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- A Brief History Of Natural and Alternative Healing
What we call 'traditional medicine' really isn't traditional at all. Until about the 16th century we used natural approaches for health problems, focusing on pure water, fresh air, good foods, adequate rest and exercise and herbs for medicinal purposes. This was called the 'vitalistic' method, and was highly connected with nature.
Around the 16th century, however, a more mechanical view of life and health came about. It was called the 'mechanistic' approach. This proved very different from the vitalistic view, in its belief that human minds are smarter than nature, and can manipulate it more effectively.
We are finding out today that this is not correct. An example is the creation of "super bugs," pathogenic organisms which are not only resistant to all known antibiotics, but many of which actually prefer the antibiotics we have created in the laboratory as their chosen food source!
There are many more examples, but the point here is just to say that today we are finding out that high tech, high cost, high risk, drug-and-surgery controlled health care is not the answer to most of life's health issues.
Extremely sound scientific studies now are proving that the opposite is true: 80% or more of all the serious health problems we face in this country are preventable by using natural methods, high quality nutrition, proper exercise, stress management, and maintaining the healthy function of a balanced nervous system, the system in our bodies which controls everything!
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Natural Healing Philosophy
There is a vital link between the structural stability and alignment or balance of the spine and the normal, healthy function of the nervous system (brain and spinal cord) to correctly run our bodies. If you alter the structural balance, if something shifts out of place and decreases normal nerve control in that part of the body, then the body begins to break down, and DYS-FUNCTION leads to DIS-EASE.
If you want synthetic chemicals to mask or hide the symptoms, you can choose that, but the problem is that chemicals are not natural, and they cause side effects. Worst of all, THEY DO NOT CORRECT THE PROBLEM, they just temporarily fool your body into feeling brief symptoms of relief which wears off. YOU THEN NEED MORE AND STRONGER DRUGS, WHICH CAN CAUSE YOU TO BECOME PHYSICALLY AND/OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY DEPENDENT.
Would you call this method "HEALING?" Would you consider this "HEALTH CARE?" No, you wouldn't, and neither do we. This is disease care, because you are not promoting healing or restoration of health, you are only suppressing the symptoms with chemicals and allowing the underlying causes of the health problems to remain, and progressively get worse due to lack of correct diagnosis or correct treatment. These two approaches are worlds apart, and we focus on naturally and safely rebalancing your body. This is natural healing at its best.
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How Does Natural Healing Work?
If we were meant to handle every single health problem with drugs, wouldn't we have been born in a pharmacy with a bunch of credit cards in our hand? But we weren't. We were designed to live a full, healthy, natural life. When health problems arise, we recommend the wisdom of nature first.
We recommend using natural means before using more costly and dangerous, less effective methods such as drugs or surgery. Clearly there are times when emergencies demand drug therapies and surgery, and crisis medical intervention can save lives. But as noted above, 80% OF OUR HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE PREVENTABLE! That's what we recommend, that's what we practice, and that's what we offer to you and your family.
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Areas of Special Emphasis in Our Practice
We are a family practice first. Within that, however, we do place special emphasis on the health issues of women and children. Why? One basic reason is that they are commonly not given the full recognition or respect they deserve in many medical facilites. We have special training in these areas of health care and we place special emphasis on women's and childrens' health issues.
For example, we are often consulted for second opinions and natural approaches to health when someone is diagnosed with a learning disability. We rarely confirm the suspected ADD/ADHD or other related problem, but we do often find neurological imbalaces in the person combined with marked nutritional imbalances which LOOK like a learning disability, but are actually something very different.
We also work with women going through menopause, needing help with osteoporosis, or looking for simple, safe, effective ways to increase their level of health and fitness through stress management, nutrition and weight management.
- The Heart of Natural Healing
"Where there is no vision, the people parish." Our vision is for optimal physical, mental and emotional health, not through drugs or surgery, but through natural means wherever possible.
Please contact us for more information. We believe that a major part of our mission and our responsiblity to you is to inform you of your health options, but if you have let those options be taken from you, then you lose everything. We suggest you stand up and fight for your rights, as we are doing - together we can turn the tide and preserve your precious health freedoms.
