David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Studies that use placebos give the medication under study to some volunteers and another agent that they know has no effect to others. In studies that are double-blind, neither the researchers nor the volunteers know which drug they are getting. In single-blind studies, the researchers know but the volunteers do not. See our discussion of scientific research in chapter 4.
Adaptogens: An Overview
Adaptogens are remarkable natural substances that help the body adapt to stress, support normal metabolic functions, and help restore balance. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Research volunteers ate a daily dish of tomato paste and olive oil for 10 weeks. They got 16 milligrams of lycopene per day from this mixture. Other volunteers were given olive oil, but no tomato paste or lycopene.
Lycopene-eating volunteers showed 40 percent less sunburn than the other volunteers after week 10. The lycopene may have helped the skin defend itself against UV damage — and maybe fend off future wrinkles and skin cancer, too.
Just remember - this protection takes time to kick in. Lycopene eaters didn't see any skin protection until week 10.
Round up wrinkle fighters. |
Ray Dodd
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 Schooler showed volunteers a 30-second video depicting a man robbing a bank. After watching the video, all the volunteers spent 20 minutes on an unrelated task. At that point, half of the group was asked to write a detailed description of the robber's face. These volunteers were encouraged to focus on each of the criminal's facial features and jot down their memories. The rest of the group spent their time on a second task unrelated to the video.
All the volunteers then tried to identify the robber's face from an array of eight photographs. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Other volunteers were given olive oil, but no tomato paste or lycopene.
Lycopene-eating volunteers showed 40 percent less sunburn than the other volunteers after week 10. The lycopene may have helped the skin defend itself against UV damage — and maybe fend off future wrinkles and skin cancer, too.
Just remember - this protection takes time to kick in. Lycopene eaters didn't see any skin protection until week 10.
Round up wrinkle fighters. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In another study 399 volunteers were given either echinacea or placebo and then were exposed to the cold virus. There were no differences in the percentage of volunteers who became infected in the echinacea group (81%) vs. the placebo group (85%) or in other laboratory measures of infection. Based on these studies echinacea treatment of the common cold is not justified.
PROBIOTICS
Probiotics are live microbial supplements taken to improve the microbial balance of the colon. Probiotics are used more commonly in Europe than in the U.S. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 In thirty-four of the thirty-five volunteers, plaque deposition was clearly decreased by rinsing with the tea polyphenols, even though the volunteers were not brushing or flossing, suggesting that polyphenols have powerful anti-plaque properties. No adverse side effects were reported by the study participants.8
Green tea polyphenols also reduce the risk of cavities by increasing the resistance of the tooth to the actions of cavity-causing bacteria. |
Stacy Malkan
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 So, after amassing 2,000 volunteers, they went door-to-door one day in November 2002 asking people to fill out a health survey and give a dollar for cancer research. Judi wasn't sure if residents would just slam their doors; instead, people wanted to talk and talk about their experiences with cancer. Before long the volunteers raised close to $150,000 to fund a research project to map cancer rates in the towns of Marin. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| In studies that are double-blind, neither the researchers nor the volunteers know which drug they are getting. In single-blind studies, the researchers know but the volunteers do not. See our discussion of scientific research in chapter 4.
Adaptogens: An Overview
Adaptogens are remarkable natural substances that help the body adapt to stress, support normal metabolic functions, and help restore balance. They increase the body's resistance to physical, biological, emotional, and environmental stressors and provide a defense response to acute or chronic stress. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In a second phase of the study, researchers will inject diabetic volunteers with a compound called BCG, which, like the compound given to mice to kill off errant T cells, stimulates the human immune system in a way that eliminates only the faulty T cells that attack beta cells. The study, which will include forty patient volunteers, will be double-blind—patients will either receive a placebo (no drug) or BCG. The researchers will evaluate whether BCG reduces the number of defective cells that attack and kill the insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetics. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Her TimeSlips project, in which volunteers both young and old lead storytelling sessions with older individuals, provides patients the opportunity to celebrate their creative narrative instinct and weave themselves into a multigenerational community through storytelling. As patients peer at ambiguous photographs held in front of them, they are encouraged to respond verbally and emotively to open-ended questions asked by volunteers. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| In thirty-four of the thirty-five volunteers, plaque deposition was clearly decreased by rinsing with the tea polyphenols, even though the volunteers were not brushing or flossing, suggesting that polyphenols have powerful anti-plaque properties. No adverse side effects were reported by the study participants.8
Green tea polyphenols also reduce the risk of cavities by increasing the resistance of the tooth to the actions of cavity-causing bacteria. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Eight volunteers ate various combinations of the same foods cooked different ways. All foods that were processed through the microwave ovens caused changes in the blood of the volunteers. Hemoglobin levels decreased and overall white cell levels and cholesterol levels increased. Lymphocytes decreased.
