Gabriel Cousens
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 Hyperinsulinemia, a metabolic time bomb, is associated with a whole series of chronic degenerative diseases. Not only is it a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, but is linked with the rise in plasma free radicals associated with oxidative stress, which contributes to heart disease and actually decreased brain function. Cell damage resulting from elevated insulin and blood sugar levels can lead to degenerative diseases such as hypertension and cancer.
Chronically elevated blood sugar contributes also to the formation of advanced glycation end products, also known as AGEs. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Too often, it seems, the antioxidant defenses of the body are overwhelmed, and free-radical damage accumulates and contributes to degenerative diseases. Just as a general reinforces an army with new troops, we can reinforce our body's defenses with antioxidant nutrients in our diet.
As it becomes increasingly clear that antioxidant enzymes produced in the body and the antioxidant vitamins consumed in the diet cannot completely protect all of the body's cells from oxidative damage, other antioxidants in plants, including the polyphenols found in green tea, are gaining attention. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Meat—A Major Cause of Disease and Aging
Populations that eat meat regularly have the shortest life spans and the highest incidence of degenerative diseases. According to published reports of national health statistics from around the world, one out of two people in the industrialized world will die from heart disease or a related blood vessel disease. In other words, heart disease is the leading killer disease in the world, with cancer following closely behind. |
| Ever since refined polyunsaturated fats have been introduced to the population on a large scale during and after WWII, degenerative diseases have increased dramatically, skin cancer being one of them. In fact, polyunsaturated fats have made sunlight "dangerous," something that would never have been the case if foods hadn't been altered and manipulated, as they are today. When polyunsaturated fats are removed from their natural foods, they need to be refined, deodorized, and even hydrogenated, depending on the food product for which they are used. |
| According to a study published in the Lancet in 1985, if children develop "mild measles" as a result of receiving the vaccine, the accompanying underdeveloped rash may be responsible for causing degenerative diseases such as cancer later in life.
In reality, measles is not a dangerous childhood illness at all. The belief that measles can lead to blindness is a myth that finds it roots in an increased sensitivity to light during illness. This problem subsides when the room is dimmed and vanishes completely with recovery. |
Bill Sardi
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 Widely promoted on the internet and elsewhere is a simple test of salivary acidity or alkalinity which is said to "measure your susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis and many other degenerative diseases."
Health Test pH paper, range 4.5 to 7.5 pH 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 iiiiii acidic + alkaline 1_
At one website visitors are invited to test the pH of their saliva. If your pH is 7.5 the website says "you are healthy." If your pH is below 6.0, then "you have contracted at least one degenerative disease." (pH of 7.0 is neutral, not acidic nor alkaline. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Externally, mustard is used in poultices for catarrhs of the respiratory tract, for topical hyperemization of the skin as well as for segment therapy of chronic degenerative diseases affecting the joints and soft tissue. Mustard baths are used in the treatment of paralytic symptoms.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Mustard is contraindicated in gastrointestinal ulcers and inflammatory kidney diseases. The drug should not be given to children under 6 years of age. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Since his practice often involves treating the mental problems of patients who are suffering from chronic degenerative diseases, he certainly has a thorough understanding of how these diseases can affect a person's life.
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The growing shift to alternative health care should serve as a wake-up call to the medical community. People are becoming more and more frustrated with the health-care system that their medical insurance covers. So they are frequently resorting to self-help methods and alternative care for answers, even though they have to foot the bill. |
| After practicing medicine for more than three decades, I find greatly disturbing the prospects of the pain and suffering that chronic degenerative diseases can bring to both myself and my patients.
That's why I wrote this book; that's why I recommend preventive rather than post-problem medicine. But I need to define what I mean by preventive.
Traditional Preventive Medicine (Early Detection)
The health-care community prides itself on promoting preventive care. But have you ever given that approach much thought? |
| In this age of biochemical research, we are now able to determine what is happening in every part of each cell, and the very essence of degenerative diseases is now coming to light. As such, I recommend this book to physicians who are willing to look objectively at medical evidence.
