Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| In other words, when lab animals receive this herb in sufficient quantities, tumors or colon cancer is often the result.73 Remember—there is only a fractional amount of DNA differentiating human beings from many other mammals such as rats, primates, or even a household fly... so what can kill one animal can probably kill most.
You obviously don't want to ingest this herb or any of its derivatives. Take the time to seek out a product supporting your body's ability to cleanse and heal itself, rather than relying on a dangerous laxative that causes more harm than good. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 But what Pollard has found in lab animals exposed to mercury is that the actual autoantibodies produced against the mouse's own body tissue form not against these new hybrid proteins but directly against the mouse's pure, unadulterated body tissue. Somehow, mercury produces such a potent response in the body that it not only creates these surprising hybrid proteins, it also forces the immune system, in a process not fully understood, to react against pure body tissue. But this damage does not necessarily happen in the same part of the body where mercury exposure first occurred. |
| Scientists tested the extract of curcuminfound in this common spice—to see if it could help to stave off rheumatoid arthritis in lab animals. Turmeric, a key ingredient in curry, has been used for centuries by practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine to treat inflammatory disorders, and turmeric extract containing curcumin (not to be confused with cumin, a spice commonly associated with Moroccan cooking) is available in most health-food stores as a dietary supplement for the treatment and prevention of rheumatoid arthritis. |
| Harley and James's results, published in 1997, provided striking evidence that Epstein-Barr plays a role in triggering lupus—and that the same relationship that exists between Epstein-Barr and autoimmune disease in lab animals also exists in humans. "For most patients with lupus, Epstein-Barr is a necessary condition for autoimmune disease," submits Harley. Although EBV works in connection with many, many other factors, says Harley, "without the Epstein-Barr connection I think most patients would not be affected with lupus. |
Stacy Malkan
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 This spectrum of health effects is so common in lab animals exposed to phthalates that scientists have come to call it "phthalates syndrome."
But what does that mean for people? Limited human data was available. The method to detect phthalate metabolites in human fluids had only recently been developed by CDC scientists John Brock and Benjamin Blount and reported in their October 2000 paper. Human health trends over the past few decades provided a possible clue. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| It remains to be seen if PAP-1 will work in people as well as it does in lab animals. Meanwhile, such discoveries speak to the importance of protecting our plant and animal biodiversity. Ironically, many of the same factors that are precipitating today's autoimmunity epidemic—environmental degradation and chemical pollution both on land and at sea—are threatening to extinguish plant and animal species that may one day turn out to hold the very cures we seek for autoimmune disease.
GLUCOSAMINE. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 So too is the non-investigation of deaths among lab animals and offspring, livestock sterility, reports of illness by those exposed to GM crops and pollen, unidentified proteins, and the overwhelming evidence linking cancer with a hormone that is significantly elevated in milk from rbGH-treated cows. Even when StarLink—a potentially allergenic corn variety unapproved for human consumption—contaminated the US food supply, the response was feeble at best.
It is not as if science lacks the tools for proper investigations. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 But Joseph's studies show that when you feed lab animals extracts of blueberries, wonderful things start happening—or, more accurately, bad things don't happen.
Such as mental deterioration.
Rats that chow down on blueberries in the Joseph lab act like they've found the Rat Fountain of Youth. Blueberries actually help neurons in the brain communicate with one another more effectively.
"Old neurons are kind of like old married couples," Joseph says. "They don't talk to each other so much anymore." Memory goes down and the "processing" necessary for coordination and balance tends to decline. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| These included lab animals with damage to virtually every system studied, thousands of sick, sterile, or dead livestock and people around the world who traced toxic or allergic reactions to eating GM products, breathing GM pollen, or touching GM crops at harvest. Then, 45 ways in which genetic engineering may be responsible for these and other health problems were presented. Here we review the findings, looking for patterns and discussing probable causes for some of the adverse reactions. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Indeed, exposure to lead in lab animals disrupts immune-system cells that normally control runaway immune responses and prevent the autoimmune response from happening.
