Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Garlic seems particularly effective in protecting against cancers caused by nitrosamines, a class of chemical compounds with very high carcinogenic potential. Nitrosamines are formed by our intestinal flora from nitrites, a class of food additives that are frequently used as preservatives, especially in pickled foods and cured meat products such as sausages, bacon, and ham. By preventing the formation of nitrosamines, potent carcinogens that interact with DNA, the phytochemical compounds in garlic reduce the risk of these compounds triggering mutations in DNA and thus causing cancer. |
Michael Pollan
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 But nutrients—those chemical compounds and minerals in foods that scientists have identified as important to our health—gleamed with the promise of scientific certainty. Eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer, avoid chronic diseases, and lose weight.
Nutrients themselves had been around as a concept and a set of words since early in the nineteenth century. That was when William Prout, an English doctor and chemist, identified the three principal constituents of food—protein, fat, and carbohydrates—that would come to be known as macronutri-ents. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Despite their stated focus on "consumer protection," the Codex Commission approved seven of the most toxic chemical compounds known to man for use as pesticides in the production of foods! Collectively these chemicals are often referred to as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP s) and are used in the production of a variety of foodstuffs including beans, dairy, poultry, cereal grains, and many fruits and vegetables. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Psychologists tend to dismiss the possibility that any one of the myriad chemical compounds that constitute chocolate, or any combination of them, could have a physical effect on the consumer. Instead, they point to learned factors, how for many of us, sweets in general and chocolate in particular have been used as rewards from earliest childhood: "Eat your vegetables, dear, there's chocolate cake for dessert." Women have the added inducement of being the usual recipients of chocolate as gifts—"sweets to the sweet. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 All nightshade contains a large portion of alkaloids, chemical compounds that can be toxic to insects and other herbivores and affect humans in ways ranging from helpful to hallucinogenic. Some people speculate that "witches" included some types of nightshade in their "magic" ointments and potions—and then hallucinated that they were flying!
One of the most common members of the nightshade family, which includes potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant, is the jimson-weed, which got its name from Jamestown, Virginia. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Even decaffeinated coffee has other methylxanthines, caffeine-like chemical compounds.
• Assure regular, daily bowel movements.
• Eat a diet high in fruits, vegetables, soy foods, and whole grains.
• Decrease dietary fats, especially saturated fats. breast activity on scintigraphy; and a significant reduction in the variability of tissue activity.7 Maybe somewhat surprisingly, another study showed a decrease in benign breast changes with alcohol consumption.8 Since alcohol slows down the metabolism of estrogen, it is not clear why this study demonstrated these results. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 HERBAL EFFICACY AND SAFETY
Proving the efficacy of herbal medicine is complicated by the fact that each plant is made up of many different chemical compounds. The gold standard in scientific research is the placebo-controlled, double-blind study, which was primarily designed to test drugs with one active chemical ingredient. The diverse nature of plant compounds, even within the same species, makes it considerably more difficult to assess their effectiveness in controlled studies; herbs do not behave in the body like single-chemical drugs. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The artichoke leaves contain a number of active chemical compounds that have been found to be beneficial across a range of health issues. For example, the bile-stimulating action of the plant has been well documented in at least one controlled trial in which, after administration of artichoke extract directly into the duodenum, liver bile increased significantly. This effect may be why artichokes are often used for indigestion. According to herbal experts Joe and Teresa Graydon, Ph.D. |
Devra Davis
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 A review of carcinogenic chemical compounds by the noted researchers J. W. Cook and Edmund L. Kennaway and others with London's Royal Cancer Hospital reported that more than thirty different studies had found that regular exposure to the hormone estrogen produced mammary (breast) tumors in male rodents. The National Toxicology Program of the U.S. government did not formally list both estrogen and ultraviolet (sun) light as definite causes of human cancer until 2002.7
How did these scientists decide what was a cause of cancer in 1936? |
Michael Pollan
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| It's hard when contemplating such produce to think in terms of nutrients or chemical compounds; no, this is food, so fresh it's still alive, communicating with us by scent and color and taste. The good cook takes in all this sensory information and only then decides what to do with the basket of possibilities on the counter: what to combine it with; how, and how much, to "process" it. Now the culture of the kitchen takes over. |
Mike Adams
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 To get these benefits, we have to actually eat these plants, or at least take them as whole food supplements and not as isolated vitamins or extracted chemical compounds:
In order for phytochemicals to do their job, however, we need to eat enough plant foods, and far too few of us do. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've often stated that for every minute of laughter, you produce somewhere around $10,000 worth of healthy body chemistry, and what I mean is that if you had to go out and actually purchase these refined chemical compounds from labs or pharmaceutical companies, you would have to pay at least $10,000 for the very same chemistry that your brain is producing free of charge when you engage in laughter.
