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.
In J Pineal Res. 2009 Aug;47(1):82-96. Epub 2009 Jun 17
in an article….
Protection against cognitive deficits and markers of neurodegeneration by long-term oral administration of melatonin in a transgenic model of Alzheimer disease….
the conclusion drawn was….
“Thus, melatonin’s cognitive benefits could involve its anti-Abeta aggregation, anti-inflammatory, and/or antioxidant properties. Our findings provide support for long-term melatonin therapy as a primary or complementary strategy for abating the progression of Alzheimer disease.”
Melatonin and Sleep
Melatonin was once haled as a cure for sleeplessness.
Melatonin has been tested extensively. One problem with supplementation is that our body tends to build up a tolerance after long term use. However, this does not happen when we consume melatonin as a food.
It is best if only used as a rescue nutricutical or for occasional use. Warning, you will not find this in any medical journals except for those doctors who are knowledgeable on food allergies. Over use leads to ineffectiveness and even allergic reactions for some foods.
So, where is the best place to get melatonin?
Cherries. Only one kind of cherry has the most melatonin. The best way to use cherries as a medicine is to get cherry juice concentrate. A couple tablespoons of the concentrate in a glass of water before bed will help you sleep. It may take a few to several days to get a sleep cycle established. Once sleeping like a baby, continue taking the juice concentrate for a few more days.
Then just take the cherry juice once or twice a week as a supplement. Not more.
It works on a number of levels. One is that it boosts glutathione. This helps your body get everything aligned where it needs to be, thus making it possible for you to sleep. It also helps with things like stress and pain management.
Now, not only will it help you sleep, it can potentially help you sleep knowing that you will decrease your risk of getting Alzheimer’s.
Good health to you.
Here is another study that is touting the benefits of a diet that boosts your intercellular glutathione.
This is just more on how boosting glutathione can help with over 69 different conditions or diseases.
The 2009 article, Amino acids: Metabolism, Functions, and Nutrition. says that amino acids have…”important functions in both nutrition and health.”
cell signaling molecules
regulators of gene expression
are key precursors for syntheses of hormones
are precursors of low-molecular weight nitrogenous substances
Elevated levels of the by products of these (ammonia, homocysteine, and asymmetric dimethylarginine) are pathogenic factors for neurological disorders and cardiovascular disease).
There is growing recognition that some amino acids are necessary for maintenance, growth, reproduction, and immunity.
Dietary supplementation with one or a mixture of these AA may be beneficial for preventing or treating health problems related to fetal growth restriction, neonatal morbidity and mortality, weaning-associated intestinal dysfunction and wasting syndrome, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, the metabolic syndrome, and infertility.
They also optimize the efficiency of muscle growth, milk production, egg and meat quality and athletic performance. They help preventing excess fat production.
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.
One study says green tea boost antibiotic effects. Another says the opposite. Oh yes, there is a Glutathione connection too.
This is an example of a little knowledge being dangerous.
In March of 2009 a study was released: Green Tea Boosts Antibiotics for Superbugs
The Egyptian study looked at how green tea increased effectiveness of antibiotics threefold.
Specifically mentioned in the study were cephalosporin antibiotic properties of the green tea.
Also, the tea extract showed showed a synergistic activity with chloramphenicol and other antibiotics like gentamycin, methicillin.
Just reading this you might start to think, oh, if I drink green tea it will help my antibiotics work better. NOT necessarily so.
Consider another study… Green tea extract weakens the antibacterial effect of amoxicillin in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infected mice.
The conclusion of the study was that tea extract weakened the antibacterial effect of amoxicillin in MRSA infected mice. This means that tea drinking is not recommended in combination with amoxicillin treatment, at least for your pet lab mice.
As far as we humans are concerned, this will still require some more study.
Green tea, incidentally, boosts your glutathione.
Before you go crazy, just ask your pharmacist to look up the current known interactions with which ever antibiotic you may be on.
Good health to you.
Avoiding Blood Transfusions May Save Your Life! That is right.
Consider this article in Digital Journal
There are a lot of Bad Blood Diseases. Transfusions can spread over 47 different diseases. Being properly treated with out blood could protect you from these and a host of new diseases that are not yet screen-able.
