Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 After warning that "green" chocolate harms the digestion, and causes alarming symptoms like paroxysms, melancholy, and irregular heartbeats, Cardenas goes on to assert that cacao, if toasted and ground and mixed with a bit of atole gruel, is fattening and sustaining, aiding the digestion and making one happy and strong. According to him, chocolate has three parts:
(1) A "cold", "dry", and "earthy" part.
(2) An oily part which is "warm and humid," and associated with air. There is more of this part in chocolate made from old cacao; oil is likewise increased with more toasting. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's virtually no digestion required at all, and with so many people suffering from weakened digestion and suboptimal gastric acid production, this is a very important point. In the Liquizon format, these products go to work right away, even if you don't have the best digestion.
The other noteworthy point is that there's no alcohol in these Liquizon products. The Amazon Herb company has long offered these same herbs in tincture format, but in order to take a large dose of these herbs, you had to drink more than a few shots of alcohol at the same time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the hole that starts here (mouth) and the hole that ends down there because digestion is so absolutely important to almost anything. It's where we take in nutrients -- everything on a biochemical level in our body. Every process that happens is fueled by a cofactor. From a biochemical perspective, that's either a vitamin or a mineral. And we don't make these things. We really have to get them in.
Mike: Right.
Lucille: And it's not "you are what you eat"; it's really "you are what you absorb." And so digestion is extremely important. So I talk about digestion, I talk about heart health .. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Although water contains no calories and might not contain any micronutrients, it is an indispensable aid to digestion, nutrient absorption, and waste elimination. Add the juice of half a lemon or lime whenever possible; fresh lemon or lime juice relieves symptoms of indigestion such as heartburn, bloating, and belching. Drinking lemon or lime juice regularly aids the bowels in eliminating waste more efficiently, thus controlling constipation and diarrhea. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| After warning that "green" chocolate harms the digestion, and causes alarming symptoms like paroxysms, melancholy, and irregular heartbeats, Cardenas goes on to assert that cacao, if toasted and ground and mixed with a bit of atole gruel, is fattening and sustaining, aiding the digestion and making one happy and strong. According to him, chocolate has three parts:
(1) A "cold", "dry", and "earthy" part.
(2) An oily part which is "warm and humid," and associated with air. There is more of this part in chocolate made from old cacao; oil is likewise increased with more toasting. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 When your body is preparing for action, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, while digestion stops. Later, when calm returns, your heart rate and blood pressure return to normal, and digestion resumes. So there are two parts of the ANS—one to prepare for action and the other to prepare for relaxation. Good health requires a balanced ANS. If the ANS is not properly balanced, you can experience diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, and fatigue. Moreover, changes in ANS balance can produce POTS as well as a sudden decrease in blood pressure when you are standing. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The general trend is that most people older than 45-50 have a progressive weakening digestion and are therefore not able to properly assimilate the nutrition in their food. This is why we also suggest the use of HCl supplementation to assist in the digestion of protein, assimilation of minerals, and B-12. In other words, digestive enzymes on many levels provide a tonic effect on the overall healing energy and capacity of the organism. |
| Some herbs that help in the digestion of beans can be added during cooking. For example: bay leaves, cumin, winter or summer savory, fresh epazote (available in Hispanic markets). Many people from India maintain the tradition of chewing on dried fennel seeds or drinking a cup of fennel tea at the end of a legume meal to aid the digestion.
As a general rule of thumb, 1 cup of dried beans will yield about VA to 3 cups of cooked beans.
Quick-Soak Method for Dried Beans: When time is limited, you can wash and pick over beans and put them in a stock pot with water to cover by 3 inches. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| The ANS has two branches: the sympathetic nervous system that prepares the body for a "fight or flight" reaction, and the parasympathetic nervous system that prepares the body for eating, digestion, and sex.
