Intuition

Prevent cancer and reduce cholesterol.

2012-01-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

Tocotrienols are natural compounds found in select vegetable oils, wheat germ, barley, saw palmetto, and certain types of nuts and grains. This variant of Vitamin E typically only occurs at very low levels in nature.

Commercial sources of tocotrienols are rice, palm and annatto, whilst natural sources include rice bran oil, coconut oil, cocoa butter, barley and wheat germ. Sunflower, peanut, walnut, sesame, and olive oil only contain tocopherols.

Tocotrienols are forms of natural Vitamin E that can protect against brain cell damage, prevent cancer and reduce cholesterol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocotrienol

Lucinda Ball

01/14/2012

Coconut water

2011-12-12T03:53:00.000-08:00

Coconut water is the richest natural source of cytokinins. Some investigators have suggested that consuming coconut water may produce an anti-aging effect on the body, reducing risk of developing degenerative and age related diseases. There is good evidence to support this view.

Because of cytokinins’ anti-aging effects on human tissues, cosmetic manufacturers often add them to facial creams and lotions for the treatment of aging spots, wrinkles, and dry skin. Not only does coconut water slow down the aging process, but when taken internally it also protects against many age related diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, and dementia.

In regulating cell growth, cytokinins prevent mistakes that may lead to the development of cancer. Normal cells are kept healthy while cancerous cells are programmed to die. Much of the early research on cytokinins was funded by The American Cancer Society. Soon after the discovery of cytokinins in the 1950s researchers quickly recognized their potential in fighting cancer. Subsequently, the anti-cancer effects of cytokinins have been well documented.

Cytokinins may also protect the heart and arteries. They inhibit platelet aggregation in human platelets when stimulated by an agonist and cold, therefore, help to prevent blood clots that may lead to heart attacks and strokes.

High blood pressure is one of the primary risk factors associated with heart disease. Coconut water can dilate blood vessels thus reducing high blood pressure and lower the risk of heart attack and stroke. This effect is due not to cytokinins but to the high potassium and arginine (an amino acid) content.

Recent studies show that cytokinins can be a potential treatment for degenerative brain diseases. Researchers found that cytokinins possess an inhibitory effect on acetylcholinesterase and it can be used to treat dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Acetylcholinesterase degrades the neural compounds that mediate nerve cell transmission, and thus by blocking its action, synaptic transmission can be improved. Another recent study found that cytokinins can prevent amyloid beta-protein formation—the plaque that gums up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

12/12/2011

Lucinda Ball

Cardiovascular disease

2011-10-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

High LDL Cholesterol is good because you need it to produce cholesterol sulphate that is required by your heart muscles. We know that the heart muscles retract upon an electrical signal and it just so happens that sulphur holds a high negative charge. Cholesterol sulphate is also highly protective against bacterial and viral invasions.

If you do not have sufficient sulphur in your body, the deficiency causes electron deficiency syndrome due to colloidal instability because of an insufficient negative charge around cells such that you cannot afford to deplete sulphate. More over an insufficient intake of sulphur will necessitate the removal of sulphur from collagen giving rise to arthritis, cause the gut to leek peptides into veins that can cross the blood brain barrier and act as an opiate in the brain. Also because sulphur chelates aluminium and aluminium precipitates protein in the form of amyloid plaque, low sulphur can lead to the on set of Alzheimer’s disease. If you do not get enough cholesterol in your cell walls, insulin based sugar is derailed due to lack of sulphur, muscles have to revert to using stored fat and symptoms of diabetes can arise.

The liver makes 80% - 90% of cholesterol where 25% is held in the brain, which represents just 2% of body weight. When the liver is dealing with sugar and fructose it is not making LDL cholesterol and the excess sugar gums up LDL cholesterol that is then deposited as plaque where macrophages work to trap microbes and consume the plaque to release HDL A1 cholesterol.

Problem is that a backlog can cause cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular disease does not occur in Iceland, Crete and large parts of Italy as well as Oregon in the USA for the simple reason that Basalt rock highly enriched with sulphur ensures an adequate supply of sulphur.

Research foods with a high sulphur content, cut down on carbohydrates and eat a high protein, high fat diet. To ensure that your body receives sufficient sulphur add ¼ of a cup of Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulphate) to a bath, avoid adding soap and scents, and soak until the water cools. Not only will your skin be smooth and silky but also you will feel great for days.

Lucinda Ball

10/01/2011

Type II Diabetes

2011-07-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

In Type II Diabetes, high blood sugar levels occur when glucose is prevented, to a significant degree, from entering cells of the body, notably liver, muscle, and fat cells. This is caused by a “short circuit” in the insulin signalling pathway, a cascade of highly specific chemical reactions that allow insulin to fulfil its role as the facilitator of glucose transport through the cell walls. Insulin is produced by the pancreas in response to elevated blood glucose levels; once it enters the blood, it signals the body’s cells to take up the excess glucose until normal levels are restored.

When insulin molecules bind to the insulin receptors on cell walls, tiny molecular “gates” open up and allow glucose molecules to pass through. If this system is impaired, the gates don’t respond adequately to the insulin signal, thus preventing the glucose from entering the cell. This condition, which is a common consequence of obesity, is called insulin resistance, and it’s both a harbinger and a symptom of diabetes. With insulin resistance, glucose levels in the blood remain high, a very dangerous condition in the long run. The pancreas tries to compensate by making more insulin, but this works only for so long. Eventually, the pancreas becomes overburdened and starts making less insulin. That’s when things go from bad to worse.

And that’s where cinnamon—or MHCP, methylhydroxychalcone polymer to be specific—comes in. MHCP makes cells more responsive to insulin, i.e., it increases insulin sensitivity, the opposite of insulin resistance. And there was me researching whether cinnamon can stop and even reverse alzheimer's disease maybe there is a link.

Lucinda Ball

07/18/2011

Type II Diabetes

2011-07-12T14:57:00.000-07:00

Our diets lack highly unsaturated fatty acids and contain an excess of man-made oils known as trans fats (or partially hydrogenated oils). These oils are very much like cholesterol and our bodies cannot tell the difference. Trans fats are also responsible for Type II diabetes, since insulin is a very large molecule it has a difficult time passing through a cell wall created with man-made fats and not cholesterol.

The cell may still have some good ports so increasing insulin will still help. Over time as the body continues to store excess glucose as triglyceride in fat cells and doesn't burn fat the person becomes obese--just look around you, it's everywhere.

Since plant sterol esters can reduce the absorption of cholesterol it is important not to do so with plant sterols that have been hydrogenated, as in food store products that reduce cholesterol!

Rice Bran oil contains Gamma Oryzanol, a naturally occurring plant sterol which has been shown to reduce cholesterol absorption, it too is sold in food stores.

Lucinda Ball

07/12/2011

Dichloroacetate (DCA) cancer treatment

2011-07-06T03:21:00.000-07:00

There are two major pathways that we use to extract energy from sugar. One is glycolysis, which extracts two ATP molecules from each molecule of sugar, and doesn't require oxygen. Then there is glucose oxidation, which as you might guess from the name, does require oxygen, but which takes the byproducts of glycolysis and burns them completely to produce 36 ATP. So there's the tradeoff: if your cells are oxygen-starved, or hypoxic, they can still get energy from sugar, but it's relatively inefficient, but if they do have access to oxygen, they can extract much more. This is why you breathe, and why your heart beats, and why you have an elaborate circulatory system to deliver oxygenated blood to your tissues: without oxygen, you suffer a catastrophic hit to the efficiency of energy production.

Another feature of these two energy-producing pathways is that they are in different cellular compartments. Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm, while glucose oxidation occurs in the mitochondria. There is a gate-keeping enzyme, pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK), that regulates the flow of pyruvate, a product of the glycolysis pathway, into the mitochondria for oxidation. If PDK is active, it suppresses the transport of pyruvate into the mitochondria, and the cell is forced to rely on glycolysis, even if oxygen is available. If PDK is inactivated, pyruvate is shuttled into the mitochondria, even if oxygen is low.

This is where Dichloroacetate ( DCA) comes in. DCA inhibits PDK, forcing cells to use the more efficient form of energy production. That sounds like a strange way to make a cancer cell uncomfortable, but the other factor here is that mitochondria are primary regulators of apoptosis, or cell suicide. They are loaded with sensors and enzymes that react to abnormalities in the cell (like being cancerous!) by activating a self-destruct mechanism. Shut down the mitochondra, you shut down the self-destruct mechanism that polices the cell. So the idea is a little indirect: by goosing the mitochondria, we also wake up the safety switch that, if all goes well, will cause the cell to spontaneously kill itself.

Thanks to PZ Myers for this clear explanation.

Only the salts of dichloroacetic acid are used therapeutically, including its sodium and potassium salts, sodium dichloroacetate and potassium dichloroacetate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid

Evangelos Michelakos, Associate Prof. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada has this to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUvtSgmHaU

No exclusivity equals no value. Sodium dichloroacetate is a man made chemical. DCA is not naturally occurring. It is a by product of the chlorination of drinking water. It is produced by the metabolism of a bunch of chlorine-containing chemicals. typically, it is made via the reduction of trichloroacetic acid. DCA is not patentable. Because of this the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in dichloroacetate (DCA).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971

If anyone can discover a natural source of DCA please comment as somewhere I read that the synthetic molecules are derived from curcumin and I cannot see any link to pangamic acid.

Lucinda Ball

07/06/2011

Alzheimer's and wheat

2011-07-04T03:12:00.000-07:00

Eating wheat may not be beneficial to your health. Among many other reasons, each grain contains about one microgram of Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA). Even in small quantities, WGA can have profoundly adverse effects. It may be pro-inflammatory, immunotoxic, cardiotoxic ... and neurotoxic.

“WGA can pass through the blood brain barrier (BBB) through a process called ‘adsorptive endocytosis’ ... WGA may attach to the protective coating on the nerves known as the myelin sheathand is capable of inhibiting nerve growth factor which is important for the growth, maintenance, and survival of certain target neurons. WGA binds to N-Acetylglucosamine which is believed to function as an atypical neurotransmitter functioning in nocioceptive (pain) pathways.”

Sources:

Biological Psychiatry July 1 2010; 68(1):100-4

Biological Psychiatry March 1984;19(3):385-99

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology October 2010; 45(10):1197-202

Green Med Info

Lucinda Ball

07/04/2011

Copper toxicity

2011-06-07T07:18:00.000-07:00

Among men, symptoms of copper toxicity, usually, include prostate enlargement, prostate infections and to some degree prostate cancer.

Copper tends to oxidize and destroy vitamin C in the body. Meanwhile, vitamin C chelates or removes copper from the body. This requires a dose of vitamin C of at least about 500 mg daily, far higher than the minimum daily requirement of about 60 mg.

Most people with copper imbalance are very sensitive. Many also need to slow down, relax more, let go of anger and learn to meditate, perhaps. Some also need to make big life changes in their relationships, location, work and other important aspects of their lives so that they “live their truth” to a greater degree. Living a lie can be an important problem, in fact.

Life is not always easy for the copper-toxic person. One can become resentful, angry or depressed easily.

In the opinion of Dr Lawrence Wilson, saunas are the finest single additional modality with a nutritional balancing program for toxic metal elimination.

Source: http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/copper_toxicity_syndrome.htm

Lucinda Ball

06/07/2011

Colon Cancer and Rice Bran IP6

2011-04-24T02:26:00.000-07:00

Nature's most effective iron-chelating molecule is inositol hexaphosphate (IP6), found naturally in seeds and bran. IP6 is a selective agent against cancer cells. Because cancer cells are high in iron content, IP6 directs most of its attention to abnormal cells. IP6 selectively removes iron from tumors cells, which deprives them of their primary growth factor. IP6 does not remove iron from red blood cells which are tightly bound to hemoglobin. Unlike cancer drugs, healthy cells are not affected with IP6, so IP6 has very low toxicity.

Because cancer is a major public health issue, the dramatic anticancer effect of IP6 has resulted in our quest for understanding its mechanism of action. A central pathway of cancer inhibition by IP6 is via control of cell division; and IP6 reduces the rate of cellular proliferation both in vivo and in vitro. Tian and Song (2006), have demonstrated that IP6 has potent inhibitory effect on proliferation of human colorectal cancer cell line (HT-29) by modulating proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and Cip1/p21 expression. Along with this reduction in cell proliferation, IP6 can regulate the cell cycle to block uncontrolled cell division and force malignant cells either to differentiate or to go into apoptosis (Matejuk and Shamsuddin, 2010).

http://www.academicjournals.org/JMPR/PDF/pdf2010/4Nov/Nurul-Husna%20et%20al.pdf

"Our study revealed that rice bran IP6 extract showed a significant growth inhibitory effect at all doses (9.5, 12 and 14.5 g/ml IP6) and time points (24, 48 and 72 h) employed in this in vitro assay. Based on the parameter of flow cytometry, this present study demonstrated that IP6 controls the progression of human colon cancer cell lines through the cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1 phase. After only 24 h treatment, IP6 prevented cells from entering the S phase of the cell cycle, resulting in the accumulation of cells in the G0/G1 phase. This finding is consistent with earlier reports in which commercial rice IP6 shown to induce G0/G1 arrest in colon cancer cells (El-Sherbiny et al., 2001). G1 arrest can prevent the replication of damaged DNA and therefore, is helpful in checking the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells (Andreeff et al., 2000)."

IP6 forms two molecules of IP3 in the body. Inositol, the backbone structure of IP6, has six carbon atoms that are capable of binding phosphate molecules; when all six carbons are occupied by six phosphate groups IP6 is formed. When only three of the carbon groups are bound by phosphate it is called IP3. This chemistry is important because although IP6 is gaining all the attention, it is really IP3 that is doing all the work. IP3 plays an important role inside the cells of our bodies. It basically functions as an on/off switch for human cancers according to experimental studies in cell cultures (in vitro studies). When IP3 levels are low (as in cancer cells), the cells replicate out of control. That basically is what occurs in cancer. When cancer cells are bathed in a broth of IP3, they literally turn themselves off. This action reflects the central role that IP3 plays in controlling key cell functions, including replication and the communication between cells.