Science is saying that boosting your Glutathione is a viable way to not only improve blood counts, it may protect you from the many diseases seroverting within your body. A win-win treatment that can help you avoid blood transfusions, if, and only if, your doctor is trained and skilled in treating with out blood.
Good Health to you.
Have you ever tried persimmons? They are a fun food.
They are also a glutathione boosting food too.
In addition to being a food with vitamin A, C, Copper and B6, they have lutein. Lutein is essential for eye health and may lower your risk for cataracts.
They also have more fiber than any other fruit except blackberries and raspberries.
If you count callories, they only have 120.
How do you know if it is ripe?
Hachiya persimmons should be deep red-orange in color and so soft that it might feel like it will be damaged if you pick it up. Oh yea, you eat them with a spoon.
If you find the Fuyu persimmons, they will still be firm when they are ripe.
Unlike supplements, it is unlikely you will overdose on the vitamins when taken as your food. The bonus is that it helps boost your glutathione as well.
In one study using rats, dried persimmons were found to increase the antioxidant glutathione levels. They should be a seasonal part of your glutathione boosting diet.
Enjoy.
Good health to you.
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)
We have updated the side effects of n-acetylcysteine.
I am amazed at how may distributors of the various products, even in the health food stores will blindly tell how wonderful they are and there is nothing to worry about. They do not realize that they could be inadvertently practicing medicine with out a license. Even worse, their suggestions could harm their patients.
It is always wise to run anything you want to take by your doctor or pharmacist. Always.
Why?
Yet some people are potentially allergic to NAC. In the case of diabetics, NAC and its sulfhydryl metabolites, like other sulfhydryl-containing substances, could produce a false-positive result in the nitroprusside test for ketone bodies used in diabetes.
Check out some of the other reasons to be careful.
NAC is truly wonderful. Only be smart about how you use it, especially if you are already on other medications, end up in the hospital in an emergency, or are taking it for health reasons.
The glutathione boosting effect of NAC is associated with treating or helping over 69 different diseases or conditions. Don’t let it get a bad rap because of not using it right.
Good health to you.
Healthcare politics is often bound by the flat earth thinking. The flat Earth thinking attributed to Christopher Columbus was actually based on a fictional writing. They knew the earth was round. But I digress. This is from GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com
I always recommend that when you hear the words, “What doctors do not want you to know” run in the opposite direction. They are often cons. However, there is still the question of why doctors do not embrace many of the natural ways of improving health. This is one theory and is only about a few, and certainly not all doctors.
Read on….
Even with over 80,000 studies showing benefits, there is still limited use of cysteine for building glutathione (GSH) by the health care profession. The thinking of those who refuse to consider the evidence is similar to those who continue to believe that people in the dark ages believed the earth was flat. It might be called the Flat Earth Paradox.
The flat Earth concept or more accurately, the ‘Myth of the Flat Earth’ (conceptions of a flat Earth actually did exist in ancient Babylon, Egypt, pre-Classical Greece and pre-17th century China) illustrates how mankind limits their thinking ability and structures their beliefs on what they hear and believe, not necessarily science. This kind of thinking influences health care politics.
Before looking at the Flat Earth Paradox, consider what GSH is.
Your good health is dependent on GSH levels. A number of the studies have found a commonality when the human body is in a disease state. Many conditions and diseases are associated with low cysteine and glutathione levels otherwise known as ‘Low CG Syndrome.
What is glutathione?
Glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant. What this means is that any antioxidant we supplement our body with will only be effective if our level of glutathione is sufficient. Reports in the media point to numerous ‘benefits’ relating to glutathione and cysteine. The only thing, research indicates that you cannot benefit from just taking GSH. The only way to boost the GSH in your body is to provide the building blocks in the diet to help your body make it.
Dr. Luc Montignier, who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, has drawn attention to the promising benefits of glutathione boosting supplements in treating AIDS. At this writing there are several products that claim to boost glutathione levels in North America and a few in Europe.
Elevating intercellular glutathione has been associated with successfully treating numerous diseases. This elevation is accomplished by taking in the foods or supplements that provide the building blocks, chief of which is cysteine. Some benefit has been found by taking the co-factors of glutathione.