The fourth piece of information concerns the carcinogens created when the food is microwaved. In Dr. |
Mark Sircus
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 A 10-year clinical study that involved 1,441 volunteers with insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) was recently completed by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The study proved that keeping blood sugar levels as close to the normal range as possible slows the onset and progression of nerve disease caused by diabetes. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) studied two groups of volunteers: those who followed a standard diabetes management routine and those who intensively managed their diabetes. |
| Another study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, through blood sampling, "found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers. The people tested did not work with chemicals on the job or live near an industrial facility. The body burden of a total of 167 chemicals found in the volunteers, showed 76, which cause cancer in humans or animals, 94, which are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 that cause birth defects or abnormal development. |
Ray Dodd
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| After watching the video, all the volunteers spent 20 minutes on an unrelated task. At that point, half of the group was asked to write a detailed description of the robber's face. These volunteers were encouraged to focus on each of the criminal's facial features and jot down their memories. The rest of the group spent their time on a second task unrelated to the video.
All the volunteers then tried to identify the robber's face from an array of eight photographs. About one-third of those who wrote a description picked out the correct face. |
Mark Sircus
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| DDE, which were detected in all but one of the 155 volunteers.
?Ten chemicals were found in more than 95 per cent of volunteers
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9 The earliest types of chelation involved synthetic agents such as BAL, penicillamin e and EDTA administered intravenously for acute toxic metal poisoning. Subsequently, DMSA and DMPS were utilized, first intravenously and later orally and now even transdermally. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The Irish volunteers, perhaps 40,000 in number, were raised in 1778 when France and the American colonies became allies in the War of Independence. The volunteers soon became a political movement. A political and military convention in 1779 held out for free trade between Britain and Iteland, a demand that was conceded by a British government unwilling to fight both America and Ireland. The volunteers remained a force in being, a political lever, and a threat to English hegemony, until the Act of Union in 1801. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is where they take the bodies of dead volunteers (who volunteered before they died, obviously), strip off their skin and body fat, then prop them up into dynamic poses where they are plasticized through a rather technical chemical process involving aspartame, sodium nitrite and yeast extract. Think Weekend at Bernie's, without the skin.
I'm not making this up. Click here to see the Body Worlds website for yourself. BodyWorlds coordinators prefer volunteers who drink a lot of diet soda, since their bodies are already half chemically preserved from the moment of death. |
Bottom Line Health
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| A vaccine that we developed against ri-cin is safe and it elicited antibodies in human volunteers," says lead researcher Ellen Vitetta, director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center.
To determine whether the antibodies would prevent ricin poisoning, Vitetta's team tested the human antibodies in mice that had been injected with active ricin. The mice survived.
DEVELOPMENT WILL TAKE TIME
While this small study is encouraging, the actual development of the vaccine may take some time, Vitetta says. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| There were no differences in the percentage of volunteers who became infected in the echinacea group (81%) vs. the placebo group (85%) or in other laboratory measures of infection. Based on these studies echinacea treatment of the common cold is not justified.
