Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 That's because oysters are almost pure protein, and your body metabolizes this low-fat, high protein into a variety of amino acids, including tyrosine. The tyrosine goes right to your brain, boosting the neurotransmitters responsible for brain function. Your thought processes speed up, your attention span increases, and your mental energy reserves become recharged.
Seaweed
Though seaweed is just starting to enter the American diet, the Japanese have used this vitamin- and mineral-rich sea vegetable for years. |
| Like fish and shellfish, yogurt contains a large amount of protein, which the body readily assimilates and breaks down into energizing amino acids.
Energy Herbs
From native South Americans who chew cocoa leaves to stay alert during long mountain journeys to Africans who chew kola nut and khat leaves to keep awake, herbs have been popular energy-boosters around the world for centuries. And today, many of the herbs that used to be available only in one region can be found in your local health food store. Here are some of the most popular of the energy herbs. |
| Honey is also loaded with nutrients: potassium, sulfur, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, silica, copper, iron, maganese, enzymes, amino acids, B vitamins,
Honey Hotline
More information about the healing benefits of honey is just a (free!) phone call away. The National Honey Board Food Technology Program sponsors the Honey Hotline to answer all your questions. Call the hotline at (800)356-5941 or write to: National Honey Board Food Technology Program, P.O. Box 281525, San Francisco, CA 94128-1525.
Raw Or Processed?
The best honey is raw, not processed. |
| Like pollen, royal jelly is bursting with nutrients: flavonoids, amino acids, trace minerals, pantothenic acid and vitamins Bl, B2, B6 and B12. People around the world use it because it helps trigger the brain chemical called serotonin, a substance which boosts energy and concentration, curbs the appetite, and helps produce sound, restful sleep. Research shows that royal jelly can even alleviate certain kinds of depression brought on by low serotonin levels. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 The leaves contain eight essential amino acids.
EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
Alfalfa is an immune-system stimulant that promotes normal blood clotting. It also aids in the assimilation of protein, fats, and carbohydrates, and is an excellent blood purifier. Alfalfa alkalizes and detoxifies the body. It is a good choice as a mineral supplement. |
| With higher concentrations of these amino acids in the body, the body suffers less protein breakdown and wasting caused by uncontrolled diabetes. This protects against kidney damage. While animal studies show cajueiro to have only a weak antidiabetic effect, the herb is useful because it carries no risk of toxic damage to cell DNA.
• Parasitic infection. In the Bahia region of Brazil, 65 percent of cases of leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease, are successfully treated with cajueiro. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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 L-glutathione can be manufactured in small amounts in the body from amino acids. A typical supplementary dose of L-gluthathione is 500 milligrams. l-GLUTAMINE
L-glutamine is an amino acid that has been shown to be effective in preventing diabetes in laboratory animals. Duke University researchers found that L-glutamine, which increases the body's stores of the antioxidant glutathione, protected laboratory animals from experimentally induced diabetes. When they added L-glutamine to the diets of diabetic mice in a follow-up study, the diabetes disappeared altogether. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Lecithin (a phospholipid) and the sulfur-containing L-taurine and L-methionine amino acids are compounds that will promote bile circulation, which enhances estrogen's excretion out of the body. These lipotropic formulas support the liver metabolism of estrogen. A typical formula might provide the following, sometimes in a base of liver-stimulating herbs like milk thistle, black radish, beet, or dandelion, for twice-daily consumption: choline (a concentrated form of lecithin), 500 milligrams; inositol, 250 milligrams; taurine, 250 milligrams; methionine, 250 milligrams. |
Grace Ross Lewis
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 What are amino acids?
These are the building blocks of protein. There are twenty considered necessary for our health, and eight of these must be obtained through the diet.
8. What is astragalus?
This is a plant that grows in the western U.S. It is also called locoweed and milk vetch. Recent research has suggested that it shows promise as an immune booster for cancer patients. It is toxic to sheep, cattle, and horses when ingested.
9. What is echinacea?
This is an extract of the purple coneflower plant. It is a popular item in health food stores for self medicating. |
Peter Radetsky
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 The regimen starts with exercise, then sauna, then massage, all of which is preceded by patients being given vitamin C, amino acids, and other supplements, including niacin, which dilates their blood vessels. Then it's onto the treadmills, ideally for twenty to thirty minutes, then, once they've started to work up a good sweat, into the saunas to finish the job. After that, a shower and a massage. The massage is supposed to further work out toxins from fatty tissues and into the bloodstream and gut, where they can be expelled. And then to the next go round, and the next. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 Insulin also prevents the liver from forming glucose from amino acids and cuts the excessive breakdown of adipose-tissue triglycerides, which can put an animal into a human-type of diabetic coma.
