David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 SHATAVARI
Botanical Name: Asparagus racemosus Family: Liliaceae (lily family)
Common Names: Shatamuli, Indian asparagus root Taste/Energy: Sweet, bitter, warm, moist Part Used: Root
Location/Cultivation: Shatavari is native to tropical and subtropical regions of India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Africa, and northern Australia.
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Properties: Adaptogen, antibacterial, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac,
Shatavari
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| It is a water loving-plant, usually found in tropical and semitropical wetlands, tidal zones, and shallow ponds. It is native to India and Sri Lanka and has been naturalized in Australia, Florida, the Gulf Coast, and southern California. In addition to being a nootropic, bacopa also is a nervine, mild anticonvulsive, antispasmodic, and antioxidant. It has a very long history of use in ayurvedic and Siddha medicine as a rasayana. Bacopa recently has been found to mildly stimulate thyroid function, and it can reduce seizure activity. |
Roberta Bivins
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 It was a powerful therapy against the fevers that rendered the tropical world so dangerous for Europeans; knowledge of its medical utility was, of course, derived from indigenous medical knowledge. As the product of a tropical plant, the bark reinforced the older providential belief in a merciful divinity who had ensured that the diseases of a region could be cured by that region's own natural productions. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 A disorder identical to celiac disease, or nontropical sprue, occurs in persons living in tropical climates. Quite logically, it's called tropical sprue. It affects not only the residents of these areas, but transients too. American troops in Vietnam and those stationed in Puerto Rico have developed malabsorption that is not genetic, but due to a bacterial infection of the gut. Their intestinal lining has the same appearance as in nontropical sprue despite the different cause. Symptoms of tropical sprue may not appear for months after you return home. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Most infections occur in tropical and subtropical areas where the climate is moist and warm. Symptoms of hookworm infection include stomach pain, loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, bloody stool, gas, itchy skin, fever, and fatigue.
Hookworms can live inside the body for up to 10 years. Prolonged infection can lead to serious symptoms such as iron deficiency (anemia) because the worms excessively suck blood from the intestinal tract. In some cases, the infection can lead to heart problems.
^•w**"*'^ riculty speaking, enlarged lymph glands,
Fig. xxni: Tnchneiic. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Almost certainly the precocity of Olmec civilization was a response to the immense fertility of the natural levee lands which border the sluggish rivers meandering through this landscape of tropical forests and grassy savannahs. The Olmecs were prodigious constructors of massive ceremonial centers made up of earth-and-clay mounds and pyramids; scattered throughout these centers have been found awesome figures of their gods and their rulers, carved from hard basalt laboriously brought in from great distances. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 However, evidence as to whether this plant is really effective for such purposes is conflicting and, given its high tannin content, it is likely to be irritating (Sources: Revista de Investigacion Clinica, July-September 1991, pages 205-210; and Revista de Biologica tropical, December 2000, pages 939-954). I have seen no research that shows it to be effective for healing post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. This is merely an OK lightweight moisturizer for normal to slightly dry skin.
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Mike Adams
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 Their primary message? tropical oils were bad for you, and hydrogenated soybean oil was good for you:
The ASA [American Soybean Association] succeeded in producing a health crisis where none had existed. The general ignorance about nutrition by most people swayed them into siding with the soybean industry, which proves money and politics can override truth. Most major food companies, sensitive to consumer fear, reformulated hundreds of products, replacing tropical oils with hydrogenated oils. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| When the Spaniards first settled here following the conquest of Peru, they came across extensive forests of wild cacao; this was the forastero variety of Theobroma cacao, native to tropical South America. Shortly after the beginning of the 17th century, these stands came under cultivation, merely by clearing the forest around the cacao trees. |
| Since the environment favored by Theobroma cacao and the Olmecs alike— the humid tropical forest—is about the most unsuitable imaginable for archaeological preservation, it was once thought that unless a great Olmec stone monument should turn up with an indisputable depiction of a cacao tree or pod, we were left with historical linguistics rather than archaeology as our only source of data. But this pessimism, thanks to modern chemical analysis, has proved to be premature.
