Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Walker explains that NET is based on a "triad of health," like an equilateral triangle where one side is structure or spinal alignment, the second is biochemistry, and the third is emotions. A person's health is dependent on each side of the triangle being sound, and on all three existing in harmony. The biochemistry side refers mainly to informational messenger molecules that circulate in the body fluids, such as hormones and neuropeptides, and mediate emotions.
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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Now without going into a lot of boring and technical stuff on biochemistry, it's important to note that CLA comes in a number of different forms, called isomers. (Isomers are chemical compounds that have exactly the same number and type of atoms, but in different arrangements—like, for example, the chemical equivalent of the words dog and god). The two most common isomers of CLA are called trans,9-cis, 11 and trans, 10-cis, 12. Of course that's completely useless information for the majority of people in the world, certainly those who are not doing biochemical research. |
KC Craichy
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 Without a sufficient amount of water in the body, each of the body's major organ and cellular systems begin to malfunction, because they don't have enough of this vital nutrient to operate properly. The biochemistry behind this amazing fact is masterfully described in Batmanghelidj's book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water.
When one's daily water consumption begins to drop off from its minimum bodily requirement, even a "little" bit, the natural state of healthy biochemistry within the cell begins to suffer rapidly damaging consequences. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In fact, it is known that the body's biochemistry changes within several minutes of eating a meal. You can easily verify the powerful influence that food has on your body through muscle testing, (see Chapter 1 for details.) If you eat something that is outright harmful to you, your stomach will signal indigestion. Some foods can be even more damaging than just causing heartburn. Research has shown that eating meat in the evening can trigger a heart attack in the morning. |
| Both of these changes in the body's biochemistry practically prevent the body from healing itself. In other words, while being gripped by the fear of death from cancer or any other disease that threatens health and happiness, the diagnosis becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. What most people don't know is that the diagnosis of disease is often more harmful than the disease itself. I would like you to keep this in mind the next time you feel tempted to check out, "What's wrong with me? |
| For any doctor or friend who asks for proof for the "outrageous" claim that sunlight can prevent or cure cancer, you may want to refer him or her to the Journal of Steroid biochemistry and Molecular Biology (doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12.007;' Vitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: Pooled analysis') and to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 32, Number 3, Pages 210-216 'Optimal vitamin D status for colorectal cancer prevention—A quantitative meta-analysis'). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And a paper published recently in the Journal of Nutritional biochemistry (September 2004) examined the neuroprotective mechanisms of green tea polyphenols— especially EGCG—on both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Everyone Benefits from Tea
I've spent this much time on tea because it is one of the few foods (or drinks) about which I can say that virtually everyone would benefit from drinking it. |
| Lands, a retired professor of biochemistry at the Universities of Michigan and Illinois and an expert on the metabolism of fats.
What to Do, What to Do?
The best response to mercury warnings, obviously, is to stay away from the fish that are known to be the most contaminated (which includes, unfortunately, canned albacore tuna, though not canned light tuna). Keep your eyes open for the reports of consumer advocate groups who often sound the alarm way in advance of government agencies (a good place to start is with the Environmental Defense Networks' Oceans Alive Web site, www.oceansalive. |
| Researchers at the department of biochemistry and chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University tested twenty-seven nut and seed products commonly consumed in the United States. Pumpkin seeds were relatively low in beta-sitosterol (only 13 g per 100 g of seeds). But that doesn't mean pumpkin seeds don't have a role in prostate health. They may work synergisti-cally with other botanicals like saw palmetto, as a couple of studies have demonstrated. |
| The physiology and biochemistry of medium-chain triglycerides are very different from their "long-chain" saturated fat cousins. For one thing, they are easier to metabolize. (AIDS patients suffering from fat malabsorption and chronic diarrhea with weight loss were significantly benefited by a twelve-week regimen of medium-chain triglycerides.) For another, they are preferentially used for energy rather than stored as fat around your hips. Third and most important, they are mainly composed of a particular fat called lauric acid, which is antiviral and antimicrobal. |
| In a recent study published in the May 2006 Journal of Nutritional biochemistry, CAPE derived from propolis inhibited the cell migration and colony formation of tumor cells, providing direct evidence for the role of CAPE as a potent antimetastatic agent that can markedly inhibit the metastatic and invasive capacity of malignant cells.