This is a core foundational principle of our work and our approach to helping you restore your own health:
Your life is a sacred gift and deserves to be respected. What you respect, you will protect, and that means that your health must come first. It is because of your health that you can do everything else, work, play, travel, enjoy your friends and family, so because everything comes from your health, your health must come first. Again, what you love and respect, you will protect. That is our approach to working with you, and it needs to be your approach to working with us.
There are a few crucial barriers to healing which we need to discuss very openly with you because we want you to clearly understand our approach to working with you to optimize your success in healing:
1. ACCURATE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION: We base our work on proven, safe, and effective researched scientific prinicples and testing. Without the correct knowledge and understanding of your personal state of health, and your treatment options in alternative health care, your recovery will be needlessly confused and limited, and you may not recover your heatlh as you wish to.
2. PERSONAL COMMITTMENT: We give you our personal and professional commmittment 100% to help you, but without your complete dedication and committment to healing, your recovery may become confused and restricted, and you may not restore your health as you hoped to.
3. ATTITUDE: Our attitude is consistently that we work for your actual healing, that is, to help you in repair and regeneration of the cells, tissues and organs which have broken down and failed to function properly and have not responded well to other types of health care. Your attitude must reflect those same values and goals, otherwise your program here won't work very well, and your healing will become confused and limited and won't proceed as you wanted it to.
4. MONEY: Health problems are never convenient, or fun, or exciting or enjoyable. Health breaks down because your body has stopped working properly, sometimes due to illness, or injuries, sometimes due to internal imbalances and poor lifestyle choices and habits. Whatever the underlying cause or causes, when you come to us for help and advice, we pledge 100% of our skills and training to assist you, to do everything we possibly can to help you heal, but you must work with us as a full partner and participant in your recovery, and your health care is not free.
It may sound odd to you, but we are compelled to discuss this frankly with you. It is very unfortunate that your health has broken down, but your health belongs to you, it is your personal responsiblity, and so is working with us and paying for the services which we provide when you receive them.
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"GET YOUR LIFE BACK" HEALTH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
We have created a truly unique and powerful, comprehensive approach to your health. This is a natural, integrated approach to restoring your health, using optimal weight balance and management and fitness based on cleansing, detoxification, healing and regeneration including:
1. PERSONAL HEALTH EMPOWERMENT: learning what to do and how to do it for lasting results and long term success
2. Optimal nutrition
3. Neurological rebalancing and reintegration
4. Stress reduction/stress management
5. Body detoxification and cleansing for optimal healing
6. Enhancement of nutrient absorption and utilization
7. Simple, safe, effective low force exercises for maximum fitness
8. Healthy lifestyle counseling programs
9. Wellness and preventive health options
This is an innovative, exciting, science-based and research-based program which produces REAL RESULTS for REAL PEOPLE just like you and your family. It includes a sensible guide to the master health control systems of:
a) neurological balance
b) nutritional balance
c) stress management
d) fitness, optimal energy and ratio of lean muscle mass
e) wellness, preventive lifestyle programs
This program is tailored to your individual, unique needs, based on your consultations and examinations with the doctor. Our doctor has been in the health care field all his life, and dedicates his training, skills, and experience to helping you identify and correct your health imbalances, no matter how long you have had them, or how serious they may be.
For more infomration contact us at:
ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CONCEPTS/Dr. James R. Bowman, MD, DC, ND, NCH
2821 Post Road, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481 tel 715.341.4949
PLEASE NOTE: We consult with other physicians throughout the United States as well as foreign countries, and we work with many patients from far distances. If you have read the information here on our website and have questions or feel we may be of assistance to you or someone you care about, please feel free to contact us at the address above.
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TOXIC DENTISTRY ? Something to Know About
There is reliable scientific information to question the safety of mercury amalgum fillings most of us have in our teeth. Mercury is a really toxic, heavy metal and special steps must be taken when anyone is exposed to it, yet it is still used commonly in dental work.
Some researchers believe that there are toxic overloads to our bodies, especially our immune systems, from mercury. They believe that many serious health problems can result from mercury exposure through dental services.
We have information which may be of interest to you and may help you make a more informed and appropriate decision when looking for help with serious or chronic health problems. We also have information about two dentists in Wisconsin who practice a more natural, holistic form of dental care, and who can remove your mercury fillings and replace them with safer fillings.
