Dr. Steve Blake
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 Metabolism
Catabolism = Breaking down of components Anabolism = Building up of components
CATABOLISM AND ANABOLISM
The primary role of the B vitamins is catalyzing energy production in the body. One side of metabolism is catabolism. Catabolism is the breaking down of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, often to produce energy, as shown in Figure 1-1. The other side of metabolism is anabolism. Anabolism is the building up of components, for example, building a protein from amino acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's a massive reduction in cost as these electronics became cheaper to manufacture and widely accepted by consumers. LED components have been following a similar path. A single component that cost $10 today would have cost $1000 just a few years ago. And a few years from now, it might only cost 10 cents. Prices are falling by 50% a year on LED components, which means LED light bulbs will get increasingly affordable with each passing year.
Even right now, buying LED lights makes great economic sense. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Phytonutrients are certain organic components of plants, and these components are thought to promote human health. Fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and teas are rich sources of phytonutrients. Unlike the traditional nutrients (protein, fat, vitamins, minerals), phytonutrients are not "essential" for life, so some people prefer the term "phytochemical".
2. What are the Major Classes of Phytonutrients? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I share that concern, and I wish these lights were a lot less expensive to manufacture, but the fact is that quality LED components cost more. The copper, aluminum alloys and lenses that go into our LED lights are quality components, not cheap disposable parts like you normally find in an incandescent light. Building a quality LED light costs a lot more money than building a cheap light that you toss into landfill after a thousand hours of wasting electricity before burning out. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think those are the main components.
Another one is stress. We live in a world where people have cockeyed ideas about what they need to do, and if they do not do it, the whole body goes into a fight or flight response. When you are in a fight or flight response your whole biochemistry is changing. You need more nutrients. Eventually you exhaust your adrenals, and when you have exhausted adrenals, nothing happens. Nothing works.
Those components together create what I call a "confluence of factors." All of them are hitting us in a crazy way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Phytonutrients are certain organic components of plants, and these components are thought to promote human health. Fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and teas are rich sources of phytonutrients. Unlike the traditional nutrients (protein, fat, vitamins, minerals), phytonutrients are not "essential" for life, so some people prefer the term "phytochemical".
2. What are the Major Classes of Phytonutrients? |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Powered by Protein
Protein is made up of components called amino acids. It is the building block of all of the body's components, from hair and muscles to enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Eating protein can boost your metabolism by 25 percent, which really helps to burn the extra fat you've been wishing away in the mirror. Some amino acids are essential, which means we have to get them in the foods we eat; others can be ereated in the body from other amino acids. |
David De Angelis
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 Analyzing this problem thoroughly, we find that there are two microfilaments that are fundamental components of a muscle: actin and myosin. Muscular contracting comes from these two components sliding one over the other. Stretching happens the opposite way: when the level of superposition between actin and myosin gradually decreases. Opposite to contraction, muscular stretching itself happens in a "passive" way: In the case of ocular muscles, where gravitation can't act, stretching happens passively, thanks to the agonist muscle.
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Hyla Cass
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| Powered by Protein
Protein is made up of components called amino acids. It is the building block of all of the body's components, from hair and muscles to enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Eating protein can boost your metabolism by 25 percent, which really helps to burn the extra fat you've been wishing away in the mirror. Some amino acids are essential, which means we have to get them in the foods we eat; others can be ereated in the body from other amino acids. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Stress has both mental and physical components. The mental components include things like anger or rage, fear or terror, fragmented or distorted thinking, impatience, erratic emotional states, memory loss, anxiety, and depression. On the physical side, stress activates the sympathetic leg of the nervous system and the release of stress hormones that amp-up production of adrenaline and divert blood flow to the large muscles. The body needs this power because it "thinks" it has to run away from or fight something. This is the so-called "fight or flight" response. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| LED component manufacturers are gearing up their factories for higher volumes.
