tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42505514240152211542024-03-10T20:24:14.777-07:00QuasiVeganI just slap stuff on this blog and hope that people will think for themselves. With all the obvious genetic differences between humans, why would anyone think we are all the same on the inside?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-13182577958643293592013-08-19T10:00:00.002-07:002013-09-05T16:39:30.945-07:00The truth is better than a lie in the long haul of helping animalsI believe that it's a sorry idea to help animals using these tactics:<br />
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<li>showing horrendous films of slaughter</li>
<li>scaring the people with the fear of heart disease</li>
<li>promising people with glorious health </li>
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Why? Because it's the fear and carrot dangling tactics employed by religion. Religion sucks. (Buddhism is not a religion!)<br />
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And the last two points are lies (see links at the bottom).<br />
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Most people, or anyone I'd like to know, reject fear tactics at some point in their life.<br />
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Plus, when <i>some</i> individuals experience health issues from some version of a vegan diet such as hair loss, tooth decay, and depression (which I feel is the worst of all), they are likely to never come back to a vegan diet or anything close.<br />
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Depression affects so many things, so being depressed can be excruciating all by itself, even if you don't get cavities, hair loss, or other health issues.<br />
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I believe that if you want a lot of people to reduce animal product consumption, appeal to the hearts of humans with the truth in a matter of fact way or pleasant way:<br />
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<li>Show cute pictures of pigs, cows, chickens (especially chickens) with messages like:<br />Image of Chicks, Piglets, and Kittens (cute explosion)<br />I love animals so I am exploring more meat free options these days.<br /><i> — Some person</i></li>
<li>Explain that there is no one-size-fits all diet for anyone, we are all different inside.</li>
<li>Encourage experimenting with your current diet to reduce meat, dairy, eggs as much as you can without affecting your health and adding more dark leafy greens.</li>
<li>Talk about how being purest & holier-than-thou is not good for animals or gaining friends.</li>
<li>Use coconut fat (1-2 tbs a day).</li>
<li>Remove sugar and fake sugar*.</li>
<li>Don't use the word vegan or vegetarian, use the term "animal friendly lifestyle".</li>
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<i>Removing sugar actually will reduce heart disease risk.</i><br />
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<b>Learn about sugar and the great cholesterol con.</b><br />
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526204953.htm<br />
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http://www.alternet.org/story/78554/the_bad_science_that_created_the_cholesterol_con<br />
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http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/cholesterol-facts-vs-myths<br />
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Haven't
had a cavity since I was 12 ( and I suspect that was not a cavity...
and I am now 40). However, since being totally clean gluten-free, very
low fat vegan for the past 18 months, just had my dental check up and
had SIX cavities!!!!!!!!!! What the heck?!!!!!!! I find this all very
interesting. I guess I need to add olive oil back? What about oil
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you want to stop the tooth decay, seriously take K2 and D3 (d3 is not
vegan usually). These will improve your teeth significantly along with
saturated fat which I would take at the same time. DEFINITELY eat
saturated fat in the form of coconut fat. 1 tablespoon a day I what I
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Also increasing phosphorous while you do the above.<br />
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http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/high-phosphorus-foods.php<br />
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Teeth
are not as strong as bones, imagine what a low fat vegan diet does to
bones! I eat a vegan diet with saturated fat, no sugar. Brush with
baking soda. Make sure you don't drink just fruit juice, you eat the
actual fruit with the fiber.<br />
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http://www.vitacost.com/natures-plus-source-of-life-garden-vitamin-k2-60-vegetarian-capsules-4<br />
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<b>High fat way to end decay</b><br /><br />Aug 21 2003<br /><br />For years we've been told fat is bad for us, but now scientists say it could save you a trip to the dentist by helping fight tooth decay.<br /><br />By Anastasia Stephens<br /><br />link to article (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13316397_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-High-fat-way-to-end-decay-name_page.html)<br /><br />THE Atkins diet claims you can eat all the fat you want and still lose weight, and now scientists claim grease could prevent tooth decay.<br /><br />According to a paper published in the dental journal Caries Research, fat and oils can actually strengthen teeth by protecting against demineralisation.<br /><br />In the study, some teeth were dipped in olive oil or plain water before being placed in the sort of acid conditions that cause tooth decay.<br /><br />The teeth coated in oil were significantly protected from demineralisation and cavity formation.<br /><br />Dr Wolfgang Buchalla of Georg-August University in Gottingen, Germany, who conducted the research, says: "We found that fats significantly reduce tooth demineralisation, while studies on animals have found that incorporating five per cent of oil in a caries-forming diet can reduce tooth decay."<br /><br />Caries-forming diets are typically weight-loss regimes which are high in carbohydrates but low in fat.<br /><br />Bacteria in the mouth quickly turn foods such as bread, crisps, potatoes or sugar to acid, which can remain in the mouth for hours, dissolving minerals from teeth. Animal fats such as those in butter and cheese, and plant oils such as olive oil are thought to work by neutralising acid as well as placing a protective film over the teeth, to prevent erosion.<br /><br />The findings mean that eating oily fish and nuts, cheese or salad dressed in oils throughout the day could protect against the tooth-weakening effect of carbohydrates and sweets.<br /><br />"Foods rich in starch and sugar but low in fat are especially dangerous," says Dr Maria Rodriguez, Professor of Dentistry at the University of Madrid, who is researching the effects of oils on teeth. Eating low-fat crisps and rice crackers as snacks is as bad as eating sugary foods or chocolate regularly, as they make the saliva dramatically more acid for long periods of time.<br /><br />However, if you balance carbs with fat or protein - for example by eating an egg on toast or chicken with potatoes - you will not be damaging teeth because the fat exerts a protective effect. If you eat a sugary dessert, you can prevent any damage it might do to teeth by finishing off with some cheese.<br /><br />Ultimately, the best diet for teeth is one that's low in carbs and sugar and high in fat and protein. While that sounds unhealthy, it isn't. The fat and protein should come from olive oil, fish, cheese and nuts. And by adding 'neutral' foods such as vegetables, you have a very healthy diet for your body and your teeth.<br /><br />So far, research has focused on olive oil after it was noticed residents of Spanish towns which make olive oil have abnormally low levels of tooth decay and gum disease.<br /><br />"Studies subsequently revealed that olive oil works internally and externally to protect teeth," explains Dr Rodriguez.<br /><br />"Apart from lowering acidity, olive oil attaches to bacteria and washes them away. Then, when you swallow olive oil, its high levels of oleic acid and vitamin A promote bone and tooth mineralisation, strengthening your teeth and jaw," she says.<br /><br />Olive oil is proving so effective at keeping teeth strong, it has been incorporated into a brand of toothpaste, Airlift, which is sold in Boots.<br /><br />And Dr Rodriguez believes other toothpaste makers will soon follow suit. She says: "Because of the benefits, it wouldn't surprise me if in five or 10 years most major toothpaste brands include some sort of fat or oil."<br /><br />The British Dental Association welcomes the findings. "Research into the effect of fats on teeth is just beginning and it seems promising," says a spokesman. "However, fluoride is still the best way of keeping teeth strong."<br /><br />Be kind to your teeth<br /><br />According to the food experts there are acid-forming types which weaken teeth, neutrals foods and those that actively fight tooth decay. So which foods should you eat and which should you avoid?<br /><br />Top acid-formers<br /><br />Grapes, sweet nuts such as cashews and almonds, crackers, milk chocolate, crisps, white bread.<br /><br />Neutrals<br /><br />Cauliflower, cucumber, carrots, meat, fish, ham, walnuts and Brazil nuts, unsweetened popcorn.<br /><br />Top tooth-friendlies<br /><br />Olive oil and other vegetable oils, butter, cheese.</div>
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Do it! <br />
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Even when I ate pork chops for dinner, I never ate sea animals. I think shrimp is just nasty, lobster is a relative of a cockroach, and I am just plain grossed out by juices of the fish, or oil of the fish, so I really am happy that this DHA oil from Algae is available. I stocked up and keep it in the fridge.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-44442607587962075662013-08-14T09:16:00.002-07:002013-08-14T09:16:50.628-07:00Saturated Fat and More Protein Turned Her Failing Vegan Diet Aroundhttp://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2013/01/facing-failing-health-on-a-vegan-diet/<br />
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This low fat craze is fucked up. Psychology today had an article awhile back about how low cholesterol and low fat can make you depressed, do you really think that was aimed at just vegans? <br />
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I love my coconut fat! <br />