Lucinda Ball

04/24/2011

B vitamin possible cure for Alzheimer’s

2011-02-02T04:35:00.000-08:00

One out of every eight Americans gets it, and 47% of those who reach 85 years of age have it. Up to now Alzheimer’s was a disease without a remedy. Sure, there are nutritional or drug based substances that slow the symptoms, but if nothing else killed you Alzheimer’s would over a period of time.

Up until recently Alzheimer’s patients took medications just to be able to dress, bathe, use a phone, and other basic necessary functions by themselves a while longer. A team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, has announced the discovery of a true cure for Alzheimer’s. The best part of this cure is it’s cheap and widely accessible. The cure is vitamin B3, nicotinamide, or more commonly referred to as niacin amide.

Kim Green, Ph.D., director of the team at the University of California, Irvine, bought a year’s supply of niacin amide for $30 and stirred it into the drinking water of forty lab mice, half of which were specially bred to get Alzheimer’s disease.

After treating the mice for only four months, he discovered what should have been front-page news in every city in the world. Cognitively, they were cured, said Dr. Green. They performed as if they had never developed the disease.

All the researchers in the study were both astonished and excited. Rarely do you hear researchers using the word "Cured", but that’s exactly what happened.

At the end of the study, the diseased mice that were treated with niacin amide performed just as well in memory tests as healthy mice! The niacin amide not only protected their brains from further memory loss, but incredibly, it also restored lost memory function. Human trials are under way.

The earliest indicator of coming Alzheimer’s may not be a memory test at all, but a test of your sense of balance.

Dr. Kaufman often tested the impact of niacin amide on balance, and my colleague Julian Whitaker, M.D., editor of Health & Healing, uses it as a test of aging. Borrowing a bit from both of them, here is how you can test yourself:

1. Stand on an uncarpeted floor barefoot or in low-heeled shoes. Close your eyes and balance on your right foot. Slowly draw the heel of your left foot up to where it touches your right kneecap. Don’t wave your arms for balance; just see how long you can stand there. (If you’re accident-prone, have somebody to catch you.)

2. Do the same standing on your left foot.

3. Repeat #1 and #2.

Then average your four scores.

The average by age group is:

Your Age – Seconds
Up to 20 – 30
30 to 39 – 25
40 to 49 – 15
50 to 59 – 10
60 to 69 – 7
70+ – 5

Why such a large difference between ages? It is because certain nerve fibres in your spinal column tell your brain the location and angle of each joint in your body…but if you stop assimilating enough B vitamins, the fibres eventually stop sending their messages upstairs, and that is definitely a pre-Alzheimer’s condition

Lucinda Ball 02/02/2011

Alzheimers "cure" cracked.

2011-02-01T08:41:00.000-08:00

Lauric acid is the main ingredient in coconut and palm kernel oil and is antibacterial, antioxidant, antiviral and COX-1-2 inhibitor. But it carries a secret. Let me explain:

Medium chain triglycerides are structurally shorter (6-12 carbon atoms) than the more difficult to-burn long chain fatty acids. In comparison to other types of fat that require impressive amounts of enzymes and bile acids during intestinal absorption, MCTs are quickly metabolised by the liver into Ketone esters. Their unique structure and biological role makes them an ideal source of energy that is capable of utilizing stored fat, improving muscle energy, and increasing the body’s production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). A number of clinical studies have suggested that supplementing medium chain triglycerides in place of other saturated fats may be helpful in maintaining a healthy body weight and therefore a more desirable physique.

Coconut oil is 60% MCT. Neurons pick up esters easily giving relief to those that suffer Alzheimer’s disease. It also raises HDL and lowers LDL cholesterol.

The secret is that coconut oil may cure Alzheimer’s disease. May because it is not proven but all one requires is two tablespoons a day to find out for yourself or for your loved one and really that cannot be that difficult.

Lucinda Ball 02/01/2011

Alzheimers Disease a copper deficiency?

2011-01-03T09:04:00.000-08:00

Since I wrote about Alzheimers Disease some time ago: http://lucinda_ball.blogspot.com/2009/06/alzheimers.html

I thought I might look at a possible cause.

Although many of the epidemiological studies reporting a positive association between aluminium exposure and the development of AD (Alzheimer’s disease) or other forms of cognitive impairment, with limitations, they provide credibility for the potential for such an association. In light of negative evidence and only limited epidemiological support, we conclude the strength of the evidence for neurological effects is modest. http://www.world-aluminium.org/cache/fl0000237.pdf

In absence of occupational exposures and chronic use of aluminium-containing antacids and buffered aspirin, food is the major intake source of aluminium, followed by drinking water.

Oral aluminium bioavailability is greater from water than from aluminium hydroxide or sucralfate. Oral aluminium bioavailability from aluminium hydroxide is ≤ 0.1%, and is less with higher doses. Increased oral aluminium absorption has been suggested in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down’s subjects. Oral aluminium bioavailability from the diet has been estimated to be ~ 0.1 to 0.3%, based on daily aluminium intake and urinary elimination. Results of a few studies with a controlled diet and tea are consistent with this estimate.

Tea leaves, are found to be a rich source of aluminium and a maximum of 2.2% Al is extracted in tea infusions. Coffee powder on the other hand was not found to be a rich source of aluminium. Baking powder was found to be a rich source of aluminium and 1 kg of cake prepared with 1-3 teaspoon of baking powder may contain 2-12.7 mg of aluminium in each serving (25 g). Toothpaste also contains a significant quantity of aluminium, more so, when packed in aluminium tubes.

Tissue aluminium concentration increases with age. Following oral exposure, aluminium distributes throughout the organism with accumulation in bone, kidneys and brain being of concern to humans with evidence of renal dysfunction, anaemia or neurobehavioral alterations reported after excessive doses. Aluminium is used as an adjuvant in vaccines. The presence of aluminium in vaccines was found to be associated with macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) at the site of injection.

Deficiencies in calcium or magnesium may exacerbate the effects of aluminium. High dietary aluminium seemed most toxic when dietary magnesium was low.

Regular consumers of antacids represent a unique subpopulation with heavy exposure to aluminium.

The primary organ for aluminium elimination is the kidney, which is believed to eliminate > 95% of excreted aluminium presumably as the citrate. However it is likely that the aluminium was no longer in solution due to binding by phosphate, or that the aluminium was present as aluminium hydroxides.

Magnesium (element 12) is right next to aluminium (element 13) in the Periodic Table of Elements, which may explain why some anti acid preparations use magnesium hydroxide and some aluminium hydroxide. The use of aluminium oxide sandpaper and aluminium oxide sanding stones by wood turners may be of particular interest to suppliers of abrasives to the wood working industry. The number of cabinetmakers who get hernias always surprised me. Perhaps the answer lies in observation that aluminium in the sandpaper/grindstone decreases their copper levels.

The balance between aluminium, magnesium, and copper is a very critical balance that affects thyroid health. Excess aluminium is often seen in the hair of those with hyperthyroidism. When copper is replenished, aluminium levels invariably go back down. So the key to getting aluminium back into balance is probably copper along with magnesium. Aluminium toxicity has to be considered a primary way that copper gets depleted, and hence a primary cause of the copper deficiency diseases: collagen failure, hernias, high cholesterol, heart disease, aneurysms, and hyperthyroidism.

Aluminium appears to be a copper antagonist as is cadmium.

Copper is required in the formation of haemoglobin, red blood cells as well as bones, while it helps with the formation of elastin as well as collagen - making it necessary for wound healing.

A lack of copper may also lead to increased blood fat levels. It is also necessary for the manufacture of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline as well as for the pigmentation of your hair.

Copper is made available from a variety of foods, such as whole grain, liver, molasses, and nuts, but water from copper pipes will also carry copper in it, and copper cooking utensils will also add more copper to be ingested.

Aluminium Oxide is therefore toxic if not eliminated. One way to eliminate Aluminium Oxide is to ingest sodium alginate. Sodium Alginate is made from seaweed and used in the food industry. Short of making a purchase on Amazon a readily available source is ice cream. Look for sodium alginate in the cheap varieties.

So could it be that Alzheimers Disease is caused by the depletion of copper by aluminium oxide and that since copper is so abundant no-one is looking to replenish copper simply because how can we be deficient in copper when our drinking water is supplied through copper pipes?

Lucinda Ball 01/03/2011

Vitamin C is alkaline.

2010-10-29T09:14:00.000-07:00

A positive charge (Acid) is the absence of free electrons. An antioxidant supplies electrons.

Oxidation, caused by free radicals in your body, involves the loss of electrons.

Antioxidants counter the disease process caused by oxidation (loss of electrons) by supplying electrons.

Vitamin C is a major antioxidant, and according to Dr. Levy, perhaps the most important "electron donor" to maintain optimal electron flow in your cell.

According to Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, "health" occurs when there is an ample flow and interchange of electrons in your cells. Impaired or poor electron flow and interchange equals "disease," and when the flow and interchange ceases entirely, your cells die.

We already know that his is such a simple way to improve your health, fend off seasonal flu and feel better, but seem sometimes to forget. Perhaps it is too simple!

Have you noticed that vitamin C rich foods are all alkaline? It makes sense to supplement and eat more fruit and vegetables. Ideally one should eat only 20% meat, eggs and cheese because they are all acid and eat 80% alkaline foods.

Lucinda Ball

10/29/2010

We are designed to eat foods that carry a negative charge which is alkaline.

2010-08-23T07:12:00.000-07:00

In the previous postings I have written about amygdalin and the negative static charge on cells. Here I am going to attempt to combine both into one.

An amygdalin molecule contains one atom of cyanide, one of benzaldehyde and two of glucose. Where the cyanide and benzaldehyde work together they increase their combined effect by 100%. The work is done by the enzyme beta-glucosidase which is found in healthy cells and upto 100 times as high in cancerous tumour sites.

A pregnancy test will test urine for Human Chorionic Gonadatrophic (HCG). HCG is also an important tumour marker. HCG carries a highly negative charge, a charge sufficient to repel immune cells. Apricots for example not only provide amygdalin in the kernal with the enzyme rhodanese in the flesh. Rhodanese breaks down cyanide and bezaldehyde rendering apricots and their kernals save for healthy cells, yet lethal for cancerous cells.

The bodies normal PH range (potential hydrogene) is 6.5 – 7.5, where 7.35 is normal. If blood pH moves below 6.8 or above 7.8, cells stop functioning and the body dies. The body therefore continually strives to balance pH. When this balance is compromised many problems can occur. Blood cells have a small negative charge on the outside and a positive charge inside; this is what keeps them healthy and far apart from each other. However, when your body is over-acidic, the acid strips your blood of its negative charge. Your blood cells no longer have the same repelling force and clump together. A healthy cell contains potassium, magnesium and calcium, all which carry a postive electric charge. A cell that becomes highly negatively charged replaces the positive potassium, magnesium and calcium with sodium and water rendering it unhealthy.

But wait - sodium and water are positive so how come a cell becomes negative?

The answer lies in sialic acid. Sialic acid found on surface membranes help keep water at the surface of cells and cells apart. The sialic acid-rich regions contribute to creating a negative charge on the cells' surface. Since water is a polar molecule with partial positive charges on both hydrogen atoms, it is attracted to cell surfaces and membranes. This also contributes to cellular fluid uptake.

With a membrane potential of - 50 to - 95 mV. An excessive amount of negative charge on the exterior surface of cancer cells precede and create the reduction in intra cellular potassium and the rise in intra cellular sodium launching the cell into a carcinagenic state..

Ionising radiation exposure at very low levels is a very effective way of creating brain tumours not through heat but plausible bionic mechanisms that produce stress proteins resulting from shock although cells have not been burned, cooked or electrocuted.

It is therefore worth noting that a pregnancy urine test can reveal cancer in that a female will either be pregnant or have cancer and a male will have cancer.

Human cells carry a relative negative potential in their central core, with relative positive charge in the inner mineral zone (potassium, magnesium, and calcium), and more sodium in the relatively more positive outer zone. The cell outer surface carries a relatively negative charge due mainly to sialic acid content of the glycocalyx. An increase in sodium will increase the positive value and increase the negative charge on the outer surface that will repel T-cells and launch the cell into a pre-carcinogenic state.

Cut down on salt and eat foods charged with negative ions and avoid highy positive acid food.

Lucinda Ball

08/23/2010

Cancer cells die in the presence of a static negative magnetic field

2009-11-25T11:41:00.000-08:00

The pH of our blood is 7.4; we are all alkaline. When we go acid, we become sick and we develop all kinds of symptoms. Lets just look at what a normal cell is and what a cancer cell is. A normal cell is alkaline, it has to be or oxygen could not be there and make its energy. Cancer cells are positive with a negative protein coating and survive by making oxygen by fermentation.

The way we can defeat cancer is to make the conditions under which cancer cannot exist. We raise the alkalinity of the area with a negative magnetic field. The negative magnetic field also raises the oxygen level.

[We have a substance called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which makes biological energy through the use of oxygen. So, it is alkaline and it has a lot of available molecular oxygen.

Infectious micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, intestinal parasites) and cancer cells use another method. It is called fermentation. They make ATP (their energy) through fermentation that does not require any oxygen.]

Magnetic therapy of cancer replaces the acid-fermentation producing ATP with alkaline-enzyme catalysis (oxidation reduction) method of producing ATP. Cancer cells are thus robbed of their ability to produce ATP by fermentation. Cancer cells die because they cannot produce ATP in an alkaline medium.

Enzymes work only because there is an energy field that makes them work. That energy field is usually identified as electrostatic or magnetic. In fact the magnetic field has been measured and recorded when the enzyme is doing its work. The negative magnetic field is the energy field that spins electrons counter clockwise. This is the energy field that activates these enzymes to reverse the acids and thus release the oxygen that is bound in these acids. The oxygen is bound and has no value in terms of oxidation until released back to the molecular state. It now functions again to give us more energy.

A negative magnetic field is the energy for the enzymes to do this. That is why putting a negative magnetic field over cancer causes the cancer to die. It has no energy and it can't make its energy anymore because now this is an alkaline state and we are activating all the enzymes to release the oxygen that is already there inside and around the cells.