What are cysteine and glutathione? What are their functions? Since they are associated with successfully treating diseases like HIV, AIDS, mesothelioma, Stage IV lung cancer and autism, why have few heard of them?
Health Care Politics and the Flat Earth Myth
The flat earth paradox can explain why glutathione and cysteine are not as common as the word cholesterol is today. It also explains why health care politics has not considered it as a modality.
Were you taught that in addition to sailing the ocean blue in 1494, Columbus also established that the earth was not flat?
Throughout the 20th century, the majority of us believed in this myth. It is actually a myth that men in the dark ages thought that the earth was flat. The fact is, that is not true. They knew the earth was round.
It is believed the ancient Hebrews of the Bible knew it to be a sphere. Scripture was later misapplied to say it was flat.
Several hundred years after the Bible indicated this scientific fact Aristotle (384-322 BC) said it was common knowledge. Then a few hundred years into the future (220 BCE), Eratosthenes of Cyrene accurately estimated the Earth’s diameter (He was off by about 4,000 Kilometers but who is counting when your measuring by a mans stride.)
Yet Columbus faced a daunting task to convince everyone he was not going to sale off the edge of the earth. At least that was the belief about the 19th century, thanks to Washington Irving’s fantasy, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, published in 1828. So either the myth (Irving’s fiction), belief in the myth (as we did last century), or lack of knowledge of what people held as truth is really a myth (ignorance that it was an urban legend on a global scale) all illustrate a paradox. In spite of the evidence to the contrary, people believed what they believed for various reasons.
Even if it was for a lack of accurate knowledge and or even if there was science to back it up, they still believed the Dark Ages held that the earth was flat. Why? Because that is what they believe.
They are Flat-earthers. The Flat-earthers did not go away.
Move into the future about 300 years. From the year 1747 until 1795 Dr. James Lind with super human effort worked to overcome the flat earth paradox of his time. The prejudice and antipathy of the political establishment was reluctant to consider anything other than what they believed to be true. With the first clinical trial in medicine, he proved that scurvy could not only be treated, but could be prevented with raw lemons.
Some wanting to hold on to their flat earth like beliefs cooked the lemons and with the subsequent failure said, “…see, they do not work.” Even though he had scientific proof, it still took years to change the thinking of the establishment.
What about today? Health care politics is often the reason scientific application lags behind scientific research. Where you find a lack of forward momentum, you will find flat-earthers.
You will stumble across them everywhere. Just ask your doctor what he thinks about Bloodless Medicine and Surgery (doing major surgery such as liver transplants with out blood transfusions). If he says he does not ‘believe in’ them, then he is a flat-earther.
First, bloodless medicine is a science, not a religion.
Thousands of medical journal articles and high level studies have demonstrated and proved that blood does not necessarily save lives. To quote Dr. Richard Spence, one of the modern day Dr. Lind’s, ” There are no high level studies that prove blood saves lives. The studies actually show the opposite. From any to the more blood you receive, the greater the morbidity and mortality.”
Flat-earthers are everywhere. They are especially notable in health care politics. You can find them in our most intelligent leaders in both health care, science and politics. Yet there are forward thinking mythical Columbus’s and Eratosthenes who can see beyond the health care horizon.
One method of boosting GSH has been scientifically proven and is currently medically approved. It is even listed in the Physicians Desk Reference. Interestingly, it is the only listing that prestigious book that is a food supplement, not a drug. The best way to boost GSH in the body comes from foods and natural supplements.
Numerous studies demonstrate that increasing glutathione through dietary means has benefits for over 67 diseases so far. Here we are on the frontiers of knowledge looking back to the words of Hippocrates. He said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be thy food.”
Health care politics aside, the next time you think of Columbus, those who thought the earth was flat, those who do not know that it was only a myth or do not want to know, remember that you have a choice. Will future history can look at you as being among those who held on to the myth of the flat Earth thinking?
Or will you be one spoken of as one of those who can see beyond the horizon, farther than the frontiers of knowledge, past the Flat Earth Paradox? If you look carefully, there on the horizon of the future, you might just see it, the glutathione disease cure.