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200304/the-risks-low-fat-dietsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-52188565687750846472012-08-31T11:13:00.011-07:002012-08-31T13:15:17.105-07:00Thinking of giving up your vegan diet?I have been a vegan, quasi if you want to nitpick 2 eggs a year on average for the past few years, for 7 years now. I have no reason to change as this diet works well for me and it helps me put in to action my empathy for my fellow beings. Plus, I don't have a craving for meat, dairy, or eggs. If I did have a craving, I would eat. However, because of my feelings for animals and I dig nutrition, I'd figure out why and how I could avoid it, if possible, (such as take a taurine supplement, increase my protein, add more fat, or whatever). But that's me.<br /><br />Cravings are important to listen to. When I was pregnant, I was a vegetarian, but mostly a cheesatarian. Prior to pregnancy, I didn't eat eggs too often. When I was pregnant, I craved eggs and ate 8 per day. Nice sentence. Later I found out that eggs have some very important nutrients for the developing brain: ARA and choline.<br /><br />My honor roll (;-) daughter, whom I don't insist, pressure, or otherwise cajole into becoming a vegan, loves eggs and cheese. The main reason I don't bother is that it's a form of violence to force one's own individual ethics and/or religion onto others. They will sooner or later rebel and resent it and you.<br /><br />Let's look at religion for a moment. Drugs, alcohol, sex, etc., when these things seen as "forbidden" then many people (those who don't understand why with an accompanying spiritual or inner belief that is not mere lip service) will eventually indulge or even worse, such as the murder and rape of women when a zealot bunch of assholes tell them that women should be covered from head to toe and if they are not, it's okay to rape, beat, and murder them because they were asking for it. Yes, indeed, it's pretty nasty and has nothing to do with Islam. BTW, purdah was an early Byzantine Christian custom for upper class women. Long story.<br /><br />Anyway, religion, when incorrectly understood, doesn't unite, it divides and it promotes self incrimination in the form of guilt and shame and worse. Sometimes that guilt and shame is directed outwards and it harms other people too. Vegan-ISM is no different in some respects because when wrongly followed it can turn people inclined that way toward zealotry, judgementalness, cliquishness, and all kinds of ego trips. Animals do not benefit from holier than thou-ness.<br /><br />Back to the health stuff...<br /><br />I have met ex-vegans either in person or online and have found common health issues that could, possibly, be addressed for many people (providing they don't have a genetic need for some cholesterol <a href="http://letthemeatmeat.com/post/20896431565/quasivegans-christina-arasmo-beymer-discusses-her">see my interview at Let Them Eat Meat</a> or can't convert RAEs to vitamin A sufficiently — yep, folks, some people just can't eat carrots and make adequate enough levels of A for <i>their</i> needs).<br /><br />How to, possibly, address cravings or feeling tired, brain foggy on the vegan diet?<br /><br /><ul><li>Drop the low fat mantra and go for the middle path.</li><li>Increase your saturated fat in the form of coconut oil*. </li><li>Cook your veggies with this fat to increase your absorption of the vitamins and minerals.</li><li>Lay off alcohol, sugar, and splenda so you don't screw up your beneficial gut microbes.</li><li>Increase your absorption of the nutrients in your food by increasing your <a href="http://store.ourhealthcoop.com/Pancreatic-Enzymes-p/pev.htm">pancreatic enzymes<br /></a></li><li>Increase your absorption of the nutrients in food: take some broad spectrum probiotics and rotate them every month with different brands and strains</li><li>Read and apply <a href="http://www.veganoutreach.org/veganforlife.html">Vegan for Life's</a> guidelines (for the most part)<br /></li><li>Read and follow Jack Norris' <a href="http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/protein#comp">increased protein</a> recommendations</li><li>Add <a href="http://www.amazon.com/NatureS-Plus-Source-Garden-Vitamin/product-reviews/B0042DDP44/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1">D3</a> or make sure you are getting good levels natural sunshine. (Read the comments on that link, they are helpful!)<br /></li><li>Add <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Source-Of-Life-Garden-Vitamin/dp/B0042DEYEO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346439469&sr=8-1&keywords=vegan+k2">K2 (MK-7)</a> to your supplements or start eating natto.</li><li>Understand that everyone has individual dispositions. Each person's ability to absorb and convert vary. We are not all the same inside. Read this <a href="http://letthemeatmeat.com/post/20896431565/quasivegans-christina-arasmo-beymer-discusses-her">article</a> about that.</li><li>Add iodized salt and check your thyroid. Take safe levels of bioavailable <a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/SWU171/ItemDetail">selenium</a>. If you get your iodine from sea veggies, check to see that they do have it, many organic brands are not grown in the ocean water and don't. And I don't blame them, many toxins in the ocean these days. Note on the selenium, I have not found the SeMSC selenium in a veg cap, I bought empty v-caps and stick stuff in that.</li><li>Take a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-Alpha-Vegetarian-Capsules/dp/B0013OQEHU/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1346443156&sr=1-2&keywords=Vegan+choline">choline</a> supplement.<br /></li></ul><p>*As for the human feces that fat (saturated), meat, dairy, or eggs are harmful to your biological heart due to LDL cholesterol, that is simply not true. If you really love animals and your motivation for eating vegan is based on love and not ethics, I feel, then it's likely bad for your heart of hearts if you go against your own conscious, but that's a different story.</p><p> As for LDL cholesterol: It's sugar and stress that are the culprits here.</p><p>Sugar or fructose, separated from the fruit, manufactures the sticky MGmin-LDL cholesterol. <i>The addition of sugar groups to ‘normal’ LDL making LDL smaller and denser. The sugar groups expose new regions on the surface of the LDL. These exposed regions are more likely to stick to artery walls, helping to build fatty plaques. As fatty plaques grow they narrow arteries — reducing blood flow — and they can eventually rupture, triggering a blood clot that causes a heart attack or stroke.</i> (<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526204953.htm">Research</a> and where I copied and pasted from.)<br /><br />Oh we’ve been severely misinformed that LDL cholesterol is bad. It isn’t. There’s a light buoyant kind of LDL, it’s harmless, and then there’s the sticky crap from sugar. They are not measured separately. The only way to see your risk for heart disease is not your LDL cholesterol levels but your triglycerides.<br /><br />You will still find a lot misinformation in the vegan world as well as other places. Really, the only decent nutritional information out there regarding how horrible sugar is either in the latest nutrition research and some paleo blogs.<br /><br />Check these out:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM">Sugar: The Bitter Truth (What is responsible for heart disease? Sugar.)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526204953.htm">Super-Sticky 'Ultra-Bad' Cholesterol Revealed in People at High Risk of Heart Disease - SUGAR</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxG3YiBMMZE">Is sugar toxic 60 minutes 1 April 2012</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-9508715125288054512012-05-20T14:01:00.000-07:002012-05-20T14:02:10.842-07:00Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps FailingRead this VERY, very informative article in Newsweek this month:<br /><br />There is an alternative theory, one that has also been around for decades but that the establishment has largely ignored. This theory implicates specific foods—refined sugars and grains—because of their effect on the hormone insulin, which regulates fat accumulation. If this hormonal-defect hypothesis is true, not all calories are created equal, as the conventional wisdom holds. And if it is true, the problem is not only controlling our impulses, but also changing the entire American food economy and rewriting our beliefs about what constitutes a healthy diet.<br /><br />Oddly, this nutrient-hormone-fat interaction is not particularly controversial. You can find it in medical textbooks as the explanation for why our fat cells get fat. But the anti-obesity establishment doesn’t take the next step: that fat fat cells lead to fat humans. In their eyes, yes, insulin regulates how much fat gets trapped in your fat cells, and the kinds of carbohydrates we eat today pretty much drive up your insulin levels. But, they conclude, while individual cells get fat that way, the reason an entire human gets fat has nothing to do with it. We’re just eating too much.<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-the-campaign-to-stop-america-s-obesity-crisis-keeps-failing.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-21763596604042967792012-05-03T07:51:00.000-07:002012-05-03T07:51:01.350-07:00I'm not going to blog for a while, but I am posting stuff you might be interested in at my facebook LDN page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lowdosenaltrexone/notes">https://www.facebook.com/lowdosenaltrexone/notes</a><br />
<br />This is the only thing I can keep up with and I'm still behind on it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-35042289119555601262012-04-27T07:43:00.004-07:002012-04-27T07:43:45.056-07:00What Is Good Brain Food?<a href="http://www.source-omega.com/shop/omega-3--122.htm">http://www.source-omega.com/shop/omega-3--122.htm</a> - vegan DHA. It's where fish get their DHA. Fish are purchasing it left and right.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200310/what-is-good-brain-food">http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200310/what-is-good-brain-food</a><br />
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The health of your brain depends not only on how much (or little) fat
you eat but on what kind it is. Intellectual performance requires the
specific type of fat found most commonly in fish, known as <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/omega-3" title="Psychology Today looks at Omega-3">omega-3</a> fatty acids. Even diets that adhere to commonly recommended levels of fats, but the wrong kind, can undermine <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/intelligence" title="Psychology Today looks at Intelligence">intelligence</a>.
