Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Van Houten's invention of the defatting and alkalizing processes made possible the latge-scale manufacture of cheap chocolate for the masses, in both powdeied and solid form.
Coenraad Van Houten, inventor of defatting and alkalizing processes.
Quaker Capitalists
Some of the most successful entrepreneurs of England's Industrial Revolution were members of the Society of Friends.6 The story of Joseph Fry 6k Son is a case in point. In the mid-18th century, Dr. Joseph Fry, a member of an old Quaker family of Wiltshire, settled in Bristol and set up a large medical practice. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Single-celled microorganisms; some cause disease, while others are harmless or even beneficial to biological processes.
Basal metabolic rate. The rate at which energy is used by a person at rest for maintaining basic body processes, such as breathing and the circulation of fluids.
Bile. A bitter-tasting fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder before being released into the small intestine to assist in the digestion of fats.
Blood pressure. The forces placed on the blood vessels by the flow of blood.
Bone marrow. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Besides being a cancer factor, trans fats promote heart disease, interrupt metabolic processes, and cause belly fat that crowd the organs and strain the heart. The essential fatty acids that the hydrogenation process removes are responsible for a number of processes in your body. When trans fats replace these essential fatty acids, they occupy the same space without doing the same job. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| How They Make Chocolate
Our readers are by now probably aware that almost all aspects of the processes involved in modern chocolate manufacture were already in place by the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, if not earlier. Essentially, there are three processes, to result in three different products: (1) cocoa powder; (2) dark chocolate; (3) milk chocolate. |
Jack Challem
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 They function as essential cofactors in the thousands of biochemical processes that occur in the body. They are needed to make, repair, and regulate our genes, and many of the B vitamins are involved in regulating blood-sugar and insulin levels.
Minerals. Minerals are also essential cofactors in biochemical processes, and some, such as calcium and magnesium, form part of the structure of our bones. Others, such as chromium, help to maintain normal insulin function.
Vitaminlike nutrients. Many vitaminlike nutrients are found in foods or made by the body in very small quantities. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Just as there are no randomized trials of airline pilots who get recertified in the simulator and those who don't, it's likely that the public would want their pilots to have regular certification processes to make sure they stay sharp. One should expect nothing less from physicians."
The public wants their pilots to have regular certification processes to make sure they stay sharp. One should expect nothing less from physicians.
Gary L. Freed, MD
Dr. Christine K. Cassel, president of the American Board of Internal Medicine, says, "This is a time of tremendous change in healthcare. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Methotrexate (Rheumatrex), a DMARD that is a powerful cancer drug approved for RA, inhibits all cellular processes, including the inflammatory processes that underlie RA progression. Methotrexate can therefore result in suppression of the bone marrow. Because of this risk, patients need to undergo frequent monitoring with blood tests; patients who are unwilling to do so should not take this drug. It should be understood that methotrexate is a major toxin that is used primarily for cancer patients as a last resort. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Food manufacturers use various heating processes to enhance flavor, color, and texture; to improve food safety (sterilization and pasteurization); and to extend shelf life. A byproduct of these processes, unfortunately, is often glycotoxins. Foods as varied as cola drinks, infant formulas, baked goods, caramel, and brewed products contain glycotoxins. Foods high in fat and protein (such as meat and poultry) typically have the highest glycotoxin levels. How you prepare your food (or have it prepared for you if you eat out) can also have a significant impact on the formation of glycotoxins. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Our brain processes information and makes decisions that produce our actions. We often receive competing or contradictory thoughts and impulses. Should we eat that tempting piece of chocolate cake or be good and maintain a healthy lifestyle? Often, without our knowing it, the brain makes the decision based on past programming or an addictive habit.
All of us are hardwired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It is the old carrot and stick routine. We want a bite of the carrot and don't want to get hit by the stick. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Their health benefits are so broad, so helpful for multiple conditions, or so essential for dozens of metabolic processes that I decided to give them their own special category.
