| Use olive or macadamia nut oils for cooking. Add herbs and spices with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant punch such as curry powder, turmeric, rosemary, ginger, and garlic to your food as often as possible.
?Sip green tea once or twice a day. Try one of the many available varieties of green tea, which has strong antioxidant properties. A glass of red wine once a day is also heart healthy and full of antioxidants, as long as it doesn't interact with your medicines.
?Eat. . . chocolate? |
| Scientists found that specific receptors on cells, first seen through the microscope, act as docking points for "chemical messengers"—including natural chemicals like hormones, neurotransmitters, or chemicals from herbs and foods. Synthetic chemicals like drugs were also found to dock at these receptors. When any of these chemicals attaches to a cell receptor, it "flips a switch" in the cell, changing its function in some way.
A whole new theory of health and disease arose from these discoveries, as did a whole new way of developing drugs. |
| Magnesium: 500-600 mg daily
Note: While antioxidant supplements, like most nutrients, almost never interact with drugs, some herbs with drug-like effects can have risky interactions with prescription medications.
You can often lower your cholesterol and blood pressure with diet, lifestyle, and natural supplements. Then, when medications are necessary, use them with caution, take the lowest dose possible, and make sure to take your supplements to stave off depletion and enjoy the best possible heart health. Next we'll look at anti-inflammatories. |
| Fruit and vegetables, whole grains, beans, green tea, and herbs are good for you for many reasons—they're loaded with essential nutrients—but science is revealing that the value of these foods can especially be traced back to their bounty of nutrients that prevent free-radical damage: the antioxidants. Your body can make a lot of antioxidants on its own, but you also need the ones found in healthy foods. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Feel free to add herbs and spices, including garlic, mustard, thyme, sage, tarragon, and others. Marinating foods can help delay the reactions that lead to glycotoxin formation.
DO: Eat foods prepared using low-heat cooking methods that employ water or liquid, like poaching, stewing, braising, boiling, steaming, slow-cooker cooking, and so on. Include a raw vegetable salad (and fruit) every day.
AVOID: broiling, frying, hot-oven roasting, grilling, barbecuing. |
Devra Davis
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 She's convinced that the combined effects of modern medicine, yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, herbs, detoxing systems and prayer keep her thriving. She may well be right. She's certainly not alone in pursuing such remedies.
Support for going outside the conventional system for cancer treatment comes from a growing number of remarkable quarters. There's nothing timid about Donna Karan. This is a woman who revolutionized fashion and kept her husband with advanced cancer alive far longer than anyone expected. |
| She explained that "a guy named Ralph in Wyoming had come up with this recipe for purple herbs. I had nothing to lose. You had all written me off. So I tried them."
Gaynor managed to get the purple remedy delivered to him at Cornell and gave it to patients who had been sent home to die. His results so far were amazing. Others were trying to figure out what exactly was in this mixture.
I phoned Chalmers right away, "Tom, I've found something you have to check out!" I began to explain what Gaynor was doing.
"Are you mad!?" Chalmers asked. "You must think I'm crazy! |
| Hu and Doi have brought all of their training in acupuncture and Chinese herbs to bear on a disease that usually kills people quickly The special medicines Hu prepares for Li seem to make the body stronger. The tumor keeps shrinking. So far, so good. Li's Western-trained surgeon and oncologist don't quite know what to make of this, but nobody argues with success.
How can we explain what happened? Li led a clean life. She ate well. Nobody in her family ever had cancer.Yet she ended up with lung cancer in her early forties. Li is now wondering what happened. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They'll ignore all the sugary chemical candies, open the herbs, and ask themselves, "Gee, are these safe?" |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Stir in the herbs.
BERRY MOUSSE
Serves 4
1 package (about 12 ounces) low-fat, extra-firm silken tofu, crumbled
23A cups thawed frozen unsweetened berries, your choice
2 tablespoons agave nectar
1 tablespoon berry liqueur (optional)
Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Spoon into pudding dishes and refrigerate until chilled.
DISPELLING THE FLAK ABOUT FLAXSEED AND FLAXSEED OIL
?Flaxseeds can be purchased already ground or whole. Whole flaxseeds are typically available in the bulk section of the grocery store and have a longer shelf life than ground seeds. |
David Steinman
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 From that point on, says Newmark, "Paul and I both got the inspiration to find more herbs that could exert a soothing, taming effect on 5-LO, COX-2, and the inflammatory pathways in general."