What makes this finding awkward is that certain oils widely touted as
healthy for the heart are especially troublesome for the mind.<br />
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Omega-3s are known to be particularly crucial constituents of the
outer membrane of brain cells. It is through the fat-rich cell membrane
that all nerve signals must pass. In addition, as learning and memory
forge new connections between nerve cells, new membranes must be formed
to sheathe them. All brain cell membranes continuously need to refresh
themselves with a new supply of fatty acids. A growing amount of
research suggests that the omega-3s are best suited for optimal brain
function.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-21674822628030376922012-04-26T14:18:00.004-07:002012-04-26T14:29:26.635-07:00Natalie Portman Sexy Pregnant Ex-VeganI'm dying from a load of work, but I had to post this.<br />
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I recently learned that Natalie Portman recently started eating eggs and dairy because she craved them during pregnancy.<b> Good! </b><i>(Update: I found out that she has had her baby. I don't keep up with celebrity news. Don't give a hoot. But anyway, this post is still relevant.</i><b>)</b><br />
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Apparently it's not uncommon for <a href="http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showthread.php?28439-pregnant-and-craving-eggs">vegans to crave eggs during pregnancy</a>. The forum women assume that it's a craving for protein. They suggest to you eat more tofu scramble with sulfur salt and nutritional yeast. Since I craved eggs during pregnancy (when I was ovo-lacto), I think that it's more than just simply protein. I ate eight eggs a day and couldn't get enough of them. Prior to pregnancy, I didn't eat eggs all that often.<br />
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<u>What is it with eggs that would benefit a growing brain and body inside your body?</u><br />
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<b>Arachidonic acid</b> is one of the most abundant fatty acids in the brain, and is present in similar quantities to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The two account for approximately 20% of its fatty acid content.[12] Like DHA, neurological health is reliant upon sufficient levels of arachidonic acid. Among other things, arachidonic acid helps to maintain hippocampal cell membrane fluidity.[13] It also helps protect the brain from oxidative stress by activating peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma.[14] ARA also activates syntaxin-3 (STX-3), a protein involved in the growth and repair of neurons.[15] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachidonic_acid">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachidonic_acid</a> </blockquote>
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<b>Choline. </b><i>I think this helped the pregnancy induced brain fog that I had. Brain food to the max! You're growing a brain in your womb!</i><br />
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Choline and its <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolites" title="Metabolites">metabolites</a> are needed for three main <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology" title="Physiology">physiological</a> purposes: structural integrity and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_signaling" title="Cell signaling">signaling</a> roles for cell membranes, cholinergic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmission" title="Neurotransmission">neurotransmission</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcholine" title="Acetylcholine">acetylcholine</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis" title="Protein biosynthesis">synthesis</a>), and a major source for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_group" title="Methyl group">methyl groups</a> via its metabolite, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylglycine" title="Trimethylglycine">trimethylglycine</a> (betaine) which participates in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-adenosylmethionine" title="S-adenosylmethionine">S-adenosylmethionine</a> (SAMe) synthesis <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_pathway" title="Metabolic pathway">pathways</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"></sup><br />
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Choline deficiency signs<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most common signs of choline deficiencies are fatty liver and
hemorrhagic kidney necrosis. Dietary intake of a choline full diet can
reduce the severity of the deficiency. A study of this on animals has
created some controversy due to the inconsistency in dietary modifying
factors.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline#cite_note-8"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline</a></sup></h4>
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<b>Cholesterol. </b><i>This NUTRIENT might be something both you and your baby requires. </i> This research found a significant correlation between decrease in cholesterol and depressive symptoms postpartum that remained even after adjustment for progesterone concentration. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2351987/">Source. </a></blockquote>
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<b>DHA.</b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_%28food%29"> Eggs</a> produced by hens fed a diet of greens and insects contain higher levels of n−3 fatty acids than those produced by chickens fed corn or soybeans.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#cite_note-121">[122]</a> In addition to feeding chickens insects and greens, fish oils may be added to their diets to increase the n-3 fatty acid concentrations in eggs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#cite_note-trebunov.C3.A12007-122">[123]</a><br />
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The addition of flax and canola seeds to the diets of chickens, both good sources of alpha-linolenic acid, increases the omega-3 content of the eggs, predominantly DHA.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#cite_note-123">[124]</a><br />
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The addition of green algae or seaweed to the diets boosts the content of DHA and EPA content, which are the forms of omega-3 approved by the FDA for medical claims. A common consumer complaint is "Omega-3 eggs can sometimes have a fishy taste if the hens are fed marine oils."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#cite_note-124">[125]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#Eggs%20"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#Eggs </a></blockquote>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-36930486840277001932012-04-20T15:37:00.005-07:002012-04-20T18:27:11.776-07:00So I'm finally watching Vegucated<span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I like the documentary for entertainment value. </span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br />I think T. Colin Campbell would be better off following Fuhrman's recipes, which looked like they were loaded with fat. Fuhrman's patients must be really unhealthy ;-) One recipe was loaded with macadamia nuts. I am getting Fuhrman's book today for the recipes. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">A few weeks ago, I blended pre-soaked macadamia nuts, basil, lemon juice, onions, garlic and nutritional yeast and slapped it on top of some quinoa noodles topped with garlic marinara sauce. Holy shit! This was a modified recipe by Alison "Awesome chef" </span>Rivers Samson<span style="font-size: 100%;"> I found online. She's also created this recipe for </span>macaroni<span style="font-size: 100%;"> and cheese which uses potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, cashews, lemon juice, and dijon mustard. Honestly, she's a genius! Next time, I'm going to remove the </span>potatoes<span style="font-size: 100%;"> and use more nuts.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div>>>Update. I'm trying to find the recipes in the movie. I don't think they are in his Eat to Live book. </div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Also regarding <span style="font-size: 100%; ">T. Colin Campbell, I </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">would like to sneak in about 2 tablespoons of coconut fat into his daily diet along with a drive by squirting of my DHA algae oil into his mouth. Oh, the nastiness I think of!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">And Good Lord, Factory Farming is fucked!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-18405669644680078182012-04-17T17:14:00.006-07:002012-04-17T17:20:17.800-07:00My Mother's Experience with Low Dose Nalrexone and Her Glioblastoma IV Brain CancerHopefully the final draft. This is for a UK publication on LDN. I am not a writer!!!<br /><br /><br />I was diagnosed with a stage four glioblastoma [brain cancer] in February of last year [2011]. After a full course of chemo and radiation, in mid November, I learned about an inexpensive prescription medication, low dose naltrexone. Prior to starting this medication, I was deteriorating. I required a walker and could go only short distances. I had significant memory loss. With all the standard treatment, I was given 10 months to live. The average prediction is 14 months, even after excision, 3.2 cm of tumor remained. After I learned about and obtained a script for low dose naltrexone I gradually regained my ability to walk normally, without a walker, my thinking became clearer. In short, I regained function.<br /><br />— Laura Arasmo, RN<br /><br />On the morning of Saturday, 12 February, 2011, my mother, an RN, was working on her nursing notes when she briefly lost consciousness and became disoriented. She dialed 911.<br /><br />The surgeon excised what he could of a 5.4 cm tumor on Monday, 14 February. Her diagnosis was a grade four Glioblastoma brain tumor (GBM). This is a very aggressive type of brain cancer.<br /><br />The standard treatment for a GBM involves waiting four to six weeks after surgery and then taking the oral chemo drug, Temodar (temozolomide), for 42 days while undergoing radiation, five days a week for six weeks. Temodar is continued five days a month for six months.<br /><br />According to the study “MGMT Gene Silencing and Benefit from Temozolomide in Glioblastoma” published in the New England Journal of Medicine, about 45% of the 206 patients benefited by using Temodar. It extends life for about five extra months if you have a heritable trait called “silencing of the MGMT/AGT gene”. The median survival is 14 months.<br /><br />John, our Chinese Medicine practitioner (M.Ac., L.Ac.), is very familiar with GBMs. He urgently wanted my mother to get the MGMT test done on a biopsy of her tumor. I pulled out all the stops to make it happen, despite objections from my mother’s oncologist, who said that Temodar was her only option for treatment at this stage — regardless of whether or not she would benefit. She did not get the test.<br /><br />John sent a protocol of herbs and vitamins designed to protect mom’s DNA from the damage from chemo and boost her immune system before, during, and after chemotherapy. He also had her remove all sugar and sweets. Cancer cells feed on fructose according to recent research.<br /><br />Throughout seven months of chemo and radiation, my mother took Dexamethasone, a steroid, to keep the swelling down, and Kepra, to prevent seizures. Every day, I served her smoothies consisting of super green food, Chinese herbs, protein powder, good fats, broad spectrum probiotics, and digestive enzymes. She also took a lot of vitamins and additional herbs. During this time, she didn’t catch any viruses or get thrush.<br /><br />Near the end of seven months of chemo, mom weaned herself off of Dexamethasone by taking it down a sliver a day. She is extremely sensitive to steroids. She also stopped taking Kepra because she didn’t like the way it made her feel. Her MRIs showed no progression. However, the seven months of chemo had caused negative side effects: her bowels stopped working for a week and she had "chemo brain", a lay term for being very cognitively foggy. In addition, she was frequently nauseous and I could barely get her to eat, drink, or take any pills.