Cancer cells die in the presence of a continuous static negative magnetic field

Lucinda Ball
11/25/2009

Primary defense against cancer and a backup

2009-10-01T12:54:00.000-07:00

Trophoblasts are cells forming the outer membrane covering the fetus at birth. They are the first cells to differenciate from the fertilised egg. They are triggered by contact with estrogen, are invasive, eroding and metastasizing.

White cells which carry a negative charge are repelled from the electrostatically negatively charged trophoblasts because they share the same polarity.

However at week 8 a babies pancreas begins to function. The pancreas secretes trypsin which when it reaches trophoblast cells digests their negatively charged protective protein coat and membrane formation ceases. Once activated, the trypsin can activate more trypsinogen into trypsin.

There is no difference between trophoblast cells and cancer cells which when similarly exposed to trypsin can be attacked by white cells and die, making trypsin the primary defence against cancer.

Trypsin is secreted into the duodenim where it acts to hydrolise peptides into amino acids to uptake protein. Peptides are smaller than proteins but still too large to be absorbed through the lining of the final section of the small intestine (The ileum). It is important to not inhibit typsin because once activated, the trypsinogen can activate more trypsinogen into trypsin.

Trypsin inhibitors are present in soy protein. They block the enzyme trypsin, which is secreted by the pancreas to break down protein in the small intestine. Soy products are heated to high temperatures during processing to deactivate this toxin. This is why soybeans should be cooked before eating and why soybean oil must be refined. Lima beans will also inhibit the production of the enzyme trypsin.

If production of trypsin fails white cells can no longer attack cancer cells.

A backup cancer defense function is provided by nitrilosides – amygdalin, found in certain seeds, beans, tubers and grains which come with the protective enzyme rodenese in the fruit carrying the seed. Too much amygdalin alone can result in death so always eat the fruit.

When amygdalin comes in contact with the enzyme beta-glucosidase, it is broken down to form two molecules of glucose, one molecule of benzaldehyde and one molecule of hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Within the body, the cancer cell-and only the cancer cell-contains that enzyme. The key word here is that the HCN must be formed. It is not floating around freely in the amygdalin and then released. It must be manufactured. The enzyme beta glucosidase, and only that enzyme, is capable of manufacturing the HCN from amygdalin. If there are no cancer cells in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase. If there is no beta-glucosidase, no HCN will be formed.

The result is that the specific cancer cell is killed by the cyanide

Lucinda Ball

10/01/2009

A dirty little secret.

2009-08-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

OK – you cannot be bothered reading about how to be healthy yourself but if you have children of your own or in your wider family you owe it to them. So here to help you is content provided by those that know far more than me. However, you still have to decide whether you consider these people know more than your own doctor and whether you want to know more about something that really is a secret. You know what it is with secrets? Well they can be a secret! And if you cannot be bothered then it will remain a secret.

My guess - it will remain a secret - prove me wrong and if I am wrong please tell me.

I have posted a Wikipedia extract here then noted two sites worthy of your attention.

Squalene is a natural organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from shark liver oil, though botanic sources are used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives. All higher organisms produce squalene, including humans.

Squalene is a low density compound often stored in the bodies of cartilaginous fish such as sharks, which lack a swim bladder and must therefore reduce their body density with fats and oils. Squalene, which is stored mainly in the shark's liver, is lighter than water with a specific gravity of 0.855.

Squalene is used in cosmetics as a natural moisturizer. It penetrates the skin quickly, does not leave a greasy feeling on the skin and blends well with other oils and vitamins.

A study linking squalene, as experimental vaccine adjuvant, to individuals with the clinical signs of Gulf War syndrome was published in 2002. The published findings strongly suggest that the squalene contaminated vaccines could be responsible for the Gulf War Syndrome symptoms seen in the study group, and recommended that a large scale epidemiological study be performed to verify or correct this. Despite repeated assurances that the vaccine was safe and necessary, a U.S. Federal Judge ruled that there was good cause to believe it was harmful, and he ordered the Pentagon to stop administering it in October 2004.

Copyright Wikipedia

Here is some support reading for you:

http://www.nvic.org/

http://articles.mercola.com

click on previous and select squalene

Lucinda Ball

08/07/2009

A little bit of sunshine

2009-07-24T10:45:00.000-07:00

Epidemic influenza kills a million people in the world every year by causing pneumonia. These epidemics are often explosive; the word influenza comes from Italian (Medieval Latin ?nfluentia) or influence, because of the belief that the sudden and abrupt epidemics were due to the influence of some extraterrestrial force! Yet an influenza epidemic (epi: upon, demic: people) is not a pandemic (pan: all, demic: people).

But according to The World Health Organisation we have that which we all fear; a pandemic.

UCLA published a remarkable paper in the prestigious journal, Nature. The UCLA group confirmed two other recent studies, showing that a naturally occurring steroid hormone - a hormone most of us take for granted - was, in effect, a potent antibiotic. Instead of directly killing bacteria and viruses, the steroid hormone under question increases the body's production of a remarkable class of proteins, called antimicrobial peptides. The 200 known antimicrobial peptides directly and rapidly destroy the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the influenza virus, and play a key role in keeping the lungs free of infection. The steroid hormone that showed these remarkable antibiotic properties was plain old vitamin D.

Vitamin D is unique in the vitamin world by virtue of three facts:

First, it's the only known precursor of a potent steroid hormone, calcitriol, or activated vitamin D. Most other vitamins are antioxidants or co-factors in enzyme reactions. Activated vitamin D - like all steroid hormones - damasks the genome, turning protein production on and off, as your body requires. That is, vitamin D regulates genetic expression in hundreds of tissues throughout your body. This means it has as many potential mechanisms of action as genes it damasks.

Second, vitamin D does not exist in appreciable quantities in normal human diets. True, you can get several thousand units in a day if you feast on sardines for breakfast, herring for lunch and salmon for dinner.

Third, the vitamin D steroid hormone system has always had its origins in the skin, not in the mouth. Until quite recently, when dermatologists and governments began warning us about the dangers of sunlight, humans made enormous quantities of vitamin D where humans have always made it, where naked skin meets the ultraviolet B radiation of sunlight.

We just cannot get adequate amounts of vitamin D from our diet. If we don't expose ourselves to ultraviolet light, we must get vitamin D from dietary supplements.

The required dose being 2,000 units of vitamin D every day.

Alzheimer's

2009-06-10T07:13:00.000-07:00

Alzheimer’s is when the neurofibrils cease growing and shrink back on themselves in a tangle. Neurons are highly sensitive to toxins which testosterone makes even worse. Sometimes there is a genetic link to sequestering heavy metals as in Autistic children born of mothers with high levels of testosterone in their womb. Estrogens can protect. Normally we can lose the ability to rid our bodies and brains of toxic metals such as mercury. Dental amalgam, tuna and vaccines all contain mercury at levels that a healthy person should be capable of excreting.

In every case of Alzheimer’s there are very low levels of glutiathione. Glutiathione is made by our bodies as a protection against heavy metal toxicity. However we were not designed to cope with high concentrations. There are other toxic metals such as copper and even zinc but these two cause no problems on their own but add mercury and one sees synergistic toxicity.

So what can help? Well sources of glutathione such as garlic, broccoli and unions. And supplements to assist the body to make its own. These are: Fish oil, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) as found in every single A & E department, Lipoeic Acid where brewers yeast is a good source, Vitamins B6 and B12 - probably best taken as B complex 100, selenium and milk thistle.

Exercise but not too much also helps as does bioactive whey protein. Per serving, asparagus, avocadoes, asparagus, squash, okra, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, spinach, walnuts, garlic, and raw tomatoes have the highest glutathione content compared to other vegetables and are particularly rich dietary sources of glutathione.

Every cell in your body requires glutathione but note that these foods do not contain glutathione itself and that if it is injected or ingested cells will not take any of it in. This is because the only way for a cell to obtain necessary glutathione is to make it within the cell. Cells make it from three amino acids. These are cysteine, glycine, and glutomate. All three that go to make the list above a rich sources of glutathione because they contain a significant percentage of all three.

Past the age of 20, levels of glutathione drop by 1% per year. So we can see why alzheimer’s is seen in the elderly. Interestingly a 100 year old person was found to have 70% level of glutathione, the same level as a 50 year old, which might explain why they were still upright and posed the question: Is this then a secret of living healthier for longer?

It is a swine

2009-05-02T04:07:00.000-07:00

The swine influenza virus isolated from patients in the United States was found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu viruses – North American Mexican influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe. Rather difficult to assume that this occured other than in a laboratory somewhere!

However, as the virus has not yet been isolated in animals to date and also for historical naming reasons, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) suggests it be called "North-American influenza".On April 30, 2009 the World Health Organization began referring to the outbreak as "Influenza A (H1N1)" instead of "swine flu" (Copyright. Wikipedia)

A virus contains two proteins: H - Hemagglutinin and N - Neuraminidase. Both proteins must find receptors on human cells to utilize them to replicate.

So how does one disable say neuraminidase? Easy take a drug such as Tamiflu. One small problem is that your Government need to have first bought it, have it in stock before its date expires, prescribe it to you, and get it to you – all within 48 hours of your going down with flu.

Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu an Algerian that emigrated to Israel in 1974 seems comfortable and grandmotherly, not the type you usually associate with the frontline of research into a potential pandemic. On the other hand, however, Dr. Mumcuoglu is clearly a very determined woman who has turned a lifetime of research into the health benefits of elderberry, an old folk remedy for influenza, into a clinically proven treatment for regular flu. Now, new in-vitro tests have proved that her remedy, the elderberry-based Sambucol, also appears to be effective against avian flu.Last week, Retroscreen Virology, a leading British medical research institute associated to Queen Mary College, University of London, announced that Sambucol was at least 99% effective against the avian flu virus, H5N1, and in cell cultures significantly neutralized the infectivity of the virus.
So how is elderberry effective against A – H1N1? Answer: It disables the protein neuraminidase. Sambucal is a trade name taken from the Latin root name for elderberry.

I have no connection with the manufacturers but thought that you might like to know and perhaps look them up on the Internet and do your own research and decide whether purchase is a good bet or not. But do remember that drugs expire. Now there is a thought - when did your Government buy its stock of Tamiflu?

Just think would they purchase more if the last purchase went unused!

Lucinda Ball

05/01/2009

Nature can safely provide hydrogen peroxide

2009-04-04T06:24:00.000-07:00

Hydrogen peroxide has many uses besides cleaning and bleaching. It can cure malaria at concentrations as low as 1.0% dilution saving millions of dollars. But it can do so much more, such as greatly helping those suffering with emphysema and with alternative cancer therapy.

The tricky bit is how to obtain it and how to use it.

I do not recommend the ingestion of Hydrogen Peroxide other than at very low levels such as 0.5% in distilled water and then with caution. I prefer application through the skin. One reason for taking H2O2 through the skin is because the digestive tract will destroy just about anything it comes in contact with, meaning some of the value of the H2O2 will be lost in the digestive tract. This is one argument for taking it as a bath. Always test a solution on skin first so that you can see and possible feel for any danger. Hydrogen Peroxide is highly oxidative and can produce "burns" in the form of bleached "burnt" skin.

Whilst physicians like Dr. Farr believed that taking hydrogen peroxide orally could have a corrosive and tumorous effect on the stomach and small intestine and advised against using it.

There is animal research supporting this caution.

http://www.diagnose-me.com/treat/T216805.html

In more recent times hydrogen peroxide has lost favour because of inflammation and damage to tissue. However, the hydrogen peroxide concentration produced in honey activated by dilution is typically around 1 mmol/l, about 1000 times less than in the 3% solution commonly used as an antiseptic. The harmful effects of hydrogen peroxide are further reduced because honey sequesters and inactivates the free iron that catalyses the formation of oxygen free radicals produced by hydrogen peroxide and its antioxidant components help to mop up oxygen free radicals

Recent research shows that the proliferation of peripheral blood B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes in cell culture is stimulated by honey at concentrations as low as 0.1%; and phagocytes are activated by honey at concentrations as low as 0.1%. Honey (at a concentration of 1%) also stimulates monocytes in cell culture to release cytokines, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-6, which activate the immune response to infection. In addition, the glucose content of honey and the acid pH (typically between pH3 and pH4) may assist in the bacteria-destroying action of macrophages.

I recommend Manuka Honey for its UMF - Unique Manuka Factor - or put another way, we just do not know but it works! Always buy honey that has not been heat treated - denatured.

Everyone should locate their local bee keepers and purchase directly from them with the exception of Manuka Honey unless you live in New Zealand.

Prostate cancer

2009-04-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

Following on from “Cancer cure as a dessert” here we look at amygdalin which is a natural substance

Amygdalin is sometimes confounded with laevomandelonitrile, also called laetrile for short; however, amygdalin and laetrile are different chemical compounds. Laetrile, which was patented in the United States, is a semi-synthetic molecule sharing part of the amygdalin structure, while the "laetrile" made in Mexico is usually amygdalin, the natural product obtained from crushed apricot pits, or neoamygdalin.

Marzipan contains the enzyme emulsin which, in the presence of water, acts on a soluble glucoside, amygdalin, yielding glucose, cyanide and the essential oil of bitter almonds, which is nearly pure benzaldehyde. Benzaldehyde is the molecule that gives marzipan its distinctive taste. Bitter almonds may yield from 4–9 mg of hydrogen cyanide per almond.

A study in 2006 on the treatment of prostate cancer concluded: "Based on these results, amygdalin shows considerable promise in the treatment of prostate cancer."

Now although completely unproven the chemistry suggests that marzipan might help those with prostate cancer. Hydrogen cyanide is highly toxic but marzipan - I do not think so!

Lucinda Ball 04/02/2009

Cancer cure as a dessert

2009-03-20T08:25:00.000-07:00

Tapioca pudding - widely known as frog's eggs by many school pupils - may after all be good for you. Scientists say the plant from which it is derived may help cure cancer. Tapioca is derived from the cassava plant

The cassava plant, almond tree and hydrangea, and tapioca that is derived from the plant all have an enzyme that will produce cyanide when it comes into contact with a particular sugar molecule. (Cyanogenic glucoside), The enzyme and the sugar are normally kept apart and are only brought together when a pest bites into the plant tissue or inside cancer cells.

