Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Also positive about chocolate was the French food writer Louis Lemery; the 1704 London edition of his 1702 Traite des Aliments states: "It's strengthening, restorative, and apt to repair decayed Strength, and make People strong: It helps digestion, allays the sharp Humours that fall upon the Lungs: It keeps down the Fumes of the Wine, promotes Venery, and resists the malignity of the Humours."4
Here we have yet once more the ageless "venery" myth about chocolate (according to Lemery and others, coffee had the opposite effect). A few decades latet, one Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, let's talk about digestion and assimilation a little bit more if that's okay, Greg. Many people in Western cultures are deficient in stomach acid.
Kunin: Of course.
Mike: So without the acid, they're not really breaking down and absorbing the other nutrients they get. My guess is that people who have low stomach acid would do especially well on this product.
Kunin: They do very well because the product is actually a digestive aid, and it affects digestion from start to finish. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 The process of digestion itself actually speeds up your metabolism and the SuperNutrient Boosters help keep your body's engines revved. Here's another, more subtle reason why I insist on the SuperNutrient Boosters: They're an easy, guaranteed daily diet success that will help keep you motivated and on track. No matter what happens in your day, you'll feel good that you took that positive step and sipped a SuperNutrient Booster. |
| His energy and digestion have improved too!")
1 serving:
Blueberries & sidekicks: '/2—1 cup, 3/4 cup blueberries, 10 strawberries, 15 grapes (V2 cup), 1 cup sliced strawberries, 1 cup raspberries Broccoli: V2 cup (cooked), 1 cup (raw)
Oranges & sidekicks: 1 medium (approximately 3-inch diameter) or 3/4 cup cut or sections
Spinach: 1 cup raw; % cup cooked
Tomatoes: 1 medium (3" diameter) or 1 cup or 9-10 cherry tomatoes or V2-I cup raw sliced or diced, Vo cup cooked
Beverages
Tea: 1 serving is 1 cup (8 ounces). Water: 1 serving is 1 cup (8 ounces).
Mandatory Breakfast. |
| And of course the friendly bacteria, absent in milk, play a role in yogurt's health benefits, particularly those related to healthy digestion. But over and above the other benefits of yogurt, there is now some exciting evidence that people who have a rich supply of calcium in their diets are less likely to gain weight. There's still more research to be done on this subject but one study showed that women with the highest calcium intakes had the lowest risk of obesity and the slowest weight gain as they aged. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Kunin: They do very well because the product is actually a digestive aid, and it affects digestion from start to finish. A lot of people do have weak stomach acid and are taking antacids in a situation in which they think they're actually helping themselves. And believing, for example, that they're going to get calcium absorption. Well, calcium can't absorb in a non-acidic environment.
Mike: That's right.
Kunin: It's really quite comical.
Mike: Yes.
Kunin: But trimethoglycine is a magical amino acid that affects your digestion. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Sustained high Cortisol levels destroy healthy muscle and bone, slow down healing and normal cell regeneration, deplete the necessary biochemicals to make other vital hormones, impair digestion, dull mental processes, interfere with healthy endocrine function, and weaken the immune system. If you are stressed out, high Cortisol levels will also compromise your metabolism and cement more pounds around your middle.
In addition, when the adrenals are chronically overworked and are straining to maintain high Cortisol levels, they lose the capacity to produce DHEA in sufficient amounts. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 DIABETES: The type of fiber found in figs may reduce the risk of developing adult-onset diabetes (type 2) by slowing down the digestion and absorption of sugars in foods.
Tips on Using Figs
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Fresh figs: Choose figs that are slightly soft and bent at the neck. They can only be refrigerated for approximately 2 to 3 days after harvest.
• Dried figs: The white "frost" that occurs on figs is called "sugaring" and it is a natural occurrence when sugars from the fig rise to the surface. Keep refrigerated to reduce "frost."