<br /><br />Mom ended her Temodar in September, 2011. She got an MRI in on 3 October. It indicated no progression of the tumor and no new tumors. By the end of October, however, mom was falling apart. She could barely walk, think, or function. Because her tumor is in the left parietal lobe, her right side was affected the most. She said it felt like it belonged to someone else and it was heavy. She refused to take any steroids.<br /><br />In early November, mom’s health was even worse. She wanted no more standard treatment. Our family started emailing back and forth about beginning hospice care.<br /><br />I prayed to my beloved spiritual master, Meher Baba (1894-1969), on 8 November 2011, “I can’t do anything and I’m helpless and hopeless. If it is your wish to help her, please do so. I hand her over to you, come what may.” It was a sincere prayer from the core of my being.<br /><br />The next day, I received a short email forwarded from a friend. The email read that we should check out Low Dose Naltrexone, accompanied by a link to LDNInfo.org. I strongly felt that this was important and called a close family friend who is a retired MD. Being a former ER doctor, he was familiar with Naltrexone as well as other opioid antagonists, but he still had to research it.<br /><br />Within 9 days after that email, Mom received LDN from Skip’s Pharmacy in Boca Raton, Florida. On 18 November, she started taking a dose of 1.5 mg for two weeks. After two weeks, she raised her dose to 3 mg. Within two or three days of starting the 3 mg dose, she improved DRAMATICALLY. She stopped using her walker and her cognition improved. After two weeks, she raised to a maintenance dose of 4.5 mg each night. She will take this for the rest of her life.<br /><br />In mid February, Mom had another MRI which showed no progression of her original tumor, but it indicated that a 1.6 cm new tumor had formed outside the surgical bed.<br /><br />My gut feeling is that this is a tumor that grew from the end of September, when she ended chemo, until Mom started taking the 3 mg dose of LDN. While my “gut feeling” track record is 100%, I also did some research and found that many people report that after chemo it appears that GBMs grow very, very rapidly, tripling in size in just a few weeks.<br /><br />Mom’s radiation oncologist said that based on her cognitive ability, her physical activity, and other health factors, her MRI didn’t match up with what he was observing. He recommended no treatment and wanted to know more about LDN. He is going to give her another MRI in May. Mom’s main oncologist wanted her to start taking Avastin and was very arrogant about LDN.<br /><br />Today is the 17th of April, 2012. Mom is very active. She cleans the yard, clips the trees, cleans the house, hauls stuff out of the garage, reads, watches movies, and walks 1.1 miles a day. You would not guess that she has an aggressive brain cancer.<br /><br />David Gluck, MD stated, “LDN is absolutely unique. And that's part of its problem, in that it's a brand new paradigm, a new way of thinking of treatment. Instead of the medication actually doing the work, LDN goes into the body and essentially tricks the body by forcing it to double and triple its output of endorphins and metenkephalin, also known as opioid growth factor (OGF). Those endorphins and metenkephalin, in turn, cause the immune system to strengthen. A nice way to think about LDN is that it is not like any other medication whatsoever. It is a way to strengthen the immune system.”<br /><br />I view LDN as a lifeboat with many amenities, but you can add more with nutrition, exercise, and sunshine.<br /><br />Here’s some of the various nutrients mom takes: Chlorella, Spirulina, Alpha Lipoic Acid, B-complex, multi-vitamins (from whole foods), melatonin, unDenatured whey from pastured dairy cows, high sulforaphane foods like organic broccoli sprouts and organic sprouted kale, N-acetyl-cysteine, CoQ10 (a water and fat soluble kind), Alpha GPC, Phosphatidyl Serine, D3, K1, K2 (MK-7), Mmega 3 DHA/EPA from micro algae, Immucare 1 and Immucare 2, and others.<br /><br />Mom eats no meat from factory farmed animals/Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO). If she eats meat, it’s only from grass/range fed animals. All conventional meat, dairy, and eggs have the number one source of dioxins, according to the EPA.<br /><br />Mom also consumes a cooked mixture of organic maple syrup and organic bicarbonate of soda. She says this has helped her a lot. I did notice that after a few days of eating this mixture, her fine motor skills improved on her right side. Mom claims this mixture has helped the most, in addition to alkaline foods and drinks. I think mom’s improvement is from the increased levels of Glutathione as well as the health properties of Chlorella and Spirulina from clean, microcystin free sources. I don’t argue with her, perhaps everything is working together.<br /><br />In closing, I would like to offer a few words of advice based on our experiences: Think for yourself. Research everything. If something doesn’t feel right to you, you will be stressed on some level, which will increase your cortisol. That won’t help your immune system. Listen to your own gut, not someone else’s. Have a neutral attitude, if a positive one is too much of a stretch. Doctors are not omniscient.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-24141708289281215152012-04-17T10:49:00.002-07:002012-04-17T10:53:40.302-07:00Low Taurine and Parkinson's DiseaseAmino acids and biogenic amines in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD):<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=12834252<br /><br />I found this after reading on Beyond Veg that some raw vegan diet guru had Parkinson's like symptoms. I had read a few weeks ago that Taurine was linked to PD. Read the previous post on Taurine too.<br /><br />Here's something about Taurine and eyesight:<br /><br />Taurine deficiency damages retinal neurones: cone photoreceptors and retinal ganglion cells.<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22476345Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-67887107419715415862012-04-17T10:18:00.005-07:002012-04-17T10:31:21.359-07:00Depression on the vegan diet? Taurine could be one of the reasons...Depression can be caused by a number of things and diet is one of them. To learn about how low fat/low cholesterol (or no cholesterol) is linked to depression, please read my interview at <a href="http://letthemeatmeat.com/post/20896431565/quasivegans-christina-arasmo-beymer-discusses-her">Let Them Eat Meat</a>. It's not a theory, there's research and everything. Oh goody!<br /><br />Here's an interesting article about Taurine. Note that taurine activates GABA receptors.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/94393.php">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/94393.php</a><br /><br /><blockquote>Taurine is one of the most plentiful amino acids in the human brain, but neuroscientists are still puzzled by just how brain cells put it to use. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has uncovered a prime site of activity for the molecule, bringing them closer to solving that mystery.<br /><br />"We have discovered that taurine is a strong activator of what are known as GABA receptors in a regulatory area of the brain called the thalamus," says study senior author Dr. Neil L. Harrison, professor of pharmacology and pharmacology in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "We had discovered these receptors two years ago and showed that they interact with a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) -- the brain's key inhibitory transmitter -- that is also involved in brain development. It seems that taurine shares these receptors."</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-80508811617195879622012-04-16T10:15:00.005-07:002012-04-16T10:25:32.421-07:00Melatonin and cancer progression (or lack of)Sharing some stuff regarding cancer prevention that I have in my collection:<br /><br />For over 15 years the National Cancer Institute at the NIH, Cancer.gov, has known that melatonin is effective against cancer. Why didn't the oncologist share this with us when my mother got brain cancer? Could it be that 20 mg of Melatonin is about $11 a month and Temodar is $200.00 a pill and she got 102 pills? Hummm... Plus Temodar gives doctors repeat business. Mom went to the ER twice because the chemo shut down her bowels.<br /><br />By the way, apparently marijuana increases melatonin significantly. I have not seen any studies on this, just so-called "common knowledge" stuff on advocates for medical marijuana. Though, they might have a point. I'm in FL, pot is illegal. We had our share of pot smoking in the 70s and 80s and are not fond of weed anymore. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">NIH report:</span><br /><br />http://www.cancer.gov/cam/attachments/MelatoninSummary.pdf - NIH<br /><br />In all studies, melatonin was given orally once a day in the dark phase of the photoperiod at doses of 20–40 mg/day. In randomized studies of 1,440 patients with untreatable advanced solid-tumors who received melatonin or supportive care alone, melatonin prolonged survival time and prevented neoplastic cachexia, even though objective tumor regression was seen in only 2% of patients.<br /><br />http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/3462341/reload=0;jsessionid=IZRO3ncFtCP7mNJYklWM.2<br /><br />There is some evidence to suggest that the pineal gland influences neoplastic growth. Either crude or partially-purified pineal extracts have been used to treat malignant neoplasms in humans. More compelling evidence indicates that the pineal hormone melatonin, in addition to its well known antireproductive effects, may also exert oncostatic effects particularly in animal models of human breast cancer. However, it is not clear whether melatonin inhibits mammary cancer growth via an indirect neuroendocrine mechanism or via an action directly on the cancer cells themselves. Studies are described in which physiological concentrations of melatonin are shown to have marked inhibitory effects directly on MCF-7 human breast cancer cell growth in culture. Supra- or subphysiological levels of melatonin are completely ineffective in retarding breast cancer cell proliferation. Precursors and metabolites of melatonin such as serotonin, N-acetylserotonin and 6-hydroxymelatonin do not inhibit MCF-7 cell growth. Similarly, neither 5-methoxytryptophol nor 5-methoxytryptamine, regarded by some to be putative pineal hormones, exhibit antimitogenic properties. Melatonin completely blocks the estradiol-induced stimulation of MCF-7 cell proliferation. In defined, serum-free medium, melatonin loses its antimitogenic capabilities unless cells are also simultaneously exposed to either estradiol or prolactin. Therefore, the antiproliferative effect of melatonin may be dependent on the presence of serum and a complex interaction with hormones such as estradiol and/or prolactin. <br /><br />Effects of the Pineal Hormone Melatonin on the Proliferation and Morphological Characteristics of Human Breast Cancer Cells (MCF-7) in Culture <br />http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/48/21/6121.short<br /><br />http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowAbstractBuch&ArtikelNr=227533&ProduktNr=245148<br /><br />The prognosis of brain glioblastoma is still very poor and the median survival time is generally less than 6 months. At present, no chemotherapy has appeared to influence its prognosis. On the other hand, recent advances in brain tumor biology have suggested that brain tumor growth is at least in part under a neuroendocrine control, mainly realized by opioid peptides and pineal substances. On this basis, we evaluated the influence of a concomitant administration of the pineal hormone melatonin (MLT) in patients with glioblastoma treated with radical or adjuvant radiotherapy (RT). The study included 30 patients with glioblastoma, who were randomized to receive RT alone (60 Gy) or RT plus MLT (20 mg/daily orally) until disease progression. Both the survival curve and the percent of survival at 1 year were significantly higher in patients treated with RT plus MLT than in those receiving RT alone (6/14 vs. 1/16). Moreover, RT or steroid therapy-related toxicities were lower in patients concomitantly treated with MLT. This preliminary study suggests that a radioneuroendocrine approach with RT plus the pineal hormone MLT may prolong the survival time and improve the quality of life of patients affected by glioblastoma.<br /><br />http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/jan2004_report_melatonin_04.htm<br /><br />http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/ctmc/2002/00000002/00000002/art00002<br /><br />http://www.alternative-cancer-care.com/Melatonin_Cancer.html<br /><br />http://www.townsendletter.com/AugSept2010/estrogen0810.html<br /><br />Martin Dayton, et al. Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative and Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How. BioMed Publishing Group, May 2011<br /><br />http://www.naturalnews.com/033511_melatonin_cancer.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-62003542782846948642012-04-16T08:48:00.003-07:002012-04-16T09:11:17.660-07:00Role of human microflora in health, diet, and disease<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/your-gut-bacteria-are-what-you-e.html" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your Gut Bacteria Are What You Eat</span><br /><br /><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/your-gut-bacteria-are-what-you-e.html" target="_blank">http://news.sciencemag.org/<wbr>sciencenow/2011/09/your-gut-<wbr>bacteria-are-what-you-e.html</a><br /><br />Science, the team reports a similar clustering into enterotypes—although only two of the three showed up clearly—and discovered that <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1208344">dietary habits are linked to the type of bugs</a> that thrive in the gut. People who eat a lot of meat and saturated fat tended to have more <i>Bacteroides</i> in their flora; <i>Ruminococcus</i> prevailed in people who consumed lots of alcohol and polyunsaturated fats, whereas <i>Prevotella</i> favored a diet rich in carbohydrates. It's not clear whether one type of microbial flora is healthier for the host than the other. But if that turns out to be the case, the study offers hope of new ways to improve health by changing diet, Bushman says.<p></p> <p>However, other findings reported in the same paper show that you can't change enterotype overnight. The team sequestered 10 volunteers in a hospital and fed half of them a fixed diet very high in fat and low in fiber; the other half of the subjects had the opposite menu. The researchers found that the bacterial populations began to shift within both groups, with some species becoming more common and others less common, but people had the same enterotype when the study ended after 10 days. If switching gut enterotype is possible, the team concludes, it may take a long-term dietary intervention.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gut Bacteria Reflect Dietary Differences</span><br /><a href="http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/08/03/gut-bacteria-reflect-dietary-differences">http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/08/03/gut-bacteria-reflect-dietary-differences</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 'microflora hypothesis' of allergic diseases.</span><br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393316">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393316</a></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Role of human microflora in health and disease </span><br /><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/t365180210212606/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/t365180210212606/</a><br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393316"><br /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-88543153864069071222012-04-15T14:16:00.009-07:002012-04-15T15:15:10.024-07:00What is the Paleo diet for a person with Asian heritage?Most of India, that is those who are not affluent, eat lentils and rice a lot. My husband just corrected me, he lived in India for 14 years, he said that most of the poor eat millet (bhakri) and vegetables. The Asians in China and Japan, eat rice and noodles as far as I know. Isn't a paleo diet relative to one's ancestors?<br /><br />When we discuss Paleo eating, are we discussing our common ancestors in Africa? Anybody? I have no idea.<br /><br />I have noticed with myself that carbs coming from any color veggie except white (with the exception of cauliflower), brown GABA rice, and sprouted lentils have not made any impact my weight. However, anything with sugar, no matter whether it's fruit juice or a vegan cookie, these things do have a negative impact. I also feel sluggish.<br /><br />Here's an interesting article about microflora and health.<br /><a href="http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/08/03/gut-bacteria-reflect-dietary-differences">http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/08/03/gut-bacteria-reflect-dietary-differences</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Excerpt:</span><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>Children from Burkina Faso, who ate millet grain, sorghum wheat, legumes and vegetables, had high numbers of bacteria that digest plant fibers. Also found in the guts of termites [which these children eat], these bacteria break down fibers that humans typically can’t. The bacteria make short-chain fatty acids that give people energy and protect them from inflammatory gut diseases such as Crohn’s disease and inflammatory bowel disorder.</p> <p>Burkina Faso's children also had decreased numbers of diarrhea-causing bacteria compared with children from Italy. That finding surprised the team, because the African children often drank water polluted with such bacteria.</p> <p style="font-style: italic;">“The notion that gut flora plays a role in human health has been marginally ignored,” says <span style="font-weight: bold;">evolutionary nutritionist</span> Loren Cordain of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who was not involved with this study. “What we’ve found over the past five or 10 years is that it plays a huge role in our health and well being.”</p></blockquote><p></p><br />This is a story, that for me, really drives home that there is no one-size-fits all diet. However, if the microbes and enzymes are in the people, and there's no genetic issue, people can adapt to any diet (sans the sugar, franken food, and factory farming, and GMO crap).<br /><br />I have a couple theories that will never be proven:<br /><br />My theory of how early man was able to eat foods with phytic acid and not have it block minerals: our early selves had the phytase enzyme.<br /><br />My theory of how early man was able to convert ALA from nuts to DHA: healthy levels of the enzyme that does this conversion. Also, no sugar and high levels of Omega 6 to thwart the effort.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">The issue is that the same enzymes that convert ALA, also convert LA into its long chain metabolite known as arachidonic acid (AA 20:4ω-6). Given this scenario it is understandable that diets high in omega6 fatty acids can influence, and in reality reduce, the conversion of short chain omega3 fatty acid into its long chain metabolites. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.azchia.com/ala_conversion_epa_dpa_dha.htm</span></blockquote>You might be aware that a few studies have shown that we convert 0.5% up to 9% - 13%, women doing better than men. I doubt it's estrogen related as some scientists hypothesized. I think it's because women tend to eat healthier than men.<br /><br />I would love to have the money to check the gut microbes in any healthy long term vegan. It would explain a lot, I think.<br /><br />It's expensive, I bet. A comprehensive nutritional test my mother had, including her Krebs cycle, was $1400.00. It didn't check her intestinal microbes. All it did was just let us know that she needs more pancreatic enzymes among other things. The MD/ND also told us that we need to rotate our probiotics and change brands every 2 months because we get used certain strains and they are not effective.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-47813419235573878562012-04-15T09:08:00.005-07:002012-04-15T09:50:44.242-07:00Hypertension and sugar! Cinnamon and Curcumin for sugar controlI hope that everyone is becoming aware of the HUGE cholesterol con-job we've all been suffering from. Sugar is implicated in heart disease and it plays a big role in hypertension too.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Without having any scientific proof, I have no problem with this statement:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">When a food is good for you, it’s not just good for your heart, it's good for your entire body.<br /><br />When a food is bad for you, it's bad all over. </span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> <br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Sugar is bad on your figure, brain, heart, and every organ including the largest: your skin.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sugar-sweetened beverages and hypertension.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21142633<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Potential role of sugar (fructose) in the epidemic of hypertension, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease1,2,3</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds</span><br />http://www.ajcn.org/content/86/4/899.abstract<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sugar, not just salt, linked to high blood pressure</span><br />http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/01/glucose.blood.pressure/index.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Patterns: Added Sugar and High Blood Pressure</span><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/research/06patterns.html<br /><br />There's very, very few studies on how beneficial cinnamon and curcumin are for controlling blood sugar. The lack of studies doesn't represent that they're not effective. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">My belief is, based simply on profit and loss, is that the lack of many studies on ANY un-patentable natural substance is an indicator that it has the potential of being very effective.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Improved Insulin Resistance and Lipid Metabolism by Cinnamon Extract through Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602825/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes </span><br />http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/26/12/3215.full<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turmeric</span><br />http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/turmeric-000277.htm<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Effect of curcumin supplementation on blood glucose, plasma insulin, and glucose homeostasis related enzyme activities in diabetic db/db mice.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18398869<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Curcumin inhibits glucose production in isolated mice hepatocytes.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221818Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-34839834722612212312012-04-13T21:16:00.003-07:002012-04-13T21:46:27.345-07:00Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds and some interesting studies regarding cancer and pHHere's the link on fructose causing cancer cells to go wild. What? Only one. Yes, only one. We're lucky to get one.<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/02/cancer-fructose-idAFN0210830520100802<br /><br />If you have a mother who has cancer with only a 1% chance of survival, there's nowhere else to go but way out of the box. There you can run across some pretty nutty things, but inside the box is chemo, radiation, and arrogance. Then hospice. Thankfully, I was out of the vegan box before she was diagnosed.<br /><br />In the course of reading a lot of holistic health books, blogs, and forums to find something to help my mother, sugar came up a lot.<br /><br />"Sugar feeds cancer" I saw it everywhere.<br /><br />Now, what the hell do you eat for fun? Freeze some berries and bananas (just not 30 of them!) and blend. Add some coconut meat or an avocado and lemon juice. That's one idea. You can get very clever, just don't juice your fruit. Eat the fruit blended so you still have the fiber to slow down the impact on your blood sugar.<br /><br />Here's an alternative health web site and excerpt:<br />http://www.nutritioncancer.com/sugarfeedscancer.html<br /><br />SLOW CANCER GROWTH BY LOWERING BLOOD AND GUT GLUCOSE<br /><br />(This is old, it's fructose not glucose -- see the <span class="st"><em>Krebs cycle</em></span> section on the <span style="font-style: italic;">Sugar: The Bitter Truth</span> video on YouTube).<br /><br />"Cancer cells demonstrate a 3 to 5 fold increase in glucose uptake compared to healthy cells."<br />Demetrakopoulos, GE, Cancer Research, vol.42, p.756S, Feb.1982<br /><br />“Sugar is the most hazardous foodstuff in the American diet.”