Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And so the corrupt politicians and government regulators who continue to run this country would much rather maintain the status quo -- keeping the public in a state of continued disease, with no cures available, so that all those businesses and organizations who are counting on the continuation of degenerative disease don't have to downsize.
Do not ever think that the disease epidemics sweeping our nation don't have solutions. We already know how to prevent and cure cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression and most other degenerative diseases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The link between chemicals and degenerative disease
Mike: How much do you think these chemical toxins account for today's most common degenerative disease conditions? Do you think this is an 80 percent factor, or is it something less than that?
Fitzgerald: I'm just an investigative journalist. I am not a health specialist, or authority. So the answer I'd give is simply based on my interpretation of what the data, the medical science data, so far seems to indicate. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Every chronic degenerative disease I have mentioned is the direct result of the toxic effects of oxygen. In fact oxidative stress is the leading theory behind the aging process itself. In addition to this, our bodies are under constant attack from an army of pollutants in our air, food, and water. Our stress-filled lifestyles also take a toll. If we do not counteract these processes, the result is cell deterioration and ultimately, disease. This is why the truths revealed in this book are so critical to our health. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Blueberries: One of the least pesticide-ridden fruits, blueberries are exceptionally high in proanthocyanidins, so helpful in preventing degenerative disease.
10. Organic cream: Organic cream from grass-fed cows is not only a treat but a terrific source of fat-burning CLA! It nourishes the nerves and is a wonderful accompaniment for all sorts of berries.
CHAPTER 2
Grains
You may be puzzled by the almost complete absence of grains on my list of 150 healthiest foods on the planet. In fact, it may seem like nutritional heresy. |
| Oxidation—or oxidative stress—is a factor in virtually every degenerative disease. Antioxidants help fight this process. Deficiencies of antioxidants are implicated in the early stages of heart disease, cancer, eye disease, and age-related declines in memory. When I tell you that a food is good because it's loaded with antioxidants, now you know why
Cholesterol: What's the Story?
I make no secret of my love for eggs. They got a star in this book for all the reasons that you'll read about. I eat them almost every day and think they are one of nature's perfect foods. |
| Since inflammation is a critical component of virtually every degenerative disease from heart disease to diabetes to obesity to Alzheimer's, and since inflammation itself has been dubbed "The Silent Killer," anti-inflammatory foods and supplements are of critical importance to our health. Omega-3s also support circulation. They transport oxygen from red blood cells to the tissues. They prevent blood cells from clumping together (remember, blood clots can be a cause of heart attack and stroke). They act as a blood thinner, much like aspirin, only without the side effects. |
Ray D. Strand
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| The Dark Side of Oxygen
As I said, through biochemical research we are learning that the underlying cause of degenerative disease, and possibly the aging process itself, is oxidative stress that free radicals cause.
Chemically, the violent action of these free radicals has been shown to actually produce bursts of light. Not readily neutralized, the free radicals set off a chain reaction leading to potentially dangerous conditions. Did you know there is literally a war waging within your body? During the silent, day-to-day breakdown of oxygen, a vital battle is occurring. |
Ron Garner
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 A deficiency of one or more of the essential fatty acids is usually evident in degenerative disease conditions. On the road to recovering health, supplementing with hemp oil, olive oil, flax oil, or a combination of these oils is a good measure. They are rich in linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids?more commonly known as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids—which are the key components of healing oils.
Officials of the World Health Organization, Health Canada, Japan, and Sweden, recommend a 1:4 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 for oil consumption. |
Ray D. Strand
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| A slow corrosion begins in our body and, like a weak spot in metal, whichever part of the body wears out first will determine what type of degenerative disease we may develop.
Fortunately, not only do our bodies possess a tremendous antioxidant defense system; they also possess a remarkable repair system. The next chapter explains how this MASH unit is able to repair the inevitable casualties of the war that is raging within every cell in our bodies.
PART II
WINNING THE WAR WITHIN
FOUR Our Repair System: The MASH Unit
There will always be casualties of war. |
Ron Garner
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| Such a reading also means cellular oxygen is at deficient levels, thereby providing a welcome medium for harmful organisms, and setting the stage for degenerative disease.
