Dawson Church
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 But it is in the bodies of organisms and their interactions with other organisms and the physical world, in the context of ecosystems, where all that matter and energy flows. Genes, in contrast, are about storage and utilization of information." Researching genes without looking at the energy component of DNA is like studying a computer hard drive without plugging in the power cable. Hard drives are composed of thousands of sectors, substructures that store information. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 This not only provides the characteristic sour taste of fermented dairy foods such as yogurt but acts as a preservative by lowering the food's pH and creating fewer opportunities for spoilage organisms to grow. Add these to your diet: yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi (a Korean dish of pickled vegetables).
YOU Tip: Get Your Prebiotics. Probiotic bacteria are not normally found in the human intestine, so they often don't colonize well when they're introduced. Therefore, /vebiotic foods are vital to encourage probiotic organisms to survive and thrive in the human gut. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 One of the functions of the immune system is to act like a rapid-response SWAT team, reacting to any invading microorganism, such as viruses or bacteria, by producing antibodies—fighter cells—which seek out and destroy those unhealthy and often life-threatening organisms.
But in a wide range of autoimmune diseases, the body's immune cells lose their ability to read the difference between your own healthy cells and the foreign bacteria or viruses—or other unrecognizable microscopic organisms from the environment around you—that enter your body. |
Mark Sircus
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 Selenium (Se) is an essential micro-nutrient with important biological and biochemical functions in organisms because of its unique antioxidant properties and its ability to regulate thyroid gland metabolism. It is well known that selenium is an antagonist that moderates the toxic effects of many heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead in organisms.
Data suggests that a diet rich in selenium protects against cancers of the stomach, breast, esophagus, lung, prostate, colon, and rectum. According to Dr. |
Dawson Church
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| But it is in the bodies of organisms and their interactions with other organisms and the physical world, in the context of ecosystems, where all that matter and energy flows. Genes, in contrast, are about storage and utilization of information." Researching genes without looking at the energy component of DNA is like studying a computer hard drive without plugging in the power cable. Hard drives are composed of thousands of sectors, substructures that store information. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They seem incapable of distinguishing between living organisms and dead ones, after all. And yet the differences are tremendous: Cooked almonds have most of their natural phytonutrients destroyed by excess heat (or radiation). Protein content is diminished, fats are molecularly altered and sugars are broken down into less healthy forms. All this seems to be of no concern to the ABC, which remains convinced that cooked, dead almonds are virtually identical to raw almonds in taste, texture and nutrition. |
| These two things can protect you against almost any common food-borne organisms. And yet so many Americans are diseased, immunosuppressed and intestinally imbalanced (due to rampant use of antibiotics) that the authorities have decided the only way to deliver safe food is to sterilize it first. Sure, sterilization sounds like a great idea if applied to certain politicians, but it's probably not such a smart move for our food supply. (It works for the news, however. Just about every piece of news on the war in Iraq is sterilized before being broadcast to Americans... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are organisms out there -- little bacteria that you can hit with radiation that would kill anybody else -- and they will so quickly repair their genes.
You have to have the nutrients in your body -- those growth factors -- to do that regeneration. As you know, chlorella can quadruple itself in 20 hours. I do not know anything else that can do that. That is indicative of the growth factors. In Japan, when they gave them to children and young animals, they grew like crazy. Not abnormally, but they just grew rapidly. In Dr. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Gottschall atgues that certain harmful bacteria and yeasts thrive on disaccharides, and that these organisms can colonize and damage the intestinal tract, if provided with enough disaccharides. Thus, a vicious cycle occurs, in which maldigestion leads to overgrowth of harmful organisms, which leads to even mote-severe intestinal disease.
Following up on the work of Drs. Sidney V. and Merrill P. Haas, Gottschall developed a low-disaccharide diet (called the Specific Carbohydrate
Diet), which she has found to be extremely helpful for some individuals with Crohn's disease. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 A large portion of this noncoding DNA, as it is called, was at first thought to be a vestige of evolution—bits and pieces of the DNA of other organisms that are our evolutionary ancestors. Recently, however, scientists have begun to glean clues that this "molecular garbage" may have important regulatory functions in the body. In fact, the discovery that junk DNA may have purpose was initially made by scientists who applied linguist theory to analyze the DNA! |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Diarrhea in undernourished children (oral, powder): Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG 37 billion organisms daily 6 days per week up to 15 months.