In diabetes, insulin is either absent or its action is impaired. In either case, glucose can't enter the cells as it should. The result in both types of diabetes is that blood-sugar levels remain extremely high. After each meal, ingested carbohydrate elevates blood glucose; between meals, the liver makes excess glucose. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Irradiating the food destroys somewhere between 20 and 80% of the vitamins including A, B-2, B-3, B6, B12, folic acid, C, E, and K. amino acids and essential fatty acids are also destroyed. Enzymes, of course, are destroyed as are the bio-photons.
A significant number of studies have shown some dangers of eating irradiated food for animals and humans. Raltech Scientific Services, Inc. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 The use of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, and other nonprescription supplements may be even more of a problem for biomedicine and its practitioners. This is not surprising. Each year the evidence for their effectiveness is accumulating, and popular acceptance and use is skyrocketing. These substances, packaged as pills and capsules and advertised as therapies for specific conditions, look like and are used in ways that are similar to the medicines they claim to supplement or replace. They are, in short, therapeutic and economic rivals. |
| It turned out that among normal populations the need for specific nutrients—for example, vitamins, minerals, and the amino acids that are the building blocks of proteins—varies enormously. One "normal" thirty-year-old man might require two or ten times as much vitamin A as another or twenty times as much zinc for ordinary functioning. Williams postulated that these differences might be the result of genetic variation or previous life experience and illnesses. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 It is nutritionally impressive, with an almost-ideal balance of essential amino acids. Its light and fluffy texture makes it excellent for side dishes and salads. Also, you'll love the fact that it cooks in just 15 minutes. Quinoa is sold in natural food stores and specialty shops. It is important to wash it thoroughly before cooking.
1 cup quinoa
2 cups boiling water Vi teaspoon salt
In a large bowl place quinoa and a generous amount of cold water. Rub the grains between your hands until the water is cloudy, then pour quinoa into a sieve. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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| These simple amino acids, mixed and matched in almost infinite combinations, are, we learned, the matter of our genes, the blueprint for all our physical functioning.
In our biochemistry lab we did experiments that demonstrated the functions that DNA regulated. And, when the lights dimmed in amphitheater D, we saw, in the staggeringly intimate detail of electron micrographs, the organelles, the tiny factories within the cell where, under the guidance of DNA and its messenger RNA, the body's own building blocks are manufactured and do their work. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| In another study, forty-two HIV-positive people with hemophilia took glycyrrhizin along with two amino acids. The viral load in these individuals did not drop into the undetectable range, but they did experience relief from oral yeast infections, swollen lymph nodes, and rashes. Their immune and liver function also improved. Some Japanese physicians have experimented with licorice as a means of keeping HIV infection from progressing to fullblown AIDS.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR USE
There are two types of licorice commonly available: standard licorice and deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL). |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| The Max Planck Institute has found that the complete vegetarian proteins, those with all eight essential amino acids, are superior to, or at least equal to, animal proteins. They showed that these complete proteins were available in various concentrations from almonds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, soybeans, buckwheat, peanuts, potatoes, all leafy greens, and most fruits. Many fruits have been found to have the same percentage of complete protein as mother's milk. |
Christian Ratsch
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 Amino acids and steroids of a New Guinea boletus. Phytochemistry 12:689-92.
Heim, Roger. 1972. Mushroom madness in the Kuma. Human Biology in Oceania 1 (3): 170-78.
Heim, Roger, and R. Gordon Wasson. 1964. Note preliminaire sur la folic fongique des Kuma.
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Sciences (Paris) 258:1593-98. -. 1965. The "mushroom madness" of the
Kuma. Botanical Museum Leaflets 21 (1): 1-36.
Kertonegoro, Madi. 1991. Flug des Geistes: Eine Reise in das andere Bali. Basel: Sphinx.
McDonald, A. 1980. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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| It is necessary for the synthesis of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and enhances the action of vitamin C and amino acids in the body and their conversion into neurotransmitters in the brain.
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid): One of the most important antioxidant nutrients. It is essential in building strong, healthy connective tissue, especially in capillary walls.
Vitamin E: A fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin chemically known as d-alpha-tocopherol. It is a necessary factor in over 20 enzymatic reactions and is essential for the production of the antioxidant enzyme SOD (superoxidant dismutase). |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| These two amino acids compete with each other, and you can use this fact to your advantage. Lysine interferes with the absorption of arginine in your digestive tract and encourages your kidneys to eliminate it in the urine. It also tends to deplete the arginine from your cells, so herpes viruses have less arginine available.2
LYSINE TO PREVENT AND TREAT HERPES
If you are using lysine, the following guidelines may be helpful.
