Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All this doesn't mean there aren't some genuinely natural products available in the marketplace today. There are, but they aren't manufactured by the big brand-name food companies. A few smaller, niche-market companies are offering real food these days, but you have to search them out. Companies like Ewehorn make honest cereals with no garbage ingredients, and there are lots of raw foods companies that produce truly outstanding food products (such as www.RawBakery.com). FoodsAlive (www.FoodsAlive.com) also makes real food, as do dozens of other companies I could mention. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 If you have moderately high blood cholesterol or triglycerides, try using natural products such as cynarin to bring them down to normal levels.
Possible Benefits
May prevent heart disease by lowering blood lipid levels. Enhances liver function.
The Right Amount
Take four 500-mg. capsules daily. You should see an improvement in blood lipid levels within two months.
Facts
Check out the natural food stores for lXil., a new form of licorice, a traditional favorite herb. Among Asian healers, licorice is highly-regarded as a treatment for ulcers, arthritis, and even cancer. |
David Steinman
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 Grinning and waiting for me at the 2005 natural products Expo at the Anaheim, California, Convention Center, Jeff Hollender sat at the booth of his company. Hollender, the chief executive officer of Seventh Generation, an amazing company that he founded in 1988, said the name is from the Iroquois, whose belief is that, "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 During the exam, Jerry told the chiropractor about his unsuccessful experiments with natural products to cure his sleep problems. When Jerry described his doses, the doctor said that he was actually taking toxic levels of the sedative herbs valerian and St. John's wort, L-tryptophan, and other substances. Not surprisingly, given his history of poor sleep and overuse of supplements, Jerry had problems with his digestion, including frequent indigestion after meals, gas and bloating, and a queasy stomach. |
David Steinman
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| The author of several books, including What Matters Most, Hollender regularly displays his wares at the natural products Expo, which is the world's premiere display arena for healthy living. Quite apart from the many booths touting various vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional supplements, the expo also contains areas that focus your attention on organic and natural foods, lifestyle, and home. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Proteins provide inputs for biochemical pathways that create natural products. "When you insert a foreign gene, you are changing the whole metabolic process," says horticulture professor Sharad Phatak. "You just don't change one thing. Each change is going to have an effect on other pathways."87 According to a UK government funded study, changes "to a specific biochemical pathway can result in unintended effects to related and unrelated pathways."88 This can be triggered by the GM protein and by unintended changes in gene expression due to genetic engineering. |
| Furthermore, the production of natural products varies with temperature, water, insects, infection, and many other factors. "Consequendy, any analysis that is undertaken of the natural product composition of a plant really only applies to the conditions used," Firn says. "Studies of the composition of plants grown under a range of conditions, with and without infestations and infections, would be required to provide meaningful conclusions. |
| A 1999 European Commission report concluded: "Avoidance of rbGH dairy products in favor of natural products would appear to be the most practical and immediate dietary intervention to .. . (achieve) the goal of preventing cancer."12
One way that IGF-1 may promote cancer is by reducing programmed cell death (apoptosis) in tumor cells. IGF-1 also inhibits the ability of various anti-cancer drugs to kill cultured human breast cancer cells.13
Rat pups fed IGF-I in milk increased the growth of their brains and livers. |
| All this can change RNA, proteins, and other substances, including the countless natural products in plants. Any one might be harmful.
The inserted transgene introduces a new protein into our diet, which may be allergenic, toxic, or antinutritional. The structure and function of the protein may change unpredictably when processed in the new organism. In addition, the transgene sequence maybe altered, truncated, or mixed with other DNA during insertion, or it may rearrange spontaneously years later—creating proteins with amino acid sequences that were never intended. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 This statement holds true when comparing all natural products to synthetic products, including vitamins, minerals, and herbs. It is a common-sense argument to use a natural product over a foreign substance to treat disease and promote health, and there are multiple studies that back up this idea.
FINAL THOUGHTS
When there are bioidentical natural versions of a hormone available, the synthetic versions should not be used. Provera? the synthetic version of progesterone (see Figure 1) should never be used. |
| That is usually because these physicians have little or no experience in the use of bioidentical natural hormones and other natural products. My clinical experience shows that there is no better substitute for the body's own production of hormones than the use of a natural form of that hormone. This experience has been repeatedly confirmed by my patients' positive responses to natural hormones.