Infantile diarrhea (oral solution): Lactobacillus reuteri 1010 CFU daily for up to 5 days. Lactobacillus strain GG 5 x 109 CFU daily for up to 5 days. literature
Allen SJ, Okoko B, Martinez E, et al. Probiotics for treating infectious diarrhea. Cochrane Database Syst Rev; 2:CD003048. 2004
Bernet MF, Brassart D, Neeser JR et al. |
| No antibacterial activity was noted for the butyrolactone lignan glycoside arctiin and its aglycone, arctigenin, isolated from burdock achenes, against a variety of gram-positive and -negative organisms in vitro (Ryu et al, 1995).
Anti-Inflammatory Effects: A hot aqueous extract of achenes of burdock exhibited significant activity at inhibiting platelet-activating factor (PAF) binding to platelets in vitro (Iwakami et al, 1992). Methanol extracts from burdock achenes showed anticomplementary activity at a concentration of 0.05 g crude material/mL (6.3 mg/mL of the extract) in vitro. |
| Sanguinarine was found to have a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 1 to 16 micrograms/milliliters (mcg/mL) in 98% of the organisms tested. Ninety-eight percent of isolates were killed at 32 mcg/mL (Dzink & Socransky, 1985). Examples of various MICs include Actinobacillus species (8 to 16 micrograms/ milliliter) (mcg/mL).
Bone Resorption Effects: Collagenase formation and subsequent bone resorption stimulated by parathyroid hormone was inhibited in cultures of mouse calvaria bone treated with 20 mmol/liter of sanguinarine (Sakamoto, 1986). |
| Damage to teeth from fruit drinks is thought to be caused from two properties, erosion of enamel surface from low pH and high titratable acidity and demineralization of enamel from organic acids in the dental plaque generated by plaque micro- organisms during metabolism of fermentable carbohydrates (Duggal et al, 1996). indications and usage
Raspberry is unapproved by the German Commission E because of lack of reliable studies to confirm effectiveness and safety. Raspberry is listed by European authorities as an Nl natural food flavoring and has no restrictions on use. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Who's Not Coming to Dinner
When widespread cultivation of GMOs was still a dream in a laboratory, then vice president Dan Quayle declared the federal government's position about these new organisms that contained genes never before seen in a plant. Genetically engineered crops were, he stated in 1992, the "significant equivalent" of other types of traditionally grown crops. That fundamental principle provides the foundation for the U.S. government's position; GMOs have faced few restrictions on cultivation ever since. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The EPA also stated "continual introduction of these benzoates (parabens) into sewage treatment systems and directly to recreational waters from the skin leads to the question of risk to aquatic organisms."
Don't count on the Food & Drug Administration to protect you from parabens. For cosmetic products, safety testing is not required. It is up to consumers to research ingredients and their effects. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group (EWG) reports "An average adult is exposed to over 100 unique chemicals in personal care products every day -- these exposures add up. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Genetically modified organisms" are not those mixtures of genes showing up in our food, but the principle that governments cannot issue a blanket ban on an entire class of products without identifying individual risks. |
Pam Montgomery
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 One of the outgrowths of the symposium is a new peer-reviewed journal, Plant Signaling and Behavior, whose mission statement includes,
"Our viewing of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities being merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for accumulation of photosynthate. |
Mark Schapiro
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| The EU had already lifted the moratorium and replaced it with a case-by-case assessment process, putting genetically engineered organisms through scientific review. The system that Scheele and many others had labored on for five years was in place. Scheele herself would have preferred an outright ban—which her native Austria would soon try, unsuccessfully, to impose on its own—but the system was far more rigorous in its review of GMOs' potential downsides than any now reigning in the United States. |
Devra Davis
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 But for Kehoe the labs were an industrial outpost, conducting studies of rodents and "human organisms" under contracts signed with Monsanto, DuPont, General Motors, Stauffer Chemical Company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Steel, Mobil Oil, the Ethyl Corporation and others. Each contract stipulated that "the investigative work shall be planned and carried out by the University, and the University shall have the right to disseminate for the public good, any information obtained. |
| They made selections in the concentration camps; they dispatched prisoners who became ill to the gas chambers; they engaged in medicalized killings for political purposes, injecting cultures of live tubercle bacilli or other organisms into party officials and others whose deaths, it was thought, should appear to be from natural causes.48
Robert Proctor and Robert Jay Lifton have each detailed efforts by Nazi physicians and researchers to craft scientific grounds for reversing Germany's growing burden of chronic diseases. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| L/mL was fungicidal for all organisms, 0.2 mcg/mL was fungistatic for all but E floccosum and M audoouinii (Shahi et al, 2000).
