Check out this posting from CBS News
Especially note what happened when the reporter ate a sandwich made from tuna in a can that had Bisphenol A (BPA). Also, note the doctors comment on the same and the danger related to.
The underlying concern here is that if you want to avoid diseases like cancer, you will have to both try to avoid toxic chemicals and improve your bodies ability to detoxify its self.
Taking steps to boost your intracellular glutathione will help.
Good health to you.
Here are some Facts on Prostate Cancer and the conflicting information.
It has been established that glutathione offers radiation protection. One product used to boost the intercellular glutathione is actually patented for use with radiation treatment for cancers. It protects the healthy cells allowing the radiation to kill the bad cells.
So, since it protects us from radiation, it would seem that it would likewise protect us from radiation from the sun. In other words, boosting out glutathione would protect us from skin cancer. Add to this one more fact. The pro-hormone vitamin D we synthesize from the sun helps our bodies make glutathione and our diets are depleted of the nutrients that helps produce this glutathione. Thus, increased skin cancer rates.
Since so many live above the latitude of optimal sun shine and due to the cold winter (staying indoors) and the often cloudy days of winter, chances are we are not getting enough vitamin D from the sun. Most already are not getting enough glutathione boosting foods. Additionally, we consume many foods that deplete our glutathione.
Thus, less glutathione, more seasonal disease, seasonal flu and skin cancer.
A Passing Thought for Tanning Booth Users
So, for those sun tanners who use the tanning booths to get the color, boosting your intercelluar glutathione may just help prevent skin cancer. There are no high level studies that indicate this but there is a considerable amount of common sense evidence that would, if you connect the dots, lead to this conclusion.
What Foods Contain Vitamin D, a new page on
GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com looks at the list of foods and the other c-factors that will help the body maintain bone health.
One thing everyone can agree on, no matter where they come down on the current health care debates, is that no one should get sick as a result of visiting the doctor.
Hospitals are rightfully expected to get you better but that’s not always the case. Sometimes people are picking up infections, from pneumonia to antibiotic-resistant staph (MRSA), while under treatment for other health problems, or even while just in the hospital having a baby. That’s a situation that could, and should be completely avoidable.
Kimberly-Clark Health Care is on the forefront of protecting patients from Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and has put together a site dedicated to that prevention called HAI Watch: Not on My Watch. The site has information for both healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers.
Contributed by Barbara Dunn
What do cholesterol, cafestol, coffee, cancer and glutathione all have in common.
They are an example of how a little knowledge can get you in trouble. Yes, there are some health benefits from coffee.
If you heard about a study from the Netherlands (and others) that when the hot water hits the ground coffee beans, a chemical called cafestol is released. Here is the good and bad news.
One cup of coffee can contain 4 mg of cafestol which could make the cholesterol rise by as much as one percent. The simple solution is to use a paper filter. Paper totally blocks the cafestol. Thus no raise in cholesterol.
However, another study found that cafestol and kahweol, both found in unfiltered coffee, act as antioxidants and may have a cancer protective effect.
To Be Coffee or Not to Be Coffee, Filtered That Is?
In my travels, it seems that paper filters are mostly used in the US. Most of the world does not seem to use paper filters. (If you know of data on this, please let me know).
Drinking coffee (most likely unfiltered) has been associated with reducing the risk of liver injury and cirrhosis. This is a major pathogenic step on the road to liver related cancers. Increased coffee consumption around the world is associated with a reduced number of cirrhosis although it has not been proven to be the reason for this.
One thing we do know, cafestol kicks the glutathione system into high gear.
Before you do or do not filter your coffee, think about this.
If you carried the negative aspects of this to its logical conclusion, if you drank a cup of unfiltered coffee daily and every day it raised your cholesterol by one percent where would you be in a month. Two months. What about six months.
So although it raises the cholesterol level, those levels must also go down. So if your otherwise eating a healthy diet, this should not cause any harm. If your trying to reduce your cholesterol, only drink coffee made with paper filters.
Expresso Health Benefits vs Risks
Like wise, if you drink five cups of expresso a day (which is not filtered), the overdosing of the various otherwise protective chemicals could possibly predispose you to increased risk of some diseases like Parkinson’s. The Parkinson’s connection was discovered in an 18 year study. There needs to be more testing on it to confirm the findings but this should be enough to, at the very least, be cautious as to how much coffee you give to your pet lab rats or your husband (depending on how you feel about them tomorrow morning).
The bottom line, all things in moderation.
TIP For Paper Filter Users: I found that by using two paper filters and two scoops (like come with the coffee) per the 8 cup marking of water, the coffee will end up tasting a bit stronger with out having to put more coffee in the hopper.
To really amp up the taste by buying some of the more expensive coffee and bending one scoop of the expensive with the less expensive it provide a better taste at a reduced price.
Want the benefits of cafestol in your coffee maker. Get a screen. You will save on the cost of paper filters and save the environment form a tiny bit of trash.
Green Tip: Use the coffee grounds as fertilizer for both plants and your shrubs. Just dump the used grounds at the base directly on the ground. I know my rhodendrum love this.
Good health to you (and your shrubs)
Are you skeptical or do you believe every health food thing you hear? What happens when there is conflicting information?