This is achieved starting with Laetrile in the cassava plant. There is no "free" hydrogen cyanide in Laetrile (B17). When Laetrile comes in contact with the enzyme beta-glucosidase, the Laetrile is broken down to form two molecules of glucose, one molecule of benzaldehyde and one molecule of hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Within the body, the cancer cell-and only the cancer cell-contains that enzyme. The key word here is that the HCN must be formed. It is not floating around freely in the Laetrile and then released. It must be manufactured. The enzyme beta glucosidase, and only that enzyme, is capable of manufacturing the HCN from Laetrile. If there are no cancer cells in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase. If there is no beta-glucosidase, no HCN will be formed from the Laetrile. The result is that the specific cancer cell is killed by the cyanide.

In the laboratory the generation of cyanide from linamarin, a cyanogenic glucoside found in the leaves and roots of plants such as cassava, mimic plants that are eaten, and is usually enzymatic and occurs when linamarin is exposed to linamarase, an enzyme normally expressed in the cell walls of cassava plants. It does this by producing a chemical called linamarin that releases hydrogen cyanide when it is broken down by the linamarase enzyme.

Tapioca could be especially effective against brain tumours as laetrile easily passes the blood brain barrier.

Next time you are in a large food store search out the tapioca but you will not be popular back home!

Never act other than on the advice of qualified practitioners. However tapioca is not dangerous.

Lucinda Ball

03/20/2009

Baggy eyelids and under eye area.

2008-12-11T11:48:00.000-08:00

Baggy eyelids and bags under our eyes is the result of fat from our eyes leaking out. You would think that there is surgery to remove this fat, but often surgeons do not remove this fat.

So how can we remove it ourselves?

First a lesson on fat.

Fat doesn't dissolve in water because water is polar (a water molecule has regions of positive charge and regions of negative charge), and fat isn't. The water molecules prefer to cling together, with negative parts of one molecule near positive parts of another, rather than cling to the non-polar fat, so it doesn't dissolve. Soap molecules have long, non-polar chains that can stick into droplets of fat, and a polar bit stuck onto the non-polar chain. What happens is that a fat droplet gets covered in soap molecules with the non-polar chains stuck into the droplet and the polar heads on the surface, like pins stuck into a ball. The water can then cling to the polar parts of the soap molecules on the surface of the fat droplet and dissolve it.

Now a possible solution.

Seeds are coated with a bitter substance called saponins, which prevents it, being eaten by birds. These saponins can be easily removed by soaking the seed in water. Quinola for example will produce soapy water if left to soak. Saponins although toxic are natures soap. For example soap nuts.

Quantitative thin layer chromatography was used to estimate the saponin content of 20 common food plants and also of foods prepared from some of them. The food plants found to be richest in saponins were chickpeas, soya beans, alfalfa), sprouts and varieties of beans (navy beans, haricot beans, kidney beans) and asparagus. Processing or cooking does not destroy saponins. They are present in falafels (prepared from chickpeas), canned baked beans, canned broad beans and protein isolate from faba beans.

So here is a suggestion.

Incorporate these foods into our diet and see if they dissolve away the excess fat. Although a soya based eye cream might do the job better.

12/11/2008

Lucinda Ball

Colon cancer

2008-10-25T03:20:00.000-07:00

People lack an appreciation for the way the food they eat acts like drugs

Take for example phytonutrients found both in honey and propolis. These have been shown to possess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties by shutting down a gene named Cox-2. These substances include caffeic acid methyl caffeate, phenylethyl caffeate, and phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate. Caffeic acid found in coffee is a yellow crystalline acid that is soluble in hot water and alcohol. It is related to cinnamic acid, but it has two hydroxyl groups not found in cinnamic acid. Both are part of the carbocyclic carboxylic acid group. Researchers have discovered that these substances prevent colon cancer in animals by shutting down activity of two enzymes, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and lipoxygenase. However when raw honey is extensively processed and heated, the benefits of these phytonutrients are largely eliminated.

Other foods that have the same effect are Rosemary, turmeric and grapes

Take by way of example the cancer drug celecoxib:
Rosemary, turmeric, and other foods work just like celecoxib by preventing COX-2 from making a particular protein associated with cancer growth, Dr. Dannenberg says. COX-2's "purpose" for being in the body is unknown. It seems to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels and inhibit a cell's natural "self-death" mechanism. This encourages cancer growth

Coffee sweetened with honey from a local beekeeper might be worth consideration – when you are talking to him ask him about propolis he will be pleased to sell you some - just make sure that his products are not processed because processed honey has no medicinal value. Do not drink too much and take a magnesium supplement or eat food rich in magnesium such as pumpkin seeds.

Lucinda Ball
10/25/2008

Pink is good for your health

2008-03-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

The antioxidant that triggers the red colouring in cooked prawns, astaxanthin, also plays an important role in protecting human cells from damage.

Astaxanthin, the pink in prawns and salmon prevents the initiation of cancer cells in the tongue, oral cavity, large bowel, bladder, uterus, and breast. The astaxanthin in fish is of whatever stereoisomer the fish ingested.

[Stereoisomers are isomeric molecules whose atomic connectivity is the same but whose atomic arrangement in space is different. Enantiomers are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other, which are non-superimposable. Human hands are a macroscopic example of stereoisomerism.]

Astaxanthin, unlike some carotenoids, does not convert to Vitamin A (retinol) in the human body. Too much Vitamin A is toxic for a human, but astaxanthin is not. However, it is a powerful antioxidant; it is 10 times more capable than other carotenoids.

Astaxanthin has a peculiar chemical structure. Astaxanthin enhances the cellular membranes stability as it locates crosswise inside them. Astaxanthin is one of those important carotenoids and might be beneficial for nerve damage associated with age-related macular degeneration.

So next time you shop head for the fish counter pick up some prawns and a seafood dip or salmon for a meal that will improve your health.

Lucinda Ball

03/20/2008

Breast cancer

2007-08-23T02:07:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, nutritionists recommend the consumer to consume isoflavone regularly for the purpose of cancer protection normally found in post-menopausal and people who have hormone imbalance. Compared to Pueraria mirifica Soya the western health food product has a lower benefit because it contains lower amount of phytoestrogens especially there is no miroestrol and its derivatives.

Researches confirm that these chemicals are potent anti-breast cancer, anti-prostate hyperplasia, anti-colon cancer, anti-osteoporosis and also anti-cardiovascular disease via the potent reduction of blood cholesterol and also anti-menopausal syndrome

A series of studies involving breast cell lines and the activity of Pueraria mirifica in vitro have been performed by the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand. These studies have shown that Pueraria mirifica root extract (Smith Naturals Co Ltd., Bangkok) has potent anti-estrogenic properties against aggressive cell cancer lines in vitro, especially the proliferative estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer lines (T47-D, MCF-7, and ZR-75-1) obtained from the MD Anderson Cancer Institute (Texas) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).Pueraria mirifica promotes fibroblasts in normal breast cells and inhibits estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells.

Another natural product is pomegranate. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology research team presented two studies at an international conference in June 2001 indicating that pomegranate seed oil triggers apoptosis -- a self-destruct mechanism in breast cancer cells. Furthermore, pomegranate juice can be toxic to most estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells, while leaving normal breast cells largely unaffected. Estrogen is a hormone often prescribed to protect postmenopausal women against heart disease and osteoporosis.

Both natural products are restricted by the FDA although studies have not found them to be toxic and have been eaten for many years with no reported adverse re-actions.

Stomach Ulcers

2007-08-03T05:33:00.000-07:00

There is a nasty little creature called Helicobacter pylori. This bacterium, typically helical, is believed to infect about 40–50% of the world’s population and was recently established as the main cause for more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and 80% of gastric ulcers H. pylori is generally believed to be acquired through contaminated food or water and from person to person by intimate contact although curry, hurry and worry are often blamed!

The pylori part of the name comes from the tendency of the bacteria to be most active near the pylorus, the sphincter at the base of the stomach that separates it from the uppermost part of the small intestine, the duodenum. The bacteria survive in the stomach’s acid bath by exuding urease, an enzyme that produces ammonia, which neutralizes the acid. Surrounded by this protective chemical “halo” of ammonia, they corkscrew themselves through the gastric and duodenal mucosa (mucous membrane) and attach themselves to the surface of the underlying epithelial cells. There they cause gastritis (an inflammation of the mucosa) and contribute to ulcer formation by thinning the mucosa and poisoning nearby cells with ammonia and other toxins. Infection with H. pylori is associated with virtually all cases of non erosive gastritis and all cases of peptic ulcer, and it is believed to be the primary cause of these diseases.

If you thought that simply cutting back on your favourite spicy food would do the trick, well, here’s something to chew on! Treating the symptoms may provide short-lived relief; but the most effective way to deal with stomach ulcers is to address the ‘root cause’. This is exactly what Active Manuka honey does. Manuka honey has unique properties that are sufficiently unknown about to apply a UMF factor to the product. UMF = Unique Manuka factor.

The key to dosage is to take as much honey as required to ease the discomfort or burning sensation. For most people, this will be as little as 1 teaspoon at a time. Take the honey when the burning sensation arises or aim for regular doses up to 30 minutes before meals.

Lucinda

08/03/2007

Sunburn

2007-07-22T13:16:00.000-07:00

The condition we call sunburn occurs when incident UV radiation exceeds the protective capacity of melanin in the skin. UV radiation is divided into the UVA (380–315 nm), UVB (315–280 nm) and UVC (280-180 nm) sub-bands. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere filters out a portion of this before it reaches the planet's surface. UVC is almost entirely eliminated by the atmosphere, but enough UVA and UVB penetrates it in large enough quantities that sunburn occurs. Snow reflects 80% of UV radiation and cause snow blindness

We do know that UV radiation can cause changes in DNA. Studies have shown that UV light causes breaks in the DNA chain. Remember that clouds do not block much UV light even on a heavily clouded day as much as 80% of UV light can be getting through.

Use sunscreen that has a sunburn protection factor (SPF). The SPF relates to the paraminobenzoic acid (PABA) in the sunscreen. The higher the number the greater the protection. The number of minutes generally required to sunburn for any particular individual can be multiplied by the factor to equal the number of safe minutes. Therefore, if it usually takes you 1 minute to burn it will now take 15, if the SPF factor is 15. Benzo-phenones block UV-A because they vibrate at the same frequency and absorb UVA in the same way as our natural melanin protects. Total blocks are such things as zinc oxide, which are not cosmetically acceptable unless you play cricket!

If you cannot purchase PABA then natural food sources are blackstrap molasses, bran, brewer's yeast, eggs, milk, rice, wheat germ, and whole grains. I find that one 100mg tablet of PABA keeps my skin from going red and heating up but since I am red headed the best advice is for me to stay out of direct sunlight.

Lucinda Ball

07/22/2007

Inguinal hernia

2007-06-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

Inguinal hernias are protrusions of abdominal cavity contents through the inguinal canal. They are very common and their repair is one of the most frequently performed surgical operations.

A few researchers now believe that all direct hernias and many indirect hernias are a symptom of a congenital deficiency of collagen, the major structural fiber in connective tissue. Tissue, and the tendons themselves, is made from a protein molecule called collagen; interestingly in general the more collagen there is in the joint of meat, the tougher it is! Slow cooking melts the collagen to form water-soluble gelatine.

Affecting a cure always means surgery. However since hernia repair is usually the first operation a trainee will undertake and it involves cutting there are risks. I am going to suggest an alternative but just as doctors make fatal mistakes I want you to check out what you can on wikipedia on the dangers of my vegetable cure and on any medication you are taking for I am not taking on the responsibility for your fatality however small the risk in my opinion.

I just have that suspicion that vitamin K might effect a cure and spinach has loads of it. So how did I make a cure within 24 hours. I made it first buying 2 pounds (1 Kilo) of frozen spinach. I put half of it in an oven and warmed it up sufficiently to cook a raw egg that I laid on it. When the egg was cooked I took the spinach out of the oven and ground pepper over it and ate it all.

At night the last thing I did before dropping off to sleep was to push my protruding intestine back in, where it will stay until you let gravity push it out again when you stand up.

Next day some 9 hours later the hernia was fixed although next day I ate the other half! please don't eat much else otherwise you might not form a "spinach plug"! That was six months ago and I have coughed quite hard and eaten a tin of baked beans since! For me it worked. If you try it at your own risk why not tell me if it worked for you so that together we can help others?

Lucinda Ball

06/22/2007

Type 2 diabetes.

2007-05-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

Ice cream particularly the cheaper brands are made from about 12% whey.
Whey is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained; it is a by-product of the manufacture of cheese and has several commercial uses. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden discovered that whey appears to stimulate insulin release. Writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition they also discovered that whey supplements can help regulate and reduce spikes in blood sugar levels among people with type 2 diabetes by increasing Insulin secretion.

So if you have been diagnosed with a pancreatic disorder then consider this little idea to see if it works for you or go on the hunt for whey supplements.

Who would have thought that cheap ice cream could be just the right medicine!

Careless worrying is not healthy

2007-02-14T09:15:00.000-08:00

As we are being asked by Government to take responsibility for our own “carbon footprint” perhaps we should reflect on some little known facts brought to us by Mr. G.E. Miller of Battle in Sussex England through the Open University’s science of Climate programme concerning the way carbon dioxide concentration changes in the atmosphere and the resulting change in the mean global temperature (mgt) over a period of 170,000 years.
If we were to plot the evidence left for us by leaves and trees held in fossil cores-samples the graph would show a close correlation between carbon dioxide quantity parts per million by volume [ppm (vol)] in the atmosphere and the change in average global temperature.
Over a period of about 135,000 years, the mgt runs from –6c at 192 ppm (vol) of carbon dioxide to +2c at 312 ppm (vol) corresponding to a world mainly covered in ice to one with rampant vegetation. Going back 150,000 years there was little or no vegetation to use up the carbon dioxide and it therefore increased.
The world’s temperature takes about 2,000 to 4,000 years to catch up with the carbon dioxide
causing it. For the next 10,000 to 12,000 years carbon dioxide and temperature rise to 315 ppm (vol), by which time the mgt stands at +2c and vegetation is rampant rapidly using up the carbon dioxide for its growth. Eventually, this results in a fall in carbon dioxide concentration with mgt falling back down over the next 125,000 years to –6c, with the vegetation being killed off by the cold, so starting a new cycle. So before you are led to believe that you actually have anything to do with global warming it is worth reflecting that your contribution to the carbon dioxide cycle is so small as to have little to do with it. Put another way mankind is not in control but government will be controlling you enough to think that paying them will somehow save future generations when in reality human population will go the way of vegetation.

