Friday, January 20, 2017

The Fluoride Poisoning Antidote

Image result for poisoning sickRegulatory agencies still haven’t budged on their official position that water fluoridation is a wonderfully beneficial public health policy with no inherent risks.

 Meanwhile, a tidal wave of anti-fluoride research and activism continues to build—there’s now such an abundance of evidence illustrating fluoride’s toxicity that the position of policy makers seems either laughable or outright deceitful. The EPA—which now lists fluoride as a neurotoxin—is the one exception (though their opinion doesn’t seem to be having much effect on actual policy).
Over 100 studies have conclusively linked fluoride to cognitive dysfunction, endocrine disruption, childhood development issues, and many other health problems.[1] For this reason, nearly a dozen countries around the world have already banned water fluoridation, and many U.S. cities and counties have also rejected it. 
If you live in a place with integrated access to unfluoridated water, you’re among the lucky few. If the rest of us wish to protect ourselves from the ravages of fluoride toxicity, we need to take measures into our own hands.
So what’s the solution?
The obvious move is to remove fluoride from your life by whatever measures possible. This can be rather tricky, though—water filters will not remove fluoride unless they’re specifically designed to do so (none of the most popular mainstream products come equipped with this feature, so be sure to seek it out specifically). Fluoride toothpaste is also a no-no, and even showering without a filter can be hazardous without purchasing yet another specialty filter.
This study is ground-breaking for two reasons: it provides further rock-solid evidence that fluoride is highly toxic, and it shows that turmeric is an incredibly promising “antidote” for this widespread poison.
Research protocol requires that study hypotheses are presented with great rigor and without leaps in logic—so it’s a huge deal that this study posits right at the start that “fluoride toxicity through drinking water is well-recognized as a global problem,” and that “health effect reports on fluoride exposure include various cancers, adverse reproductive activities, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.”[2]  
Turmeric is well-known for its remarkable brain-supporting abilities. It’s a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent, and has even been used with great success to treat Alzheimer’s patients. This is one of the first attempts to quantity its specific effects on fluoride-induced brain damage (that’s right: your drinking water may be giving you brain damage).
For this study, researchers measured neurotoxicity with a fittingly named marker known as brain rancidity. This state describes a type of oxidative stress in the brain called lipid peroxidation, which dramatically accelerates the creation of highly damaging free radicals.
They measured changing levels of brain rancidity across four groups of mice: one given no fluoride or curcumin (one of active components in turmeric), one given only fluoridated water, one given fluoridated water and curcumin, and one given only curcumin.
The results were remarkable: mice given only fluoridated water exhibited dramatically increased levels of brain rancidity, but the mice also given curcumin maintained very near normal, non-toxic levels. Curcumin was able to neutralize all the potential damage!
Researchers attribute this effect to turmeric’s unrivaled capacity to protect against a wide variety of oxidative free radicals, to control inflammation (in the brain and throughout the body), and to boost the body’s production of its own antioxidants.
Just one of many reasons to become friends with turmeric
Because it targets so many of the fundamental factors behind disease and toxicity, turmeric has been proven helpful for nearly every health problem imaginable. And because fluoride toxicity is such a looming risk for the vast majority of Americans, turmeric’s ability to counteract it is just one more reason why everyone can benefit from integrating turmeric into his or her life.
It’s important to use turmeric in the right way, though, if you want to receive its therapeutic benefits to the full extent. In the study cited above, curcumin was dissolved in olive oil, because binding turmeric alkaloids to a fatty substance creates an emulsion that is more readily absorbed by the body.
A process called liposomal delivery takes this one step further by completely merging turmeric compounds with a phospholipid to create a liposome. Liposomes ensure that turmeric is absorbed up to twenty times more completely than regular turmeric. So if you’re really serious about using turmeric to protect yourself against fluoride toxicity, make sure to pick up a liposomal turmeric extract, like this one from Purathrive.
The slowness with which policy makers are responding to the dire need to ban water fluoridation is incredibly frustrating—but by taking a liposomal turmeric extract on a daily basis, you can ensure that the health of your brain (and your entire body) is safeguarded.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Eating Habits That Contribute to a Fatty Liver