If you want more information on this contact us or:
1. Dr. Tom A. Hebert (pronounced " A BEAR ") at 715.835.0606
2. Dr. Van Gorden 715.834.8161
- Natural Healing in the News
Medication Alternatives
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Use of Hypnosis and Neurotherapy in Treating AD/HD
According to current research, use of hypnosis and neurotherapy (EEG feedback, neurofeedback)is showing promise as an alternative approach to medication in dealing with AD/HD.
The use of psychostimulant drugs has been the traditional main mode of treatment for children and adults with AD/HD. But the use of these types of drugs are not without their usual side effects. According to research published in CHILD STUDY JOURNAL, side effects and limitations of the drugs can include:
- stunting of growth
- insomnia
- poor eating
- cardiovascular problems
- potential development of Tourette's Syndrome
- cognitive (thinking and learning impairment with high doses)
Research shows that use of Ritalin for AD/HD has increased over 54% over the past ten years.
Canadian research claims that use of "neurofeedback" alone shows a success rate of over 80%. Research also shows that children with AD/HD show more "relaxing and sleeping" (theta) brain waves than the kind necessary for concentrating and focusing (beta). In use of neurofeedback for the disorder, children use high-tech computers and an electroencephalograph machine to naturally increase "beta" wave activity. A 1996 California study found that neurofeedback treatment "reduced inattentive behaviors among children with AD/HD while increasing IQ averages by 10 points.
In another study conducted using both hypnosis and neurotherapy with boys (all of who had used medication and most of who were in special classes for the disorder),three-quarters of the boys tested showed improved attentiveness and improved school and behavior grades. The research is still ongoing, but results look promising.
REFERENCES:
-("Treating ADHD with Hypnosis and and Neurotherapy" CHILD STUDY JOURNAL,2000 VOL.30, ISSUE 1)
-("A Brainwave Fix for ADD" NEWS MAGAZINE (Alberta Addition) 11/06/200 VOL. 27, ISSUE 13)
(Latest on Ritalin)
RITALIN ABUSE
Abuse of Ritalin in children and adults is on the rise. There is growing evidence that it is possible for children and adults alike to become hooked on the "caffeine-like buzz" and consequent illegal buying and consumption of the drug is being reported around the U.S. According to CURRICULUM REVIEW, a recent survey in Massachusetts uncovered that 13 percent of secondary school students and 4 percent of middle schoolers had taken Ritalin without a prescription, while in Wisconsin and Minnesota, a third of students prescribed attention-deficit drugs were found to have been approached to sell or trade pills. (The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that between 1990 and 1997, Ritalin production has increased 650%)
The MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINAL reported that instances of buying and selling are becoming serious enough that 26 states have established a centralized tracking sytem to identify potential abusers.
-("Schools Battle Illicit Ritalin Trade" CURRICULUM REVIEW Feb. 2001, VOL.40,ISSUE 6)
-("Ritalin high attracts adults in Wisconsin" MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, Feb.
2, 2001)
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Water & Health: Why Hydration makes all the difference in Healing
If we have given you this handout, it is because we have evidence that your health issues involve certain internal metabolic imbalances which are negatively influenced by improper water function in your body. In theory, when you drink 10 ounces of water it enters the body and does it’s work in bringing water and nutrients to each of the 70,000,000,000, (seventy trillion) cells of your body, and when it leaves the cells it removes metabolic waste products and toxins which are transported by your blood to the kidneys and liver to be filtered out and eliminated. But often we find that if you are: 1) overly acidic, or 2) toxic, or 3) both acid and toxic, the water you are drinking enters the body when you drink, but doesn’t enter the cells as it should. The result? Your nutrients don’t get into the cells, the cells dysfunction, become weak and damaged, and their internal cellular waste products do not get flushed out, but remain in the body, making you more acid, more toxic and more ill. If you are acid or toxic, these chemical imbalances make it much more difficult for water molecules to cross the cellular membrane and enter the cells properly. Instead of entering the cells normally, the water bypasses the cells, goes between them, but does very little to bring in nutrients or flush out toxins. In such cases we have found that supplementing yourself with STRUCTURED WATER (*) can make all the difference in restoring much more normalcy and balance to your cells and your body chemistry.