Humans Benefit from Bee Susceptibility to Infection
Propolis is well known for its antimicrobial activity. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| In biochemistry, if two substances vary by even a few molecules, they can be vastly different compounds.
But I digress.
Regardless of the issues involved in HRT— and they are many and they are thorny—it's pretty safe to say that a large number of people would prefer to use natural substances to manage whatever symptoms they have, especially when some of those natural substances have a good track record of safety and efficacy
The Benefits of Black Cohosh
Black cohosh is a plant native to the United States and Canada and cultivated widely in Europe. |
| They just believe that correcting and treating the underlying biochemistry of addiction (and blood sugar abnormalities) with diet and supplements helps an alcoholic or addict get the most value from O support and spiritual programs of their choosing. 03 Speaking of Alcoholics Anonymous and Women for Sobriety (another support ^ m group), Mathews-Larson says this: "I cannot 1/1 overemphasize the importance of these invaluable human resources. Nowhere else can you find others who have a gut-level understanding and appreciation of what you have been through. |
| It also helps patients lose
Without getting into the complex biochemistry of the sympathetic nervous system, understand that stress can elevate hormones that in turn contribute to excessive insulin and blood sugar. Biofeedback, stress reduction, and meditation have been shown to reduce a hormone that stimulates many of the physiological processes that can aggravate or contribute to PCOS. Depression frequently accompanies PCOS, perhaps because good mood is one of the serious casualties of hormone imbalances. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Consult a qualified health professional trained in the intricacies of nutritional biochemistry to help you assess your needs and develop an effective, individualized dietary and nutritional supplement program. The tests described below can be used to analyze your nutrient status, pinpoint specific deficiencies, and determine the dosages of supplements that will best suit your needs.
Many mainstream physicians assess nutritional status using blood tests. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| A nutritional biochemist, he's the cofounder of The Institute for Functional Medicine and has been in the forefront of educating doctors, chiropractors, nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals about nutrition, biochemistry, hormones, and health for more than twenty-five years. There's very little about hormones and endocrinology that Jeffrey Bland doesn't know.
A few years ago, I attended his seminar on nutritional neuroendocrinology, a daylong affair devoted to the discussion of female hormones, health, and behavior. |
Bill Sardi
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 Journal Nutritional biochemistry 15: 572-78, 2004] Most Americans are also deficient in magnesium.
Does calcium prevent cancer?
Two decades ago researchers hypothesized that calcium neutralizes the toxic effects of fats and bile acids in the large bowel by forming soaps and mineral-fat complexes. Animal experiments followed and seemed to show that calcium inhibits colon cancer.
Population studies suggest little or no protective association between calcium and colon/rectal cancer. |
Anne Harrington
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 Similarly, ideas about how to realize the healing effects of positive thinking were first developed and disseminated in populist teachings and texts; next, they were claimed by reform-minded medical researchers in the second half of the twentieth century (who linked these ideas to emerging understandings of the biochemistry of placebo effects and the ways in which the brain and immune system interact); and finally they were disseminated again into the popular culture, but stamped now with the imprimatur of biomedical science. |
| Before he had entered monastic life thirty years earlier, he had been a graduate student in biochemistry in Paris, working under the Nobel laureate Francois Jacob. In the intervening years, Ricard had published books that established him as a sophisticated interlocutor of Western philosophical and scientific traditions (including a best-selling dialogue with his own father, philosopher Jean-Francois Revel, published in English under the title The Monk and the Philosopher). |
| Within a few years, Cousins had accepted an invitation to join the medical faculty of the University of California in Los Angeles as Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities, where he proceeded to oversee research on the biochemistry of healing and the emotions. In the 1980s, he spearheaded a task force to explore the medical potential of the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology. The Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology is still active at UCLA today. |