Cacao contains three alkaloids, of which the most important is theobromine, followed by caffeine. Further, T. |
| Their very name, pochteca, meaning "People from the Land of the Ceiba-tree," suggests their intimate connection with the tropical lowlands, where the ceiba flourishes. As we have said, the pochteca may have been instituted in central Mexico by the Putiin overlords of Cacaxtla, centuries earlier.
Sahagun devoted an entire book of his encyclopedia to the pochteca.6 From this we know that their main task was to procure from Xicallanco and Xoconochco exotic goods for the royal palace, such as resplendent feathers (above all, quetzal feathets), jaguar skins, and amber. |
| Vanilla was another spice of the tropical lowlands, and was extensively cultivated along the Gulf Coast, particularly by the Totonacs of Veracruz, where it is still grown commercially. There is not a hint that the Aztecs considered it to be an erotic stimulant, but they did put it into their chocolate.
The last in Hernandez's trio of chocolate flavorings is mecaxo-chitl ("string flower"). This is a member of the genius Piper, probably Piper sanctum, and therefore actually related to black peppet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When a paying client in the real world has a sudden need for a liver or other organs, the cloned human is told they've won the lottery and that they'll get to move to the only uncontaminated tropical island left on the earth, where they will enjoy a tropical paradise of prosperity. In reality, they are taken from the cloned human population, sedated, and then surgically stripped of their organs, which are delivered for transplantation to the paying client.
Not as far-fetched as it sounds
If it all sounds far-fetched, it actually isn't. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Limit foods high in saturated fat, trans tat, and/or cholesterol, such as full-fat milk products, fatty meats, tropical oils, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, and egg yolks. Instead choose foods low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol. Eat less than 6 grams of salt per day (2,400 mg of sodium).
• Have no more than one alcoholic drink per day.
Not all low-fat diets have provided cardiovascular prevention. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Malaria has plagued humanity for thousands of years7 Even now it affects an estimated 200 million people every year, causing some 2 million deaths. In tropical Africa, for example, it kills about 1 million people annually, most of those being children.8 The disease also contributes to death from other causes, including pneumonia, anemia, and kidney failure. The anemia associated with malaria is linked to miscarriage, still-birth, and low birth weight.10
Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium, which infects red blood cells. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| The first is hueinacaztli, the thick, ear-shaped petal of the flower of Cymbopetalum penduliflorum, a tree of the Annonaceae or custard-apple family, which grows in the tropical lowland forests of Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; this was one of the most highly valued products brought back by the pochteca merchants from their expeditions. It is a confusing plant, because it has at least three Nahuatl names: it may be called hueinacaztli ("great ear"), teonacaztli ("divine ear"), or xochinacaztli ("flowery ear"). The distinguishing feature is the ending nacaztli, meaning "ear. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Therefore, people who live in tropical climates may be at greater risk for kidney stone formation because of the way the body manages water in a tropical setting. As a percentage, perspiration often becomes the prevalent method of how the body excretes water in tropical or very hot conditions, and urination may decline slightly because urine is stored longer in the utinaty tract. Although it seems obvious, the fact is that most people do not drink enough water every day, and in ttopical areas this is even mote significant. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Everything from tropical fruits to garden greens provides a strong benefit in boosting the power of your intention.
My personal secret to success
People tend to look at my own accomplishments as being "remarkable" or highly successful in various ways. They see me as getting many things done in a very short period of time, and they often wonder how I accomplish these things. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 That hormonal storm, which can be a light tropical rain for some folks and Hurricane Katrina for others, also affects neurotransmitters like serotonin, influencing mood and cravings and behavior.
For various reasons the combination of nutrients I'm about to tell you about works wonders.
