Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 With sufficient technology, for example, you can grow organs for human transplants inside the bodies of living, breathing mammals (like pigs). We have the technology to do that right now. But is it ethical to grant life to mammals so that we can kill them, retrieve their organs, and put those organs into the bodies of human beings who have abused their bodies to the point where their own organs have failed? Is that an ethical application of technology?
I'm not attempting to answer that complex question here, but I am saying that we need to be asking these questions. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 There is also considerable evidence that the nausea common in early pregnancy is a protective mechanism to prevent women from consuming too many plant compounds during the early months of fetal development, when critical cells and organs are being formed.7 As a congenital heart surgeon, I know that all organs are fully formed two and one-half months into pregnancy. Isn't it amazing that most of the nausea of pregnancy suddenly resolves at about ten weeks' gestation? Coincidence? No, our autopilot is merely protecting the next generation of genes from plant toxins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A lot of people are surprised to hear this, but your internal organs need to be massaged just like your muscles and skin.
Massage therapy is something that I recommend everyone pursue to enhance his or her health. Massage moves lymph fluid around the body. It stimulates the skin. It even stimulates the brain indirectly and helps create an immunostimulating relaxation response in virtually everyone. The internal organs need this same massage and the very best way to massage these internal organs, such as the gall bladder, is to engage in gentle body movement exercises. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Your large intestine and skin are organs that interact with the environment. They both absorb and emit chemicals, water, and other metabolic products. The large intestine is the body's largest internal organ; its purpose is to absorb food, nutrients and water. The function of the skin is to hold not only all of your other organs, tissues, capillaries and muscles in place, but also to allow your body to breathe. It is a respiration organ -- it both inhales and exhales.
Part of the function of your skin is to excrete waste. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But is it ethical to grant life to mammals so that we can kill them, retrieve their organs, and put those organs into the bodies of human beings who have abused their bodies to the point where their own organs have failed? Is that an ethical application of technology?
I'm not attempting to answer that complex question here, but I am saying that we need to be asking these questions. And until we do so, we're going to find ourselves deeper in bankruptcy at every level imaginable: financially, socially and ethically. |
David Steinman
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 As the amount of atrazine increased, as many as 20 percent of frogs exposed during their early development produced multiple sex organs or had both male and female organs. Many had small, feminized larynxes."
Hayes's research team said that the effect on the frogs could have resulted from atrazine causing the body to produce more of the enzyme aromatase, which is present in vertebrates. Aro-matase is used by the body to convert the male hormone testosterone to the female hormone estrogen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Only women are advised to have their organs removed for emotional reasons. You ever notice that when it comes to cancer treatments for such organs, there's a cry to "Save the testicle!" but "Remove the breast!" ?
(The word menstruate, by the way, has its roots in Latin, where the word mensis means "month." It has no relational meaning to the modern English word "men.")
Men have always dominated Western medicine, and they have always used chemicals and surgeries to control or dominate women. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ashley: Obviously the skin reflects how the organs are doing. When you use something on the skin, it is going to help internal organs. By using the Chinese herbs in a way that people use them every day, even if it is in a small amount, they are still getting it. It just makes it easier for them to be acclimated to it. Then they are getting these small doses of medicinal herbs that do help with many different conditions.
Mike: One of the principles in Chinese medicine says that the skin reflects the health of the large intestine. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Twenty-four cats had their female organs and parts of their livers removed; were made obese, then were starved, University of Kentucky and the lams Company, Ibrahim, WH, et al, American Journal of Veterinary Research, Vol. 61, No. 5, May 2000.
Fifty-six dogs had their female organs removed to study beta carotene, Washington State University and the lams Company, Weng, BC, et al, Journal of Animal Science, 78, pp. 1284-1290, 2000. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Autonomic Neuropathy
Autonomic neuropathy affects the nerves that are associated with the function of various organs and organ systems, including the heart, blood vessels, digestive system, urinary tract, reproductive organs, sweat glands, and eyes. Autonomic neuropathy can cause hypoglycemia unawareness, in which people are unable to sense the warning signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). (See chapter 10 for more on hypoglycemia unawareness.) Some of the more common conditions associated with autonomic neuropathy in people with diabetes include the following.