PROBIOTICS
Probiotics are live microbial supplements taken to improve the microbial balance of the colon. Probiotics are used more commonly in Europe than in the U.S., with the highest usage in France (thirty-two doses per day per 1,000 people). |
Bottom Line Health
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| The study volunteers were randomly assigned to one of two groups: One group received standard intravenous chemotherapy, consisting of the drugs paclitaxel and cisplatin. The other group received intravenous and intraperitoneal paclitaxel and intraperitoneal cisplatin in higher doses than what was given to the intravenous-only group. Paclitaxel was delivered through both methods in this group because it doesn't spread throughout the body as well as abdominally delivered cisplatin, according to Armstrong, the author of the study. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Instead, these volunteers rinsed their mouths with tea extract before and after eating and before bed. Rinsing with the tea greatly reduced the deposition of cavity-promoting plaque. Other studies, which grew Streptococcus mutans (the bacteria responsible for dental plaque) in the laboratory, confirm that green tea polyphenols inhibit the growth of this cavity-causing bacteria.9
UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF GREEN TEA
Each day, the world's tea drinkers enjoy more than one and a half billion cups of tea. Only water is consumed in greater quantities. |
| At the beginning of the study, only half of the volunteers reported regular bowel movements, but the number increased to more than 80 percent after twelve weeks of a diet supplemented with green tea polyphenols.8 Animal studies have shown similar improvements in intestinal digestion after ingesting green tea, indicated by a noticeably reduced odor from the feces.9
GREEN TEA AS AN ULCER PREVENTIVE
Ulcers are a common problem, affecting one out of every ten people at some time in their lifetime. |
| Then, for each of two four-day periods, the volunteers followed experimental oral hygiene procedures. In the first period, they ate a normal diet but refrained from all oral hygiene other than rinsing their mouths with a solution containing tea polyphenols after each meal and before bed. In the second period, they followed the same regimen, but the mouth rinse did not contain any active ingredients. At the end of each study period, bacteria counts were taken again and another dental examination was conducted. |
Mike Adams
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 The defenders of MSG safety frequently cite a study in which human volunteers were fed large doses of MSG combined with a mixed meal of protein and carbohydrates. Only 10 percent developed a headache. Most were unaffected. But when the study was repeated using 14 human volunteers, this time keeping the subjects without food overnight, all developed headaches, tightness in the chest, and other symptoms of neurological toxicity related to MSG. So merely going without food overnight can greatly increase the toxicity of MSG. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Interestingly, the sleep-curtailed volunteers had no sense of the extent of their cognitive impairment.
To get proper sleep, avoid late-evening liquids, which cause you to get up to use the bathroom, and avoid exercise that hypes you up so much that you can't settle down. Establish a regular bedtime and wake time. Avoid daytime naps that last for more than 20 minutes.
Get enough sleep to feel rested—for most people age 50 or older, six to seven hours is enough.
•Learn a "relaxation response. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Several large studies have been conducted at the University of Georgia, one of which analyzed seventy controlled, randomized trials that included 6,807 volunteers. The investigators found that in more than 90 percent of the studies, formerly sedentary people who stayed with a regular exercise routine, including those who had medical conditions such as diabetes, experienced an improvement in fatigue compared to people who did not exercise.
Regular physical activity is very good for you—physically, emotionally, mentally—and deep down you know it. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| During four two-week periods, the volunteers were given different beverages at each of their three meals: green tea, black tea, decaffeinated black-tea beverages, or a beverage other than tea. Their blood, urine, and feces were analyzed. Green tea resulted in the highest levels of polyphenols in the blood and waste products, followed by black tea, decaffeinated black tea, and no tea treatment. Without a doubt, green tea's polyphenols are absorbed by the body and available for use. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 My most successful patient volunteers, meaning those who permanently change their body and blood chemistry, do so by evolving to a diet that is at least 60 percent raw food. Should you eat mainly raw? That's your decision. Again, do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are.
In a typical day, I might eat the following meals:
Breakfast A green smoothie made from organic fresh or frozen vegetables that I alternate every few days, using rice, hemp, or whey protein powder, combined with a cup of frozen berries, a whole small apple, flaxseeds, and some cinnamon. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The normal volunteers and the untreated patients have results on the two test sessions that tend to lie on or along the
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This graph plots the results of a study showing effects of structural integration massage on balance in CFS and FM patients compared to the untreated patients and normal controls. dashed line. In contrast, patients undergoing the structural integration massage tended to have their points shifted up from the dashed line. |
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