Some of these are brain-altering chemicals such as serotonin; others are immune-boosting chemicals such as interleukins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you ingest sodium nitrite, it mixes with the digestive juices of your stomach and creates a class of chemical compounds called nitrosamines. These nitrosamines are potent cancer-causing chemicals. In fact, as I've mentioned before, they are so potent that lab researchers actually inject mice with nitrosamines when they want to give those mice breast cancer or other form of cancer they can study. And yet, as humans, we put sodium nitrite right into the food supply. It's almost as if we were treating the entire population as lab rats -- and in fact that's not far from the truth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, I bet there is a plant in your yard right now, called the dandelion plant, that contains literally hundreds of different chemical compounds with medicinal potential. We already know that dandelion leaves and roots protect the liver, support kidney function and help regulate blood sugar. And yet this is a plant that most people try to kill by spraying it with poison.
A lot of those people also believe in the dogma of modern medicine. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Intense sweeteners are chemical compounds with a sweetness that greatly exceeds the sweetness of sucrose. They are often artificial and include alitame, aspartame, acesulfam-K, thaumatin, cyclamate, saccharin and stevioside. Saccharin, cyclamate (various salts of cyclamic acid) imp •a ro in cnmp mi
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Mike Adams
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| Researchers have identified literally thousands of phytochemicals and have also developed the technology to extract these chemical compounds and concentrate them into pills, powders, and capsules. These are called nutraceuticals — the newest type of dietary supplement.
- James F. Balch, M.D., A to Z Guide To Supplements
I will discuss phytochemical supplements later in this section. As you can imagine, with the research and publicity showing these phytochemicals to be so protective against diseases like cancer, food producers are rushing to add them to their products. |
| Across the kingdom of edible plants available at nearly every grocery store, you will find a vast array of chemical compounds with healing properties that protect your body against virtually every modern disease: especially cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Crohn's disease, obesity, and other disorders.
When we turn to convenience foods, it's easy to overlook the importance of getting these plants and their phytonutrients into your diet. In fact, in my experience, I found that it is virtually impossible to do so without taking some form of phytonutrient supplementation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In time, I believe these will all be recognized as necessary nutritional components for human health in the same way that chemical compounds are recognized today. Yet, in modern times, conventional medicine is slow to adopt any new paradigms. It doesn't want to admit that vibrational nutrition has anything to do with health, much in the same way that it didn't want to admit vitamins were actually good for you for several decades. To put it bluntly, medical professors hate to rewrite their lectures. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 Cell culture, animal model, and epidemiological studies have shown evidence for the anticancer activity of garlic extracts or specific chemical compounds derived from garlic. These effects include the regulation of cell cycle progression, the modification of signal transduction pathways, the induction of apoptosis, antioxidant activity, stimulation of immune function, and the regulation of nuclear factors involved in inflammation. The anticancer potential of garlic may also be influenced by other dietary components such as selenium and vitamin A. |
Mike Adams
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| In fact, I believe that much of the healing effect from plants is granted through the vibrational character of these plants, not merely their chemical compounds. That's why you can't extract a specific chemical from a plant and expect it to offer the same benefits as the whole plant. Only the real thing contains all of the "unknown" healing factors that Western scientists haven't even begun to identify.
Reductionism is a dead end. You can't understand plants by breaking them into smaller and smaller parts. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Vitamin B£
This is a generic name for three chemical compounds that have the same function - pyridoxine, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine. Nuts, vegetables and unrefined cereals (as well as meat) are good sources of vitamin B6, so that deficiencies are extremely rare. The most common compound is pyridoxine, with a RDA of 2 mg.