When the body gets ready to run or fight, digestion stops, sexual arousal withers, heart rate and blood pressure zoom, and the adrenal gland pumps out two hormones: adrenalin, which improves alertness and further turns on the cardiovascular system, and a variant of cortisone called Cortisol, which works to release the body's major fuel, glucose, from its storage reservoir in the liver. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Tea drinking can also be a significant source of manganese, a mineral used by the body in the digestion of protein and to maintain healthy bones and connective tissue. Just one cup of tea can provide the daily requirement of manganese.17 The mineral content of the water used in brewing tea also contributes to the mineral content of the drink. |
Jack Challem
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 This complex of antioxidants, extracted from the bark of French maritime pine trees, inhibits the activity of alpha-glucosidase, one of the enzymes that breaks down sugar and carbohydrates during digestion. The mechanism is similar to the diabetes drug acar-bose, but research has found that Pycnogenol is 190 times more active than acarbose in inhibiting alpha-glucosidase. As a result, some carbs pass through the gut without being broken down into glucose or stored as fat. Being a natural substance, Pycnogenol is also much safer than acarbose.
PGX. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 During the digestion process, however, sodium nitrite is converted to nitrosamine, and that's where the cancer problems begin. Nitrosamine is a carcinogen, but since it is not technically an ingredient, its presence can be easily overlooked on the packaging. Nitrosamines are also found in food items that are pickled, fried, or smoked; in things such as beer, cheese, fish byproducts, and tobacco smoke.
Knowing about all these ingredients doesn't mean there is simply a "short list" of foods that should be avoided. You have to vigilant and read labels constantly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In any case, after taking large amounts of aloe vera, you may feel some difference in your digestion for a few days. If you've been constipated, aloe will likely reduce its severity, and you may notice a far easier time passing stools. If you've had stomach pains or intestinal pains, you'll likely notice them easing or vanishing completely. Aloe vera is the best internal medicine for the treatment of colon polyps, in my opinion. It soothes the intestinal tract and helps heal pre-cancerous lesions or growths. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The drug works by interfering with the digestion of dietary fats, you see. That may sound great if you're eating a diet of fried foods, hydrogenated oils and processed meat products, but even if you block the absorption of those obesity-promoting fats, you're still left in a state of deficiency concerning the healthy oils like omega-3 fatty acids. And if you eat more flaxseed or take fish oil capsules, guess what? Alli will interfere with those, too, causing you to miss out on at least some of their benefits.
What an incredibly genius idea for a drug! |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Local folklore says that the herb strengthens the immune system, relieves inflammation, and improves digestion, among other conditions.
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BRAIN INJURY: In a rat study, supplementation with curcumin was found to counteract the oxidative damage and cognitive impairment encountered in the injured brain.
DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S: One mouse study confirmed that curcumin significantly lowers oxidized proteins and inflammatory cytokines associated with Alzheimer's. |
| In traditional medicine, cumin helps aid digestion. Cumin has antibacterial properties and has been known to protect against hookworm infection. In traditional Indian medicine, cumin seeds are smoked in a pipe with ghee (clarified butter) to relieve the hiccups.
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ARTHRITIS: One study showed that rats that were given an extract of black cumin had reduced inflammation attributed to arthritis.
DIABETES: Rats who consumed cumin for six weeks had marked reduction in blood glucose, hemoglobin Ale, cholesterol, and triglycerides. |
| There is absolutely no comparison—whole wheat has significantly higher antioxidants than processed wheat, including phenolics and lectins, found in human case studies to resist digestion and bind to cancer cell membranes, inhibiting tumor growth and causing apoptosis (programmed cell death).
Home Remedies
Hippocrates recommended whole wheat flour to promote regulation of the bowel. Adding wheat germ to the diet has been used for treating acne. The vitamin E in wheat germ may relieve the frequency and severity of hot flashes. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Symptoms include heavy mucoid secretion and discharges, oozing skin—typical western diagnosis might include herpes zoster, other viral infections
Therapies herbal treatments, as their effects are produced through digestion (and thus move from interior to exterior)
Characteristic illness
Pernicious influence masculine, heavens light, hot, dry the upper parts and back, the outer parts (e.g. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| A bitter-tasting fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder before being released into the small intestine to assist in the digestion of fats.
Blood pressure. The forces placed on the blood vessels by the flow of blood.
Bone marrow. The soft material that fills the inside of bone cavities and produces blood cells.
Bowel. The small or large intestine.
Caffeine. An organic chemical present in tea. A member of the family of alkaloids, it acts as a stimulant to the central nervous system.
Camellia sinensis. The Latin name for the tea plant.