Lucinda Ball

02/14/2007

Gastric ulcer

2007-02-08T05:56:00.000-08:00

Manuka honey has been found to be effective against Helicobacter pylori, which is the pathogen responsible for gastric or peptic ulcers and implicated in gastric cancer. Helicobacter pylori isolated from biopsies of gastric ulcers were sensitive to a 20% solution of manuka honey, but were not affected by a 40% solution of another honey in which the antibacterial activity was primarily due to its hydrogen peroxide content. Growth of these bacteria was prevented completely by a 5% solution of manuka honey.
In clinical trials, manuka oil from New Zealand has proved effective against athlete's foot, ringworm, acne, thrush, and some antibiotic-resistant organisms, possibly due to it high level of leptospermone.
Research carried out in New Zealand indicated that several components of manuka inhibited enzymes called cysteine proteases, which have been implicated in muscle-wasting diseases like muscular dystrophy, viral replication, and tumor invasion and metastasis.
You can no longer blame a stomach ulcer on stress. H.pylori originated in West Africa and it has remained with all humans that migrated. The problem is that you don't know you have the infection so better assume that you do and kill it off now.

Eat to feel and look good.

2007-01-04T07:14:00.000-08:00

We are what we eat. This doesn’t mean that if we eat lots of pork we will come to look like Miss Piggy! What it means is that how you look and feel is a direct result of what you have just eaten, or ate too much of in the past!

We should not eat food based on taste and looks. We need to find out what our bodies need and which food will supply that need. We also need to get out of the idea that we must eat. Re-programme yourself.

If today you feel less than 100% then think back to what you ate last or yesterday. I am not talking about allergies because people have that sorted out. I am referring to foods that give us an upset stomach or a headache, or worse.

So this year I will be blogging on what effect individual food has in my experience albeit that I am blood group A +; a group I share with 34% of others. For example this means that I have difficulty digesting orange juice because it is a bit too acidic for me and bottom feeding sea creatures are not well tolerated by my digestive system.

Also some foods can correct an ailment. Let me start with a rather distasteful topic – worms in domestic animals. Cat and dogs fed uncooked fish and especially cats considering what they might catch and eat outside can become infested with round/tape worms and so can their owners. Nice isn’t. Well luckily pumpkin seed contain the very chemical that kills these less than pleasant “spongers” (They use our digestive system so they don’t need one!)
Just place some seeds in the coffee grinder – eat a couple of teaspoons full yourself and mix the rest with the cat/dog food. Do this for about 14 days, although 7 days will show success, but the cycle is: lungs, cough-up, swallow and infest so best continue for 14 days.

Lucinda Ball

01/04/2007

More sun less cancer

2006-10-06T08:03:00.001-07:00

It seems that Vitamin D is a very important anti-cancer nutrient, and that many Americans aren’t getting enough from the only sources: foods, supplements, and sun exposure.

The body manufactures vitamin D when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation: the shorter wave kind thought of as “burning” rays, which are blocked by sunscreens. The ultraviolet-A (UVA) in sunlight—the type most closely associated with dangerous skin cancers—has longer wavelengths and penetrates much deeper into skin.

The connection between vitamin D and cancer is further bolstered by these key findings:

· Vitamin D inhibits inappropriate cell division (as occurs in cancer) and enhances the anti-cancer actions of immune system chemicals (e.g., tumor necrosis factor, interleukins 1 and 6) and chemotherapy drugs (e.g., doxorubicin). It also reduces blood vessel formation around tumors and inhibits metastasis, both of which are important in fighting cancer once it develops.

· The active hormonal version of Vitamin D is produced from circulating vitamin D by cells in organs prone to cancer (e.g., colon, breast, prostate, and skin), which means that it is able to influence the initiation and growth of cancers in these organs.

In light of this information, it certainly makes sense to pay more attention to your vitamin D intake. It’s gratifying to know that a single serving of our salmon, sardines, sablefish, or tuna can gets you a long way toward meeting the minimum requirements

Lucinda Ball

10/09/06

Fat free can make you fat

2006-09-20T09:38:00.000-07:00

Greater size equates to greater strength. Males equate size to importance. But people confuse weight with size. Being fat doesn’t make you important. Females strive to stay slim at least until they can guide their choice of male up the aisle! But this is the question what makes you fat? Well eating more calories than you burn is a good start.

Go into any supermarket and determine what makes you fat. Their answer is fat.

That is the wrong answer. Carbohydrate makes you fat. Sugar is mainly carbohydrate.

Before sugar was made how much sugar did people eat? Answer about 140% less.

Stop eating sugar and you drop a dress size or two or even three and all those skin and fungal problems go away. The problem is how do you actually stop eating sugar. Well you look at labels. You look for sugar free or reduced sugar. But wait what artificial sweetener has been added? Please avoid anything artificial. So now we have two tricks. Trick 1) Fat = more body fat, and 2) reduced sugar = artificial sweetener added – the meaning is the opposite. Learn to think the opposite.
Hand cooked is one of my favourites! When shopping you have to think and question.

Sugar free means none. Next time you shop, search for food with no sugar. Here is the challenge will you buy anything at all? Here are some clues: Vegetables, nuts, seeds, and well OK Pitta bread and houmous don’t have much sugar and taste great. See what else you can buy with very little sugar?

I guarantee you will have a smaller waist and feel a lot better. Sorry if that means less chocolate! They way to control what you eat is to decide what you will eat the day before, leaving you with only the choice of when each day.

Lucinda Ball

09/20/2006

Lower your cholesterol

2006-08-29T04:56:00.000-07:00

HDL is the good cholesterol because it protects the arteries from the arteriosclerosis process. HDL cholesterol extracts cholesterol particles from the artery walls and transports them to the liver to be disposed through the bile. It also interferes with the accumulation of LDL cholesterol particles in the artery walls. LDL cholesterol is called "bad" cholesterol, because elevated levels of LDL cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease LDL lipoprotein deposits cholesterol on the artery walls, causing the formation of a hard, thick substance called cholesterol plaque. Over time, cholesterol plaque causes thickening of the artery walls and narrowing of the arteries, a process called arteriosclerosis.
The total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio (total chol/HDL) is a number that is helpful in estimating the risk of developing arteriosclerosis. The number is obtained by dividing total cholesterol by HDL cholesterol. (High ratios indicate a higher risk of heart attacks, whereas low ratios indicate a lower risk).
High total cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol increases the ratio and is undesirable. Conversely, high HDL cholesterol and low total cholesterol lowers the ratio and is desirable. An average ratio would be about 4.5. Ideally, one should strive for ratios of 2 or 3 (less than 4).
Regular aerobic exercise, loss of excess weight (fat), and cessation of smoking cigarettes will increase HDL cholesterol levels. Regular alcohol consumption (such as one drink a day) will also raise HDL cholesterol.

Medications that are effective in increasing HDL cholesterol include nicotinic acid (niacin), gemfibrozil (Lopid), estrogen, and to a much lesser extent, the statin drugs.

Niacin also is used to reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood. Specifically it reduces bad cholesterol (LDL) and increases good cholesterol (HDL).
Most lipid-lowering medications such as statins, Lopid, and cholestyramine have a limited effect in lowering Lp (a) cholesterol levels. Estrogen has been shown to lower Lp (a) cholesterol levels by approximately 20% in women with elevated Lp (a) cholesterol. Estrogen can also increase HDL cholesterol levels when given to postmenopausal women. Additionally, nicotinic acid (Niacin or Niaspan) in high doses has been found to be effective in lowering Lp (a) cholesterol levels by approximately 30%

However eating a grapefruit every day can also lower your cholesterol significantly

The nutrient content of ½ grapefruit contains 167 mg of potassium and 41 mg of vitamin C. An 8-ounce glass of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice contains 400 mg potassium and 94 mg of vitamin C. the effects of drinking grapefruit juice is cumulative, according to research it's not only the flesh but also the peel of grapefruit that might have benefits, this time in terms of lowering cholesterol.

Grapefruit can greatly assist with weight reduction.

Grapefruit has serious interactions with many commonly prescribed medications.

Lucinda Ball

08/29/2006

Cholesterol reduction

2006-03-21T07:39:00.000-08:00

Cholesterol is stored in organs and tissues of the body when we eat meats we are ingesting some cholesterol. Cholesterol is also obtained from foods having saturated fatty acids or animal fat. If we consumed no animal parts we would consume no cholesterol so our liver would make its own because like all animals we require it to make up cellular and tissue membrane and our sexual and stress hormones. The rate of cholesterol synthesis in the liver is under feedback control. The liver secretes cholesterol in the form of Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) molecules into the blood stream to be transported to whatever tissues need it. Upon entering into fat tissues storage areas of the body, VLD Lipoproteins are converted into Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL). LDL is the major transport form for cholesterol - the so-called, "bad cholesterol" In the LDL form cholesterol is transported and then supplied to many different bodily tissues.
High Density Lipoprotein (HDL or HDL-Cholesterol) - the "good cholesterol" is involved in the transport of cholesterol in the opposite direction, that is, from the tissues to the liver.
Individuals with elevated cholesterol and especially elevated LDL fraction of cholesterol with two or more other risk factors or indication of heart disease require intensive medical intervention
A program for heart attack prevention generally includes a diet that is not only low in cholesterol but also one that reduces the body's ability to make cholesterol on its own. For best results this should be coupled with a heart strengthening exercise program (aerobic exercises), eliminating smoking, a weight reduction program and techniques for stress reduction:

Decrease daily dietary fat intake, especially saturated fat.
Decrease animal meats and fat intake.
Reduce daily intake of salt.
Reduce and limit use of refined sugar.
Increase daily fibre.
Increase daily intake of complex carbohydrate in the diet.

Dietary fiber is material from plant cells than cannot be broken down by enzymes in the human digestive tract. Fiber is found in abundance in the plant kingdom and only sparsely in animal cells. Generally, foods of animal origin contain little or no significant fiber. Scientists now tell us that a diet, which is high in fiber, is more beneficial for us and can increase our chances of preventing many chronic and acute health problems including heart disease, stomach and intestinal cancer,and breast cancer.
There are two different families of fiber – soluble and insoluble fiber – each with different chemical compositions and physiological functions. Fiber is classified according to its solubility in water. The fiber that has been studied in relation to coronary heart disease risk is water-soluble fiber. These fibers include gums and pectins (found in oats, oat bran, barley, legumes, prunes, apples, carrots and orange), and mucilage (found in psyllium seeds- the active ingredient in some laxatives).
Water insoluble fiber is made up of cellulose and hemicelluloses. These fibers are found in wheat bran, corn bran, dried beans and peas, nuts, fruits and vegetables. Insoluble fiber has more general effects on bowel function and may help protect against cancer. A combination of soluble and insoluble fiber intake is recommended at 20 to 35 grams dietary fiber/day.

Lucinda Ball

03/21/2006

Sesame seeds zap free radicals

2006-02-20T11:04:00.000-08:00

You can buy sesame seeds and roast them yourself or you can buy a jar of Tahini that is roasted and then crushed sesame seeds.
Sesame seed is naturally antibacterial for common skin pathogens, as well as common skin fungi, such as athlete's foot fungus. It is naturally antiviral. Molecules of sesame seed oil maintain good cholesterol (HDL) and lower bad cholesterol (LDL) so it is good at unblocking arteries. In vitro, sesame seed oil has inhibited the growth of malignant melanoma (a skin cancer) and sesame seed oil has inhibited replication of human colon cancer cells. The oil will enhance breast measurements. Research shows that sesame seed oil is a potent antioxidant. In the tissues beneath the skin, this oil will neutralize oxygen radicals. It penetrates into the skin quickly and enters the blood stream through the capillaries. In both the small intestine and the colon, some cells are nourished by fat instead of sugar. The presence of sesame seed oil can provide those cells with essential nourishment.
On the skin, oil soluble toxins are attracted to sesame seed oil molecules which can then be washed away with hot water and a mild soap. Internally, the oil molecules attract oil soluble toxins and carry them into the blood stream and then out of the body as waste.
Used as a douche mixed with warm water, the oil controls vaginal yeast infections.
Sesame seed oil absorbs quickly and penetrates through the tissues to the very marrow of the bone. It enters into the blood stream through the capillaries and circulates. The liver does not sweep sesame seed oil molecules from the blood, accepting those molecules as friendly.
Sesame seed oil helps joints keep their flexibility. It keeps the skin supple and soft. It heals and protects areas of mild scrapes, cuts and abrasions. It helps tighten facial skin, particularly around the nose, controlling the usual enlargement of pores as skin ages chronologically.

Lucinda Ball
02/20/2006

Mental health and Food

2006-01-16T07:59:00.000-08:00

It is becoming clear food is linked to mental illness.

Twenty per cent of the brain is made up of essential fats. These fats are missing from the modern diet, and the body can't manufacture them itself. Each of our 100 billion brain cells links up to 20,000 others, and when essential fats are in short supply, the link-ups become difficult. The potential consequences are manifold: our mood, concentration, memory and intelligence can all suffer. So it is unsurprising that essential fats have been proven to help with numerous brain-based afflictions.

While 40% of patients who walk into doctor's surgeries are suffering from a mental health problem, an astonishing two-thirds of doctors have had no mental health training. As a result, most doctors do not even consider their patients' nutritional status.

All psychiatric drugs work to rebalance out-of-kilter brain chemistry. But the success rates achieved by providing the brain with the same molecules it uses to build brain cells and neurotransmitters are eye-opening - hence the well-publicised success of the essential fatty acid omega 3.

So what should you eat? Fruit and vegetables and those containing essential fatty acids, such as sardines, tuna, salmon, pumpkin and walnuts, and what should you try to avoid? Artificial flavourings and preservatives, chocolate, coffee, eggs, milk products, oranges, sugar and wheat products - just the foods you like the most!