Desert Island Cures: These are the supplements I'd like to have with me on a desert island. Choosing which ones belonged in this category was difficult, as you could make a case for dozens more. But if you put a gun to my head, told me I had to join the cast of Survivor for a month, and could only take a few pills with me, these would probably be the ones I'd choose. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Today, vitamins are defined as a group of natural substances found in plants and animal tissue essential in small amounts for metabolic processes. The key word here is essential, which means the human body must have it. Conversely, the definition of a supplement is something added to complete a thing or to make up for a deficiency. Covering what was essential for the diet and what needed to be added to the diet, the term "vitamin supplement" was coined. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 A report by the Institute of Medicine states that the United States still lags behind other countries in research into the processes and contaminants involved in autoimmunity.
Many of the contaminants discussed early in this chapter have been so little tested that we have no real idea as to what role they may be playing in rising autoimmunity rates. PFOA, for example, has barely been studied at all. Despite the fact that it is found in 96 percent of people and the chemical has a half-life of 4. |
Anne Harrington
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 They suggested that Selye had exaggerated the uniformity of the responses seen in different experimental situations, had not adequately defined stress as a concept, and that, in any event, many of his experiments were highly artificial and had little if anything to say about pathophysiological processes seen in a clinical context.24
Instead of backing off or continuing to try to persuade his skeptical colleagues, however, Selye responded by looking outside physiology for allies and supporters. |
| Later, he showed that not just the adrenal gland but also specialized parts of the nervous system (now known as the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems) were centrally involved in such biochemical regulatory processes.14
All of this is famously part of the history of modern physiology. But from our point of view here, Cannon's next move was key. He noted that human beings have the same capacity as other animals for fight or flight reactions; we too have homeostatic systems to help us regulate the use of these reactions in response to environmental challenges and threats. |
| Here Vaillant made reference to the importance of "confidence and faith" in certain therapeutic processes, only to note wryly that he was aware that such encouragements would sound "pretty banal" to readers of that journal. After all, he said, "we are physicians, not purveyors of positive thinking."46
The general sense that positive thinking was a fine ideology for self-help gurus and preachers but of no interest to serious medicine did not begin to change until the second half of the 1970s. Why then? |
| While in this state, they spoke very frankly about their innermost thoughts, seemed to have remarkable control over their bodily processes, and responded to instructions from the magnetizer without hesitation. Not only were subjects typically more intelligent in the somnambulic state than in their normal waking state, but some of them also seemed to develop paranormal knowledge and abilities. It would become common for Puysegur's subjects to diagnose and predict the course of their own disorders and the disorders of others. |
| Today, Mesmer is remembered— if he's remembered at all—as a charlatan, or a showman, or maybe as someone who discovered the existence of psychological processes that he did not himself properly understand. He considered himself, however, to be a child of the dawning enlightened, scientific age. He was interested in the larger implications of Newton's ideas about physical forces and gravitation; and he was skeptical, both of the old supernatural ideas about the world, and of the old authority structures of the Church. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Helenalin seems to be a powerful anti-inflammatory agent, and research from Germany published in the journal Biological Chemistry has shown that helenalin affects an immune chemical called NF-kappa B, which is involved in a number of processes in the body, especially inflammation.
Recently arnica has been shown to be equal to topical ibuprofen in treating osteoarthritis of the hands, a sometimes debilitating condition that produces potentially painful, nodule-like swellings on both sides of the joints. |
| The SCD is based on the principle that "specifically selected carbohydrates requiring minimal digestive processes,are well absorbed and leave virtually none to be used for furthering microbial overgrowth in the intestine," she wrote.
The guidelines for the Specific Carbohydate Diet are, well, very specific. And they have to be followed for a year before adding in any other foods. But thousands of people swear by the diet's effectiveness. General guidelines are no grains (e.g., rice, wheat, corn, or oats); no processed foods; no starchy vegetables (e.g. |
Anne Harrington
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| The basic method involves using instruments to measure and display changes in particular physiological processes, and then to train individuals to use the resulting information to self-regulate their bodies in ways that would normally be impossible for them.