| But when medicine lets one down in other respects—by failing fully to validate the complexity of one's suffering, for example, or by being unable to deliver a cure—then physi-calist talk about tissue, blood, and biochemistry may begin to feel hollow indeed. At this point, some people begin to long for something better—a better story. In his 1995 book The Wounded Storyteller, sociologist Arthur Frank talks eloquently about this need. "Stories," he reminds us, "repair the damage that illness has done to the ill person's sense of where she is in life and where she may be going. |
| By the 1950s, Alexander's textbook Psychosomatic Medicine had become the standard American reference of its time, notable not only for its particular arguments but also for its striking visual diagrams—more akin to something one would expect to see in a biochemistry textbook. Meanwhile, other colleagues were busy confirming this or that claim for psychosomatic specificity in large-scale studies. A 1957 study of ulcers in Army recruits was particularly influential (it turned out those soldiers really did have excessive infantile desires for love and feeding). |
| To the extent that modern physicalist medicine does offer any kind of story about illness, it is a story that is as impersonal as they come: it is all about the disease rather than the patient, and it is articulated using a specialized vocabulary of tissue, blood, and biochemistry.2
When one can take a shot of antibiotics and feel better in the morning, an impersonal story like that may feel fine. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Keith Brewer, Pharmacology biochemistry & Behavior, v. 21, Suppl., 1 US Pharmacopoeia (Supplement Page)
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Chapter Four
The Weight Loss Lie
Over 50 million people spend more than $40 billion annually to lose weight, yet we are in the worst shape in the history of modern civilization. |
| Topics covered include the nature of the worldwide health problem posed by cigarette smoking, the psychodynamics of cigarette addiction and the basic pharmacology and biochemistry of nicotine and its effect on the brain.
Willpower's Not Enough: Recovering from Addictions of Every Kind
Arnold M. Washton, Ph.D., and Donna Boundy, M.S.W. ISBN: 0060919698
Book Description: Many people think that what the addict needs is willpower, but nothing could be further from the truth. When a person has already lost control over a drug or activity, attempts to control its use almost never work. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 To understand how plant-based nutrition facilitates nitric oxide production, you need to have a sense of the biochemistry at play. The essential building block for nitric oxide production is a substance called L-arginine, an amino acid that is in rich supply in a variety of plant foods, especially legumes, beans, soy, and nuts. Figure 6 shows, schematically, how L-arginine fits neatly into the enzymatic action of nitric oxide synthase, which then produces nitric oxide from the arginine and oxygen. |
| Cornell University professor emeritus Colin Campbell, an expert in biochemistry and nutrition, was the director of a twenty-year project that involved Cornell, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine—one of the most comprehensive studies of nutrition ever.2 Among other things, the project found that the normal range of cholesterol among residents of rural China, where coronary artery disease is rarely seen, falls between 90 and 150 mg/dL. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| So I will tell you what I have used, based on the biochemistry of the body, and on what has worked for me in my practice and my personal life. In the next few pages, I will cover the most damaging combinations of food, then I will present suggestions for five balanced meals I'm sure you will enjoy.
Mixing Proteins with Starches in a Meal Causes Colon Toxins
EXAMPLE OF STANDARD MEALS CONTAINING PROTEINS AND STARCHES:
Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, milk, sausage, or cheese combined with bread, potatoes, or tortillas. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Ames, a professor of the graduate school division of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, performed a series of experiments in which he gave aging rats a combination of acetyl-L-carnitine and lipoic acid. Animals taking the mix performed better on memory tests and also showed general signs of vitality.
"With these two supplements together, these old rats got up and did the Macarena,"
Ames says. "The brain looks better, they are full of energy—everything we looked at looks more O like a young animal. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Bromelain: biochemistry, pharmacology and medical use. Cell Mol Life Sci; 58: 1234-45. 2001
Masson M. Bromelain in blunt injuries of the locomotor system. A study of observed applications in general practice. [English translation of German title] Fortschr Med; Jul 10;113(19):303-6. 1995
Mattei O, Fabri G, Farina G: Industrial medicine experience in relation to four cases of occupational asthma due to bromelain. [English translation of Italian title]. Med Lav; 5:404-409. 1979
Miller AL, Birdsall TC: Etiology and conservative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. Altern Med Rev; 2:26-35. |
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