Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The research is showing there are obviously other mechanisms in place. So, here's a cool thing about green tea: There are the pump mechanisms that will pump things into the cells and also pump things out of the cells, and green tea can affect those mechanisms.
They've found that if women are undergoing chemotherapy and drinking green tea, that it pumps more chemotherapy inside the tumor cells. They were finding three times the concentration of Adrimyacin, which is a common chemotherapeutic drug used for treating breast cancer, inside the tumor cells in the presence of green tea. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The following are commonly proposed mechanisms by which phytonutrients may protect human health. More research is needed to firmly establish the mechanisms of action of the various phytochemicals.
Phytonutrients may: serve as antioxidants enhance immune response enhance cell-to-cell communication alter estrogen metabolism convert to vitamin A (beta-carotene is metabolized to vitamin A) cause cancer cells to die (apoptosis) repair DNA damage caused by smoking and other toxic exposures detoxify carcinogens through the activation of the cytocrome P450 and Phase II enzyme systems
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Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Instead, we develop other coping mechanisms. We unwind with a drink. We veg out in front of the TV. We take a pill to calm our nerves. We get lost on the Web. We gorge on meals too large for our bodies, too caloric and fat-laden for our health. Each of these coping mechanisms (addictions) is gladly catered to by industries wringing their hands gleefully as they separate you from your money. Each industry grows larger, as do you, while your health deteriorates. How much healthier we could all be if we focused on stress reduction first? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Relationship between dietary fiber and cancer: Metabolic, physiologic, and cellular mechanisms. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med; 183(3):299-310. 1986
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Light TD & Light JA. Acute renal transplant rejection possibly related to herbal medications. Am J Transplant; 3:1608-1609. 2003
Malinow MR et al. Prevention of elevated cholesterolemia in monkeys by alfalfa saponins. Steroids; 29: 105-11. 1977
Molgaard J, von Schenck H & Olsson AG. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For details, see the author's book Lifting the Veil of Duality.
The mechanisms behind the disease process are obscure to most, even to the majority of medical practitioners. Very little is known about the true origins of chronic diseases prevalent today. You may be aware of the risks that can contribute to an illness from which you are suffering, but how diseases manifest—from cause to effect (symptom)—remains elusive unless you begin to see the body and mind from a more holistic viewpoint. |
| The body, while detecting a famine and dehydration, begins the cortisone release mechanisms to try to survive the food and water shortage. When this mechanism reaches a certain level, it will cause an imbalance of the amino acid pool in the blood and lead to an increased breakdown of cell nucleus. The DNA assembly line (double-stranded helix) collapses into its segments of proteins which the body, in turn, uses to restore the amino acid balance to whatever extent possible. These fragments are what tests reveal to be HIV particles. |
| In addition to jeopardizing the water-regulating mechanisms, these painkillers become ineffective because the brain takes over as a direct center for monitoring pain perpetuation (unless, of course, the body is properly hydrated again). If your body produces lasting pain for no apparent reason (not caused by an injury), before drawing any other conclusions, you should interpret this as the body's cry for water and its attempt to remedy an unbalanced condition. Prescription pain medication suppresses the body's primary signal of dehydration. |
| I am using the example of stomach disorders to describe the basic mechanisms leading to disease. Most stomach pains are signals of advanced dehydration of the mucus lining. Consisting of 98 percent water and 2 percent water-holding scaffolding, the mucus layer serves as a natural buffer of protection against stomach acids. The cells below the mucus layer secrete sodium bicarbonate, which is kept there to neutralize any of the hydrochloric acid that may pass through the mucus lining. |
| While suffocating in such an unnatural and toxic environment, the body must take recourse to unusual survival mechanisms. The most affected stomach cells may be forced to alter their genes through what is known as "cell mutation." It may seem that these mutating, "out-of-control" cells have lost their awareness of being an integral part of the body. However, just like everything the body does, the alteration of the genetic programs of these cells serves a useful purpose, that of removing and absorbing some of the acidic metabolic waste products and other harmful material. |
| Not knowing the true mechanisms of healing, doctors and patients alike tend to blame the body for making the "mistake" of interfering with and preventing the seemingly uncontrolled decomposition of some of it parts. Inflammation is the body's genuine and intentional effort at self-preservation. It is an integral and necessary part of almost every disease process, or shall I say, healing response. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 There are mechanisms to adjust the intake of liquids when the total water in the body is high or low. When body fluid stores get low, the mouth feels dry. This thirst encourages drinking to build up body stores of water. When body stores of
Figure 7-3 How water enters the body. fluids are high, it is thought that stretch receptors in the stomach signal the brain to stop drinking. Stretch receptors in the bladder signal when it is time to release water. Sensors in the heart also monitor blood volume. Too much water is rarely a problem because it is so easily eliminated. |
| THREE OTHER ENHANCERS OF IRON ABSORPTION
There are three other enhancers of iron absorption. The mechanisms of action and the amount of the increases in absorption of these enhancers are not known at present. First, the presence of heme iron acts as an enhancer of non-heme iron absorption. Second, fermented foods such as sauerkraut and fermented soy sauce can enhance the absorption of iron from a meal. Third, several food acids, such as citric acid, increase iron absorption. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Gobel H, Schmidt G, Dworschak M, Stolze H, Heuss D, (1995b) Essential plant oils and headache mechanisms. Phytomedicine 2:93-103.