The Dynamic Duo: Magnesium and Vitamin B6
Let's start with magnesium. Taking magnesium seems to relieve symptoms of PMS for many people. Supplementation with magnesium can improve mood and also help with fluid retention. Women with PMS have reduced magnesium levels. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When a paying client in the real world has a sudden need for a liver or other organs, the cloned human is told they've won the lottery and that they'll get to move to the only uncontaminated tropical island left on the earth, where they will enjoy a tropical paradise of prosperity. In reality, they are taken from the cloned human population, sedated, and then surgically stripped of their organs, which are delivered for transplantation to the paying client.
Not as far-fetched as it sounds
If it all sounds far-fetched, it actually isn't. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are certain foods that are more appropriate in certain environments, like for example, eating tropical fruits in a tropical environment makes much more sense than importing them to say, Scandinavia, and the way it will affect the blood is very, very different because nature has a whole blueprint that encourages us and enables the to get the maximum amount of benefits from those foods, sugary fruits and otherwise, because you're eating them in conjunction with other things that grow in that ecosystem.
Mike: There's a huge local movement now gaining steam in the United States. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember, this is three hours of intense tropical sunlight with a double dose. I am not a dark-skinned person to begin with, by any means; in fact, I remember growing up as a child, I was always the first one who got sunburned. I was the easiest to get burned of anybody I knew. So here I was in Hawaii, under the tropical sun, getting a double dose of rays, and basically relying on astaxanthin to help protect me from the sun. And it turns out that it worked. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 These tropical relatives of the raccoon rarely venture to the ground; the strange glow of their eyes does not emanate from within, but is merely the reflection of the light from your forehead.
Unearthly balls of fire turn up in other places in the forest night. In the rain forest of the upper Amazon basin in eastern Ecuador lies a peculiar lake whose waters are soupy green with nutrients. This lake has a high fish population and on these fish lives one of the largest predatory animals in the New World tropics, the black caiman. |
| The roads that penetrate the lowland rain forests of tropical America don't resemble North American highways, despite their often grandiose names. The difficulties of building and maintaining roads in regions that receive 100 inches or more of rain each year are prodigious, and even the most well-traveled routes may be little more than a broad, muddy swath through the trees.
The paved highways that you can find in some rain forest regions are hardly any better. |
| The roads that lead in and through the tropical forests are far more than a way of getting from one place to another. They offer avenues of access, ways of getting goods to market and people to production, that in turn provide a new frontier for human populations growing at an exceedingly rapid rate. Sometimes roads are built specifically to encourage colonization, as in the ill-fated Trans-Amazon Highway, and sometimes they are built to serve other needs, as in the Quito-Lago Agrio Road; but people inevitably follow soon behind and begin the task of clearing the forest. |
| The forest that lines the banks of tropical rivers in seasonally dry habitats can more closely resemble a rain forest hundreds of miles away in both structure and species composition than it does a patch of deciduous forest several hundred yards away. There are trees that lose their leaves even in the wettest rain forest, but they seem to do so in response to their own cycles rather than to real shortages of moisture. Even during the driest months rain forest does not want for water. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| Therefore, people who live in tropical climates may be at greater risk for kidney stone formation because of the way the body manages water in a tropical setting. As a percentage, perspiration often becomes the prevalent method of how the body excretes water in tropical or very hot conditions, and urination may decline slightly because urine is stored longer in the utinaty tract. Although it seems obvious, the fact is that most people do not drink enough water every day, and in ttopical areas this is even mote significant. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Habitat: The plant is indigenous to Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, western Siberia, northern Africa, and in the mountains of tropical Africa.
Production: The plant is collected in the wild.
Not To Be Confused With: In the drug market the herb may be mixed with leaves of Cardamine enneaphylos. In some areas, Astrantia major is labeled as sanicle and accordingly used as folk medicine. |
Ron Garner
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 Commercial interests, mainly in the United States, convinced food manufacturers to abandon the use of this tropical oil in favor of processed oils made from various crops, including soy, that were "home grown." Mary Enig points out that poor research practices were also to blame: "The problems for coconut oil started four decades ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was purposefully altered to make it completely devoid of any essential fatty acids."42 As already pointed out, the hydrogenation of oils produces trans fats, which are very unhealthy. |
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