If you are a patient, don't expect your physician to jump onto the bandwagon immediately. Vitamins are a hot issue within the medical field. What Your Doctor Doesn't Know is, as I said, the outcome of more than seven years of personal research into the medical literature as it pertains to nutritional medicine. |
| Simply stated, when we overwork our built-in antioxidant defense and repair systems, significant damage occurs to the body and eventually may lead to any one of a number of chronic degenerative diseases. Biochemical researchers realized years ago that based on their estimates of damaged cells from oxidative stress, we would die quickly from this damage to vital cellular parts if the antioxidant enzymes and compounds were our only means of protection." This is why it is essential that we optimize all of these natural defense systems. |
| Scientific research has established beyond a shadow of doubt that oxidative stress, or cell damage by free radicals, is the root cause of more than seventy chronic degenerative diseases.2 The same process that causes iron to rust or a cut apple to turn brown is the underlying initiator of diseases like coronary artery disease, cancer, strokes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's dementia, and macular degeneration.
That is right: we are actually rusting on the inside. Every chronic degenerative disease I have mentioned is the direct result of the toxic effects of oxygen. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Preventing DNA Strand Breaks
As we saw in the previous chapter, free radicals are the underlying instigators of a number of degenerative diseases afflicting man, and cancer is one of them. Of the various types of cellular damage that can be caused by free radicals, damage to DNA (our genetic blueprint) is potentially the most dangerous to the whole animal. When DNA replicates itself, unrepaired damage caused by free radicals is preserved through inappropriate base substitutions and often even magnified in the succeeding DNA generations. |
| A process in which one or more electrons are removed from an atom or molecule, especially as a part of the process of free radical damage to cells, tissues, and organs that is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases.
Pancreas. An organ in the abdomen responsible for producing and secreting several digestive enzymes and the hormone insulin.
Periodontal disease. A serious dental condition in which the gums are inflamed and may recede from the tooth, and teeth may loosen. pH. A measure of the acidity and alkalinity of a solution. |
Tom Bohager
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 The cats fed cooked and pasteurized milk developed common degenerative diseases such a diabetes and arthritis, while the group of cats fed only raw food prospered, living much longer than the cats from the other groups. Dr. Pottenger reported the underlying nutritional factor had to be a substance that was destroyed by the heat used in the cooking and pasteurization processes; the raw foods not exposed to this processing maintained this substance (enzymes), while the cooked and processed food did not. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| A highly reactive compound that damages cell membranes and other cell components, contributing to degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, premature aging, cataracts, and arthritis. Free radicals are found in air pollution, tobacco smoke, some foods, and pesticides. Some are produced by ultraviolet radiation; they are also manufactured during normal body processes. Chemically, free radicals have single, unshared electrons that are responsible for their high reactivity.
French paradox. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| If toxins are not eliminated from the colon on a regular basis, they leak into the bloodstream through what is termed "leaky gut syndrome,"8 and cause degenerative diseases throughout the body.
Okay, so where exactly do all of these toxins originate? More importantly, what can we do to prevent toxicity and maintain our precious health? You already know our environment is in pretty bad shape, but do you know why toxins are hurting us or how they're doing it?
An unhealthy living environment leads to disease! |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Since free radicals influence the body at such a basic level, antioxidants are an important line of defense against degenerative diseases. Cancer researchers have concluded that cancer is the consequence of the accumulation of cell damage, often caused by free radicals.
The Antioxidant Family
This chart lists antioxidants and their health benefits.
Nutrient
Benefit
Flavonoids
Prevent the formation of free radicals; protect vitamin C.
Vitamin C
Neutralizes free radicals in the watery areas of the body such as the blood and within cells; recycles vitamin E. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Although certain free radicals actually play an important role in metabolic processes, excessive or undesirable free radicals contribute to many health problems: they attack cell membranes, can interact with DNA to create mutations that may lead to cancer, and have been implicated in various degenerative diseases and the aging process itself. To counter the effects of free radicals, our bodies manufacture antioxidants or rely on outside sources of antioxidants, which serve the function of scavenging for free radicals, binding with them, and eliminating them. |
| When imbalances occur in any part of the body's detoxification system, the result can be poor digestion, constipation, bloating and gas, immune dysfunction, reduced liver function, sleep disorders, and a host of degenerative diseases. Detoxification can reduce or
The Digestive System
Digestion begins in the mouth, then food travels to the stomach (1), where it is further broken down by gastric juices. |
| Increasingly, toxicity is being identified as the predisposing factor in a long list of acute and chronic illnesses, including sleep disorders, environmental illness, chronic fatigue, degenerative diseases, and cancer.5 "The current level of chemicals in the food and water supply and the indoor and outdoor environment has lowered our threshold of resistance to disease and has altered our body's metabolism, causing enzyme dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies, and hormonal imbalances," says Marshall Mandell, MD, a pioneer in environmental medicine. |
Ron Garner
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 The storage of waste products results in congestion, which sets the stage for degenerative diseases.