Testing
Using pH reagent strips, check saliva before getting out of bed. Move your tongue a bit and swallow two or three times to get the saliva flowing. Touch the pH strip on your tongue to wet it, then remove it and take the reading. Next, get up and go to the washroom to check the pH of your urine. You can quickly place the pH strip into the urine stream and remove it. |
| Reversing degenerative disease conditions and regaining good health can be achieved more quickly by doing those things that have a very influential impact on the body's ability to heal.
It's really quite simple. Stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things. A great example of a nutritional homerun is juicing. Presented below is a brief list of the main nutritional routines to adopt, in order to expedite and retain health gains.
Eliminate all harmful foods from the diet.
Fast regularly on fresh fruit and vegetable juices and watermelon. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This is considered to be one of the main causes of aging and degenerative disease. This also shows how something so useful as oxygen radicals can become harmful when we expose the body to unnatural foods and chemicals.
Research has shown that out of 100 people who consumed large quantities of polyunsaturated fats, 78 showed marked clinical signs of premature aging. They also looked much older than others of the same age did. |
Ron Garner
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| Enemas are recommended while one is fasting, undergoing an acute cleanse (healing crisis), during periods of detoxification for any serious or degenerative disease (can ease headaches at such times), or when there is a chronic constipation problem. Chemical laxatives are not the answer and should not be used.
Enemas are safe when used according to common sense instructions. The body does not become dependent on them when a person has stopped eating the toxic foods that caused the constipation problem in the first place and has begun to eat foods that rebuild the body and restore health. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 I believe that by doing so you will be sick less, have more energy, lose weight, feel better, be happier, sleep better, live longer, and be much less prone to developing serious degenerative disease. I personally believe pork is one of the major causes of degenerative disease in the body. I am not alone. Dr. Ted Broer is a major advocate in eliminating pork from your diet. Major religions concur. Muslims and Jews, for example, are forbidden to eat pork in any form. Dr. |
Tom Bohager
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 Howell began to investigate whether or not chronic degenerative disease was a matter of a severe enzyme deficiency.
Dr. Howell wrote two books reporting his life's work: Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity and Enzyme Nutrition. Some of the most important and profound discoveries about enzymes and enzyme therapy are contained in the pages of these two books. The following are a few examples. þMammals have a pre-digestive stomach; he called it the "food enzyme stomach." In humans, it is the uppermost portion of the stomach. |
Ron Garner
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| As with other degenerative disease conditions, if the body did not do this, it would succumb to the effects of the toxins and die much sooner. Here again, the disease condition is your helpmate, keeping you alive longer as the body continues to deal with the toxins and lack of proper nutrition. The body does the best it can under the circumstances.
Since the cause of arthritis is an unhealthy lifestyle, the solution or cure of the condition is a healthy lifestyle. The body will need a continuous opportunity to detoxify and build its nutritional reserves. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In other words, diabetes and hypoglycemia may fall on the continuum of the same degenerative disease."
The Chows point to a possible progression of syndromes that includes hypoglycemia, glucose intolerance (or impaired glucose tolerance), insulin resistance, Syndrome X (also called insulin resistance syndrome), and finally type 2 diabetes.
Cynthia Geyer, M.D., who sees thousands of patients as Director of Women's Health at Canyon Ranch health resort in Lenox, Massachusetts, puts it another way. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Polyphenols, like other antioxidants, help protect cells from the normal, but damaging, physiological process known as oxidative stress polysaccharide—long string of glucose molecules polyunsaturated fats—large class of fatty acids with many members, including both the omega-6s and the omega 3s; found in vegetable oils, nuts, and fish proanthocyanidins—plant compounds helpful in preventing degenerative disease; powerful antioxidants that are several times more potent than vitamins C and E. |
| All these exposures create free radical damage, also known as oxidative damage, which is not only a big part of aging but also a component of absolutely every single degenerative disease you can think of (and many that you've never heard of).
An antioxidant acts like lemon juice on the apple slices—it protects against the damage of oxidation. Vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants on the planet. To this extent it's a natural weapon against cellular damage from a host of enemies. It's also no accident that it's an important ingredient in so many high-end skin care products. |
| Inflammation is a big component 1/5 of every degenerative disease, including
Alzheimer's, and fish oil is one of the most anti-inflammatory substances on the planet.
Your grandma was right when she told you fish was brain food. About 60 percent of your brain is fat, and most of that is an omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid or
DHA. Where is it found, you ask? In fish.