Lucinda Ball

01/16/2006

Lose weight by not listening to others.

2005-11-25T10:08:00.000-08:00

To diet you need to change your attitude, you have to make a conscious decision that personal worth is not a function of body size. Dieting does not lead to the results that people expect. You must learn how not to eat for emotional, environmental or social reasons and instead listen to your body and eat only when hungry and stop when full.
Learn how to interpret body signals, cravings, and hunger and respond in a healthy way.
Proponents of intuitive eating for weight management believe that all individuals possess a natural mechanism that if allowed to function will ensure good nutrition at a healthy weight.
Therefore, it is possible to maintain a healthy body weight while maintaining an unrestrained relationship with food.
Think about this and come to realise that body mass indicators(BMI)are ignored by those who are not in-touch with their inner selves but prefer to be dictated to by the people around them and what they read.

Lucinda Ball

November 25, 2005

Cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes

2005-10-22T13:51:00.000-07:00

A small study completed last year on the possible health benefits of cinnamon was "very exciting and promising," according to Dr. Andrew Greenberg, director of the obesity metabolism laboratory at Tufts University, who is so intrigued he has begun studying it himself.

The 40-day study, of 60 people in Pakistan with Type 2 diabetes, found that one gram a day of cinnamon -- one-fourth of a teaspoon twice daily -- significantly lowered the subjects' blood sugar, triglycerides (fatty acids in the blood), LDL (or "bad") cholesterol, and total cholesterol

For diabetics, cinnamon "does much the same thing as insulin" biochemically, said Don Graves, an adjunct professor of biochemistry at the University of California in Santa Barbara who has studied how cinnamon works in the body.

In Type 2 diabetes, the problem is that insulin no longer does a good job of escorting sugar into cells, said Anderson of the USDA. He also said "Cinnamon "makes cells more sensitive to the insulin that is available".

An active ingredient in cinnamon, proanthocyanidin, worms its way inside cells, where it activates the insulin receptor. Once this receptor is activated, whether by insulin or cinnamon, chemical reactions occur allowing the cell to use energy from sugar.

A few other caveats are in order. If you have Type 2 diabetes, you should monitor your blood sugar carefully when adding cinnamon because the spice may intensify the effects of insulin medication -- or better yet, talk to your doctor first.

Finally, there may be an indirect health benefit to be had from cinnamon, according to Taiwanese scientists writing in the July 14 issue of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. Cinnamon oil, they found, kills mosquito larvae more effectively than DEET, a common pesticide and mosquito repellent. The next step is to test it against adult mosquitoes.

Lucinda Ball
October 16, 2005

Fats and calcium neutralize acidity

2005-10-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

Obesity is thought to be a fat problem, but it is not. Obesity is the way your body reacts to indulgence of foods that create excess fermentation and acids. The fat is retained in order to bind the acidity somewhere away from the organs that sustain life. If we didn't have fats in our diet, we would literally be destroyed by the very acids that we are poisoning ourselves with. When you try to reduce your cholesterol by using drugs, you set yourself up for a heart attack, because you have the acids without the fats and the acids will destroy the cells. Fats bind the acids and neutralize them to prevent them from poisoning the cells. The same thing happens with calcium-blocker medications. In the United States, the FDA warns that if you take calcium-blockers, you are at risk for heart attacks. Why? Because if the body does not have sufficient fats to bind the toxins, it will use calcium to bind the toxins, and if you are blocking the calcium with medications, there is nothing to bind the toxins and you end up with a heart attack

Lucinda Ball
October 13, 2005

Cancer, hormones and acidity

2005-10-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

Cancer is not a virus; it is an acid problem produced by a mould. Pleomorphism is the foundation of microbiology, and it discredits the germ theory which traditional medicine believes in. Microforms such as viruses, bacteria and fungi are all the same organism at various stages of their evolution. Cancer is an infection due to excess fermentation in the weakest parts of the body. What causes cancer in cigarettes is the yeast and sugar they use to accelerate the fermentation process in the tobacco leaves. Cancer is not a localized problem that is metastasizing. Cancer is a systemic problem that has localized. We know through research that the supplementation of hormones can be a risk factor for breast cancer. When you supplement hormones, those hormones are subject to fermentation in a body that is out of balance, and when hormones are fermented, they produce an acid which has to be eliminated. These acids are then stored in areas of fatty tissue and what more perfect place to put it than the breast. How can emotion or fear cause rotting processes? Biologically, it's simple. Emotions create acidity through the release of hormones that are then fermented which produces the acid. And we then start craving the foods we should basically avoid

Lucinda Ball
October 13, 2005

Grapefruit surprise

2005-09-04T13:18:00.000-07:00

Grapefruit juice provides many nutrients such as vitamin C and the antioxidant lycopene. But chemicals in grapefruit interfere with enzymes that break down certain drugs in your digestive system. This can result in abnormally high blood levels of these drugs and an increased risk of serious side effects.

The exact chemical or chemicals in grapefruit juice that cause this interaction aren't known. But they're present in the pulp and peel of grapefruit as well as in the juice. For this reason, any grapefruit product — including dietary supplements that contain grapefruit bioflavonoids — can interact with some medications. One of the drugs that grapefruit interferes with is Viagra. We should try to understand that everything we eat can have a chemical reaction. Always read the instructions that come with medications very carefully and be conscious of what you eat so that if you become unwell you can learn.

Lucinda Ball
September 4th, 2005

Natural Cancer cure

2005-07-23T08:24:00.000-07:00

Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme found in raw pineapple.
Bromelain has pharmacological properties and could activate specific immune cells, while simultaneously blocking the immune function of other cells.
We knew that Bromelain and therefore both CCS and CCZ protease enzymes were more usually associated with breaking down proteins, as in the digestive process, but Dr Tracey Mynott of Queensland, Australia said "In searching for these components, we discovered the CCS and CCZ proteins and found that they could block growth of a broad range of tumour cells, including breast, lung, colon, ovarian and melanoma."
Dr Mynott said it was the first time this class of enzymes had been shown to have a specific effect on the immune system.
"The way CCS and CCZ work is different to any other drug in clinical use today.
"Therefore, CCS and CCZ will represent a totally new way of treating disease and potentially a whole new class of anti-cancer agent."

Everytime we shop we should consider not so much what we might like the taste of but rather what would be beneficial to our bodies. Prevention is always better than a cure.

Lucinda Ball
July 23, 2005

Wart removal the slow way

2005-06-25T14:10:00.000-07:00

Our immune system is not good at tackling anti-virus type infections such as warts. Conventional wart removers burn away the whole area and can leave a scar. If the immune system could “see” the wart it would remove it or like a fly on your best glass it does not want to swot the fly and break the glass – so nothing happens.

Surrounding your body is a Meissner field – you may have seen photographic images of the aura around a leaf – produced from the superconductivity. Super conductive minerals perfect the cells of the body by non-chemical inter-reaction with DNA. Instruments used to identify and determine the quantity of the elements present cannot see a mineral in a super conductive state.

DNA is a superb conductor but how do we super conduct at room temperature. What we know is that atoms form lattice structures. But what happens when we only have one atom in what is called a monatomic form. Simply the atom becomes unbalanced and goes into a high spin state to stabilize. The positive screening potential expands out and overlays all of the electron orbits and all electrons including valence electrons become screened. The electrons get in harmony and valence electrons become light. They are bound atoms, resonance coupled, oscillating in two dimensions in a bosonic phenomena of Cooper pairs. Now a superconductor is a resonance coupled system of quantum oscillators resonating in two dimensions You can put any amount of electron pairs on a superconductor because they can all go in the same space-time but you cannot see them. We only find elements capable of existing in a monatomic state in the middle of the periodic table. So far we know of 12 such elements with several other suspects. What happens when there are many of these atoms is that energy is now passed over the crest of the waveform at the speed of sound with no loss of energy. We super conduct at room temperature. I hope you followed that!

Nitric oxide is a compound that dramatically pins these elements (causes the high spin atoms to go to the low spin state). The air contains normally about one percent nitric oxide. Every breath of air provides nitric oxide, which "kills" the high spin state of these atoms in the body. In performing this chemistry, nitric oxide causes the screening potential of these atoms to withdraw and removes one of the Cooper paired electrons, which comes under the control of the nitrogen atom.

So how do we keep our monatomic levels high enough? Luckily nature has provided material rich in monatomic elements: Rhodium and Iridium. Aloe is a good source but I tried St. Johns Wort because for each 1g it provides 8 mg Rhodium and 6 mg Iridium. St. Johns Wort is high in hypericin which was thought to provide the retrovirus killing mechanism but I am suggesting that by inducing our DNA to super conduct it literally corrects the DNA, by a process the equivalent of a denaturing solution, the DNA relaxes and recombines corrected.

However, it took me 24 months to correct my DNA and have my body remove a wart.
You know when you are super conducting because you hum. Maybe we hum ans were supposed to super conduct!

Lucinda Ball

June 25, 2005

Asparagus fights cancer

2005-06-10T14:12:00.000-07:00

Asparagus is one of nature’s most perfect foods. Asparagus are poor in calories and loaded with vitamins and minerals. Asparagus also contains the phytochemical glutathione, which has antioxidant and anticarcinogenic properties.

According to the National Cancer Institute, asparagus is the highest tested food containing glutathione, one of the body's most potent cancer fighters. Additionally, asparagus is high in rutin, which is valuable in strengthening the blood vessels. Avocado and walnuts are also particularly rich in dietary sources of glutathione.

Glutathione is a small protein composed of three amino acids; cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine. Glutathione is involved in detoxification. It binds to fat-soluble toxins, such as heavy metals, solvents, and pesticides, and transforms them into a water-soluble form that can be excreted in urine.
A word of warning absorption of glutathione may be poor because the human gastrointestinal tract contains significant amounts of an enzyme (gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase) that breaks down glutathione. However, glutathione is also made inside our cells so maybe we should make a paste and apply that to our skin. Somehow asparagus, avocado and walnut skin cream doesn’t make for an enthusiastic take up but the thought is there.

Lucinda Ball
June 10,2005

Global Warming

2005-05-30T07:34:00.000-07:00

Energy, time, and space are entities in their own right and not merely units of measurement. E = MC2 might better be written M = E/C2 where matter is virtual, since the building blocks of matter — energy, space, and time — are intangible.

Gravitational (magnetic) waves consist of two peaks with a valley of space in between. Moreover, a planet is located in the valley between the two peaks

The planets not only spin around a star, but within this valley too. At times it moves along the energetic path, where its spinning motion changes and temperature rises. On other occasions, it rotates along a magnetic path, where it is naturally colder and spins in a different manner. This diversity is responsible for the changes in temperature that all planets are subject to. The spinning motion and temperature of the planets thus depends on their location in the apex of the gravitational wave’s loop

Lucinda Ball
May 30, 2005

Cruciferous Vegatables against Cancer

2005-05-23T05:43:00.000-07:00

Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a secondary metabolite found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage and brussels sprouts that has shown impressive results in maintaining healthy cell growth.
I3C is a member of the class of sulfur-containing chemicals called glucosinolates. A secondary metabolite is one not found preformed in vegetables, but formed after an enzyme in the vegetable (myrosinase) is exposed to a phytochemcial in the vegetable (glucobrassicin). This can occur only when vegetable cells are crushed or eaten, and is referred to as enzymatic hydrolysis.
After a person eats broccoli, for example, glucobrassicin is metabolized into several compounds in the gastrointestinal tract, including indole-3-carbinol (I3C). In the presence of acid, as exists in the stomach, I3C is broken down into various by-products, including,di-indolylmethane (DIM).The significance of this metabolic minutia is that studies indicate one of I3C's metabolites, perhaps DIM, may have chemopreventive properties.
Most of the research thus far has focused on I3C, a phytonutrient converted by stomach acid to DIM, indolylcarbazole, and other metabolites. Because I3C requires the presence of acid, it is effective only in oral doses and has no effect when injected. A 350-500 mg dose of I3C is roughly equal to 300-500 mg of raw cabbage or brussels sprouts or about 3 cups of broccoli.

Don't eat those things you like the taste of but eat what is good for you.

Lucinda Ball
May 23, 2005

Prostate repair

2005-05-23T02:58:00.000-07:00

The delicious roasted seeds of the pumpkin are packed with protein, fiber, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese, and phosphorous, as well as the amino acids arginine and glutamic acid. They also contain some calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium, folate, and niacin. Pumpkin seeds also contain linolenic acid, which may help to prevent hardening of the arteries.

Pumpkin seeds, and the oil they contain, have long been used as folk medicine. They have recently been the subject of a number of studies to identify their health-promoting potential. Preliminary studies have shown that pumpkin seeds may reduce hormonal damage to prostate cells, thus possibly reducing the risk of developing prostate cancer. Pumpkin seeds have been used to treat urinary tract infections, and in certain parts of Europe, pumpkin seeds have been used to treat learning disorders. In China, pumpkin seeds are regarded as a remedy for depression (and pumpkin seed oil has long been a treatment for prostatitis).

Roasted pumpkin seeds have a rich, almost peanuty flavor and can be eaten as snacks or can be added to salads, soups, and casseroles. Pumpkin seeds can also be ground and used to make sauces.

Lucinda Ball
23/05/05

Blood Pressure

2005-05-04T07:20:00.000-07:00

Lots of us have elevated levels of blood pressure don't we. Well we need to reduce pressure. Did you know that the blood has to travel more than 60,000 miles if you take arteries and capillaries into account before it returns. How is this possible? Well it is possible only because of Nitric Oxide. If we could open up our arteries with nitric oxide that would reduce pressure. It just so happens that L-Arginine is a precursor to nitric oxide and walnuts are a good source of L-Arginine. Celery smooths out the artery walls so that helps. So these two things plus aspirin will reduce your blood pressure. Also do just walk for a a couple of miles to maintain a reduced pressure.

If your blood pressure is over say 150/90 then do talk to your doctor - it is not too high but worth trying to reach 120/80.

Fenugreek does help to keep blood sugar and hence insulin levels under control which might otherwise throw your pressure readings into wild fluctuations.