However, before you start to think a simple pill can do the trick, you need to know that you make things worse by consuming foods made with highly processed and rancid vegetable oils and prepared foods that are rich sources of inflammation-causing arachidonic acid. The COX-2 enzymes in your body convert the arachidonic acid we take in from our poor diets to inflammation-causing prostaglandins. |
Dan Buettner
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 At noon, Kamada said, she wanders into the kitchen garden behind her house to harvest some herbs and vegetables for her lunch. "I'll use mugwort to give my rice flavor or turmeric to spice my soup," she said. "I don't eat very much any more. Usually just stir-fried vegetables and maybe some tofu."
"And meat?" I asked.
"Oh yes, I like meat, but not always. When I was a girl, I ate it only during the New Year festivals. I'm not in the habit of eating it every day."
"Have you ever eaten a hamburger or had a Coke?" I asked. |
| He obtained FDA approval to import and study in human volunteers keishi bukuryo gan, an 1,800-year-old remedy consisting of four herbs and a mushroom for treating menopausal hot flashes.
Recently he'd accepted an invitation to serve as an associate professor at Tokyo's Keio University School of Medicine, where he taught and studied the pharmaceutical efficacy of traditional medicines. His training, in my book, supremely qualified him to help us tease out Okinawa's lifestyle of longevity. No wonder I wanted him along. |
| They have been blessed by access to year-round fresh, organic vegetables, strong social support, and these amazing herbs that amount to preventive medicines."
Craig had been sitting next to Greg, listening patiently. Now he jumped in. "It is not only what Okinawans eat, but how much. Their food has a very low caloric density, yet it is very nutritious. Compare a typical Okinawan meal—a tofu stir-fry, some miso soup, and some greens to an American hamburger. The Okinawan meal has three or four times as much volume and more nutrients but only about half the calories of a burger. |
| There are herbs galore!" he said in a loud, faux whisper. "I'll bet her longevity secret is growing right out there."
We made our way inside the stone walls and onto the step-up deck in front. Rice paper screens served as a front door. Closed screens mean do not disturb; open screens are an invitation to the village to stop by for a visit. Kamada's screens were wide open. We called out a greeting and heard a yelp in reply. We took that as an invitation to enter.
Kamada was wrapped in a kimono and sat next to two of her children, both in their 70s. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 The evening formula would contain some basic herbs to gently encourage bowel elimination. This basic cleanse would be a short one, approximately two weeks.Two morning-formula capsules would be taken before breakfast, then two evening-formula capsules before supper or at bedtime. Both are best taken with 8 ounces of water.
Following is a list of ingredients to look for. A formula that contains as many of these as possible promotes the safe elimination of toxins from the body. |
| Around the year 400 bce, Hippocrates, the Greek doctor generally accepted as the father of Western medicine, gave his patients cleansing herbs to help their bodies heal and was an advocate of fasting for improved health. Galen, another highly influential Greek physician, born 129 ce, believed cleansing was crucial to keeping the body in balance and good health. Ayurvedic medicine, a traditional healing system that has developed over thousands of years, utilizes detoxification methods to treat many chronic conditions and to prevent illness. |
| Numerous herbs, spices, and vitamins can also improve the enzymatic activity of your body's detoxification systems, many of which will be part of your cleansing regimens. I will be giving you a comprehensive list of foods and supplements that will assist and maximize your detox.
BOOSTING YOUR BODY
I can't express enough how beneficial it is to nurture and nourish your body's incredibly powerful detoxification methods.The moment you decide to address this intricate, delicate system and lend a helping hand is the moment you choose optimal health and a better, more vibrant life. |
| The heart of your herbal detox regimen is supplementation with herbs that will help all seven of your body's elimination channels (liver, lungs, colon, kidneys, blood, skin, and lymph) by means of several different mechanisms. Stimulating these channels naturally enhances the physical process of detoxification so that your body is able to rid itself of toxins without obstruction. |
| Some of the mechanisms by which the recommended herbs enhance the detoxification process include: stimulation of bile production in the liver stimulation of peristalsis (wavelike movements in the intestines to move waste along) stimulation of urine output (a diuretic effect) hydration of the colon stimulation of blood and lymphatic circulation
?nutritional support to strengthen organs and protect them from toxic damage
?promotion of mucus discharge from lungs (an expectorant effect)
?eradication of pathogens (such as fungi, viruses, and bacteria)
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| Numerous herbs working together synergistically provide the above effects, one of the most important of which is stimulating bile production and flow. You'll recall that bile is the fluid secreted by the liver and discharged to the small intestine, where it plays a critical role in the proper digestion of food, especially fats and proteins. It contains many used body substances such as salts, acids, hormones, cholesterol, mucus, fat, dead red blood cells, toxins, and other cellular debris. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 That's what makes these herbs good for preventing hemorrhoids, too.