To help the body maintain its efficiency, our major time for eating and digesting mostly solid food should be roughly between noon and 8 p.m. Absorption and assimilation takes place over the next few hours. Complete elimination of cellular wastes requires the remaining hours until late morning to complete.
When we eat breakfast we are "breaking-the-fast"—the overnight time of no food intake. |
| Results of The China Study, described as "the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted," concludes that chronic degenerative diseases occur at significantly higher rates where diets are richer in animal products.9
The typical North American diet supplies 90-150 grams of protein per day. Authorities are now recommending as little as 20 grams per day, with vegetable protein being seen as more beneficial than animal protein. Consuming 47 grams or more per day will result in a net loss of calcium from body stores with long-term adverse effects on all body systems. |
| A lack of essential amino acids in the diet leads to hormonal imbalances and degenerative diseases.
Bowel Flora
Bowel flora are friendly bacteria, or probiotics, that live and work in the intestinal tract. After enzymes, friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract comprise the only other group of organisms that perform healthy transactions in our bodies. They are a necessary part of the biological process because they produce enzymes, vitamins, and antibiotics, and create electrical matrices that can inhibit cancers, deactivate viruses, reduce cholesterol, and enhance the immune system. |
| Over time, this leads to enzyme, vitamin, and mineral deficiencies, and eventually, to degenerative diseases.
In a healthy diet, enzymes must be part of all food. They must be part of every supplement. No food or supplement has healing and normalizing abilities except when it is functioning in combination with specific enzymes.
Enzymes Are Part of a Team
Although enzymes perform important functions on their own in the body, other nutritional building blocks must have the assistance of enzymes to be able to contribute to health. |
| Howell concluded that, since cooking routinely destroys enzymes in food, a diet devoid of enzymes would result in enlargement of the pancreas, leading to an increase in chronic degenerative diseases and cancer. The pancreas is the master gland of digestion. It increases in size in an attempt to produce more enzymes in the absence of a healthy food source. Eventually, it gives in to deficiencies and exhaustion, and succumbs to disease.
Enzymes create and support all bodily functions. Staying young and healthy depends on keeping enzyme activity in our bodies at an optimum level. |
| A wide variety of degenerative diseases such as endocarditis and other heart diseases, kidney and bladder diseases, arthritis, rheumatism, mental diseases, lung problems, pregnancy complications, and almost any degenerative problem, can be transferred to rabbits from bacteria in extracted teeth that were diseased or root-filled. The same problems can result from cavitations (infected areas of the jawbone near an infected tooth, or sockets not properly cleaned out when a tooth is extracted). |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 As the result of its bioenergetic connection to the brain (frontal lobes), this Integrator may link to schizophrenia and certain mental degenerative diseases, although conditions such as Alzheimer disease probably will include distortions in Stomach Driver as well. The bioenergetic effects of heavy metal poisoning and contamination also are expressed through this Integrator because of its robust links to the brain, blood marrow, and stomach, all places where heavy metals tend to accumulate when your body cannot process and expel them. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| A substance that neutralizes free radicals otherwise associated with degenerative diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and premature aging.
Aromatic oils. Constituents of tea primarily responsible for its fra-
Artery. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to other tissues of the body.
Atherosclerosis. A chronic disease in which fatty deposits of plaque restrict or block blood flow in the arteries; commonly known as "hardening of the arteries."
B cell. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Many experts have warned you that many chronic, degenerative diseases will continue to skyrocket as long as people keep plunging themselves in and out of SUGAR SHOCK! by continually eating these potentially dangerous quickie carbs.
But there's great news, too. Compelling studies clearly demonstrate that you can reverse many of your health woes by removing or scaling back inferior, culprit carbs and instead appreciating nutrient-dense, quality carbs and other top-notch foods, upping your activity level, and keeping blood sugar in control. |
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