?Gastroparesis. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Blood is shunted towards internal organs, especially those organs involved in digestion. þThe rate of breathing decreases as oxygen demand is reduced during periods of rest. þSweat production diminishes, because a person who is calm and relaxed does not experience nervous perspiration. þProduction of digestive secretions is increased, greatly improving digestion. þBlood sugar levels are maintained in the normal physiologic range.
Achieving the Relaxation Response
The relaxation response can be achieved through a variety of techniques. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But is it ethical to grant life to mammals so that we can kill them, retrieve their organs, and put those organs into the bodies of human beings who have abused their bodies to the point where their own organs have failed? Is that an ethical application of technology?
I'm not attempting to answer that complex question here, but I am saying that we need to be asking these questions. And until we do so, we're going to find ourselves deeper in bankruptcy at every level imaginable: financially, socially and ethically. |
David Bodanis
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 To avoid inbreeding it's best for the rose's genetic material to be carried between different plants, but unfortunately to do so the sexual organs have to be lifted up from the plant and left dangling somewhere above it. Human sexual organs are carefully stashed in out of the way positions to avoid the dangers of daily life; a rose's sex organs face even more dangers out in the garden, where falling branches, large-jawed beetles, descending spiders, and other unpleasantnesses for the reproductive organs are around. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Although the constituents in black cohosh may be able to bind to receptors in the pituitary or hypothalamus, these constituents do not seem to be able to bind to receptors in target organs. Older research showed the effects of a black cohosh preparation on LH and FSH secretion in menopausal women. After a treatment of two months, LH (but not FSH) levels were significantly reduced in the black cohosh-treated group.24
There have been many studies using black cohosh preparations in menopausal women. |
| The infection typically results from the spread of microorganisms that ascend from the endo-cervix (the canal leading from the cervix into the uterus) to the upper genital organs. The most common organisms are Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydia causes 50 percent of PID in Europe and 20 to 30 percent of cases in the United States, though the real incidence may be even higher. Gonorrhea remains the single most frequent cause in the United States. Additional organisms implicated in PID include bacterial vaginosis organisms {Mycoplasma spp., Peptostreptococcus spp. |
| It adds tone and structure to the nervous and muscular structures of the reproductive female organs and regulates the quantity of the monthly flow.
Tonics That Stimulate Menstrual Flow. |
Charles Barber
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 No one knows what impact decades of SSRI use might have on those organs.
Perhaps most significantly, and forebodingly, in the late 1990s, David Healy put Kramer's "cosmetic pharmacology" claims to the test. He recruited students who had no history of mental illness whatsoever for a study at his university in Wales and gave them antidepressants. Ten percent of what was an admittedly small sample developed horribly disturbing suicidal and homicidal tendencies, completely alien to anything they had ever experienced. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| As implants are found in the nose, lungs, and other organs far from the uterus, transportation through lymphatic channels and blood vessels has been suggested. Still other researchers believe the implants to be of embryological origin, pieces of the uterus left behind during development, which, when activated, secrete a chemical causing the nearby capillaries to bleed.15 Research on baboons with endometriosis suggests activation by environmental toxins that mimic estrogens. |
| While surgery removes implants that adhere to the ovaries, uterus, and other pelvic organs, the effects of ovary removal and the resulting abrupt cessation of hormone production have to be taken into consideration. While beneficial for some individuals, medical or surgical management is not effective in all circumstances.