• Figs also come in juice concentrate and pastes. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Because they are not processed or treated (just gathered and cleaned), they provide the natural enzymes necessary for healthy digestion. If you were not raised on raw organic vegetables or foods, it may be difficult for you to make the transition from cooked, fried, and processed foods. Take it slowly and start by eating fresh fruit for breakfast every morning. After you've done that for a week or so, start eliminating one toxic food plus one toxic beverage every week until you have accomplished the goal of reducing your daily "toxic threshold. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| They are an excellent source of soluble and insoluble fiber, beneficial for regulating cholesterol, blood glucose, and digestion. Flax is a superb source of lignans, plant compounds that act like a weak form of estrogen. Some scientists believe that lignans may protect against certain kinds of cancer, particularly breast and colon cancer.
Home Remedies
Flax is known as a "blessed plant" that can bring good fortune, restore health, and protect against witchcraft. Historically, flax has been used to relieve abdominal pains, coughs, boils, skin abscesses, and constipation.
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Jeffrey M. Smith
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 RNA is stable, survives digestion and, can impact gene expression in mammals that ingest it.
3. The impact can be passed on to future generations.
4. Genetic modification introduces new DNA combinations and mutations, which increase the Hkelihood that harmful regulatory RNA will be accidentally produced.
Novel RNA may be harmful to humans and their offspring
RNA has a far more important role in controlling gene expression and cellular processes than previously thought. |
| The liver also synthesizes material used in the blood and in digestion, and has a significant influence on general metabolism. Increased liver metabolism in GM-fed rats may be a response to elevated levels of toxins, to new toxins, or both. Furthermore, the study points to GM soy as the source of these changes in liver function. This was confirmed after the GM soy was substituted by non-GM soy and most of the changes to the liver cells disappeared.62
The GM and non-GM soy diet was first fed to the pregnant mothers of the mice, and then to the mice after weaning. |
| Consumption of GM crops with misfolded proteins could theoretically trigger diseases, since "hazardous aggregates of proteins survive digestion and are distributed throughout the human body." A difficulty in safety assessment of GM crops is that "exposure to some aggregated proteins in the amyloid form can take decades to produce an effect."12
One of the most well-known examples of dangerous misfolded aggregated proteins are prions (proteinaceous infectious particles), responsible for mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the deadly Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in humans. |
| Rather than using animal or human subjects to see if their proteins survive digestion, safety assessments rely on an inferior, but less expensive method. They put GM protein into test tubes with digestive enzymes (pepsin) and, acid and measure how quickly the protein is broken down.
Test tube studies, however, do not accurately predict what happens inside the human gut. Several animal studies demonstrate that GM proteins, which break down quickly in test tubes, survive much longer in the actual digestive system. |
| It is transmitted through food in other animals, where it survives degradation in bacteria producing the molecule and digestion in the animal gut. The medical literature is already exploring the use of exogenously developed dsRNA as therapeutics.67 Delivery mechanism in mammals include through food68 and injection.69 Injection of dsRNA into the tail of a mouse affects gene expression in broadly distributed organs,70 thus demonstrating its stability and transmissibility inside mammals."71
INBI further cites a study in which "Mice were fed E. coli expressing dsRNA.... |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 These drugs improve the appetite and digestion and remove stagnated food. They are usually used to treat dyspepsia or indigestion. The most commonly used drugs relieving food stagnation are Crataegi (fruit), Hordei germinatus (fruit), Oiyzae germi-natus (fruit), and Raphani (seed).
DRUGS EXPELLING PARASITES
These drugs are used to treat roundworm, tapeworm, pinworm, hookworm, and other intestinal parasites. Some of these drugs are toxic. Overdosage may cause side effects or toxicity. |
Jack Challem
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 Normally, the acid environment of the stomach helps to break food down for further digestion. Throughout the digestive tract, hundreds of species of good bacteria also help to break down food, enhance immune function, and protect us from infection. Acid-suppressing drugs alter the environment within the digestive tract. They increase our risk of developing atrophic gastritis, which throws a wrench into the absorption of vitamin B12, vitamin C, and likely many other nutrients. They may also reduce calcium absorption, which would explain the greater risk of having a hip fracture. |
Roberta Bivins
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 These bodies interact, through perception and digestion, with the physical environment and the social structure; they are affected by and affect changing mental states. Religion too plays a role in each system, underpinning cosmological beliefs and offering an additional explanatory mode: supernatural as well as natural entities and actions could cause illness. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Proper digestion begins in the mouth with proper chewing! Chewing your food will help your body absorb vital nutrients better and faster and will help with the cleansing process. See Chapter 6—The Colon Diet for more details and tips on choosing healthful foods.