Natural hormones can improve well-being, slow aging, and reverse many chronic conditions. |
David Steinman
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| I've met the real thing, too: companies, good solid business people, scientists, and doctors who are involved in all aspects of the natural products field, particularly the use of natural nutrients and plant substances. These are highly successful entrepreneurs who forge new markets for their new concepts.
New Chapter, headed by longtime friends Paul Schulick and Tom Newmark, is one of the industry leaders—and all because it has discovered a natural medicine, a rain forest treasure, that might well be a viable alternative to Celebrex, Vioxx, and the other cyclooxygenase-2 -inhibiting drugs. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Four hundred companies, most of them small to medium-sized natural-cosmetic firms that had already committed to removing potential toxins from their products, agreed to sign, including Avalon natural products, Pangea Organics, and The Body Shop. After intense public pressure, Revlon and L'Oreal declined to sign the pact but informed the campaign that formulations for its products sold in the United States would follow European Union guidelines. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 We know that several natural products thin the blood and strengthen blood-vessel walls. One of the most useful is the herb, Ginkgo biloba. Several components in the Ginkgo extract inhibit platelet-activating factor (PAF) in the same way that aspirin does.317 Unlike aspirin, Ginkgo also contains numerous flavonoids that protect the weakened vessel from further damage by free radicals. In addition, it directly strengthens the collagen and elastin in the blood vessel walls.3'8
Other natural products have the same effect. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Like so many other natural products, most of the scientific research on olive leaf extract has been performed in Europe. Unfortunately, there is often a time lag before this information filters down to the public, and olive leaf extract has only recently been introduced in the United States.
Olive leaf contains a biologically active compound, elenolic acid, which has strong antibacterial and antiviral properties. It disrupts the growth of bacteria and viruses and also stimulates the activity of important cells in the immune system that fight infection. |
| Several pharmaceutical companies are working to develop fat blockers as diet aids, but there are already several natural products being sold over the counter.
One of them is chitosan, which is made from chitin, a substance found in the exoskeletons of shell fish such as shrimp and crabs. Like plant fiber, chitosan is not digested by the body. As chitosan passes through the digestive tract it can absorb four to six times its weight in fat, thereby flushing it out of the body before it can be metabolized and stored as excess pounds. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Special Dietary Supplements That Promote a Good Night's Sleep
There are a number of natural products that we have found to be extremely reliable in helping to improve sleep quality. For example, melatonin is an important hormone secreted by the pineal gland, a small gland in the center of the brain. A melatonin supplement is one of the best aids for sleep. However, it appears that the sleep-promoting effects of melatonin are most apparent only if a person's melatonin levels are low. In other words, taking melatonin is not like taking a sleeping pill. |
| Utilize appropriate natural products to assist with weight loss. You will learn to evaluate your need for and use of products that promote thermogenesis, lower elevated Cortisol and reduce stress-induced eating, increase insulin sensitivity and improve blood sugar control, and reduce appetite. þBuild lean muscle mass through exercise, diet, and nutritional supplementation. þProgram and condition the mind to achieve success. |
Devra Davis
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 The NCI began examining thousands of potential treatments, more than half of which came from natural products.
Enthusiasm for the cancer effort crossed political and economic boundaries. Americans and their British counterparts in the cancer world rallied to a great cause—conquering a universal enemy. Elmer Bobst, a major force in the ACS, the chief of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical and a staunch ally of Richard Nixon, explained his abiding commitment to increased funding for cancer research. |
David Steinman
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| I am a publisher in the natural products field. I want to tell you something important: In America, with its permissive regulatory scheme, consumers should always be wary of fakes and hype—people or companies whose research consists of photocopiers and who put almost all of their money into pushing their products in advertisements, citing bogus medical studies for miracle weight loss, disappearing stretch marks, and cel-lulite that just seems to evaporate like magic. Their advertisements make promises no product could ever fulfill. |
| MyChelle Dermaceuticals
Myra Eby Michelle was a sales representative in the natural products industry who desired to raise the bar for everyone. She created a very environmentally conscious and natural line of dermaceuticals that combines science and technology with freedom from petrochemicals in favor of food-based, herbal, and other natural ingredients. www.mychelleusa.com
Appliances and Electronics
Bosch ?