Below are illustrations of how water performs in healthy cells
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(1), and I cells which resist water entering into them properly
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(2): Water enters cells, brings in nutrients, flushes toxins out. Cells work normally, remain healthy Water cannot enter cells. It bypasses cells, toxins accumulate. Cellular/organ weakness and damage result, health breaks down, body begins to fail
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It is said that we are ‘fearfully and wonderfully made...’
70,000,000,000 (70 trillion) = the number of individual cells in our bodies. The cells become organs and systems and sustain our life.
Pretty amazing.
But what holds things together? What maintains and sustains our good health? What helps ward off and prevent illness and breakdown of health?
Ah, now that’s the question! Like all living things, we humans need certain basic necessities to maintain our health and our lives. With these critical things, we remain healthy, without them we don’t - simple as that. Our gift of life and health is precious, priceless, something to be deeply acknowledged. Internal balance is the key to everything .
What we respect, we will protect. We need to protect our health. How? By learning about it. By taking a lithe time to learn what our health really is, what kinds of things damage or compromise it, and how it can be rebuilt again, restored protected and preserved.
The picture here is a simple diagram of what we look like inside.
Our major organs and systems are shown with their vascular and neurological connection to one another and to us as a whole person.
We have many individual organs and systems inside, yet each is interconnected and inter-dependent, nothing operates all by itself, it needs the balanced function of everything else to remain healthy itself and promote the proper health and balance of the whole.
American medicine is basically mechanical in its understanding of health. Example: Your heart has problems, they treat your heart. Makes sense, but what about all the rest of your body that depends on healthy, normal heart function? They skip that until those other organs react and start to break down, then they treat them.
We are not just a bunch of cells and organs, we are whole beings. That is why I am so grateful for my European medical and science training, because, unlike American medical schools, European schools see health in a very different way as a whole, not as fragments parts, like a car that has broken down.
If I lightly pull your little finger I can move your whole arm right up to the shoulder. If I grip your pinkie a little more and pull a little harder I can move your whole body.
Why? Because everything is interconnected. That seems so basic and logical as to be goofy that people don’t get it, but sadly they don’t.
Simple logic has been programmed out of us. To get our lives and our health back we need to think, to reason, to understand.
We can help. I have an extensive background in both research and teaching, as well as writing about health issues.
If you have limited or no real knowledge about something then you have no options, no choices, you are the powerless victim.
But if you understand your health and how to work with it to optimize it, you have many more options and choices, you are empowered.
That’s what we want. Please ask for more information. One of our most critical services is to teach you about your health and how to rebuild and protect it.
Alternative Health Concepts James R. Bowman, ND, DNHC, DCP, FAAIM
and Staff
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After reading this information you may suffer “sticker shock, elevated blood pressure, anger, and a strong desire to smack someone in the drug industry or the FDA:” You are reacting normally to being exploited.
As a college student I worked in a “discount pharmacy.” This meant we were selling Rx drugs at “discounted prices,” at least that’s what we wanted the community and our customers to think...Ha Ha My job was to assist the pharmacist in his work, but also check in all drug deliveries each day.
One of our biggest sellers was Ortho-Novum oral birth control pills. The suggested manufacturer’s retail price was $26.00 for a one month supply. We sold them at a “discount” for $19.00 and people loved us - but the truth I saw on the invoices when I was checking in the drugs was this:
We paid $1.25 per package for them!
If the drug companies sold them to us for $1.25 each, and we charged $19.00 each, then we were making an outrageous profit and lying about it to the customers. And think what It must have cost the drug company to manufacturer these if we only paid $1.25 and the drug company was making a ton of money, too.
Our point? Beware, be well informed about the power, politics and money of “health care” and drug companies in America. YOL might want to check out this website, It has a lot of information about the subject of fraud and abuse of everyday citizens like you and me by the FDA, the drug companies, and others who want to control your health for their own purposes:
www.bolenreport.net
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone I knew should know about this. Please read the following and pass it on. It pays to shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can afford to put a Walgreens on every corner.
