Ulterior Health

Moving my business offices to a new city a few hours away from our old office has resulted in me leaving go many tasks like posting on this blog.

However this could not be passed up.

The SELECT study on vitamin E and Selenium need to be exposed.

The study, if you heard of it, stated that they do no good and could do harm. This is absolutely true. The form of vitamin E and the dose of selenium used in the study could indeed prove harmful to your health. They should be avoided at all costs.

What should you do?

The chemically-derived vitamin E (dl-alpha tocopherol acetate) given at 400 IU per day did have deleterious effects in the SELECT study. What should you conclude? If you see an “l” after the “d” in a vitamin E (see above) then it should be avoided if you read between the lines according to the study.

In this case, this vitamin e is made from coal tar and it has little or no antioxidant properties.

What about selenium that was used in the SELECT study? l-selenomethionine was used at a dose of 200 mcg.

This is the typical dose given to prostate cancer patients, burn patients and numerous others. However, the doctors tend to be divided on the effectiveness of this.

What we know is that selenium is an essential macronutrient. This means it is needed for life and health. This is because it is an essential co-factor in the production of glutathione. Thousands of medical studies show that glutathione plays a major role in fighting cancer.

We also know many dietary and drug interactions could reduce the absorption of the mineral. Reduce the intake and reduce the glutathione formation and increase other complications.

For instance, statins suppress selenium absorption. In the test, this would have had to be accounted for by giving a higher dose.

Since statins damage muscle and nerves, the increased potential diabetes risk could be a side effect of the statin and not the selenium.

So when you hear a study that is not congruent with common knowledge, it is usually because of a flaw.

What if….

Most people do not have a life style or the health to be able to exercise. Exercise is an excellent form of weight loss, cancer prevention and in some cases a cure for many diseases including cancer.

Many are faced with economic challenges and cannot afford medical treatment for weight loss.

There are a myriad of weight loss books and programs. Some work for some and not for others which probably includes us.

What if there was truths in each and every one of those diet programs.

I have been testing this theory of mine. In the past week, I have gone from 298 lbs to 285.5 lbs yesterday and today 8/29/08 down to 284.5 lbs.

The first ten lbs can be water weight. So, what will tomorrow and the next week bring?

The diet is simple. It involves combination, elimination, and multiplication.

Combination

The diet involves combination of many diets. Most boost immune power. All make you lose weight with out exercise. If you exercise, the results will be more dramatic.

Elimination This involves eliminating two things. Anything that is toxic to the body. In my case I continue to boost my glutathione with supplements and diet.

This means no MSG, no nitrates (no processed meats), no milk unless organic, no aspartame, etc.

It also involves elimination of foods that either I have an allergy to or cause a weight gain reaction.
No milk products unless they come from organic milk (Prolac, the hormone given to make cows make more milk makes me break out in a rash. This is true even of cheese or yogurt.).
No bread or pasta.

No cookies, cake or processed wheat products and foods like these.

The first response my wife had to my plan was how much it was going to cost.

The first week bill was about $120
Second week bill came in at $70 (this week had the most dramatic results from a diet addition)
Third week bill ended at $40

The frig is fuller than ever. Tuesday is grocery day. We will only need a few things.

Sorry Starbucks, you didn’t make any money on us.
No fast food, no snacks, no sodas, no junk food. We don’t own stock in them so no loss to us.

Oh, but we do get to have snacks. watermelon, cantelope, apples, fruit cocktail only made by me (no sugar, etc).

What if you could lose weight, save money, eat more than ever and feel better?
Next time, find out how much I am eating. Hint…more than ever.

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.

Like Dr. Jeckel, aspartame turns into something different when ingested.

If you look young for your age and you drink diet soda then to say your well preserved might be an understatement. If you get migraines or know someone who does, then this is even more relevant.

A study by the University of Miami in Florida, USA found that migraines might be linked to aspartame.

When we drink aspartame it turns into formaldehyde. This is not some urban legend web scare tactic. This is right from Pub Med, the government web site that prints abstracts of the peer reviewed medical journals.

You can see it here…Aspartame and Migraines: A Possible Connection

The underlying cause of many health problems are often the toxins we ingest.
We need to not only eliminate the toxins, we need to detoxify our bodies. The best way to do this is by boosting our intercellular glutathione.

Good Health to you.

Jonathan Steele, RN

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