LED components will follow price trends of PC components
The LED light industry today is much like the PC industry was in the 1980's. Remember what it cost you to buy a lousy 4.77mHz PC with a floppy disk drive and 64k of RAM in 1981? It was about four thousand dollars -- and it didn't even have color! I remember the first hard drives for Apple computers cost about five thousand dollars... and they only stored only 10 megabytes! |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The operation of a solar electric system, like the one I run on an Adirondack lake, does not itself produce pollution, but the manufacturing of the components certainly does. The batteries, the panels, the electronics, the wires, and the plastics all require mining operations and factories using fossil fuels. And the components were transported by diesel truck to the marina dock from far away, and ferried to the site via motorboat. This gets back to the question as to whether these systems could exist without the platform of an oil or coal economy to produce them.
I don't think so. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Before there were automated, mechanical grain mills, whole grains were ground between two large stones, resulting in flour that contained all three components of whole grain.
A Serving of Food Lore...
Wheat has been consumed for more than 12,000 years and is thought to have originated in southwestern Asia. Wheat gods and goddesses existed in Roman, Sumerian, and Greek mythology. Today, in parts of China, wheat is still considered sacred. It was introduced to the Western
Wheat (Triticum spp.)
TELLING THE "WHOLE" TRUTH
Hemisphere in the fifteenth century when Columbus came to the New World. |
Tom Bohager
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 This process increases the flow of blood to the infected area, bringing white blood cells and other components of the immune system to attack the invading microorganisms.
Symptoms of infection can include an elevated temperature, redness, pain, swelling, and the formation of pus. Infections must be treated by a medical professional, but enzymes can be used to help the body fight the infection by supporting the digestive system and increasing nutrient absorption, strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammation and pain, and balancing pH levels. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| The mango is also a good source of vitamin K and has a variety of antioxidant components.
Home Remedies
There are many health claims attributed to mangoes, ranging from improved digestion and immunity, to heart health, to lowered blood pressure, to curing asthma. Many believe that mangoes are both an aphrodisiac and an effective means of birth control.
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| Effective separation of potent antiproliferation and antiadhesion components from wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) fruits. JAgric Food Chem. 2004 Oct 20;52(21):6433-6442.
Schmidt BM, Erdman JW Ir, Lila MA. Differential effects of blueberry proanthocyani-dins on androgen sensitive and insensitive human prostate cancer cell lines. Cancer LeU. 2006 Jan 18;231(2):240-246.
Sweeney MI, Kalt W, MacKinnon SL, Ashby I, Gottschall-Pass KT. Feeding rats diets enriched in lowbush blueberries for six weeks decreases ischemia-induced brain damage. Nutri Neuroscience. 2002 Dec; 5(6): 427-431. |
Elaine Magee
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 Erdman agrees: "Of course, it's important to analyze how specific food components influence our health, but such findings provide only tools for further study. They should open the debate, not close it down." I'm sure there are many examples of food pairs that have powerful synergy in the body, but while we wait for more research clues, consider the following:
Broccoli with tomatoes fights prostate cancer. Pairing these two powerhouse foods could be a match made not only in Italy but in health heaven. In a study led by Dr. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Inhibition of the growth of pre-malignant and malignant human oral cell lines by extracts and components of black raspberries. Nutr Cancer. 2005:51(2):207-217.
Larrosa M, Tomas-Barberan FA, Espin JC. The dietary hydrolysable tannin punicala-gin releases ellagic acid that induces apoptosis in human colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2 cells by using the mitochondrial pathway. / Nutri Biochem. 2005 Oct (Epub ahead of print).
Liu M, Li XQ, Weber C, Lee CY, Brown J, Liu RH. Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of raspberries. JAgric Food Chem. 2002 May;50( 10):2926-2930.
McDougall GJ, Stewart D. |
Elaine Magee
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| The researchers assert that this is the first study of its kind to demonstrate that two major components of the Asian diet can synergistically prevent prostate cancer.
Garlic with onions improves heart health. Organosulfur compounds are the primary active phytochemicals in garlic and onions, and several of them may protect the heart by helping to keep arteries flexible and clear of plaque damage. |
| It's ground flaxseed, not whole, you want to add a spoon of here and there because all those wonderful components aren't absorbed and available until the seed is ground. Keep your ground flax in the freezer to preserve its freshness, and add a tablespoon a day, if you can, by stirring it into your yogurt, cereal, smoothie, or stew.
When baking, you can usually replace Va cup of every 1 cup of flour in recipes with ground flaxseed. This means that instead of 1 cup of flour, you could use Va cup flaxseed and 34 cup flour.