In the years between 1985 and 1995, as the site at East Dela-van Street was going through various stages of DEC investigation and remediation, scientists in labs across the globe—including California, England, Italy, and France—were becoming extremely concerned about the emerging connection between TCE exposure and autoimmune disease, be it through vapor inhalation, skin contact, or ingestion. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 When thiamine was added to the food of diabetic lab animals, kidney damage (common in diabetics) was cut by 70 to 80 percent.
Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In one study, injecting lab animals with celery lowered their blood pressure by 12 to 14 percent. If you're a human, you'd get that effect with about four stalks. Dr. Mark Houston, head of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital and Medical Center in Nashville and my go-to guy for all things related to hypertension, has celery at the top of his list of foods for his patients with high blood pressure. The substances in celery that seem to produce the benefit are phytochemi-cals called phthalides. |
| But what Joseph's studies show is that when you feed the lab animals extracts of blueberries, wonderful things start happening; or, more accurately, bad things don't happen.
Bad things meaning mental deterioration. And loss of coordination and balance. Gone. Those rats that chowed down on the blueberries behaved like young studs. In Joseph's lab, they'd found the Rat Fountain of Youth.
Blueberries contain compounds like antho-cyanin that are antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. |
Devra Davis
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 Alicia Fernandez was a proud, hard-working Mexican-American immigrant who spent more than ten years in the "clean rooms" of IBM's chip factory in San Jose, California, working with more than a dozen different chemicals known to cause cancer in lab animals. She and her coworkers, all women, wore caps and gloves to keep human hair, skin flakes and perspiration from contaminating the delicate wafers onto which computer chips were etched. But their lungs got no protection from the fumes and dust that filled the room.
Fernandez was thrilled to have what she was told was "a job for life . |
| Until recently, studies in lab animals were run for a period of two years. When working with rodents, scientists have generally ended the studies and the varmints' lives after 712 days, hoping in that time to get the animals to consume as much of whatever is being tested as a human would use in seventy years. But rats can live longer. It's entirely possible that by stopping studies at this point, we are missing an important part of the picture. What happens to animals or people in the last third of their lives? That's something that many of us want to know. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Surprising tidbit: Even over-the-counter cold and allergy medications can contribute to memory problems; in fact, injecting lab animals with the active ingredient in Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is a research model for memory loss that immediately simulates Alzheimer's.
YOU Tip: Learn to Tell a Joke. There's lots of evidence that a good laugh can help improve your immune system, and humor can also have a valuable effect on your memory. |
Stacy Malkan
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| A similar spectrum of health effects found in the lab animals exposed to certain phthalates was also occurring in people: sperm counts appeared to be declining in industrialized countries, birth defects of the male reproductive tract had been increasing, and testicular cancer was on the rise. Scientists called these human health effects "testicular dysgenesis syndrome," and some suspected the disorders could be caused by phthalates and other chemicals that interfere with male sex hormones. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| It is particularly alarming in light of consistent reports of immune system responses in lab animals and humans exposed to Bt, in animals fed Bt crops and in humans handling Bt cotton or breathing Bt corn pollen (see section 1). ased on reasonable ' scientific certainty, there is no identifiable maximum level of Cry9Cprotein that can be suggested that would not provoke an allergic response and thus would not be harmful to the public. "S2
— EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Nevertheless, the quest to make the invisible visible—and demonstrate, in lab animals, how exposure to a particular chemical causes autoimmunity—is the holy grail of autoimmune disease and immunotoxicology research.
