| Following are 12 ways of halting the spread of cancer and the natural products that are most likely to accomplish this:
Elevation of the immune system by boosting natural killer cell activity (resveratrol, vitamin D, vitamin E, beta glucan, beta carotene, IP6 rice bran
Maintenance of the collagen that surrounds malignant cells so they cannot spread (vitamin C, the amino acids proline and lysine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid, resveratrol)
Prevention of the adhesion of roaming cancer cells to the wall of blood vessels, and colonization (nat-tokinase, resveratrol and other nutrients). |
| Journal natural products 67: 2063-69, 2004] It's a disturbing finding. However it's just a lab dish study.
A review of studies involving breast cancer was also not glowing. Green tea may prevent recurrence of early-stage breast cancer, but the data from other prevention studies is not conclusive. Researchers say that "conclusions as to the potential therapeutic application of green tea are currently impossible to make due to the small number of studies conducted, the lack of any clinical trial evidence, and the lack of a consistent dose-response relationship. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Lilly's decision-makers knew in advance that when they removed their natural products from the market, the same products from non-FDA-approved foreign sources would not be allowed in the U.S. market. Any potential foreign competition would be forced to seek NDA (New Drug Approval), complete with clinical trials and bureaucratic red tape. Expense and uncertainty prevented any such entrant from seeking approval.
Over 1,000,000 diabetics struggled to stay alive using less-than-adequate insulins. |
Devra Davis
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 An entire new industry is making building materials from natural products and recycled materials. Old blue jeans can be shredded into fluffy cotton insulation. Used paper can be compressed to create work surfaces held together with natural plant resins. Floors can be made out of cork or natural rubber, or other fast-growing plants and trees that can be harvested and replanted. Walls can be painted in naturally based paints that don't leave painters or workers with red eyes, parched throats or asthma attacks. Hospital gowns can be made from recycled paper. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 These natural products are used for colds, headaches, allergies, insomnia, depression, menopause and even Alzheimer's disease.
One of the top-selling herbs, ginkgo biloba, has been used for nearly 3,000 years. Amongst many claims, it has been touted as an herbal remedy that improves blood flow because of its ability to increase vascular dilation. The result is said to improve brain function in Alzheimer's patients, improve short-term memory and can even reduce retinal damage from diseases such as macular degeneration. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Progesterone is often touted in the natural products marketplace as effective for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, but clinical trials show that neither oral natural progesterone nor progesterone patches or creams can slow, prevent, or reverse bone loss.
I can't stress enough that if you are peri- or postmenopausal and are taking any form of estrogen, you must also take a proven form and dosage of progesterone (or progestin) to protect your uterus from hyperplasia and cancer. The exception is women who have had a hysterectomy; they do not need to take progesterone or progestins. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Extracts from 200 mg of fresh weight of plant tissue material (root or green parts) give reasonable amounts of natural products to obtain good quality single-ion chromatograms and mass spectra. The additional purification and/or preconcentration of target flavonoid compounds is not necessary; however, solid-phase extraction often was used to improve the quality of obtained results. |
| Many papers presenting applications of LC-UV orLC-MS systems for the analysis of the above-mentioned natural products in tissues of different plant species have been presented. Roles of isoflavones under the influence of abiotic stress or as phytoalexins or phytoanticipins during interaction of plants with pathogenic microorganisms were studied (Graham, 1991a, 1991b; Lozovaya et al, 2004; Bednarek et al., 2001, 2003). The same group of compounds was analyzed in different plant tissues (Gu and Gu, 2001; de Rijke et al., 2001, 2004a, 2004b; Klejdus etal., 2001; Lin et al, 2000; Sumner et al. |
| DIXON,b AND DANEEL FERREIRAac
"National Center for natural products Research, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA; bPlant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore OK 73401 USA; 'Department of Pharmacognosy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, MS 38677 USA
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| The most important groups of this class of natural products are the phytoestrogenes (isoflavones: genistein derivatives) and antioxidants (anthocyanins: flavonols and flavones); their interactions with proteins (tannins) and their metabolites are monitored in physiological fluids (urine, blood, milk) and tissues (Prasain et al, 2004). These kinds of studies will help to elucidate the influence of the flavonoids on human and animal health and permit the evaluation of their role in different kinds of epidemiological studies (see Chapter 8 for a detailed description). |
| This is important during the profiling of this class of natural products in research directed toward the investigation of their physiological and biochemical roles in plants under the influence of environmental factors, or in studies of genetically modified plants for the elucidation of changes in metabolic pathways.