<br />Linus Pauling, PhD, twice Nobel laureate<br /><br />WHAT'S AHEAD?<br />Cancer cells feed almost exclusively on sugar. You can slow tumor growth by:<br />> eating a diet that lowers blood and gut sugar<br />> exercise to burn up any extra glucose in the blood<br />> taking supplements such as chromium, CLA, and gymnema<br />> using medications, if necessary, for better control of diabetes<br /><br />A moth is attracted to bright light, which can be its own demise if the bright light is a flame. Americans consume 140 pounds of refined sugar per year, mostly in the form of sucrose (white sugar) and corn syrup. Our incidence of obesity, diabetes, and many cancers has escalated parallel to our rise in sugar intake. We consume 15 billion gallons of soft drinks, 2.7 billion Krispy Cremes, and 500 million Twinkies per year. Our appetite for sugar is like a hummingbird sucking on sweet food all day long.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sugar Feeds Cancer: A simple saying for something more complex.</span><br />http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sugar.htm<br /><br />German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., the 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells.<br /><br />The gist of his Nobel thesis was this: malignant tumors frequently exhibit an increase in "anaerobic glycolysis" - a process whereby glucose is used by cancer cells as a fuel with lactic acid as an anaerobic by-product - compared to normal tissues.(1)<br /><br />The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from the cancer cells is then transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate creates a lower, more acidic PH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid build-up.(2,3) Therefore, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic PH.(4)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cancer and Alkaline pH studies</span><br /><br />Bicarbonate Increases Tumor pH and Inhibits Spontaneous Metastases<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276390<br /><br />Acid pH in Tumors and Its Potential for Therapeutic Exploitation<br />http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/49/16/4373<br /><br />Tumor pH controls the in vivo efficacy of weak acid and base chemotherapeutics<br />http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/5/5/1275.abstract<br /><br />Recent progress in tumor pH targeting nanotechnology.<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18571265<br /><br />Sodium Bicarbonate Appears To Slow Progression Of Chronic Kidney Disease<br />http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/157902.php<br /><br />"Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cancer are connected in a number of ways in both directions: cancer can cause CKD either directly or indirectly through the adverse effects of therapies; CKD may, conversely, be a risk factor for cancer; and both may be associated because they share common risk factors, often"<br /><br />http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=related:CFfJPxxsgRsJ:scholar.google.com/&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=LTZmT8vgKMuMsALXxqC3Dw&sa=X&oi=science_links&ct=sl-related&resnum=6&ved=0CKcBEM8CMAUUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-74302216812916067222012-04-13T20:55:00.007-07:002012-04-13T21:01:21.194-07:00BrainwashedIf you've been keeping up on the news, we've now learned that sugar is behind heart disease and possibly other chronic diseases (like cancer*). I wrote this a couple years ago on a blog post thread on this site:<br /><br /><blockquote>Actually, I hope in the near future, it will be found that sugar causes heart disease and, most especially, high fructose corn syrup. But for now, everyone can be brainwashed.</blockquote><br /><br />I removed my original typo.<br /><br />*I don't need proof. I'm certain. I'll post a study the effects of fructose, not glucose on cancer cells once I locate it again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-71631938315352348872012-04-12T14:54:00.003-07:002012-04-12T15:55:10.253-07:00Here's what I send to all people, healthy and sick. This information is vital to improve your life<div style="font-weight: normal; ">This is some videos and links I've gathered over the last year or two. I add more when I find something that really stands out. I share these far and wide in emails, on my facebook pages that I admin, and now with you. It's up to you to think for yourself and determine whether or not these are helpful. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Here's a statement that should be obvious, but many people simply don't make the connection:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Nutrition is not created in isolation. When you, for example, consume DHA (I get mine from micro algae) and the bottle says "Good for Brain Health", do you think your brain is separated from your vascular system? It is not. Your entire body is improved when you start adding good nutrition and you remove sugar. Sugar is fucked. Thanks for listening.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><b style="font-weight: normal; ">How Diet Lifestyle Helped Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, MD, Phd live 20 more productive years after brain cancer diagnosis.</b><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDt3AJQ98c&feature=share<div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /><b>Glutathione: The "mother" of all antioxidants...<br /></b>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh2PYQBICWs</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /><b>Sugar: The Bitter Truth</b><br />What is responsible for heart disease? Sugar.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM<br /><br /><b>How Diet Cured Dr. Terry Wahls of MS<br /></b>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc<br /><br /><b>How Coconut Oil Dramatically Helped Dr. Mary Newport's husband with Alzheimer's Disease<br /></b>http://www.tampabay.com/news/aging/article879333.ece</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /><b>Super-Sticky 'Ultra-Bad' Cholesterol Revealed in People at High Risk of Heart Disease<br /></b>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526204953.htm</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /><b>Is sugar toxic 60 minutes 1 April 2012 -<br /></b>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxG3YiBMMZE</div><br /><br /><b>How Stress Influences Disease: Study Reveals Inflammation as the Culprit<br /></b><br />A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's Sheldon Cohen has found that chronic psychological stress is associated with the body losing its ability to regulate the inflammatory response. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research shows for the first time that the effects of psychological stress on the body's ability to regulate inflammation can promote the development and progression of disease.<br /><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htmUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-70790298183338204432012-04-12T13:50:00.005-07:002012-04-13T13:10:15.160-07:00Chlorella's immune system benefits!I hope that people go through some kind of common sense generator so that they understand the following:<br /><br />Nutrition is not patentable and it's not profitable. There is barely any research on how good something like Chlorella (when it's from a clean source - see previous post) can be. My mother's current, rocking status from a deadly brain tumor is due to Low Dose Naltrexone (all but written off by mainstream medicine) and good nutrition. She walks 1.1 miles a day, cleans, cooks, and generally is in everyone's business, just like old times!<br /><br />Here's some of the research I've found on Chlorella or Chlorophylls. Note: Improved immune system is improved thinking, skin, circulation, the whole enchilada (hold the cheese). Alright:<br /><br />Some studies might be repeats:<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613958/<br />Chlorella vulgaris triggers apoptosis in hepatocarcinogenesis-induced rats:<br />We evaluated the effect of CV on apoptotic regulator protein expression in liver cancer-induced rats. <br /><br />Apoptosis is programmed cell death as in the fast dividing cells in cancer.<br /><br />http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/chlorophylls/<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The scientific and anecdotal information available suggests that broken cell wall preparations and extracts of Chlorella pyrenoidosa in the diet provides important nutrients necessary to maintain good health, resist infection, and restore immune functions in immunocompromised patients. </span><br />http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ptr.2650040605/abstract<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A review of recent clinical trials of the nutritional supplement Chlorella pyrenoidosa in the treatment of fibromyalgia, hypertension, and ulcerative colitis.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11347287<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chlorella (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) supplementation decreases dioxin and increases immunoglobulin a concentrations in breast milk.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17472477 & http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jmf.2006.023<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oral administration of Chlorella vulgaris augments concomitant antitumor immunity.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2229925<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chlorella vulgaris administration prevents HgCl2-caused oxidative stress and cellular damage in the kidney</span><br />http://www.springerlink.com/content/aj330507x7881704/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Effect of chlorella and its fractions on blood pressure, cerebral stroke lesions, and life-span in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17330510<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Antitumor effect induced by a hot water extract of Chlorella vulgaris (CE): resistance to Meth-A tumor growth mediated by CE-induced polymorphonuclear leukocytes.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3845850<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Immunomodulation by a unicellular green algae (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) in tumor-bearing mice.</span><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3253484<br /><br /><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span>The information below is copied from excerpts from various books. It was gathered by stealing the bottom half of the Chlorella post on Natural News. (Whatever that guy says at Natural News needs to be researched because some of the things he says are a bit whacked.) But even if a guy who claims to be Santa Claus gives you good advice, do you ignore it? </span>Discern, discriminate, and think for yourself!<br /><br />Chlorella is green algae, which, in a study by Fukada, was observed to have immune-stimulating qualities. It's another herb whose healing properties have not been of much interest to Western medicine.<br />Aids A Second Opinion by Gary Null PhD with James Feast, page 528<br /><br />Most research has been done on a one-celled alga known as chlorella. This has been shown to have powerful anti-tumor effects. An oral administration of chlorella protected between 73 and 80 percent of mice against several kinds of cancer. However, all the mice that received chlorella that had been deprived of its protein, died.<br />Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 203<br /><br />Chlorella can neutralize and eliminate some of the contaminating heavy metals and strengthen the immune system, and GLA, which enhances prostaglandin production and possesses anti-inflammatory abilities.<br />Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 135<br /><br />Japanese scientists studied chlorella (pyrenoidosa) as a biological response modifier. First, experimental mice were given chlorella every other day for ten days. Then one of three kinds of cancer—breast, leukemia or Ehrlich ascites—were injected into them. All of the untreated mice died within 20 days. But over 70 percent of the treated ani-<br />Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 203<br /><br />Natural healers recommend chlorella for nonspecific complaints such as fatigue and for anyone who generally wants to feel stronger or healthier. It is also used by alternative physicians as part of an overall cancer treatment program.