One study says green tea prevents cancer. Another says it does not. Yet another says it could promote cancer. Which do you believe? How can we know?
There is a mindless middle that we fail to think about. That middle is called balance.
Modern medicine is not good nor bad. Holistic and Natural are not good or bad. However, anything taken to an extreme can be bad. What if there was a middle in between the two extremes. A middle between modern medicine and all natural.
When looking at the natural cures, there needs to be balance. I have seen the extremes of natural health care, usually at 10 PM in the Emergency Room of one of the hospitals where I am a nurse. Using natural cures to an extreme can cause extreme health problems. This frustrates the doctors who have to try to rescue these folks.
Have you ever wondered why doctors don’t jump on the natural cures band wagon? When you see lives destroyed and you have to try to save them, wouldn’t you also think the natural to be a dangerous form of health care.
I have also seen patients be admitted with 27 different medications. The medical management doc will remove them from all but two or three. The patients feel better within a day or two. And I never see them for at least 6 months to a year when they are back on 27 medications.
What if there was a mindless middle that we are all missing?
Mindless because it is sometimes so simple we just do not think about it. Mindless because sometimes we are like the five blind scientist doing a clinical study of an elephant Read about them here. Each has their own definition of what an elephant is.
They fail to see the whole picture.
What is the green tea whole picture?
Consider one review of all the studies on Green Tea and cancer prevention. You can read the abstract online. It is called….Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer.
Based on this overview, there are some things we need to know. Apparently, too much of a good thing is not a good thing. Limit green tea intake to three to five cups a day.
Which is the best green tea we cannot say at this time. However, we are trying to research this further.
Does green tea prevent cancer?
The studies are conflicting. We do know that green tea is a powerful antioxidant. Science has also shown that the antioxidant system only works as good as our current glutathione levels are. Glutathione is the key that helps antioxidants work. Decreased glutathione means decreased effectiveness of antioxidants.
The studies were geographically local. So, if you consider that a diet in one part of the world is rich in glutathione co-factors and in another part it is not, then we could have another clue as to the differences in the studies.
Does green tea help? Most likely it does if you do not overdose and if it is part of an immune boosting diet or you use supplements that help build glutathione.
So, drink up and enjoy. Boost your glutathione and not only enjoy the tea, enjoy good health.
Good health to you and yours.
There are numerous side effects to a allogenic blood transfusion. On of the biggest is infection.
Learn more about how this can be avoided by boosting your glutathione at GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com
The rates are rather high, considering that there is a safer option.
The bright sunlight will boost your glutathione. Yes, a cheap way to boost your GSH is getting sunlight which produces vitamin D (actually a hormone).
Vitamin D has long been known to help with mental health and well being.
What is little known is that vitamin D has neuroprotective, immunomodulatory, neuroimmune benefits.
This means sunshine can
New clues about vitamin D functions in the nervous system is an old study but still relevant to our present needs.
So this got me to thinking. Looking at a somewhat old map, the question was, what are the confounding factors that would cause high and low incidence of cancer in relation to the sun exposure.
A special note to Vicki and Splash, Glioma, sunlight and GSH can only help.
Good health to you.
Note: this is a hypothesis and not science backed.
The North East which has a predominant indoor, high population per square mile, higher exposure to pollutants has some of the highest breast cancer rates. Even guys get it. One doctor I worked for, an oncologist got it. He was rarely outside.
What about sunny California. California has air pollution concerns. More air pollution, less sun light.
This got me to wondering about Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico. Higher Altitude, more sunlight.
Across the south in general, more sun light in general.
Go to the Breast Cancer Map and check it out.
More on GSH and Sun vitamin D can be found at GlutathioneDiseasecCure.com
They are not safe according to the study that a doctor uses to say they are.
Here is what doctor I.N.U. MD, FWACS, FICS said in a post over at NoBlood.org regarding the study claiming “Moderate Exposure to Allogeneic Blood Products Is Not Associated with Reduced Long-term Survival after Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease”
How was the conclusion arrived at?
Table 1 in the article in question clearly shows a relationship between blood transfusion and mortality as follows: No transfusion 11% [mortality], 1-2 units 14%, 3-6 units 19%, >6 units 23%. The authors’ conclusion that “Moderate Exposure to Allogeneic Blood Products Is Not Associated with Reduced Long-term Survival after Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease” (in the article title) is obviously at variance with their own statistics.
This is also a study in scientific anachronism.
Nathaniel Usoro MD, FWACS, FICS
This is probably a simple doctor error. It is at variance with countless studies that say otherwise. All high level studies say that from any to the more blood you get, the higher the risk of morbidity (getting sick)and mortality (getting dead).
Being on a team that treated over 600 patients with out blood (during my time at this hospital), not one died. This even though the lowest count was Hgb 2.9.
Now we are finding that boosting intercellular glutathione (GSH) works even better that EPO or Epogen for not only boosting blood counts but improving the immune response.
Boosting GSH has been proven in a few studies to be an economical treatment for H1N1 Swine Flu as well as Bird Flu.
It pays to be an educated consumer.
As one pioneer of medical treatments and surgery with out blood transfusions once said and this study shows, the blood transfusions you refuse may save your life.