Gobel H, Schmidt G, Effekt von Pfefferminz- und Eukalyptusolpraparationen in experimentellen Kopfschmerzmodellen. In: ZPT 16(l):23-33. 1995.
Gobel H, Schmidt G, Soyka D, (1994) Effect of peppermint and eucalyptus oil preparations on neurophysiological and experimental algesimetric headache parameters. Cephalalgia 14:228-234.
Grafe AK, Besonderheiten der Arzneimittel therapie im Sauglings- und Kindesalter. In: PZ 140(30):2659-2667. 1995. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Eucalyptus oil poisoning among children: mechanisms of access and the potential for prevention. AustNZJPublic Health; 21:297-302. 1997
Fox N. Effect of Camphor, Eucalyptol and Menthol on the vascular state of the mucos membrane. Arch Otolaryngol; 6:112-122. 1977
Gardulf A, Wohlfart I, Gustafson R. A prospective crosss-over field trial shows protection of lemon eucalyptus against tick bites. J Med Entomol; 41 (6): 1064-1067. 2004.
Gobel H, Schmidt G. Effekt von Pfefferminz- und Eukalyptusolpraparationen in experimentellen Kopfschmerzmodellen. Z Phytother; 16:23-33. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 By correcting what they feel are the driving mechanisms of alcohol cravings, they believe they can offer alcoholics more than just the ability to learn to coexist with their symptoms.
"Scratch an alcoholic and you will find a hypoglycemic," says Mathews-Larson, whose Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis has treated alcoholics with vitamins, minerals, and amino acids for several decades. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Intravenous eugenol causes hemorrhagic lung edema in rats: proposed oxidant mechanisms. J Lab Clin Med; 125(2):257-264. 1995
Yukawa TA, Kurokawa M, Sato H et al. Prophylactic treatment of cytomegalovirus infection with traditional herbs. Antiviral Res; 32(2):63-70.1996
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Lycopodium clavatum description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the spores and the fresh plant.
Flower and Fruit: Sulfur yellow, minute spores, carried in large numbers in 2 to 3 cylindrical yellow-green cones, develop in August at the ends of leafy, 15-cm high stalks extending from aerial branches. |
| Wound-Healing Effects: Inhibition of histamine-induced capillary hyperpermeability and protection from capillary fragility were demonstrated as a potential mechanisms for the observed wound healing of Bilberry. The influence of Bilberry extract on mucopolysaccharides may be responsible for its wound healing effects (Cristoni & Magistretti, 1987). |
Bill Sardi
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 Cancer authorities now speak of universal mechanisms that can be manipulated to block the growth, spread and recurrence of cancer. This can be accomplished through the informed use of foods and dietary supplements years in advance of the discovery of a tumor, during conventional treatment, as stand-alone cancer treatment, or when cancer is in remission to prevent recurrence. |
| If only we could learn how to tap into these mechanisms!
Can some people be genetically resistant to cancer?
The current thinking is that it is possible that some human beings may be genetically resistant to developing cancer. At least this has been demonstrated in animals. Zheng Cui, of the Department of Pathology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, discovered a mouse that resisted cancer even when large doses of cancer cells were injected into its body.
At first, Cui thought he had made a mistake. |
| Their mechanisms of action are not fully understood. HYAL-1 is the predominant form of hyaluronidase and the loss of HYAL-1 often correlates with tumor progression, particularly tobacco-related cancers. [Cancer Letters 163: 95-101, 2001]
Hyaluronidase can be employed in the treatment of cancer. In studies where human breast cancer cells have been implanted in animals, hyaluronidase given intravenously shrinks the tumors to half their size in just four days. |
| Actually, vitamin C blocks cancer by a variety of mechanisms.