I consider omega-3 s one of the most protective supplements you can take for many reasons
(see page 299 [desert island cure]), not the least of which that they go a long way toward protecting your brain. |
| Since inflammation is a component of every major degenerative disease from Alzheimer's to
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As mentioned above, the two omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are called eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docasahexaenoic acid (DHA). There's a third omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and it's found in plant food, specifically flax and flaxseed oil. The body can theoretically make EPA and DHA from ALA, but it does a lousy job of it, converting only about 10 to 20 percent into EPA and DHA. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Well, the significance is that the hippocampus is an area of the brain that is extremely vulnerable to degenerative disease and that is needed for learning. Instantly I said, This changes the game completely."
The news certainly came out of left field for me. For years, I had been a vocal proponent of using exercise for ADHD and many other psychological issues, based on what I'd seen with my own patients and what I knew about exercise's effect on neurotransmitters. But this was different. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Whichever part of the body receives the most free radical damage is the first to wear out and potentially develop degenerative disease. If it is your eyes, you could develop macular degeneration or cataracts. If it is your blood vessels, you could have a heart attack or a stroke. If it is your joint space, you could develop arthritis. If it is your brain, you could develop Alzheimer's or Parkinson s disease. After the passing of time, our bodies can look just like the carpet in front of the fireplace: pretty ratty. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 However, if you're young and have night blindness, it may be the first sign of a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease of the retina that may lead to severely impaired vision in some cases.
In ancient Egypt, eating liver ^m^jy was thought to cure night blindness.Thousands of years later, it was discovered that liver is rich in vitamin A. Researchers today have found that vitamin A slows the progression of retinitis pigmentosa. |
Tom Bohager
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| This progressive, degenerative disease involves the gradual loss of the myelin sheath that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers in the body. With the loss of the myelin, the nerve fibers become scarred, disrupting communication between the brain and other parts of the body. While the cause of MS is not known, some researchers believe that it is an autoimmune disorder. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Perlmutter suggests that "supplementing with this vital amino acid in midlife, when levels begin to decline, may help prevent this brain degenerative disease in the first place."
Membranes Matter
Phosphatidylserine (PS) is a member of a class of biochemicals called phospholipids. It's a naturally occurring nutrient that's found in the cell membranes, but it's most concentrated in the brain. As neurologist Jay Lombard, M.D., author of The Brain Wellness Plan says, "The first step in treating patients with Alzheimer's disease is to rebuild defective membranes." Membranes matter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It misleads readers into pursuing unhealthful lifestyles that will only result in more weight gain and the development of degenerative disease.
Many of the foods recommended in the article are well documented to promote cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems. The Canadian bacon recommendation, in particular, is one that directly promotes cancer. (See http://www.newstarget.com/sodium_nitrite.html )
The source of the story (Health Magazine) is not up to date with the nutritional science published over the last decade. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| When I had my natural health practice, I took on the hardest cancer and degenerative disease cases I could find because I loved the challenge. Patients would sometimes ask me during the initial consultation, "What are you going to do for me that all the other doctors couldn't do?"
I said to them, "Let me ask you a question ... what did all the other doctors do to cleanse or detoxify your body before giving you bottles of prescription medications (or bags of supplements)?" Practically every one of them would respond with confusion, "Cleanse? What is that?" Well, I didn't just tell them ... |
| The colon and small intestine can also absorb dangerous toxins and, unfortunately, these toxins are the root cause of most degenerative disease.
A healthy colon is essential for your overall wellbeing. The colon is more than just a tube for the food you eat to pass through on its way out; it's a key part of the digestive process. When the colon stops functioning properly, digestion becomes disrupted and the essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients your body depends on to grow and thrive are no longer absorbed. An unhealthy colon is also less able to expel toxins. |
Ray D. Strand
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| If a patient is suffering from lasting fatigue or a chronic degenerative disease, he is under even more oxidative stress than normal, so I add what I call optimizers to his supplement program. These are antioxidants that are proven to be extremely potent. Nutritional companies are continually looking for more and more potent antioxidants, but presently the best is grape-seed extract, which is loaded with proanthacyanidins. These are very potent antioxidants that fall in a group of antioxidants called bioflavanoids, found in the colorful parts of fruits. |
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