Probably the easiest way to take psyllium is to use Metamucil, which is essentially all psyllium fiber with a little flavoring added. A few spoonfuls in water or juice every day around mealtimes, and constipation shouldn't be a problem for you.
Personally, I don't need Metamucil, because I grow my own psyllium in my Garden of Youth. Well, it's not true psyllium (Plantago ovata) but a close relative, a local weed called plantain (Plantago major). |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Top your potatoes and vegetables with chopped tomatoes or salsa, or lemon juice and herbs, instead of sour cream, butter, or trans fat-laden hard margarine. If a broth-based soup seems too thin for you, add some pureed vegetables to the broth to make it thicker.
WHAT ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS?
A question many people ask is, "Why should I take supplements when I can get all the nutrients I need from my food?" The problem with this question is that the premise is wrong: the vast majority of people do not get all the nutrients they need. How many people eat a perfect diet? |
Pam Montgomery
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 She also brushed me with herbs especially in my neck area. After this I felt total relief and the conference I was organizing began to run more smoothly. The following week I received an e-mail from a client I had decided not to continue working with, because I felt I could no longer help her. In a flash I realized this was where the negative energy was coming from! I had felt drained every time I saw her and had begun to feel like she was a "pain in the neck." I had carelessly allowed myself to become vulnerable to her predatory energy. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 For instance: One serving (50 to 100 grams) of baked chicken breast, salmon, lean meat, or tofu; a medium salad with olive oil and natural herbs and spices; one serving (1 to 2 cups) of a cooked nonstarchy vegetable; and Yi cup berries for dessert. NOTE: As an alternative for dessert, make up Yi serving of SlimStyles Weight Loss Drink Mix before dinner and place in fridge. In forty to sixty minutes, it turns into a delicious and appetite suppressing pudding! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even the best pharmaceuticals in the world don't come close to the disease prevention and reversing capabilities of the natural medicines found in vegetables, berries, fruits and herbs. You're witnessing a whole new movement in complementary medicine. Even conventional doctors are starting to take notice. They are increasingly getting behind plant-based medicines and even suggesting their patients start changing their dietary habits to eat these miraculous healing foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most importantly for NewsTarget readers, Paul is the primary Congressional sponsor of the "Health Freedom Protection Act" that seeks to end the FDA's censorship of nutritional supplements, granting the American public full access to scientifically accurate information about the benefits of herbs, superfoods and nutritional supplements.
Why the FDA censors the truth about healing foods and supplements
Current FDA regulations do not allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to make any true statements about the health benefits of their products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He's the creator of the Health Freedom Protection Act, a bill that would reestablish Free Speech provisions for makers of superfoods, herbs, nutritional supplements and other natural remedies. Under the HFPA, those individuals would be able to state scientifically-validated facts about the health benefits of their products right on the bottle! Today, the FDA doesn't allow that. All truthful statements about nutritional supplements are presently censored! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Those classic Indian herbs, the Gymnema sylvestre, the Pterocarpus marsupium, and not so much the bitter melon, but those first two are well known for regenerating the beta cells in the pancreas. They do not do it right away. In other words, it is a long-term therapy, and that is part of the problem with diabetes.
First, people do not know they have it. They do not feel it. It certainly is a major problem. They do not know their pancreas is not putting out enough insulin and that their beta cells are going south on them. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Whole Body and Colon Program: Made by the Pure Body Institute (see Resources) this program uses a combination of two formulas; each uses a blend of herbs chosen for their ability to flush toxins out of the organs and old fecal matter from the intestines. The program is designed to last about 30 days. First-time users may find that three courses of the program are required for complete inner cleansing and detoxification. |
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