Lucinda Ball
May 4, 2005

Attractiveness

2005-05-04T07:15:00.000-07:00

Currently Physics (and thus all human knowledge) is founded on particles and forces in Space and Time. This causes many problems because the necessary connection between these things is unknown.

Matter does not exist as discrete particles, but rather as Spherical Standing Waves in Space (and I do appreciate that not many people are yet aware of this!) Matter is formed from Spherical Standing Waves in Space which cause the 'particle' effect at their Wave Centre

Time is due to the Wave Motion (activity) of Space

In answer to the question of the speed of Light and Gravity - yes, they are the same, as they are simply the velocity of the Spherical In-Waves flowing through Space. Gravity is Electro – magnetic wave pressure.

Gravity is caused by the Wave-Density of Space. This Wave-Density is determined by the square of the Wave-Amplitude and is always positive (squares are always positive). The Wave-Velocity is inversely proportional to the Wave-Density, the higher the Wave-Density, the slower the Wave-Velocity. As Matter and its resultant Wave-Density are always positive, this causes a slowing of In-Waves as they travel through other matter/wave-motions, and it is this property of Space that causes the natural ‘Gravitational’ attraction of all bodies, and explains why Gravity is always attractive.

So gravity is electro-magnetic pressure coming from the universe and nearby matter. It is more of a pull simply because the Earth's iron core absorbs much of the EM waves that would otherwise push us away. Not so on our Moon that has no iron core so waves push up more strongly and thereby reduce the push down force.

Lucinda Ball

May 4, 2005

Green tea cancer cure

2005-03-17T12:48:00.000-08:00

Professor Roger Thorneley has identified the enzyme in tumour cells that EGCG targets and understands how it stops this enzyme from making DNA
Polyphenol EGCG taken from green tea leaves inhibit cancer cell growth. The effect was seen even at low concentrations, equivalent to drinking two or three cups of green tea a day. The latest study found that EGCG binds to a key enzyme - dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) - that is targeted by established anti-cancer drugs.
This stops the enzyme from triggering the manufacture of new DNA in tumour cells. It appears to work in the same way as the cancer drug methotrexate - but in practice would probably have fewer side effects Professor Roger Thorneley, from the John Innes Centre in Norwich,UK conducted the research with team from the University of Murcia in Spain. He said: "This is a very exciting discovery. For the first time we have a clear scientific explanation of why EGCG inhibits the growth of cancer cells at concentrations which are found in the blood of people who drink two or three cups of green tea a day.
Fellow researcher Dr Jose Neptuno Rodriguez-Lopez said: "We decided to look at EGCG because we recognised that its structure is very similar to that of the successful anti-cancer drug methotrexate.
"We discovered that EGCG can kill cancer cells in the same way as methotrexate.
"However, because EGCG binds to the target enzyme less tightly than methotrexate, it should have decreased side effects on healthy cells."
The scientists said EGCG in green tea would be expected to cause a significant drop in folic acid levels.

Lucinda Ball
March 17, 2005

Bird Flu

2005-03-17T10:18:00.000-08:00

Asian chickens that catch influenza (chronic Coryza) seem to get better if fed cabbage, radishes, ginger and garlic. So that’s worth remembering. To stop influenza in its tracks gather elderberry berries. Lay them out on paper so that insects can walk free. Place the berry cuttings in a large pan. Add water. Warm but don’t boil. Just warm for an hour and make sure that the water does not actually get hot. Add a little sugar as a preservative. Remove the red fruit bearing cuttings leaving the berries and remove any unripe berries that float. After about two hours crush with a potato masher. Now take used but cleaned wine bottled (clean with a little bleach but do rinse really well) and using a jug to scoop the liquid from the pan pour through a fine strainer held over a funnel placed in the bottle neck. Fill to the very top. Place cork on top making sure the seal is airtight (Dip wet cork in sugar) then tap in as the contents cool. This will maintain an airtight seal that will keep the contents safe to drink for several years. At the first sign of flue take a small amount every two hours. Expect recovery within 8 hours. Look up Sambucol in Google if you doubt the effectiveness of elderberry extract.

Lucinda Ball
March 16,2005

Skin Cancer

2005-02-15T01:33:00.000-08:00

Dr. Zhi Yuan Wang, research scientist has been a leading researcher in uncovering evidence that tea can prevent cancer in experimental models. (The connection to esophageal cancer was disproved when further studies found that hot drinks--not tea--were the cause. Furthermore, in 1995 Dr. Wang published a paper that showed tea prevented nitrosamine-induced esophageal cancer in rats.)
It makes sense that tea--and, indeed, many other plants and flowers--should contain a photo-protective chemical. "Plants are exposed to DNA-damaging UV light, so we believe that it is likely that plants should have their own sun protection system," he says. "Polyphenols in tea--specifically, flavonoids--may be the chemical that provides this protection." For instance, tea that grows in the mountains is exposed to more UV light than other tea and is also richest in polyphenols. (And, perhaps not coincidentally, mountain-grown tea is considered to have the best flavour.) The enzyme tyrosinase converts flavonoids in green tea to black tea pigment. In humans, tyrosinase is a key enzyme that converts tyrosine to melanin pigments. Tyrosinase is an enzyme found in many cells, (including potato cells) that speeds up the reaction between pyrocatechol (catechol) and oxygen producing hydroxyquinone and water. Pyrocatechol is a colorless liquid while hydroxyquinone is a yellow-brown liquid. The degree of color change corresponds to the amount of product produced.

So a nice cup of dark tea and a plate of chips might be better than you think!

Lucinda Ball
February 15, 2005

Stinging Nettles

2005-02-12T05:09:00.000-08:00

Powerful, prickly Nettle provides terrific nourishment for the kidneys, adrenal glands, lungs, and hair follicles. These are the places in your body besides the ovaries where estrogen is still produced in small amounts during and after the Change, and Nettles help keep you in balance during this time.
Nettle is also the herb with the highest chlorophyll content of any land plant.
Nettle means "needle," and tiny hairs on the stem and leaves contain an acid that can cause a stinging rash. Dried or cooked, this weed loses its sting but not its gifts of vitamins, proteins, calcium, and iron.
Builds blood - Strengthens lungs, liver, kidneys; eases all their ailments-Nourishes and revitalizes nails, hair, and bones
Why not try this: Fill a quart jar loosely with baby Nettle tops, leaving an inch of headroom in the jar. (You can also add leaves and flowers of Dandelion and Red Clover.) Pour in organic cider vinegar to the top. Cover, label, and date. Store at room temperature for six weeks. Use cheesecloth (or a fine sieve) to strain into a salad cruet (or other storage bottle). Use freely in salad dressings and marinates. For a nutritious drink add a teaspoonful to a glass of apple cider or plan water, and honey to taste if you wish.

(Thanks to Wild Woman’s Garden, by Jillian VanNostrand & Christie V. Sarles (Chelsea Green, 2002).)

Lucinda Ball
February 12th, 2005

Chocolate

2005-02-04T11:30:00.000-08:00

Women instinctively crave, and biologically need, more chocolate, sugar, starch, and fat than men. And when we trust our food cravings and immediately fulfill them, the rewards are great! Spirits lift, moods balance, energy soars, and weight stabilizes.
It may sound too good to be true, but research across the world is proving that food cravings are not a problem to be treated, but a blessing to be encouraged. They are vital female messages to ensure adequate body fat for fertility, proper nutrition for the body, and balanced brain chemicals for the mind. The appetite center is right next door to the reproductive center in the brain, and because of the female hormone estrogen and the life-giving functions of pregnancy, women have an inborn food wisdom that keeps them in close communication with their bodies’ needs.
When women crave chocolate, it’s because we need it! Chocolate contains the perfect balance of sugar and fat to stimulate the release of two powerful mood-modifying brain chemicals — serotonin and the endorphins. As an added bonus, chocolate also contains theobromine (a type of caffeine that has a positive effect on alertness and concentration), the calming mineral magnesium, and phenylethylamine (a chemical released in our brains when we fall in love).

Hence, our love affair with chocolate.. Thanks to Debra Waterhouse M.P.M.,R.D. for all this.

Lucinda Ball
04/02/2005

Reduce high blood pressure

2005-01-30T06:54:00.000-08:00

We know that celery reduces blood presuure by smoothing the inside of our artery walls but did you know that using sesame oil as the sole cooking oil for 60 days along with drug treatment lowered patients’ blood pressure levels. The affect of the oil on blood pressure may be due to polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), and the compound sesamin – a lignan present in sesame oil. Both compounds have been shown to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive rats. Sesame lignans also inhibit the synthesis and absorption of cholesterol in these rats. Sesame oil contains 43 percent polyunsaturated fatty acids and 40 milligrams (mg) of vitamin E per 100 grams

Thanks to the co-authors, K.V. Pugalendi, Ph.D.; G. Sambandam, M.B.B.S.; and M. Ramakrishna Rao, M.D.

Nothing stopping you taking a spoonfull either. Give it 60 days because blood pressure returned to normal (120/80) in every case.

Lucinda Ball

30/01/2005

Melatonin

2004-12-14T09:43:00.000-08:00

Exposure to light stimulates a nerve pathway from the retina in the eye to an area in the brain called the hypothalamus. There, a special centre called the supra-chiasmatic nucleus (SCN) initiates signals to other parts of the brain that control hormones, body temperature and other functions such as releasing stimulating hormones like cortisol.

Melatonin is a natural hormone made by your body's pineal (pih-knee-uhl) gland. This is a pea-sized gland located just above the middle of the brain. During the day the pineal is inactive. When the sun goes down and darkness occurs, the pineal is "turned on" by the SCN and begins to actively produce melatonin, which is released into the blood. Usually, this occurs around 9 pm.

Light-sensitive cells in your brain cannot tell the difference between light and electro-magnetic radiation. Light turns off melatonin production in the pineal gland. Melatonin does not just keep your hair colour it acts as an antioxidant, cleaning up your cells and hence reducing the risk of cancer.

So if you have any device near where you sleep such as a clock radio with a voltage reduction plug you head might well be within its electro-magnetic field.

Don’t sleep close to your mobile phone because every hour it emits several pulses to notify which cell can best locate your phone.

Turn the lights to dim at 2050 and sleep in the dark and away from all electro-magnetic radiation

Lucinda Ball

Milk and cancer

2004-11-13T05:23:00.000-08:00

IGF stands for ‘Insulin-like Growth Factor’. Milk contains lots of hormones and growth factors including IGF, although when we drink it most of these are digested. Only a very small amount, protected in the gut by the milk protein casein, makes it into our bloodstream. This isn’t, however, the only way in which milk creates an increase in blood levels of IGF. The cocktail of hormones, small proteins and amino acids in milk stimulates our own production of IGF, the net result being that IGF-1 levels in the blood increase as a result of drinking milk.
Cancer is initiated by damage to DNA, for example from smoking or other sources of oxidants or carcinogens. Such DNA damage is occurring all the time and can usually be repaired. If it is not repaired, as the cell starts to misbehave, it is programmed to commit suicide. This is called apoptosis. In most cancers something goes wrong with either the repair process or the cell suicide process. IGF-1, in excess, strongly inhibits apoptosis in both prostate and breast cancer cells, so the cancer cells inappropriately survive and keep growing. In the case of these cancers it is likely that this suppression of normal apoptosis of cancer cells is a much more significant risk factor than our general exposure to carcinogens

Best buy soya milk

Lucinda Ball

Kidney De-tox

2004-09-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

Eleven percent of the U.S. adult population has varying stages of chronic kidney disease, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) is a by-product of protein metabolism eliminated through the kidneys. BUN is an indicator of kidney function. Blood carries protein to cells throughout the body. After the cells use the protein, the remaining waste product is returned to the blood as urea, a compound that contains nitrogen. Healthy kidneys take urea out of the blood and put it in the urine. If your kidneys are not working well, the urea will stay in the blood.

A deciliter of normal blood contains 7 to 20 milligrams of urea. If your BUN is more than 20 mg/dL, your kidneys may not be working at full strength. Other possible causes of an elevated BUN include dehydration and heart failure.
To keep you kidneys healthy do keep you blood pressure at as near normal as possible - 120/80.

To de-tox try Parsley, ginger and garlic. Also eat sprouts, leafy greens and cucumbers.

Improvement signs that your body is responding to the cleanse: The flow of urine is increased. Bladder infections and/or irritated urination abate. You'll feel lighter and cleaner as your kidneys detoxifies free of congestion. If you are in doubt ask for a blood test at your local hospital to check Kidney and for an analysis of your kidneys efficiency

Lucinda Ball

Turmeric

2004-09-10T01:22:00.000-07:00

Let us look at an easy to purchase spice and see how it could benefit us.
Professor Moolky Nagabhushan of the Loyola University Medical Centre said laboratory tests had shown turmeric could protect against the effects of cigarette smoke on the body and that curcumin - which gives turmeric its colouring - prevented leukaemia cells multiplying in human cell cultures.
The active constituent is known as curcumin. It has been shown to have a wide range of therapeutic actions. First, it protects against free radical damage because it is a strong antioxidant. Second, it reduces inflammation by lowering histamine levels and possibly by increasing production of natural cortisone by the adrenal glands. Third, it protects the liver from a number of toxic compounds. Fourth, it has been shown to reduce platelets from clumping together, which in turn improves circulation and may help protect against arteriosclerosis. There are also test-tube and animal studies showing a cancer-preventing action of curcumin. In one of these studies, curcumin effectively inhibited metastasis (uncontrolled spread) of melanoma (skin cancer) cells. This may be due to its antioxidant activity in the body. Curcumin inhibits HIV in test tubes, though human trials are needed to determine if it has any usefulness for treating humans with this condition.

Do be careful because curcumin is also a strong dye which is difficult to wash away with just soap and water.

So those hot curry dishes really are good for you - but girl do they sometimes spoil the make-up.

Lucinda Ball

Detox diets

2004-08-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

The idea of a “detox” diet is to rid the body of toxins. The liver is very good at this function. The diets don't let you eat the foods at which the liver is particularly good at detoxifying, like meat, eggs and fish, instead they make you eat the very foods that the liver is not so good at detoxifying, like cabbage and onions.
These vegetables contain high levels of naturally occurring toxins. Broccoli is toxic - yet for some reason humans have developed a resistance to the plant defence mechanism to being eaten.
Meat has been derived from an animal whose liver detoxified most of the toxins eaten.
So what is going on here - well I will tell you - you feel better because you don't ingest toxins like alcohol and coffee and you eat less. Eating less make you feel better. Try eating when you are hungry no more than only just enough to sustain you. That amounts to very little food - try eating in one day only that which you can hold in one hand. Then ask yourself how you feel.