Not only does Bosch produce among the most energy efficient appliances for homes, many of us also know the Bosch name from the automotive industry. |
| The company has built a national reputation for its leadership in organics, natural nutrition, and corporate environmental responsibility and is the number one brand in the natural products segment.1 ^ www.stonyfield.com
Trader Joe's
One of the critical influences today on organic food pricing, Trader Joe's, the privately held, ridiculously low-priced food chain that began in Southern California, is the biggest competition natural supermarket chains Whole Foods and Wild Oats face.
Trader Joe's always has the lowest pricing for certified organic foods. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The purpose of this review is to provide some additional "Pollyannas" in the form of polyphenols contained in berries, Concord grape juice, curcumin, and other natural products such as tea catechins, and the polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in such commodities as fish oils and nuts that may act as harbingers of good news for healthy aging. Note, however, that since there have already been multiple reviews of vitamins E and C (e.g., [1, 2]) and such supplements as ginkgo biloba (e.g., [3]), these topics will not be covered here. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Although there has never been an exhaustive analysis of the proteins or natural products in GM soy, unpredicted changes in the DNA were discovered. A mutated section of soy DNA was found near the transgene. This may contribute to some unpredicted effect. Moreover, between this scrambled DNA and the transgene is an extra transgene fragment, not discovered until years after soy was on the market. The RNA produced is completely unexpected. It combines material from all three sections: the full length transgene, the transgene fragment, and the mutated DNA sequence. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The Lawrence Review Of natural products. Wolters Kluwer Company, St Louis, MO, USA; p 1-2. 1993.
Dulloo A, Duret C, Rohrer D et al. Efficacy of a Green Tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am J Clin Nutr; 70:1040-1045. 1999.
Finsterer J. Earl gray tea intoxication. Lancet; 359:1484. 2002.
Fujiki H, Suganuma M, Okabe S et al. Cancer Inhibition by Green Tea. Mutat Res; 402:307-310. 1998.
Fukino Y, Shimbo M, Aoki N, et al. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Almost 70 percent of modern medicines used in India are derived from natural products.
In Japan, 80 percent of physicians have prescribed a traditional Chinese medicine in the past year, mostly in formulas known as kampo. Approximately two hundred kampo formulas are officially recognized by the Japanese government. According to the World Health Organization, Japan has the highest per capita consumption of herbal medicines in the world.
More than 70 countries have national regulations on herbal medicines. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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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.
Beet
Beta vulgaris description
Medicinal Parts: The root is the medicinal part.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers bloom in clusters of 2 to 4 in paniclelike leafy inflorescences.
Leaves, Stem, and Root: The beet is a 0.5 to 1.5 m perennial with a swollen, edible tuber that is red or white. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Every plant and microbial species will possess a unique spectrum of chemicals," says natural products specialist Richard Fim. "Natural product metabolism is predictably unpredictable." He says that a gene that codes for an enzyme used to create a natural product "might be producing several unknown new structures. Looking for unknowns is a challenge and determining the structures of these new chemicals is an even greater challenge. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Choosing natural products in your home
?Creating chemical-free rooms in your home
?Eating organic whenever possible
?Enhancing digestion with enzymes and probiotics
CHAPTER 4
THE BEAUTY OF YOUR BODY'S NATURAL DETOX METHODS
Evolution has made sure that our bodies can defend themselves against harmful encounters. On the most elementary level, when you reflexively pull your hand away from a hot stove, this is a normal response programmed by your body's internal mechanics. |
Devra Davis
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| There are remarkable efforts under way involving natural products and breakthrough approaches in clinical trials, pushed by cancer patients who often have nothing to lose and doctors who may be wrestling with the disease themselves.
There is no one who deals with the disease now who doubts that we need to open a new front. To reduce the burden of cancer today, we must prevent it from arising in the first place, and we have to find new ways to keep the millions of cancer survivors from relapsing. |
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