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| We've learned about so many different food components that work together for maximum health benefit, it can be mind-blowing to think about how to put it all together to fit our lifestyles.
If you want to see what a more "whole foods" eating plan looks like, from meal to meal and day to day, incorporating as many Synergy Super Foods and partnerships as practically possible, this next section is just for you.
Following are 2 weeks (5 days each) of possible meals adding up to around 1,500 calories a day (give or take 100) because that's about as low as an active adult should go. |
| The bottom line: Armed with the knowledge of what foods and food components go together for maximum favorable health effects, you can achieve the highest level of health possible.
WHY FOOD SYNERGY MATTERS
We all want the best value when we spend our money, right? And most of us over the age of 40 are very concerned about preventing cancer, stroke, and heart disease as we grow older. Well, food synergy is about getting the biggest health bang for your buck by pairing various foods and nutrients in meals and snacks. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| And the components were transported by diesel truck to the marina dock from far away, and ferried to the site via motorboat. This gets back to the question as to whether these systems could exist without the platform of an oil or coal economy to produce them.
I don't think so. And in the absence of fossil fuels, what else? It is not at all clear, for instance, whether nuclear energy could be employed to manufacture solar components, as nonmilitary nuclear power has been used solely to generate electricity, not large-scale industrial procedures.
Might it be possible? |
Jack Challem
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 I use the term neuronutrients to describe these important components of food. In later chapters, I'll explain how you can use specific neuronutrients as part of a broader plan to improve your mood and behavior.
It's important, however, that I emphasize that nutrition is not the only factor affecting your moods.
The way you eat has been shaped by your society, your family's eating habits, how stressed you are by work and your home life, and advertising. Basically, your eating habits did not develop in a vacuum. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 Freud also defined three components of the human mind: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the childish, self-centered, primitive part of the mind. One might describe the ego as the captain, the chief executive, the decision maker of the mind. Freud saw the superego as the moral, responsible, ethical element of the psyche. The ego and superego operate in both the conscious and unconscious areas of the mind. In other words, we are aware of much—but not all—of the mental activities associated with these components. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Constituents
Iron, essential oils (safrole, asarone, eugenol, pinene, myristicin, thujone, anethole), alkaloids (boldine, norboldine, reticuline), sitosterol, lignan, mucilage, tannin, resin
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: pungent
• Temperature: warm
• Moisture: moist
• Polarity: yang
• Planet: Mars/Jupiter
• Element: fire
Contraindications
In the 1960s there arose some controversy about one of sassafras's components, safrole, which was shown to cause liver cancer in rats. The studies were done with large amounts of isolated safrole, not with sassafras bark as a whole. |
Tom Bohager
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| There are two components to cholesterol: LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and HDL (high-density lipoprotein). HDLs are often called "good cholesterol" because they perform key functions in the body. LDLs are often called "bad cholesterol" because when they are elevated, they collect on the inside of blood vessel walls, potentially leading to blocked blood vessels, heart disease, and stroke. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Aging and death are not preordained, but like everything else, they are essential components of our genetic programming that is still evolving.
Here's the shocker: Creatures such as sharks and alligators that date back hundreds of millions of years have no aging mechanism and appear to have no finite age limit. Another example: Cell lines of cancer tumors have survived unchanged in petri dishes for more than sixty years, long after their human hosts have died. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Each cell creates its own minifield, as do all the cell's organelles (specialized components of a cell that serve functions similar to organs within the body). In fact, the fields from different types of organelles match with specific Energetic Integrators. There are even individual fields generated by the DNA contained in each cell nucleus. Each of the cell-level and below-cell-level fields aggregate to form the larger organ fields, and there are additional fields generated by the skeleton (bone is a living matrix), cerebral-spinal-fluid system, and the other large dynamic systems of the body. |
| For a more detailed discussion of Integrators, Drivers, and other body-field components, see chapter 9 and the specific sections in part 3.) These are the routes for information in the body-field that are arranged in a precise order according to frequency. (After additional research, Peter and Harry realized they were organized according to phase as well, as discussed in chapter 13.) The Energetic Integrators turned out to be much more than traditional meridians, for they are linked to specific biochemical and physiological processes. |
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