Cancer. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Lastly, little or no sweat may also signal peripheral neuropathy, which is common among diabetics (see Chapter 7) and autonomic neuropathy, a condition involving damage to the nerves that regulate sweating, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and other key body functions. Interestingly, autonomic neuropathy itself often signals diabetes. It can also be a clue to alcohol abuse, tumors, autoimmune disorders, and other serious diseases.
SMELLY SWEAT
Sweat itself doesn't smell. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Second, polyphenols inhibit the enzymes sucrase and glucosidase, which are necessary for carbohydrate digestion in the small intestine. Third, green tea extracts alter the transport mechanism used to bring glucose across the intestinal barrier. The end result is reduced absorption of carbohydrates and lower blood glucose levels, which may be beneficial in cases of diabetes or obesity.2
Green tea is also a source of vitamins. Aside from the polyphenols, vitamin C is probably the most prevalent nutrient in green tea. A gram of green tea provides about two milligrams of vitamin C. |
| Aids digestion.
• Prevents dental cavities and gingivitis. against developing cancer. Animal studies have indicated that green tea extract protects against both the initiation and promotion stages of cancer. "The inhibitory activity is believed to be mainly due to the antioxidative properties and possible antiproliferative effects of polyphenolic compounds in green and black tea," said researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Specifically, in animal studies green tea extract has been shown to prevent cancers of the lung, breast, prostate, liver, skin, esophagus, and colon. |
| Animal studies have shown similar improvements in intestinal digestion after ingesting green tea, indicated by a noticeably reduced odor from the feces.9
GREEN TEA AS AN ULCER PREVENTIVE
Ulcers are a common problem, affecting one out of every ten people at some time in their lifetime. The most frequently reported symptom is a burning, aching, or gnawing feeling in the upper abdomen or lower chest. Nausea and vomiting can also occur.
The cause of ulcers is not fully known. However, infection with the H. pylori bacterium is present in the majority of cases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The importance of water for digestion and skin
There are other similarities between these two organs: their positive reaction to sufficient dietary water. Water actually helps lubricate the movement of fecal matter through the large intestine. In a person who is chronically dehydrated, the peristaltic action of the large intestine is reduced; thus fecal matter spends a longer amount of time in the body, emitting toxins and poisoning the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fluoride-enriched water products use a chemical form of fluoride considered a toxic waste from the fertilizer processing industry, and the widespread use of genetically modified corn in the food supply exposes virtually the entire population to alarming levels of chemical pesticides unleashed during digestion.
My CounterThink cartoon, the Food Terrorists, explains this in more detail. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Raw milk seems to be far easier to digest, and it contains living bacteria cultures that enhance digestion and even soothe the digestive tract.
It's no surprise, then, that raw milk is under attack by both federal regulators and some members of the processed milk industry. They don't want people to find a "superior" milk that isn't as profitable to sell (because it has reduced shelf life), so they're trying to destroy the raw milk market and limit consumer choice to processed, dead milk. |
Erich Grotewold
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 It remains to be resolved whether AVIs are derived from the digestion of membranes of anthocyanoplasts after they enter the vacuole or from the aggregation of pigments within the vacuole. Anthocyanoplasts and AVIs might have different origins. Nozue et al. (1997) isolated a 24-kDa protein (VP24) from cultured sweet potato cells. VP24 is localized mainly in anthocyanoplasts and vacuoles. The mature VP24 protein sequence is similar to the sequences of carboxypeptidases (Xu et al, 2001). |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| The polyphenols in green tea influence the action of amylase, the enzyme in saliva that digests carbohydrates, and also influence the subsequent digestion of carbohydrates farther along in the digestive tract. The slow-release of carbohydrates caused by green tea prevents sharp peaks of blood insulin levels, which in turn favors fat burning over fat storage. Additionally, the extra levels of unabsorbed carbohydrates in the stool can benefit dieters by bulking the stools and helping to prevent constipation, a common complaint of dieters. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And so digestion is extremely important. So I talk about digestion, I talk about heart health ... I talk about breast cancer being on the rise. One in every six women is dying of breast cancer and one in every two women is dying of heart disease these days.
Mike: Those are alarming numbers. |
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