The 6-Day Oxygen Colon Cleanse
Days 1 to 6
UPON AWAKENING
1. Make your daily Intestinal Cleanser drink. Drink 20 ounces from the time you make your drink till the time you eat breakfast.
2. Repeat the following Affirmation 9 times: / Am Clean and Healthy. BREAKFAST
1. |
Elaine Magee
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 In the body, they go to work during digestion, displacing dietary cholesterol in the cells lining the small intestine (where cholesterol is normally absorbed). The less dietary cholesterol absorbed through the intestines, the less cholesterol enters the bloodstream.
According to a recent scientific review, a diet enriched with plant sterols can, on average, reduce LDL cholesterol by approximately 10 percent. So how much is enough? The review also revealed that the favorable effect on LDL appears to be at its greatest at a dose of 2 grams a day. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Ayurvedic Medicine
In this ancient healing tradition, which originated in India, candidiasis is considered to be a condition caused by ama, the improper digestion of foods, according to Ayurvedic practitioner Virender Sodhi, MD, ND. As do other alternative physicians, Dr. Sodhi attributes this malfunction, and thus candidiasis, to environmental stress, society's addiction to sugar in the diet, and widespread use of antibiotics, birth-control pills, and hormones. "Ayurvedic medicine believes that these stresses on the system cause carbohydrates to be digested improperly," he says. |
Tom Bohager
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 High Amylase Formula when food cravings arise
Purpose: To overcome symptoms of allergies and for the proper digestion of carbohydrates, especially grains, raw vegetables, and legumes Each serving should contain approximately:
Amylase blend
22,000 DU
Cellulase blend
400 CU
Glucoamylase
30 AGU
Lactase
300 LacU
Alpha-galactosidase
1,000 GALU
Maltase
300 DP
Protease blend
15,000 HUT
Pectinase
20 endo-PG
Lipase blend
150 FCCFIP
ARTHRITIS
Arthritis is characterized by inflammation, pain, swelling, stiffness, and redness of the joints. |
| Recommendations include liver detoxification, the addition of enzymes to a well-balanced diet, and supplemental nutritional products to improve one's overall digestion and absorption of nutrients. In addition, avoiding excess exposure to the sun and nutritional support of the hormonal and immune systems would be beneficial. |
| Aside from improved digestion and nutrient absorption, enzymes can also balance the pH of the body, strengthen the immune system, reduce inflammation, and help detoxify the body. |
| Enzyme therapy can be used to improve digestion, support proper and balanced functioning of the immune system, support the adrenal glands, and reduce the allergic symptoms. |
| Enzymes can also be used to improve digestion, particularly of mucus-producing foods like dairy foods, and reduce inflammation and the excess production of mucus. |
| To support the health of the pituitary gland, enzymes can be used to improve digestion and nutrient absorption, support the proper functioning of the immune system, and improve hormonal balance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Early research on the health benefits of RNA supplementation
Mike: The conventional view of the digestion and assimilation of nucleic acids has always been that if everything is broken down into individual aminos, then that is the only way they get in the blood stream, and then they are rebuilt from there. Individual peptides and amino acids really matter. Those become almost pharmaceuticals in the body, only natural medicine instead.
Dr. Liers: Dr. |
Elaine Magee
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| Slows down digestion, so it takes longer for the stomach to empty into the small intestines, which helps you feel fuller longer
2. Reduces the amount of insulin the pancreas releases after meals, helping steady blood sugar levels
3. Forms a gel that binds bile acids in the intestinal tract, so they're excreted faster, reducing the amount of cholesterol absorbed in the intestine
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Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 When they're working correctly, these aid digestion by stimulating more neurons, releasing nitric oxide (which aids anal relaxation), and releasing a substance called acetylcholine, which helps stimulate colon contractions so you can go to the bathroom. It also allows you to move gas through the intestines without sensing discomfort.
As food enters your stomach from your esophagus, your stomach mixes it up. Your stomach serves as your body's washing machine—mixing foods with acids, breaking apart foods into different nutrients. |
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