Vitamin B12
The chemical name for this vitamin is cobalamin. It is not present in plant foods but occurs in animal foods and yeast products. A deficiency of vitamin B]2 may lead to inadequate absorption of folic acid. |
Jack Challem
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 In fact, approximately a thousand chemical compounds have been identified in ginkgo, a sharp contrast to single-molecule pharmaceutical drugs.
Many of the compounds found in ginkgo, St. John's wort, ginseng, and other herbs are also found in vegetables and fruits. However, other compounds are highly distinctive and found only in certain herbs, such as the ginkolides in ginkgo and the ginsenosides in ginseng.
How to Take Flavonoid Supplements
As with carotenoids, the best way to obtain a diverse selection of flavonoids is by eating a diet with a healthy range of vegetables and fruits. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 They are chemical compounds that plants produce to protect themselves from parasites, bacteria, and cell injury. More than 4,000 chemically unique flavonoids are known; they occur in fruits, vegetables, spices, seeds, nuts, flowers, and bark. Wine (particularly red wine), apples, blueberries, bilberries, onions, soy products, and tea are some of the best food sources of flavonoids. Certain flavonoids in fruits and vegetables have much greater antioxidant activity than vitamins C and E or beta-carotene. In fact, flavonoids protect the antioxidant vitamins from oxidative damage. |
| Only in the last hundred years or so have chemists and pharmacists been isolating and purifying the beneficial chemical compounds in plants to produce reliable pharmaceutical drugs. About 25 percent of the prescription medicines sold today are (or were originally) derived from plants. For example:
• Morphine and codeine come from the opium poppy.
• Aspirin originated from willow bark.
• Digitalis, a heart muscle strengthener, is derived from the foxglove plant.
• Paclitaxel (Taxol), used in cancer chemotherapy, comes from the Pacific yew tree. |
| Researchers have identified literally thousands of phytochemicals and also have developed the technology to extract these chemical compounds and concentrate them into pills, powders, and capsules. These are called nutraceuticals—the newest type of dietary supplement.
Your body's nutritional needs are as unique to you as your appearance is. The first essential step toward wellness is to be sure you are getting the correct amounts of the proper nutrients. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Early research performed in Brazil in the 1970s revealed that espinheira santa, as well as a few other species in the Maytenus family, contains maytansi-noid chemical compounds that showed potent anti-tumor and antileukemic activities in vivo and in vitro at very low dosages.6-9 Then in a 1976 plant screening program by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an alcohol and water extract of the leaves was documented with toxicity to cancer cells at very low dosages10 and U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies began to show an interest in it. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 WATER DISTILLATION is reputed the best water-purifying method to remove all contaminant solid matter, organic and inorganic minerals, bacteria, viruses, 600 chemical compounds, complex chemicals, inorganic toxins, 35,000 pesticides, chlorine, and fluorides; but must be carbon-filtered to remove volatile chemicals. Distilled water is an excellent sol vent cleansing the blood and lymph for kidney excretion of toxins; may counter artery hardening, high blood pressure, cataracts, heart disease, arthritis, emphysema, kidney and gall stones (Genesis Distiller). |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Theory Behind the Zone: A Short Lesson in Nutritional Endocrinology
Think of your body and its organs, glands, hormones, and other chemical compounds as one huge biological Internet, where messages (sometimes conflicting ones) are constantly being sent out, received, interpreted, misinterpreted, and acted upon. Hormones are particularly potent messengers; when you receive a message from a hormone in your biological e-mailbox, you pay attention. Insulin is a hormone—a major one. |
Mike Adams
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 Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to control these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do—they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Or, consider high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver (the organ that produces cholesterol). |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 If that isn't enough to convince you of their uselessness in aromatherapy, consider this: In each essential oil are dozens of chemical compounds, many of which are present in only trace amounts. Synthetic scents may imitate the smell but can never replicate the exact molecular makeup of healing essential oils. And don't be fooled by "nature-identical" labels. If it doesn't say "pure essential oil," don't buy it.
Trust your nose. |
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