Free flavonoid aglycones exuded by plant tissues (leaf or root) may be washed from the surface with nonpolar solvents, such as methylene chloride, ethyl ether, or ethyl acetate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You will see in the future definitely, for example, vanities that are refrigerated because with natural products you are not using chemical preservatives and parabens and such things. They will have a shelf life just as an apple has a shelf life. It has a certain amount of energy and then it begins to decay.
When you keep your products refrigerated it helps them last a lot longer. I think that in the future you will definitely be seeing more products that do not have the chemical ingredients and stabilizers. |
| It seems like you go to Whole Foods or Wild Oats and there are all these natural products, quite an abundance, especially of facial products. You get it home, you are reading the ingredients, and there are all these parabens and chemical preservatives. It seems like almost half of the ingredients are not natural. It seems so wrong to call your products natural just because you use a few botanical ingredients.
Mike: Yes, we see that a lot in the marketplace. Something will be labeled herbal skin care or the word "herbal" will be in it and it is only one herb. It is not even the main ingredient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Doing my part to bring you the best offers in the natural products industry
It's all about bringing YOU, our valuable readers, the very best health solutions I can find. I scour the industry, hitting the trade shows, making phone calls, interviewing company presidents and seeking out the primo products available right now. And when I can, I'm jockeying for great deals. In fact, if you could sit in my office and hear me talk to these company CEOs, it's often something like this:
Company CEO: "We've got this incredible new raw trail mix product that's fantastic! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Simply making the choice to spend your money on natural products rather than synthetic chemicals is an extremely self-empowering decision that puts control over your health back into your own hands! If you want doctors, pharmacists and drug companies to run your life and determine your health, then medications are for you, but if you want to live life free of chronic pain, in full control over your health destiny, empowered and truly free, then get your medicine from nature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In each of these categories, there are many alternatives available: natural products that are either fragrance-free or made from essential oil fragrances only. If you wish to find success in applying the Law of Attraction, it's crucial to get these artificial fragrance chemicals out of your life (and away from your nervous system).
Processed sugar: Sugar greatly impacts the healthy functioning of the nervous system, and refined sugar is a lot like crack in the way it alters (and impairs) brain function. |
Stacy Malkan
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 As a formulator of natural products, he's supportive of the people who make and buy such products. But Bruce has a cynical sense about him that applies to all of the above. He says things like "Beauty has always been dangerous" and "Women are willing to put up with it" — for instance, "Botox, let's stick frog poison in our eyebrows." He reminded me that the most common injury from cosmetics is getting poked in the eye with a mascara wand while driving. And he is especially skeptical of regulations because "it's a free country. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Week Minimum Regimen
See the Resources section for natural products and formulations used in this regimen.
• Avoid refined foods and simple carbohydrates.
• Avoid vaginal sexual activity during course of treatment to avoid reinfection and reduce irritation.
• Insert one herbal suppository (containing myrrh, echinacea, slippery elm, golden seal root, marshmallow, geranium, and yarrow) into vagina every evening, 5 days per week for 2 weeks. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Wagner H, Ebl G, Lotter H, Guinea M, Evaluation of natural products as inhibitors of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE). In: Pharm Pharmacol Letters 1(1):15-18. 1991.
Wagner H, Sendl A, Barlauch und Knoblauch. In: DAZ 130(33):1809. 1990.
Further information in:
Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl., Bde 4-6 (Drogen), Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-1994.
Madaus G, Lehrbuch der Biologischen Arzneimittel, Bde 1-3, Nachdruck, Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim 1979.