The immune response involves one of the most complex systems in the body. Indeed, the number of cell interactions that go into one immune response—say, fighting off the microparticles that come out of a blast of diesel exhaust—would take up three consecutive chalkboards to show in its entirety. |
Mark Sircus
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26 Researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized, are hidden by FDA approval, and certainly doctors and the food industry are not informing parents that they and their children are being poisoned by white flour containing alloxan. Diabetes and Chemical Poisoning. Source: (http://imva.info/)
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Gabriel Cousens
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 According to John Culhane, in his 1980 article "PCBs: The Poisons That Won't Go Away," only a few parts per billion of these substances can cause cancer and birth defects in lab animals.19 The tenth annual Council on Environmental Quality, sponsored by the U.S. government, reported PCBs in 100 percent of all human sperm samples. According to a Washington Post article in 1979, PCBs are considered one of the main reasons that the average sperm count of the American male is approximately 70 percent of what it was thirty years ago. |
Hyla Cass
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| When thiamine was added to the food of diabetic lab animals, kidney damage (common in diabetics) was cut by 70 to 80 percent.
Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Like sulforaphane, PEITC has been found to protect lab animals from esophageal, stomach, colon, and lung cancers caused by exposure to toxic substances. It seems more and more likely that the mechanism of PEITC's anti-cancer activity also involves direct action on cancerous cells. In fact, PEITC is one of the isothiocyanates exhibiting the greatest toxicity toward lab-grown cancer cells, especially those derived from leukemia, colon, and prostate tumours; the effect is related to PEITC's ability to induce cell death by apoptosis. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| If results from the few animal feeding safety studies are any indication, then the odds are stacked against us. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| The anti-cancer potential of strawberries and raspberries, the principal dietary sources of ellagic acid, has been studied using lab-grown cancer cells as well as in lab animals subjected to substances that cause tumours to form.
Both strawberry and raspberry extracts are able to counter the growth of tumour cells, these effects being directly related to the quantity of polyphenols contained in these berries and not to their antioxidant potential. |
| Although it is always difficult to extrapolate results obtained with lab animals to humans, it is impossible, for the moment, to predict with certainty either the positive or negative impact of soy consumption on the risk of breast cancer recurrence. As a consequence, women with breast cancer or who are in remission should consume any dietary soy in strict moderation, while favouring other foods with the potential to prevent the development of breast cancer, such as omega-3 fatty acids (Chapter 12) or the glucosinolates present in vegetables belonging to the cabbage family (Chapter 6). |
| A recent study showed that although substances containing purified isoflavones did indeed cause an increase in the growth of mammary tumours already present in lab animals, the food itself, even with an equivalent isoflavone content, had no effect on cell growth. These results agree with epidemiological studies showing that not only did Asian women have a much lower incidence of breast cancer, but those stricken with the disease had higher survival rates. |
| This controversy is based on the weakly estrogenic character of isoflavones, as well as contradictory results obtained with lab animals on which mammary tumours were grafted. The nature and the sheer number of conflicting facts circulated in both the print and electronic media makes this topic worth looking at more closely.
Soy and menopause
Menopause occurs when women age; reproductive function is lost as levels of the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone in the bloodstream drop sharply. |
| These results have been strongly corroborated by studies carried out on lab animals.
Overall, the studies that have been conducted up to now show clearly the important role of soy in the prevention of breast cancer and prostate cancer. It appears that the great difference between the rates of these cancers in the East and in the West are for the most part attributable to profound differences in the respective traditional diet. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Enhancescell growth, doubles lifespan in lab animals.
•SCANDIUM (Sc)Atomic#21.Arare grey metalfound in manyminerals(in Scandinavia).
•TANTALUM (Ta) Atomic #73. A rare malleable non-corrosive metal derived from Tantalite; used as a wire suture or in prostheses repairing cranial defects.
•TERBIUM (Tb) Atomic #65 A rare earth metal.
•THALLIUM (Tl) Atomic #81. Similarto lead, extremely poisonous.
•THORIUM (Th) Atomic # 90. A radioactive metallic chemical found in thorite and monazite.
•THULIUM Tm)Atomic#69. |
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