One of the important early pieces of evidence that people might be able to do this had come from the work of psychologists Neal Miller and Leo DiCara. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| In 1997, Gilbert was fascinated by the prospect of opening one of the most tightly shut black boxes of modern medical science: she wanted to see in the lab how cellular processes break down when exposed to an environmental toxin. In particular, she wanted to pinpoint what happens when the body, unable to tolerate the toxic load, begins to destroy its own tissue in an autoimmune response.
And that was a tall order. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The formulas given at the Health Recovery Center vary and are based on an individual's needs, but most include a multivitamin, multi-mineral, B-complex supplement, gamma-linolenic acid, which reduces withdrawal symptoms and improves mental processes, and melatonin for better sleep, according to Mathews-Larson. Some alcoholics receive vitamin and mineral infusions intravenously as well. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Research by scientists at the Cleveland Clinic and elsewhere have also shown that women and men naturally produce different levels of interferon-gamma and that higher levels of interferon-gamma can intensify the MS damage processes and make the disease worse. The fact that men have a lower frequency of the interferon-gamma genetic variant may be part of the reason why men are generally protected from MS.
A PATIENT'S DIAGNOSTIC PORTRAIT
Scientific discovery is often made up of many, many dots that together create a pointillist picture. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Nourish your body with the nutrients it needs to perform the metabolic processes involved in getting rid of viruses, bacteria, and other toxins. Support its immune responses. Stop overwhelming it with poisons, bad food, stress, polluted air, and toxic relationships. Allow it plenty of time to sleep and repair. Give it some sunshine and, yup, some tender loving.
Sound granola-ish? Maybe. But if that's one extreme approach to healing and the other end of the spectrum is heavy medication for symptoms, maybe we could look for something that's a little more of a compromise. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The ingested food can be broken down into its basic nutrient components and made available for the complex metabolic processes in the body only when AGNI, the digestive fire, is strong. AGNI is fueled by bile, without which none of the other digestive juices would be sufficiently effective to break down food into its nutrient components. Bile is alkaline. When food that is saturated with hydrochloric acid enters the small intestine, it first needs to be mixed with bile before digestive enzymes can act on the food. |
| The two compounds are largely responsible for the foul odor of putrefying flesh, but also contribute to the odor of such processes as bad breath and bacterial vaginosis. to occur in the hospital environment where germs are present in larger quantities. In essence, hospitals and their diet plans pose a serious danger to people who are already ill.
The life of a sick child may depend on whether he is able to remove most of the decomposing substances in his intestines before they are absorbed into the bloodstream and lymphatic system. |
| This has a positive effect on the blood, lymph and basic cellular processes. Prill beads can be found in the U.S. though the Internet.
Of course, the old-fashioned method of boiling your drinking water for several minutes causes the chlorine to evaporate.
Finally, another inexpensive way to get rid of most chlorine in water is to use vitamin C. One gram of vitamin C will neutralize lppm (part per million) of chlorine in 100 gallons of water. This is particularly useful if you want to lie in the bathtub without suffering the irritating effects of chlorine on your skin and in your lungs. |
| Infection represents one of the body's most extraordinary processes of self-defense. During this rescue mission, the immune system fights off invading bacteria or viruses that have been "invited" by the host's weakened condition and by the presence of harmful waste material. This engagement of the immune system via an infection is vital to restoring the body's functions. Although these two phenomena appear to be contradictory, they are not. Both are necessary for healing to occur. |
| Utilizing the previously described powerful mind/body connection, the patient may release natural opioids (morphine-type painkillers) from areas of the brain that are activated by certain thought processes. The corresponding neurotransmitters for pain relief are known as endorphins. Endorphins are about forty thousand times more powerful than the strongest heroin.
A patient who develops a cancerous growth may start producing extra amounts of Interleukin II and Interferon to destroy the tumor cells. |
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