Teuscher E, Biogene Arzneimittel, 5. Aufl. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Currently, natural products for menopause often include evening primrose oil (EPO) because it has a reputation for alleviating vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes. However, a study on the effects of gamma linolenic acid (GLA) from evening primrose oil found it to offer no benefit over placebo in treating menopausal flushing.53
Cyclic breast pain is a common symptom in menstruating women before their period. In perimenopausal women, this symptom can be exacerbated or can occur in women who have not had the problem in the past. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Numerous natural products are also available for pet care today. One company I trust and strongly recommend is Azmira (www.Azmira.com), which offers a truly impressive assortment of herbal and homeopathic solutions for pet health challenges. They have a whole line of health products that have been tested and proven over two decades of clinical use to help with things like joint pain, respiratory infections, thyroid function, immune function and much more. See their product line here: http://www.azmira.com/Products.htm
You can also call Azmira at (U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I have obtained an e-mail message from David Taylor, the president of the natural products Association, which went out to various heads of nutrition companies -- in an effort to get companies not to protest S1082 (dietary supplement trade groups are not the friends of health freedom). It contained an attachment with a transcribed conversation between Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi about all the phone calls you've been making. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Liberty natural products www. libertynatural. com 1 (800) 289-8427
Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com/aroma/q-z.html 1(800)879-3337
Paint (Organic/Non-Toxic)
Purchase non-toxic paints from companies specializing in these products.
Ecos™ Organic Paints www.ecosorganicpaints.com Green Planet Paints® www.greenplanetpaints.com 1 (520) 394-2571
Real Milk Paint® www.realmilkpaint.com 1 (800)339-9748
Pesticides and Insecticides (Organic)
Use only natural alternatives to chemical pesticides to avoid putting toxins into your environment.
Arbico Organic www.arbico-organics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Bronner's Soap and the hundreds of others I talked to and saw their products at the show, are the real heart of the natural products industry.
Sponsored by a candy bar!
A great example of what happens with corporate sponsorship is found in one of the big sponsors of the natural products Expo, the Balance Bar Company. Personally, I think the Balance Bar has no business whatsoever being one of the primary sponsors of a natural health products expo, because in my opinion, the Balance Bar product doesn't qualify as being natural or healthy. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Notably, all the signers were natural products companies. Not one major conventional company was on the list.
Undercover, Part I
Which cosmetics company do you trust with your daughter? The campaign decided to put the question to the public in a full-page ad in USA Today. "Putting on Makeup Shouldn't be like Playing with Matches," said the headline over the photo of the little girl smearing lipstick on her face.20 The ad named three companies that had not yet publicly committed to remove the EU-banned ingredients globally — Unilever, Revlon and L'Oreal. |
| His philosophy on product ingredients — "If it's not available in nature and in food, don't use it" — is extreme, even in the natural products industry. But he claims you can make just about everything from all-natural, food-grade ingredients except hair color, hair straighteners, hair permanents and sunscreen, none of which he plans to sell (except the sunscreen; he'll use zinc oxide).
Horst has seen surprisingly few innovations in cosmetics chemistry over the decades. Many companies are still using the "same old soap technologies" and toxic preservatives. |
| California Gold
Free organic soap, granola bars and a bottle of mint-infused water make their way into my canvas bag as I run the gauntlet of enthusiastic people lining the entrance to natural products Expo West. Inside on the floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, the business opportunity of the 21st century is on full display in all its mad glory: more than 3,000 booths offering tiny bottles of natural shampoo, morsels of organic food and other flashy tricks that make it hard to focus in any one direction. |
| It's the era of the "new greening of America," as a Newsweek cover article2 called it: eco-consciousness and natural products are in.
Though organic foods represent just 2% of total food and beverage sales in the US, the market is growing at a stunning 20% a year. Sales of natural cosmetic products are increasing faster than conventional product sales. Corporate America is paying attention. "By many accounts, the green business movement is taking off," wrote Michael S. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The authors conclude with an admonition: that we should not accept the safety of "natural products" (e.g., vitamins), especially if they have not been proven effective.
The HOPE findings, along with other studies, have produced some definitive official judgment. "In 68,000 patients studied to date," wrote the editor of JAMA in 2005, "there is no compelling evidence that higher doses of vitamin E reduce cardiovascular risk or cancer; there are even some hints that vitamin E, in excess of normal daily intake, may slightly increase the risk of ischemic events or of heart failure. |
Stacy Malkan
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| One of the most prominent is BDIH, a German private-sector label for "Certified natural products." 5 The standard requires natural ingredients with a limited list of allowable synthetics; it rejects synthetic fragrances, dyes and petroleum products, as well as the commonly used preservative parabens. "If you don't get BDIH, don't even think about going to market in Europe" with a natural product, said Jennifer Barckley, public relations manager of Weleda North America. |
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