1. Use L-lysine. There is also a D-lysine, which is biologically inactive.
2. Use the lowest dose that works for you, between 500 and 3,000 mg per day. |
| Proteins are broken down into individual amino acids, in order to eliminate the possibility of protein sensitivities. Carbohydrates are given as glucose, and fats are provided only as simple fatty acids.
In a research study in Cambridge, England, researchers treated Crohn's disease patients with an elemental diet, but instead of returning them to their usual diets when the symptoms improved, they added foods back one at a time to see which, if any, might cause symptoms.
Dairy products and wheat turned out to be the most common triggers, causing symptoms in one-third to one-half of patients. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 If you have to limit the protein you consume, you should eat foods with the highest-quality protein and the most nutritious amino acids possible.
If your kidney impairment is "significant," something your doctor decides on the basis of kidney function tests, you should limit your protein intake to about 40 grams daily. One egg and 8 ounces of milk contain 15 grams; 3 ounces of high-quality protein such as fish or chicken provide 21 grams. This amount constitutes only 160 of the 2,000 calories per day you need to fuel the energy processes of your body. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| The biochemical pathways through which the formula affects depression are not known, although it is possible they relate to the availability of amino acids for the formation of mood-lifting serotonin in both the brain and digestive tract.
The biochemical pathways through which the principal herb in the formula treats digestive upset are better known. Guggulu contains steroids known as guggulsterones, which, like other steroids, relieve inflammation. Yogaraj Guggulu is formulated for digestive problems accompanying depression, but also relieves inflammation of arthritis and muscle injury. |
Linda B. White, M.D.
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 Phase 1 requires zinc, copper, molybdenum, thiamine, pantothenic acid, vitamin
B6, folic acid, a host of amino acids, and sulfur. You can see by this list the importance of a nutritious, varied diet that supplies a wide range of vitamins and minerals.
Many different factors and conditions affect liver function and lead to liver disease. These include viruses, metabolic disorders, hereditary conditions, cancers, exposure to toxins such as alcohol, and more. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
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 The brain's chemical messengers, neurotransmitters, are produced from amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Another crucially important function that requires adequate protein intake is detoxification—the processes that rid our bodies of toxins. Estimates of daily protein requirements are provided in appendix F.
Vitamins and Minerals: Due to the processing of foods and the depletion of minerals in the soil, it is virtually impossible to obtain an optimal intake of vitamins and minerals from the diet alone. Supplementation is necessary if optimal health is the goal. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 Reduced glutathione is a tripeptide composed of the amino acids cysteine, glycine, and glutamic acid. Glutathione in the reduced form is made in every cell in the body. Being in the chemical form enables glutathione to donate electrons. The ability to donate electrons is what gives reduced glutathione its biological activity, as compared to oxidized glutathione, which has already donated electrons, and is no longer of any value. |
| Vitamins and amino acids work with MSM to achieve optimum health.
MSM is found in all foods; however, due to its unstable nature, MSM is quickly lost from food when it is processed, cooked, or stored. The second a fruit or vegetable is picked from a tree or vine, it rapidly loses its MSM.46
When an animal or human uses an MSM molecule to produce a new cell, that MSM is spent. The body must continually replenish its MSM bank to produce new, healthy cells. Processed foods do not supply enough MSM for optimum health. |
| However, not only enzymes but other essential biochemicals normally synthesized by the body, such as certain amino acids, vitamins, and necessary nutrients, can become deficient. It has now been established that the number of enzymes the body can produce in a lifetime is limited. Therefore, it is important to add enzymes through raw foods and enzyme supplementation to human and animal diets. This will allow the limited number of endogenous enzymes to last much longer since, according to the "law of adoptive secretion," the pancreas will only secrete the amount necessary. |
| This enzyme hydrolyzes proteins to amino acids.
¦ Amylase: From animal, plant, and microbial sources. It breaks down starch into digestible carbohydrates.
¦ Lipase: Also from a variety of sources and dependent on calcium ions. Lipase splits emulsified neutral fats into fatty acids and glycerol.
¦ Lactase: From yeast or fungal sources. It helps with lactose intolerance.
¦ Cellulase: From Aspergillus mold. It breaks down cellulose, the fibrous membrane of plant foods. The gastrointestinal tract lacks any enzyme capable of hydrolyzing cellulose, and so, cellulose goes undigested. |
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