Physicians have seen an increase in endometrioid cancer in endometriosis implants. And endometriosis can grow into bowels or cause bowel obstruction or fistulas. Therefore, finding a health-care provider who is very experienced with endometriosis treatment is very important. |
Erich Grotewold
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 PI is required for the production of 3-deoxy flavonoids in the floral organs of maize (Grotewold et al, 1994). In fact, BMS cells expressing PI were shown to produce flavan-4-ols, one of the 3-deoxy flavonoids, as well as some phenylpropanoids (Grotewold et al, 1998). These results raise the possibility that YFBs and GFBs are involved in subcellular trafficking of secondary metabolites from the sites of synthesis to two major accumulating sites, the vacuole and the cell wall. |
| In recent years, many studies demonstrated that topical application or oral feeding of a polyphenolic fraction from tea extract or of individual catechin derivatives had anticarcinogenesis effects in animal skins and other organs (Yang and Wang, 1993). Tea extracts were found to be effective in inhibiting 4-(methylnitrosamino)-l-(3-pyridyl)-l-butanone (NNK)-induced lung tumorigenesis in A/J mice with any of three dosing schedules (Yang et al, 2002). |
| The myft-homologous P gene controls phlobaphene pigmentation in maize floral organs by directly activating a flavonoid biosynthetic gene subset, Cell 76: 543-553. Grotewold, E, Chamberlin, M, Snook, M, Siame, B, Butler, L, Swenson, J, Maddock, S., Clair, G. S. and Bowen, B, 1998, Engineering secondary metabolism in maize cells by ectopic expression of transcription factors, Plant Cell 10: 721-740. Habu, Y., Hisatomi, Y. and Iida, S, 1998, Molecular characterization of the mutable flaked allele for flower variegation in the common morning glory, Plant J16: 371 -376. Harborne, J. B. |
| Moreover, intense purple coloration can be observed in various vegetative organs by overexpressing the PAP I gene encoding an MYB transcription factor (Borevitz et al, 2000). The anthocyanins produced in Arabidopsis are cyanidin-3-Osambubioside 5-O-glucoside derivatives (Figure 6.4) (Tohge et al, 2005).
In maize the anthocyanins accumulation is regulated by pairs of duplicated transcription factors: RI and Bl, which are bHLH proteins (Ludwig and Wessler, 1990; Goff et al, 1992), while the CI and PL1 are MYB DNA-binding domain proteins (Cone et al, 1993). |
| The myA-homologous P gene controls phlobaphene pigmentation in maize floral organs by directly activating a flavonoid biosynthetic gene subset, Cell 76: 543-553. Gruber, M. Y., Ray, H., Auser, P., Skadhauge, B., Falk, J., Thomsen, K. K, Stougaard, J., Muir, A., Lees, G.,
Coulman, B., McKersie, B., Bowley, S., and von Wettstein, D., 1999, Genetic systems for condensed tannin biotechnology, in: Plant Polyphenols 2: Chemistry and Biology, G. G. Gross, R. W. Hemingway, and T. Yoshida (Eds), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 315-341. Hara-Nishimura, I., Matsushima, R., Shimada, T. |
| All these compounds play important biochemical and physiological roles in the various cell types or organs (seed, root,
47 green part, fruit) where they accumulate. Different classes of flavonoids and their conjugates have numerous functions during the interactions of plant with the environment, both in biotic and abiotic stress conditions (Dixon and Paiva, 1995; Shirley, 1996). Additionally, flavonoid conjugates, because of their common presence in plants, are important components of human and animal diet. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Improvements in posture improve the positioning of the spine and promote proper circulation and nerve stimulation to the pelvic organs.
Providing acute pain relief is one of the greatest challenges for natural medicine, whether it is pelvic pain, headaches, or musculoskeletal pain. Mild and moderate levels of pelvic pain are more treatable with natural therapies than is severe pain, although some women with severe pain will experience relief from the therapies that follow. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Cleanse your intestines, liver, and gallbladder regularly to help prevent long-term damage to your body and internal organs. See Chapter 12.
• For more information, see "Paint" and "Air Purification" in the Resources section.
How Does Tobacco Smoke Damage the Colon?
There's not much of a debate anymore about the toxic effects of tobacco smoke on the lungs. It's common knowledge that the additives and chemicals in cigarette smoke cause lung cancer. However, not as widely reported is the link between tobacco usage and colorectal cancer. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The immune system becomes unsupervised—which can trigger acts of friendly fire in the systems and organs almost anywhere in the body. |
| Animals and humans secrete minuscule amounts of hormones, such as estrogen, that trigger responses when they occupy special receptors made to receive them on the cells of various organs in our bodies. These hormones are secreted into the blood by the endocrine glands that produce them—the thyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands, as well as the ovaries and testes—in response to signals from the brain. |
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