Vitamin C elevates the production of macrophage cells that literally digest cancer cells. Macrophages are part of the immune system.
2Vitamin C is required for collagen production in the body. Collagen (also called connective tissue), is the "god' in between living cells. Collagen is a barrier against the spread of cancer.
3Vitamin C, by virtue of its ability to generate collagen production, helps to maintain smooth cells (called endothelium) which prevent cancer cells from sticking to the inside of blood vessels. |
| One of the mechanisms by which butyrate inhibits colon cancer is its ability to promote transforming growth factor (TGF) which suppresses tumor formation in the gut. [Annals Surgery 243: 619-25, 2006]
—? Another mechanism by which butyrate thwarts colon cancer is its gene-signaling capabilities. Butyrate works like a gene-targeted drug, similar to the way widely heralded drugs like Erbitux and Herceptin work. Butyrate causes a coil-like structure called histories to tightly wrap around genes, switching genes that control cancer growth "off." Butyrate is gene therapy. |
| Cancer Biology Therapy 3:889-90, 2004]
Natural compounds from plants like resveratrol address whole mechanisms and sets of pathways that interfere with tumors rather than single enzyme inhibition accomplished through the use of synthetic drugs.
"Natural compounds (like resveratrol) ......... |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 He delineated the mechanisms by which mine gases exert their adverse effects, and he focused on the best means of preventing these effects. Rather than staying in the laboratory, he ventured frequently into the field.
J. S. Haldane would even take his young son on his research visits to the mines. To teach the younger.Haldane (who grew up to be the biologist J. B. S. Haldane) how methane gas is lighter than air and accumulates near the ceilings of mine galleries, he had young J. B. S. stand up in precisely such a gas pocket. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Hills JM, Aaronson PI, (1991) The mechanisms of action of peppermint oil on gastrointestinal smooth muscle. Gastroenterol 101:55-65.
Kantarev N, Peicev P, (1977) Folia Med 19(1):41.
Keller K, Hansel R, Chandler RF, (eds) Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs 1. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, S 171-178.
Kucera LS, Hermann EC Jr, (1967) Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 124:865 et 874.
Leiber B, (1967) Dieskussionsbemerkung. In: Dost FH, Leiber B (Hrsg) Menthol and menthol-containing external remedies. Thieme Stuttgart 1967, S. 22. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet the issue of causation remains: whether it is endorphins or the immune system or other mechanisms or some combination of these, healing begins with what has been called a "meaning response."17
Let us conclude this section with an evaluation of the placebo's place in contemporary medicine. In previous chapters, we've mentioned the word this phenomenon on several occasions, but almost always as an afterthought or footnote to a study that assesses some therapy. Given its evident healing power that we reviewed above, why is the placebo considered at the margins of medicine? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Our immune cells could mistake our body's own tissue for a virus or bacteria or other foreign invader, or antigen, and the mechanisms by which the immune system should prevent such cases of mistaken identity from happening could fail abysmally. I had always known, theoretically, that hypothyroidism, which I also had, was autoimmune in nature, but I had never fully understood before how autoimmunity actually occurred within the human body.
Hoke reassured me that, in my case, my biopsies showed that something quite hopeful had occurred. |
Mark Lynas
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 Chemical ocean conditions 100 years from now will probably have no equivalent in the geological past, and key organisms may have no mechanisms to adapt to the change.' Indeed, as we'll see in later chapters, the only likely precedents for changes as rapid as the ones we're seeing now are the catastrophic mass extinctions, such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. And, unfortunately, unless drastic cutbacks are made in fossil fuel emissions, that's exactly where we're headed.
The mercury rises in Europe
Under normal circumstances, the human body is good at dealing with excess heat. |
| Because global warming is amplified at the poles by the ice-albedo and other feedback mechanisms, model studies conducted by the international Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group show clearly that one degree of global warming will mean another two degrees of warming in the Arctic. In reality, this is probably a serious underestimate, given the speed of the changes already under way and the self-reinforcing dynamics of the system, aspects of the real world which are not always captured in the models. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 But it is not the content of those insights that helps; it is the fact of the insight—a belief system that aids the defense mechanisms to do their job. Yet, what lies on low levels of brain function is immune to any idea. We can be anxious and aware but not anxious and conscious.
Consciousness is the end of anxiety. Consciousness means connection to what is driving us. Disconnected feelings are what drive us constantly to keep busy. Their energy is found in the form of ulcers or irritable bowel, in phobias, and the inability to focus and concentrate. |
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