Headache
Headache patients treated with a combination of Eucalyptus oil, peppermint oil, and ethanol experienced improved cognitive performance and a muscle and mental relaxing effect, but did, not have significant changes in pain sensitivity. The preparations were applied to forehead and temples using a small sponge (Goebel et al, 1994). |
| Microsporum gypseum was the most susceptible and Aspergillus fumigatus the least susceptible of those organisms studied. Candida albicans, Candida pseudotropicalis, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes were also susceptible to lemongrass oil. Constituents of lemongrass oil, neral, geranial, and citronellal also showed good antifungal activity. Lemongrass constituents dipentene and myrcene showed no fungistatic or fungicidal activity (Onawunmi, 1989). |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Cells, tissues, organs, and organisms have multiple layers of antioxidant defenses, plus damage-replacement and repair systems to cope with the stress and damage that oxygen engenders (Source: Journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, October-November 2000, pages 279-289). Using a product that adds to the body's oxidative stress load won't do a thing to create younger-looking skin.
However, the good news is that there is nothing in this outrageously expensive product that can increase skin's oxygen consumption. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Genetically modified organisms also clearly offer a real allure to many American farmers: from resistance to pests., frost, heat, drought, and other factors that can devastate whole fields in a season, the new seeds were being bred to reduce the risks from making a livelihood off the land. Some environmentalists had even promoted genetic engineering as a means of decreasing the applications of toxic pesticides and relying on genetically engineered pest resistance instead. Proponents faced a challenge, however: how do you prove a negative, that genetically engineered crops are not unsafe? |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Whereas Popp found coherent light being emitted by living organisms, Frohlich postulated that, based on the principles of quantum physics, biological systems must produce coherent vibrations (in the form of oscillations), and because they are coherent, these oscillations may have laserlike properties.
Frohlich's intellectual curiosity was legendary, and he made important contributions in areas as diverse as solid-state physics and biology. His work generally is highly technical, but his creative ideas stimulated biophysical research on many fronts. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Therefore, /vebiotic foods are vital to encourage probiotic organisms to survive and thrive in the human gut. Prebiotics are nondigestible food fibers that stimulate the growth and activity of healthy bacteria in the intestines. Prebiotic carbohydrates are found naturally in such fruit and vegetables as bananas, berries, asparagus, garlic, wheat, oatmeal, barley (and other whole grains), flaxseed, tomatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, onions, chicory, greens, and legumes.
YOU Tip: Try Eastern. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Here's how it works: Urine is normally sterile and free of bacteria, but sometimes tiny organisms like bacteria from the digestive tract make their way to the opening of the urethra. Then they do what bacteria like to do—they multiply. When that happens, infection is right around the corner. (An infection that stays in the urethra is called urethritis, and if it moves up to the bladder it causes an infection called cystitis. It can even move further up the ureters and infect the kidney in which case it's called pyelonephritis, but that's a whole other story. |
| Let's not forget that those little "yeasty-beasties" are actually living organisms that produce waste products of their own, which can cause an attack.
One study found that 8 to 10 percent of chronic asthma and rhinitis patients are likely sensitive to one of three yeasts (one of which was Candida). For about 5 percent of candida-allergic patients studied, bronchial asthma was the major symptom of their yeast problem. (See page 179 for suggested treatments for Candida.)
Asthma and allergies share a relationship to emotional stress. |
David Steinman
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