<br />Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible by Earl Mindell RPh PhD, page 24<br /><br />Since chlorella does not directly kill cancer cells, the scientists concluded that its effects were caused by boosting the immune response.<br />Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 204<br /><br />Chlorella does not contain the biliprotein phycocyanin found in blue-green algae such as spirulina and wild blue-green; therefore it does not have this anti-cancer dimension. Those who benefit from the immune-strengthening value of CGF and also want phycocyanin can simply add a blue-green alga. Any two or more micro-algae combine well, especially if both are needed.<br />Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 194<br /><br />In another experiment, a group of scientists took a hot water extract of chlorella and injected it into the body cavities of mice that had first been inoculated with tumor cells. They found that "survival times were strikingly prolonged." Furthermore, when they gave mice injections of chlorella, their cells still exhibited "an anti-tumor effect" 24 hours later. This effect remained intact even after 'T' type white blood cells and macrophage (scavenger) cells were destroyed, but it was effectively wiped out by irradiation. Chlorella's anticancer effect was thus dependent on the portion of the immune system most sensitive to x-rays.<br />Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 204<br /><br />Many reports have come from Japanese research studies that followed the nuclear catastrophe resulting from atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In a report to the General Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan on an early study in animals, Ichimura (1973) reported that chlorella (8 grams daily) increased elimination of cadmium: threefold in feces and sevenfold in urine. Other researchers from Japan showed that chlorella helped detoxify uranium and lead (Horikoshi et al. 1979). chlorella has detoxification potential for similar compounds, such as dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls. (PCBs are chemical compounds used in plastics, insulation, and flame retardants, with potential to cause cancer and liver damage.) Other research indicates that chlorella is useful in detoxification of high levels of mercury in the body caused by removal of mercury amalgam. Some dentists recommend chlorella to patients who are having mercury amalgams replaced (as well as to themselves and staff who can incur accidental exposure from day-to-day exposure to amalgam filling procedures) (O'Brien 2001).<br />Disease Prevention And Treatment by Life Extension Foundation, page 859<br /><br />Japanese researchers recently discovered that chlorella could raise blood levels of the protein albumin. Albumin is one of the body's most powerful antioxidants as well as its main transport system, carrying vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, hormones, and other essential substances throughout the body. Albumin is also instrumental in carrying toxins away from cells and into the liver, where they are broken down and later excreted from the body. Without adequate levels of albumin, the kidneys, liver, and other vital organs cannot do their jobs as well, and the immune system cannot function as efficiently. Numerous studies have documented that a low albumin level is a marker for serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. They point to test-tube studies confirming that raising albumin levels can both prevent cancerous changes and extend the life span of human cells. Although no such studies have been done on humans, it makes sense that raising albumin levels would help to restore health.<br />Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible by Earl Mindell RPh PhD, page 24<br /><br />The law of similars ("like cures like") offers another approach to understanding the immune-strengthening quality of chlorella: an organism with a tough outer cell wall may well possess the basic properties which strengthen our own cellular structure against invading organisms and toxins.<br />Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 193<br /><br />Since chlorella has a true nucleus, it is a more evolved organism than the other common green micro-algae and therefore may offer superior-quality RNA/DNA. This particular aspect of its RNA/DNA, measured by the CGF, strengthens immunity by improving the activity of T- and B-cells, which defend against viruses and other invading microorganisms, and macrophages, which destroy cancer and cellular debris in general.<br />Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 194<br /><br />For cancer, AIDS, Epstein-Barr syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tumors, Candida overgrowth, excessive mucus, edema, and other conditions associated with dampness, wild blue-green is generally the most useful. Individuals who are not particularly excessive will benefit from a moderate dosage of 1.5-2 grams. The upper dosage ranges of cereal grass, chlorella (excellent for disorders with immune malfunction), spirulina, and dunaliella are also beneficial additions (often spirulina and dunaliella are used together). One may choose the one or two most appropriate of these green foods based on their properties.<br />Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 204<br /><br />Chlorella helps protect the body in its fight against both viruses and cancer. A series of studies during the 1980s showed that tumor growth in mice could be reduced or stopped by injecting a water solution of chlorella…<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 231<br /><br />This research, says Tim Sara, president of Nature's Balance, a major U.S. supplier of chlorella, "has confirmed that serum levels of albumin are extremely accurate indicators of overall health status and that low albumin levels exist at the onset and progression of virtually every nonhereditary, degenerative disease process, including cancers and cardiovascular heart disease." A series of studies with rats demonstrated that chlorella supplementation increases albumin levels by 16% to 21%.<br />Heart Disease by Burton Goldberg, page 131<br /><br />Some micro-algae have very favorable nutritional profiles for cancer and immune therapies. Spirulina, chlorella, and wild blue-green (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae) provide cellular protection with exceptional amounts of beta carotene (provitamin A) and chlorophyll; dunaliella is the highest known natural source of beta carotene. chlorella, the alga to emphasize in those with the greatest deficiency, stimulates immunity in the treatment of all degenerative diseases by means of the "chlorella Growth Factor" (CGF). These bitter micro-algae often work well with chlorella or spirulina.<br />Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 378<br /><br />Chlorella is a one-cell blue-green alga that is highly nutritive as a food and also stimulates the immune system. It increases macrophage activity and has shown antitumor effects. Chorellan is a substance found in chlorella that stimulates interferon production. There are several papers on the prevention and/or inhibition of cancer using chlorella as well as documentation of its DNA repair mechanism.24 one of the many benefits of chlorella is its ability to increase serum albumin levels. A drop in albumin level has many negative effects on the body. Of all the super green foods, chlorella is the one that impresses me the most.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 71<br /><br />A study on chlorella published in Japan in 1992 showed that chlorella has impressive effects on blood chemistry. It increased red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and albumin. The ability of chlorella to increase albumin is vitally important because so many people with cancer have a decreased level of albumin. This decreased level correlates with a poor prognosis; chlorella is a truly important supplement for anyone whose albumin level is low.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 232<br /><br />Chlorella is useful in a wide variety of maladies and conditions, including chronic gastritis, high blood pressure, some forms of cancer, diabetes, constipation, anemia, and high cholesterol. It helps clear toxic metals from the body. Chlorella has antitumor and anti-inflammatory properties and strengthens the immune system. The microalgae support normal growth and help maintain health in old age. They reduce pitta and kapha and, in moderation, are healing for vata.<br />New Whole Foods Encyclopedia by Rebecca Wood, page 81<br /><br />There have been dozens of animal studies on chlorella and chlorella extracts involving immune response to cancer. One such study involved mice given chlorella prior to transplantation of mammary carcinoma. The results were a 70 percent sixty-day survival of the chlorella group versus no survival in the control group. Mice in the control group were also transplanted with tumors but did not receive chlorella.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 232<br /><br />Green foods refers to chlorophyll-rich supplements from sources such as microalgae (including spirulina, blue-green algae, and chlorella) and the young grasses of cereal plants (particularly barley, wheat, and alfalfa). Chlorophyll acts as an antioxidant and may have medicinal benefits against cancer and immune problems. Many people also take green-food concentrates to boost energy levels and physical and mental performance.<br />Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 291<br /><br />In 1990, a study on chlorella was performed at the Medical College of Virginia. Fifteen glioblastoma patients were administered 20 grams of powdered chlorella and 150 ml of liquid chlorella, in some cases combined with standard chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. There was a significant increase in health and immune status immediately, and a striking 40 percent two-year survival rate was reflected in follow-up studies. This is extremely rare for this type of tumor, which normally might yield a 10 percent survival rate after two years.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 232<br /><br />There are other beneficial algaes, such as spirulina, a blue-green alga, and other super green foods, but I believe chlorella is the best, particularly for people with cancer and/or a weak constitution.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 232<br /><br />Lactoferrin, lipoic acid, and chlorella are the three best supplements I have found for enhancing the nutritional status and raising the albumin level of those with cancer or any chronic illness. Lactoferrin, an iron-binding protein, is a vital element to the human body. It retrieves iron from the foods we eat and delivers it to areas of the body where it is needed. Many people, particularly those with cancer, become anemic because their body is not assimilating iron properly.<br />Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 238<br /><br />Green-food concentrates are chlorophyll-rich supplements. Most are derived from microalgae (such as spirulina, blue-green algae, or chlorella) or from the young grasses of cereal plants (such as barley, wheat, and alfalfa). Chlorophyll acts as an antioxidant and may have medicinal benefits against cancer and immune problems<br />Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 229<br /><br />A chlorella extract has demonstrated antitumor and antime-tastatic effects in animal experiments. Chlorella has shown some experimental antiatherogenic activity and some radio-protective and chemo-detoxifying effects. It has shown some preliminary benefit in immune function and in some with fibromyalgia.<br />PDR For Nutritional Supplements by Sheldon Saul Hendle and David Rorvik, page 89<br /><br />Chlorella. A freshwater single-celled green algae consisting of 60 percent protein, high levels of chlorophyll and vitamin A, and dozens of other nutrients. It's being researched as both an antiaging supplement and a cancer preventive.<br />Power Aging by Gary Null, page 149<br /><br />Additional beneficial foods are chlorella and pearl barley. These foods contain germanium, a trace element beneficial for the immune system. It is also a good idea to include kelp in your diet in the form of giant red kelp…<br />Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A Balch, page 10<br /><br />I also recommend the use of chlorella and/or Green Magma as a twice-daily green drink. Chlorella is a highly nutritive one-celled blue-green algae that is a powerful immune system stimulant that has also demonstrated anti-tumor effects. Research has shown that chlorella is able to repair the DNA system and increase serum albumin levels.