Ulterior Health

This article is rather interesting because of how large a group it looks at. It lacks the one thing that started me on this quest to understand the ulterior health factors.

The question: What does the cysteine do? The answer: produce the bodies master cancer
fighting warrior, Glutathione. It has natural healing properties.
Cysteine Levels and Breast Cancer Study

Good health to you.

PS. To learn more about GSH go to GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com and learn how you can boost your cysteine with your diet.

EPO & Sports: Not the Only Controversy

The news if rife with stories about athletes using EPO to enhance performance.

This is not the only controversy surrounding this cloned version of the human hormone erythropoietin.

A number of doctors are using this drug off label or outside of the pharmaceutical guidelines. Many are doing this to respect the healthcare wishes of their patients wanting alternatives to blood transfusions.

Some are doing this because not only is it good medicine, it is good business.

St Joseph’s Hospital of Cleveland Ohio advertises that it can shorten your hospital stay from 1/2 to three days.

The reason for the growth in the use of this drug is a growing number of patients in the US and the world wanting to eliminate the risk of blood borne diseases. This means if faced with the need for a blood transfusion, they want options or alternative treatments.

The controversy is in the effectiveness of the treatment. A second problem is the black box warning.

Seems some doc’s are giving it too much and too often. The result is too much blood and that causes other problems. Even so, it is advancing the field of alternatives to transfusions.

As a result of advances, two hospitals in the US have virtually eliminated blood transfusions all together.

On the other side of the is the use of blood transfusions when blood counts drop to unsafe levels. The challenge facing health care, what exactly are unsafe levels.

Dr Richard Spence of St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD USA made this comment regarding the practice of blood transfusions.

“…there are no high level studies that show the effecy of blood transfusions.
The studies show the exact opposite.”

But what about when doctors say blood saves lives?

Dr Spence has said in conferences that there is anecdotal evidence but that evidence is not hard science. If an alternative that can have the same or better effect, reduce risk of both infection, complication and even death, why wouldn’t we want to use it.

All of the evidence says it works.

This controversy will not end soon.

The Mindless Middle

There is a mindless middle. A place between the sports controversy and the medical controversy.

In order to prevent the problems some clinicians have found that just giving iron results in the body making enough red blood cells. Many are giving an IV form of iron with remarkable success.

That is not what’s interesting. What is interesting is those who cannot tolerate the IV iron are given black strap molasses and peanut-butter. It works to boost the blood count.

No EPO, just iron, protein, and the building blocks of red blood cells.

There is more…

There is a body of research that says boosting the bodies glutathione levels increases the bodies red cell count.

In my families experience, just a few weeks on one of the glutathione boosting products resulted in a post operation day one blood count higher than the count prior to surgery.
Not only that, there was no infection at the surgery site. As to the healing, well the clinicians said they had never seen anything like it, regarding the heeling being so fast.

So we have gone backwards to advance science.

Wow…

What is Glutathione

The other title:Preserve That Fresh Smelling Room and Your Body Prior to Your Death at a Fraction of the Cost of Embalming with Air Fresheners

One of the most basic underlying or ulterior causes of health problems is foreign substances the human body is exposed to.

This briefly looks at fragrances in air fresheners, the health risks, the chemicals and potential chemical reactions to ambient substances. Links to the original paper and how to find what chemicals are in your fragrances or soaps.

A recent University of Washington Toxic Chemical Paper had some eye opening information. When you click on the link you can down load the paper in PDF form.

An overview…
The first landmark studies were in 1991-2.

The study analyzed 31 fragranced products like perfumes, deodorants, soaps, fabric softeners, and air fresheners found . The most common risk exposure was found in more than one-third of the products. The chemical list was quite long. It included ethanol, limonene, linalool, ?-phenethyl alcohol, ?-myrcene, benzyl acetate, benzyl alcohol, benzaldehyde, ?-terpineol, ?-citronellol, and ?-
pinene.

That was over 20 years ago. In a 2001 study analyzed 59 consumer and occupational products. The list included soap, laundry products, dish washing detergents, and cleaners. The study looked at 19 target fragrance compounds.

Of these, the most common chemicals in more than one third of the products, were limonene, linalool, citronellol, eucalyptol, geraniol, and ?-pinene.

But wait… this is not whats interesting.

What is interesting is what the study founds happens to some of these chemicals.

The chemicals were not bad enough on their own. Some of these chemicals can react with normal every day things that may already be in the air we breathe.
When combined, a secondary pollutant can be created.

Without getting into the geekey stuff, air freshener chemicals can combine with ozone to create aldehyde, also known a formaldehyde.

They have also been associated with asthma and asthmatic exacerbations (although other studies deny this finding) and allergic contact dermatitis.

Note…My personal thoughts…Hmmm, breathing in toxic chemicals does not cause asthma problems so they must be safe for asthmatics.

It gets better…the article indicates that the US manufacturers of these products do not need to disclose all ingredients.

Note…If you would like to find out what chemicals are in your fragrances all you need is a MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) This has the product safety information sheets prepared by manufacturers and marketers of products containing toxic chemicals. You do have to join to access the information. It is free.

So, you have a choice. Go ahead and assume they are safe because the government is taking such good care of us, surely they would tell us if these were dangerous. Who knows, maybe science will find that breathing in formaldhyde will preserve you alive even though you die.

Or, become an educated consumer. Avoid the ulterior health risks.

There is one other protection we can take. Since these are everywhere, boosting our bodies detoxifying mechanism will help remove the toxins we take in. The best way to do this is to boost your glutathione.

This is an ancient article from a scientific standpoint, 1998 to be precise.

Uncooked, lactobacilli-rich, vegan food and rheumatoid arthritis.

Caution needs to be exercised when eating raw foods, as now there is risk of other disease. Make sure it is cleaned and safe to eat.

Check it out. It is from Pub Med.

Br J Rheumatol. 1998 Mar;37(3):274-81.
Nenonen MT, Helve TA, Rauma AL, Hänninen OO.

Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio, Finland.

We tested the effects of an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, in rheumatoid patients randomized into diet and control groups. The intervention group experienced subjective relief of rheumatic symptoms during intervention. A return to an omnivorous diet aggravated symptoms. Half of the patients experienced adverse effects (nausea, diarrhoea) during the diet and stopped the experiment prematurely. Indicators of rheumatic disease activity did not differ statistically between groups. The positive subjective effect experienced by the patients was not discernible in the more objective measures of disease activity (Health Assessment Questionnaire, duration of morning stiffness, pain at rest and pain on movement). However, a composite index showed a higher number of patients with 3-5 improved disease activity measures in the intervention group. Stepwise regression analysis associated a decrease in the disease activity (measured as change in the Disease Activity Score, DAS) with lactobacilli-rich and chlorophyll-rich drinks, increase in fibre intake, and no need for gold, methotrexate or steroid medication (R2=0.48, P=0.02). The results showed that an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, decreased subjective symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Large amounts of living lactobacilli consumed daily may also have positive effects on objective measures of rheumatoid arthritis.

Just a thought…many vegies are rich in cystine. Cystine intake is an essential part of boosting our GSH or Glutathione. Being very fragile, it is easily destroyed in cooking. Anecdotal evidence suggests it plays a role in pain management. Problem: it is not possible to get enough Cystine when we are in a disease state. It needs supplementation.