Lucinda Ball
August 1, 1004

Living longer

2004-07-16T07:33:00.000-07:00

Restricting total calorie intake extends lifespans, this effect requires Sir2's protein family, called sirtuins, and increased cellular respiration, which is the process of using oxygen to convert calories into energy. Sirtuin controls the enzyme that converts acetate, a source of calories, into acetyl-CoA, a key component of cellular respiration. Acetyl-CoA then can directly fuel the citric acid cycle, the central energy-producing step in cellular respiration. Converting acetate isn't the cell's only way of making acetyl-CoA, but when acetate is the major energy source, it's crucial.
Turning on production of acetyl-CoA, it could help explain why restricting regular sources of calories -- sugars and fats -- leads to extended lifespan in many kinds of organisms."Identified in all living creatures, including single-celled organisms like bacteria and yeast, sirtuin proteins previously were known to play an important role in keeping regions of chromosomes turned off. By modifying the histone proteins that keep DNA tightly coiled, sirtuins prevent certain regions of chromosomes from being exposed to cells' DNA-reading machinery.

Just cut down on total calorie intake by 30% and try to eliminate sugar and fat. Not easy but you could live up to 30% longer and feel better along the way.

Lucinda Ball
16/07/04

Weight loss through water loss

2004-07-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

For weight loss the trick is to reduce losing water weight as much as possible so the body is forced to burn more body fat stores. To limit losing water weight many people will:

1) consume small portions of high quality protein at each meal

2) reduce food intake gradually and count calories

3) anaerobic exercise can slow protein loss from muscle cells

4) not crash diet or starve

5) train for strength so to increase muscle

6) lose weight slowly no more than 2 pounds per week

Cut down on salt. Most processed foods contain quantities if sodium. Sodium will cause cells to retain water. Fruit on the other hand, such as bananas contain potassium and it is much healthier to have potassium in your cells than sodium. Remember if you are over-weight and drink alot water it can permeate through your leg veins and sit between your arteries and leg muscle which leads to "puffy ankles. See if you can get as much water from eating juicy fruit as you can.

Colon Cancer and Diet

2004-07-02T01:02:00.000-07:00

Scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in the UK found that natural chemicals released by brassica vegetables can ‘sabotage’ the uncontrolled cell division of colon cancer cells, acting in much the same way as many anti-cancer drugs.

IFR scientists found that the plant chemical allyl-isothiocyanate (AITC) - a breakdown product of sinigrin, a chemical compound found in brassica vegetables including mustard, cabbage, horseradish, cauliflower, sprouts, swede, kale and wasabi – affected the cancerous cells as it was released when the vegetable was processed, either by chewing, chopping or cooking.

Unlike normal cells, which ‘commit suicide’ at the end of their lifecycle, cancer cells continue to divide indefinitely. Cell division occurs when a parent cell divides to form two daughter cells during a four-stage process. In the second stage, known as metaphase, pole structures called spindles are created. Anything that disrupts the construction and deconstruction of these spindles halts the process of cell division. Previous studies have shown that damaged cells then commit suicide in a process called apoptosis.

“This is the first time the disruption of metaphase by an isothiocyanate has been explored in detail in relation to colon cancer prevention,” said Professor Ian Johnson, head of the IFR’s Gastrointestinal Health and Function research group.

Lucinda
02/07/04

Warts

2004-06-24T11:28:00.000-07:00

The virus that causes warts is common in the environment and we are all at risk from catching the virus. Now a compound found in Human milk called alpha-lactalbumin-oleic acid - collects in the nuclei of the wart cells, causing massive disruption to their control processes. However, the same accumulation does not occur in healthy cells, which remain unaffected.

Mothers milk will eradicate warts in most cases. Research at the Swiss - Lund university hope to isolate the compound and produce a cream.

Lucinda Ball
24/06/2004

Skin Care

2004-06-17T03:35:00.000-07:00

silk protein. Protein substance (also called sericin) formed by converting silk, which is the soft, lustrous thread obtained from the cocoon of the silkworm. Silk protein can have water-binding properties for skin. However, whether the protein applied to skin is derived from animals or plants, the skin can’t tell the difference. There is a small amount of research showing silk protein to have topical antioxidant.

Castor oil. When dry forms a protective skin, which will hold moisture. However slight stickiness remains. Try s hydrolized silk cream on top of the castor oil. Castor oil penetrates the inner skin layers making the skin soft. If you have blond eye-lashes castor oil will darken them by dyeing each lash, however the dye is very weak and can take 4 weeks of night time application to show any effect. Best go get those blond eye-lashes tinted.

Lucinda Ball
June 17, 2004

Cellulite

2004-06-09T14:08:00.000-07:00

Women have different skin layers than men and less skin depth. More fat leads to smooth skin but the fat can pucker. Really there is only once answer to being cellulite free and that is to stay slim by exercise.

My advice is jog and walk-up stairs as often as is possible. Jogging massages the thighs and motivates fat burning. Burn that fat girls. We all like our food. Don't eat "fillers" - you know bulky low value foods full of carbohydrates. Eat fruit and vegatables. If you cannot pick it - think twice. Don't eat excess dairy produce and oily, fatty foods.

We girls have to work hard to enjoy our clothes and value ourselves. If you are having difficulty slimming without support, join a club. Example - Weight Watchers and follow their advice and don't be anything less than dedicated 100% of the time. The prize is yours, but "it ain't easy".

A sexy, healthy you to be proud of - proud that you can reap the reward, proud that it is all yours to enjoy and perhaps share with your loved one !

Lucinda
5/06/2004

Weight Loss Nature's helping hand

2004-06-04T12:17:00.000-07:00

Elderberry has been used traditionally by Naturopaths to cleanse and detoxify the liver, an essential factor in any weight loss regime.
Bitter Orange provides powerful thermogenic activity that increases your metabolic rate and burns fat.
Garcinia cambogia contains 60% hydroxycitric acid, which helps suppress your appetite and inhibit the production of unwanted fat.
Milk Thistle, an essential herb in any detox/cleansing program, stimulates the secretion of bile and renewal of liver cells.
Buckthorn has mild laxative action and normalizes gastric function.
Gymnema sylvestre promotes weight control by reducing cravings for sweets and controlling blood sugar levels.
Collagen Hydrolysate, a unique bioavailable formulation that provides amino acids to preserve healthy muscle structure, so you lose weight from fat, not muscle.
Bromelain, derived from pineapple, is a powerful digestive enzyme, which accelerates the digestion of protein-rich foods.

Lucinda Ball
04/06/04

Prostrate Gland

2004-05-30T11:57:00.000-07:00

Saw Palmetto not only blocks androgen but it blocks the worst form of androgen, dihydrotestosterone. Dihydrotestosterone is the substance which causes the prostate gland to swell, causes male pattern baldness, and can cause cardiovascular disease. Saw Palmetto extract works to prevent testosterone from converting into dihydrotestosterone. By taking Saw Palmetto extract you may prevent prostate trouble, promote hair growth, and avoid a heart attack. Research has shown that the standardized fat-soluble liposterolic extract of Saw Palmetto Berries containing between 85% and 95% fatty acids and sterols is the safest and most effective.

If your man has to visit the restroom frequently and cannot properly empty his bladder, do try Saw Palmetto it might even give him some of his back.

Lucinda
30/05/04

West Nile disease

2004-05-29T02:56:00.000-07:00

West Nile disease is spread by female mosquitos feeding on human blood. The disease can be fatal.

To protect yourself you need to apply Neem oil to exposed skin. The Neem tree produces a compound called azadirachtin which protects it from damaging insects. Azadirachtin is a tetranortriterpenoid compound which influences the hormonal system, feeding activity, reproduction and flying ability of insects. Azadirachtin has low mammalian toxicity, it degrades rapidly in the environment, and has low side effects on non-target species and beneficial insects. Seeds of the neem tree contain the highest concentration of azadirachtin. Female mosquitos will not feed on your blood !

Neem trees grow in Florida, Asia and Australia. The oil can be imported from India - check on the web. Ensure that the azadirachtin has not been dissolved out with alcohol.

Lucinda
29/05/04

Colon Cancer

2004-05-27T14:39:00.000-07:00

If you eat meat you increase your risk of getting colon cancer. There are two sauces readily available with meat that actually hunt down cancer cells and destroy them. The two sauces are Mustard and Horseradish. Both tolerable with meat and will protect against colon cancer.

Free radical cell damage should be avoided at all cost. Eat vegetables such as broccoli to guard against cancer. Avoid foods that damage your health such as cured meats and bacon that contains sodium nitrate that is converted by the body into dangerous chemical substances.

Concentrate on foods that can be gathered rather than killed. Fruit,nuts and vegetables.

Love you all

Lucinda
27/05/2004

Take care of your man

2004-05-25T14:17:00.000-07:00

Men need to release body fluids. Semen is made in the testicules and ejaculate in the prostrate. We girls don't have either but what you should know is that the testicules need to be kept cool and handled carefully. The prostrate needs special care. It need lots of zinc and it needs to be kept under control otherwise it has a habit of starting to grow. An enlarged prostrate will cause problems.

A cure is 100 ML of Saw Palmetto a day.

When men wake in the morning, their body goes through a self-check. Don't ask your man to jump out of bed, unless you want somehere to hang your pantyhose before you dress !!

If nothing happens then there is something wrong, so keep an eye on this, although a handle on this is even better. I don't forget if your man does not have any release he will have a wet dream. So you could lend a hand - no man would refuse and love you for it. We girls should do our bit to help.

Lucinda

25/05/04

Dry skin

2004-05-25T07:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a nice inexpensive tip for dry skin. Purchase Sweet Almond Oil at you supermarket. Don't use it to cook in, but rub some into your cleansed face. It has healing properties and will lift any dead skin. It soaks in quickly and will leave the skin soft.

If you shave your legs put some Sweet Almond Oil on first spread wit wet hands. Shave and apply another coat. Now we are talking smooth and comfortable.

Lucinda
25/05/04

Soft skin

2004-05-24T09:44:00.000-07:00

This is for that day off, not something you would want to do before getting into something special.

Our hands take a battering when it comes to washing and cleaning. Shouldn't men be doing this,or is it just the car they wash. should they be washing the car if the car wash costs less than their time is worth ?

Take a small jar of good quality unset (runny) honey and with a knife - yes a knife - gather some on the end and place it in the palm of your hand. Now work it in all over both hands paying attention to the backs and wrists of both hands. Rub only away from the finger tips. Once the skin become a bit to sticky, try patting each hand with the finger tips of the other. When you get tired of this wet hands under a tap and stroke the water all the way to your elbow, working the honey into you elbow. Let the water dry naturally. When dry make a cup of tea coffee whatever. After a while smooth arms with strocks away from the hands and cushion your elbow in your palm.

If you remain sticky, wet hands again and dry them with drawing the moisture towards your elbows on both hands. look up the ingredients of honey using Google.

Losing weight

2004-05-23T13:06:00.000-07:00

Last posting I wrote "we don't want to eat fat", well the one thing we should avoid is carbohydrate.
Next time you are food shopping read the nutrition label, if the carbohydrate is high, don't buy it.

Peanut butter has a high protein and low carbohydrate count, but a very high fat reading. You see it is not the fat that makes you fat, its the carbohydrate that is stored as fat.

You need protein. For example Tuna is mainly protein with no carbohydrate and almost no fat.

Cut down on carbohydrate and see if your weight drops. Here is a question for you: How often do you see fat cats? Cats eat protein they don't like carbohydrates.

We girls need to be pussy cats !! Nice nails, flat tummy, flexible, nice eyes and really smooth.

Lucinda
24/05/04

Peanut Butter Diet

2004-05-23T02:29:00.000-07:00

I was reading about the Peanut Butter diet. Peanut butter stops breast cancer by stopping cancer cells from sticking together - something they like to do and are shaped to agglutomate rather well.

Problem is as I see it is that the American peanut crop affected by mold is mixed with the mold free during distribution. The mold Aflatoxin is toxic. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring mycotoxin produced by two types of mold. Aflatoxin could cause cancer. Aflatoxins have received greater attention than any other mycotoxins because of their demonstrated potent carcinogenic effect. Those little bits of brown in peanut butter may be the nut skin which is very good for your arteries or possibly peanut bits affected by Aflatoxin.

The peanut plant can be subjected to stressfull growing conditions, such as drought, so that as soon as the conditions for mold growth are right the mold develops quickly.

I would avoid products that are suspect. Peanut butter contains twice as much protein as it does carbohydrate but five times as much fat. It is fat that we girls would like to see less of, why eat it?

Lucinda
23/05/04

Cancer

2004-05-22T00:12:00.000-07:00

We women worry about breast cancer and even worry about checking, although we are better than men - more about them next posting.

Pomegranite seeds contain the safe kind of estrogen and chemicals in the seeds will seek out breast cancer cells and destroy them. keep meat consumption low, or at least use mustard or horse raddish because both lead to the death of colon cancer cells.

Brocolli contains powerful chemotherapy drug like ingredients, but do eat raw or steam cook. Don't microwave as the molecules are so highly vibrated that their chemical structure can fall apart.

We want to look good, feel good and be happy with ourselves.

Lucinda

Saturday
22/05/04

Weight Loss

2004-05-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

It is so darn hard to loose weight if you keep eating. Have to eat something, and if we are slightly diabetic we cannot go long without something. Why not eat negative calorie food. Food that costs more in calories to digest than they provide. Want to go as long as possible before actually eating?
Buy ground Fenugreek and add two teaspoonfulls to a small amount of milk. Drink it before it sets. This will cure your slight diabetic problem to allow you to lose calories. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of flesh. That is alot of calories. If you under provided your daily food intake by 500 calories, it would take seven days to lose a pound.

No wonder we are mostly oversize. To be slim is sexy. Clothes fit and we can love our bodies.

Lucinda
21/05/04