<br />Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND, page 304<br /><br />Chlorella is a tiny single-celled water-grown green alga that contains the highest chlorophyll level per ounce of any plant, as well as protein (nearly 58 percent), carbohydrates, all of the B vitamins, vitamins C and E, amino acids (including all nine essential ones), enzymes, and rare trace minerals. Chlorella strengthens the immune system.<br />Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A Balch, page 33 72<br /><br />I also recommend the use of chlorella, which is a highly nutritive one-cell blue-green algae that is a powerful immune system stimulant that also has demonstrated anti-tumor effects. Research has shown that chlorella is able to repair DNA and increase serum albumin levels.<br />The Way Of Herbs by Michael Tierra, page 309<br /><br />Green chlorophyll is the main coloring matter in all green plants, and it relates most closely to Qi, the life force. Green plants and algae are high in chlorophyll, include spirulina and chlorella. Foods and herbs that contain high levels of chlorophyll show pharmacological evidence of cancer prevention, perhaps because pigments in green vegetables such as spinach, kale, broccoli, and lettuce bind with and thus stimulate excretion of cancer-causing chemicals. Even more interesting is a report from one researcher that "Given their exclusive dietary origin, . . . chlorophyll metabolites may represent essential nutrients that coordinate cellular metabolism (through nuclear receptors)."<br />The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Keith Tillotson, page 84<br /><br />Chlorella: 1 to 2 teaspoons two or more times daily. Dense and nutrient rich in vitamins, minerals and easily assimilable protein, it supports the immune system of patients undergoing chemo and radiation therapy, increases phagocytes, T-cells and cancer killing B cells.<br />Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND, page 268<br /><br />In all anticancer diets, one should incorporate chlorophyll-rich foods derived from the juice of wheat grass, barley grass or a special green algae known in the trade as chlorella. Chlorella, has been found to have greater anticancer properties than any other anticancer supplement. Of course, these 'green foods' are very rich in a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and other health-giving constituents as well.<br />Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND, page 309<br /><br />I recommend chlorella to all cancer patients regardless of any other green drink they might use. Chlorella is a small, one-celled algae containing a nucleus and a large amount of chlorophyll. Its protein content is approximately 58% with the balance made up of carbohydrates, all the B Vitamins, Vitamin C and E, amino acids and valuable trace minerals. It has more B12 than liver and a substantial amount of beta-carotene. Because it has a strong cell wall, it requires processing in order to make all of its nutrients available. It is virtually a complete food in itself. It acts as both a powerful nutrient and a detoxifying food.<br />Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND, page 361Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-10242846075944995272012-04-11T20:29:00.006-07:002012-04-11T22:12:43.094-07:00My vegan girlfriend had restless leg syndrome until she tried thisA while back, I started giving Mom spirulina sourced from a clean, biosecure company in Hawaii. It's been very, very helpful for her health. More recently I added chlorella. Bam! I'll post some excellent studies on the health benefits of both, such as increasing your own naturally killer cells to kick cancer's ass, once I put them together.<br /><br />It's vital that you get your algae from a very reputable source to make sure there's no microcystins in it. That is a toxin. The word "microcystins" looks similar to the word "microcystis". They are not the same. There can be -- if your algae comes from a lousy source -- microcystins in the microcystis. Cyanobacteria, microcystis, and blue-green algae are the same thing. I say this because I got into a heated email thread argument with someone who was just not getting it. She was sick, but she was also severely nuts. At the end of the thread I mentioned something about the differences between heme iron and non-heme iron, the latter is found in spirulina. She replied that the RDA for iron is so that people don't get scurvy. Oh God, how I wanted to run around the block to shake off that experience. Scurvy is from a lack of vitamin C. Anyway, for my own sanity, I unsubscribed from all health forums. Fuck it.<br /><br />Now that I've vented, let's get back on subject. Today I am going to mention that spirulina and ChlorEssence brand Chlorella (I dig that brand a lot) are very good to try for restless leg syndrome. My vegan girl friend, the one who gave me the Vegan Outreach booklet and lent me the Peaceable Kingdom video 8 years ago, has had a very hard time with restless leg syndrome. She shakes all night. Anyway, she recently called me and I mentioned magnesium regarding her restless leg. She uses it. I don't recall researching restless leg syndrome, but I thought it might be related to magnesium deficiency based on something I read. I have too much stuff in my brain. Then she said that she has very low dopamine and that has something to do with her problem.<br /><br />Hey! I've been secretly researching how to increase dopamine for about 2 years now. Here's why: when you are in love, your dopamine levels are high. When I was courting my husband, yes it was me courting him at first (now he's paying me back), we were in a long distance relationship 3,000 miles apart. I never felt better, though. This lasted nearly 2 years and I appreciated it because I had this dopamine coursing through me. I was motivated all the time to work out, make a lot of money, and all sorts of great things. Once that wore off, I've been looking for it ever since. And I found it! Motivation in a food: ChlorEssence or Spirulina.<br /><br />So I mentioned that she should try ChlorEssence or Spirulina for her restless leg, because both contain nice levels of tyrosine. Tyrosine is the precursor to dopamine. Well that's the short version, there's more to it than that, which you can look up yourself. I had no idea that <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15222997">restless leg was both dopamine and iron related</a>, but apparently it is. Long story <span style="font-style:italic;">shortened</span>: she's sleeping like a baby!<br /><br /><br />I'm so happy!<br /><br /><blockquote><br />This is excerpted from somewhere, I can't find the source: Tyrosine is a nonessential amino acid the body makes from another amino acid called phenylalanine. It is a building block for several important brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, including epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. Neurotransmitters help nerve cells communicate and influence mood. Tyrosine also helps produce melanin, the pigment responsible for hair and skin color. It helps in the function of organs responsible for making and regulating hormones, including the adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary glands. It is involved in the structure of almost every protein in the body.</blockquote><br /><br /><br />I use the Sequel Naturals brand ChlorEssence. This is grown in their own fresh water (not ocean water) and tested every month. Canada has stricter rules than the US. There are no microcystins (toxins) and no iodine because it's not sea water. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SOURCE because many of the brands are contaminated. ChlorEssence is the BEST, no shit. It has the highest level of CGF. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Both spirulina and chlorella have the amino phenylalanine. Do not eat it if you have Phenylketonuria.</span><br /><br />Apparently, chlorella has highest amount of tyrosine in all foods, next to spirulina, including meat. This needs to be confirmed as I could only find spirulina in the nutritional database.<br /><br />It's FAR better, safer in my opinion, to eat a food like spirulina or ChlorEssence than consume powdered tyrosine. I eat both spirulina and ChlorEssence every day and I also have several sacha inchi seeds. All three have good levels of many, many amino acids and really good levels of tyrosine. <br /><br />Read more: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/tyrosine-000329.htm#ixzz1qYSpkiWcUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-35649381969629248402012-04-11T13:10:00.000-07:002012-04-11T13:11:10.816-07:00My interview on LetThemEatMeat.comI've am featured on LetThemEatMeat.com - an ex-vegan blog by someone I consider a good friend now. Here's the interview:<br /><br />http://letthemeatmeat.com/post/20896431565/quasivegans-christina-arasmo-beymer-discusses-herUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-42033713660847254842012-04-10T12:52:00.001-07:002012-04-10T12:54:41.872-07:00Vitamin D and questionable recommendations from the IOMVitamin D report thanking the Vitamin D experts who didn't get their feedback either published in the report or anywhere else.<br />http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13050&page=R7<br />http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13050&page=R8<br /><br />Regarding the feedback not being included, from the IOM / FNB: Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release.<br /><br />http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news-archive/2010/vitamin-d-council-statement-on-fnb-vitamin-d-report/<br />http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-is-the-institute-of-medicine-in-bed-with-big-pharma/<br /><br />Glenville Jones, PhD and his conflict of interest:<br />http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n1/full/nm0111-9.html<br />http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/25/6/669<br />http://www.cytochroma.com/news/data_presentations.html<br /><br />Sunshine can't be patented and neither can D3.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250551424015221154.post-20216907021286946122012-04-09T16:58:00.003-07:002012-04-09T17:11:19.498-07:00How to make sprouted brown rice (GABA)Here's how to do it:<br /><br />http://www.instructables.com/id/HOWTO-make-GBR-germinated-or-sprouted-brown-rice/<br /><br />This stuff is the GABA rice and it's super tasty. It's also super expensive if you don't make it yourself. The nutrient density is seriously improved compared to regular brown rice. I literally can eat it alone, it's so good. My husband swore that it had some spices added to it to make it yummy.<br /><br />I don't have the numbers but the increase in amino acids and ions is a lot.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABA_receptor<br /><br />Here's some more information on it:<br />http://www.foodrecap.net/guide/gaba-rice/<br /><br /><cite>www.jbmb.or.kr/jbmb/jbmb_files/[36-3]0305281541_319-325.pdf</cite><br /><br />"The effects of germination and germination conditions on the<br />concentrations of GABA, Glu, GAD and soluble calcium ions<br />were evaluated in brown rice. Germination resulted in<br />significant increases in the GABA concentrations that could<br />be further increased by additions to the soaking solution that<br />was used for the germination; the highest GABA<br />concentrations were obtained by germination with the<br />chitosan/glutamic acid (CG) solution. The CG-germinated<br />brown rice also appeared to have higher GAD levels when<br />compared to the non-germinated and water germinated brown<br />rice. The concentration of calcium ions was also higher in the<br />CG-germinated brown rice than in the non-germinated brown<br />rice. In contrast, the highest Glu concentrations were found in<br />the non-germinated brown rice; the Glu levels were very low<br />in the germinated brown rice. Overall, the data clearly show<br />that the concentrations of GABA, GAD, and soluble calcium<br />are significantly increased by germination of the brown rice,<br />with the greatest increase in the CG-germinated brown rice,<br />while Glu is highest in the non-germinated brown rice.<br />Previously, we demonstrated that the germination of brown"<br /><br /><br />Please also google sprouting almonds and beans.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0