established medical authorities in this country denounced vitamin B as being of little established value. Later, over-whelmcd by positive evidence, the AMA altered its position somewhat. Our. point is: the AMA has to be forced-- even overwhelmed--—as do other authoritarian "scientific" medical groups, before it will consent to listen to both sides of a scientific argument. Scientific objectivity? Forget it. That is an abstraction which is almost never transformed into reality. Power, raw and crude, translated subtly into medical jargon is the only language the medical politicians understand and react to.

But back to GH3. There were several attempts by individual physicians to get medical authorities to examine the evidence--—evidence which was steadily accumulating in many countries. There were several well-recognized doctors in the United States who did examine the evidence, then gave GH3 to hundreds of their patients, with notable success. These include the late Dr. Herman Goodman, nutritionist, and Dr. Albert Simard, famed endocrinologist, both of New York City. Their efforts, however, did not budge by one micron the officials who were in command of our country s medical facilities.

Gerovital H3 lay moribund in the United States for 12 long years until Alfred Sapse, M.D., revived it in 1971 and in a series of daring, lightning moves projected it to be tested under official FDA sanction as an antidepressant--with a chance of final approval, as we shall see. I first became aware of the GH3 revival in 1972 through Mike Wallace, an old friend from our Chicago days. We both started out in Chicago, Mike in radio and television, and I in newspapers, magazines, and eventually books. We had exchanged favors throughout the years.

Mike went to Romania to see Ana Aslan and make a show for 60 Minutes, the CBS-TV prizewinning production. I saw the show. It interested me particularly, as I had been wondering what had happened to Ana Aslan s treatment.

I discovered that GH3 was indeed a subject which should be investigated. Subsequently I wrote the GH3 story for a leading national magazine. It drew a tremendous response, far out of proportion to the magazine s circulation, which was. about 2 million. I then decided that with such interest manifested, a full-scale examination should be accorded GH3. Following the investigation, a book would disclose the facts to the American people. Only a book could reveal the truth to people and their doctors about a unique discovery which might affect all of our lives, and about which— whether through design or stupidity—we had been kept in ignorance so long.

As the scope of my investigation widened, I became aware that I had scarcely seen the top of the iceberg. Beneath it lay the mass of evidence which did not exist—so we were told by our medical arbiters. Yet this evidence is so scientific, so voluminous, it is almost unthinkable it was ignored for nearly a decade. (See Appendixes and Bibliography.)

As time went on, the experiments in this country confirmed the findings abroad, and in certain Particulars, such as the double-blind tests and work with cells, went even further, and carried the GH3 project to an irrefutable conclusion.

The conclusion is that the life-benefiting factor in GH3 functions efficiently in every phase of life in which it has been tested; beginning with bacteria, the lowest form of complete life, on up through nematodes (microscopic worms), pigeons, mice and rats to the human being, where it functions best of all. The human, being more complex with his incredibly intricate body-mind-brain, is more capable of breakdowns, just as a very complex machine such as a spaceship can be thrown completely out of kilter by the malfunctioning of a tiny fuse—while the famous old Model T Ford could keep going almost forever, and when it did break down could more than likely be fixed with a piece of baling wire or some equally simple improvisation.

Therefore, to carry on with the analogy, GH3 may possibly be shown to be a certain type of universal lubricant-energizer that all life forms use. The ones who benefit most are us humans, who can so easily be put out of effective action: by just a persistent thought pattern known as depression; or by a lack of, or too much, sugar in our bloodstreams. Or by an ingrown toenail. Or by failing an examination. Or by failing kidneys. Or by lack of oxygen. Or by too much oxygen. Or by our father s dying. Or by our father s not dying. If we were to list or analyze the complexities which influence that creature who dubbed himself Homo the wise, there would not be enough paper or enough time (as ordinarily construed) in the universe to finish the job, even if we only listed what we already know at that tiniest tip of the iceberg.

We shall report several of the key experiments which prove the efficacy of GH3, but rather than break up the dramatic story of GH3 with detailed and technical information, for the most part the studies will be included in the Appendixes and Bibliography. In that way we can proceed with the story, or as they call it now, scenario, without too many details.

For those who are interested in details and technical knowledge (and I hope you are, or at least your doctor is), every statement in this book which makes references to GH3 efficacy is based on actual experiments included in the Appendixes or the Bibliography. Therefore, there will be little excuse for doctors or anyone else to scoff at and/or ignore the mass of scientific evidence presented in this book. Anyone who ignores evidence has no intent of arriving at the truth. Therefore, the only logical response is to ignore the ones who ignore. It's better than fighting with them.