On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for channel 7 News in Detroit, did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. Yes, that’s not a typo, three thousand percent! So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this ease, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves. For example, if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for l00 pills. The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you are “saving” $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10.
At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.
I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience, I had to use the drug, Compazine, which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients. I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have gotten 150 at Costco for $28.08. I would like to mention that, although Costco is a “membership” type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally regulated substance. Patients just tell them at the door that they wish to use the pharmacy, and they are welcomed in.
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug com¬pany for the active ingredient in prescription medica¬tions? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries.
In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America.
The chart below speaks for itself.
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Drug |
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Celebrex 100 mg |
$130.27 |
$.060 |
21,712% | |
Claritin 10 mg |
$215.17 |
$0.71 | 3,306% | |
Keflex 250 mg
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$157.39 |
$1.88 | 8,372% | |
Lipitor 20 mg
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$272.37 | $5.80 | 4,696% | |
Norvasc 10 mg
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$188.29 | $0.14 | 134,493% | |
Paxil 20 mg |
$220.27 | $7.60 | 2,898% | Prevacid 30mg
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$44.77 | $1.01 | 34,136% | Prilosec 20mg
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$360.97 | $0.52 | 69,417% | Prozac 20mg
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$$247.47 | $0.11 | 224,973% | |
Tenormin 50mg
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$104.47 | $0.13 | 80,362% | |
Vasotec 10mg
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$102.37 | $0.20 | 51,185% | |
Xanax 1mg
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$36.79 | $0.024 | 569,958% | |
Zestril 20mg
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$89.89 | $3.20 | 2,809% | |
Zithromax 600mg
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$1,482.19 | $18.78 | 7,892% | |
Zocor 40mg
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$350.27 | $8.63 | 4,059% | |
Zoloft 50mg
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$206.87 | $1.75 | 11,821% |
Remember that an apple costs almost nothing until it is picked and packaged.
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......92%,.....88%... Where Are YOU in the Mix?
We ask: “Got health?” That’s an even more important question, and unless the answer is a big, strong YES!, now is the time to get it. . . Your health belongs to you, no one else; what you choose determines what you get out of it - choose wisely... for your health’s sake, now and beyond tomorrow.
Where does health come from? From life. Life is a precious gift, given freely to us, but with the gift come the responsibilities of learning about it, understanding it, protecting and preserving it.
What you respect, you will protect. If you respect yourself and your health, you will take care of them and they will in turn take care of you. If you neglect them, you will lose them. Kind of like dentistry: “Ignore your teeth, and they will go away.” Same with your health.
So what is 92% and 88%? Those are the research findings from scientists regarding health, fitness, stress, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and every other health problem in the world. Researchers have found that 92% of all people who own exercise equipment don’t use it. And 88% of all people who own fitness club memberships don’t use them.
In other words, 92% and 88% respectively ignore what they need to do every single day, to get well, to stay well. It’s your choice, 100%, you have free will, you can do what you want, but at a price...
Doing the simple, right things in lifestyle build health, not doing them breaks health down - which do you want? Are you sure? Then prove it’ You can find 10,000 excuses not to do what you need to do, but they are just that, excuses, empty and broken promises you made to yourself and then abandoned.
We can help, we can help you become your better self - we can be your advocates, your coaches, your partners, your assistants, your technical advisors for health, that’s what we do, but it is something we do WiTH you, not for you, not to you, but WITH YOU is the only way it works.
So, when you go home tonight, after your days busy activities, take a look in the mirror, a real look, an honest look - and if you see someone who needs to make some changes for the better, see us. We are experts in time-stress-and-health management. You may be amazed and pleased with what a little natural health care and lifestyle change can mean to you, and those who love and care about you.
In health & healing,
James R. Bowman, ND, DNHC & Staff
Alternative Health Concepts
715.341.4949
“Got milk?” is a very simple question. It implies that you SHOULD have milk, that it’s important in your life.
We ask you to ask yourself: 'Got health?' If the answer is not what you would want, you might want to have a consultation with us to discuss your health and simple, natural ways to improve it.
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Please ask for more information to regain and maintain excellent health it is absolutely critical that you achieve a state of healthy internal acid balance (pH), and release toxins as your body is designed to do to rebuild your health, get well and stay well.
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