According to studies, your diet is closely tied in with the creation of fatty liver. That's what researchers worldwide are reporting in their research. Thus, by reversing your eating habits that are out of alignment with healthy eating, you can then prevent and reverse fatty liver disease. Fatty liver disease is reversible if you attack it with good nutrition in its early stages.
Below is a list of 11 eating habits to make sure you are already including in your daily routines:
1 Stop eating processed fats and hydrogenated fats.
Check the labels of the foods you are eating; when you see hydrogenated fats on the list, discard the food. It's contributing to the promotion of a fatty liver.
2 Replace your vegetable oils with olive oil and coconut oil.
The most easily oxidized oils are the vegetable oils (corn, safflower, vegetable, soy, canola) because they are not stable; their chemical composition makes them subject to breakdown by light and heat. Eliminating these oils from your diet helps preserve your antioxidant levels.
3 Stop eating sugar and sugary foods.
Sugar affects your immunity, your metabolism, and your blood sugar levels. It also is a sure way to gain weight. When blood sugar levels aren't stable, metabolic syndrome occurs. Metabolic syndrome is tied closely with fatty liver disease.
4 If you're drinking coffee, make sure it's organic.
Non-organic coffee is loaded with chemicals and pesticides. Non-organic decaffeinated coffee is additionally loaded with nickel. The more toxins you consume, the harder you make your liver work.
5 Eat healthy protein foods, in serving sizes.
Eating 4 ounces protein (chicken, fish, beef, buffalo, wild meats, pork, poultry) twice daily is not excessive. Don't fear red meat; fear only the overconsumption of commercially grown red meats. When cattle consume a diet based on corn, it alters the composition of the fats in the meat. However, there is nothing wrong with grass fed beef.
6 Take supplements that correct any nutritional deficiencies you might have.
Nutritional deficiencies, such as methionine, choline, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, and vitamin E are tied to fatty liver. You need all vitamins and minerals, not just some of them. Take a good program of supplements.
7 Make sure antioxidants are amongst your current supplements.
The antioxidants vitamin C, E and A have been shown in the research to be medically important to prevent and reverse fatty liver.
8 Stop the alcohol.
Alcoholic drinks cause fatty liver disease.
9 Stop eating rancid nuts, especially peanuts.
Nuts that are rancid often contain the mold aspergillus, which creates the toxin aflatoxin. Peanuts are notorious for their high content of aflatoxin. Aflatoxin kills liver cells.
10 Don't overeat foods with saturated fats.
Foods with saturated fats are more stable in the body than unsaturated (vegetable oils) but you can still eat too many of them. Don't overeat them.
11 Avoid the salty foods.
High amounts of salt place an extra burden on the body and especially the liver. You need a pinch of salt each day, but not much more than that. 

Sunday, January 1, 2017

This Could Improve Chemotheraphy

This year alone, it’s estimated that nearly 600,000 people will die from cancer[1]—to say that the disease is still a prevalent and persistent issue is an enormous understatement.
 Despite huge expenditures of time and money, our society and medical system still hasn’t quite figured out how to stand up to cancer. While a number of alternative therapies show great promise, they’re still crowded out and derided in favor of conventionally accepted treatment modalities.
 Chemotherapy is one of the most widely practiced oncological treatments, despite its numerous drawbacks. Research reveals that, for some cancers, chemotherapy’s contribution to overall survival and recovery rates is shockingly small,[2] especially given the horrendous side effects that it can cause. These success rates, even in the case of cancers against which chemotherapy is more effective, barely outweigh its risks, according to some experts.
 All that being said, however, it’s still an option chosen by many people battling cancer. While it’s becoming increasingly clear that there are much better and safer ways to treat cancer, the draw of mainstream medicine is strong.

 Many patients are ostracized by their family and friends for seeking alternative treatments, and conventional oncologists can be notoriously skeptical and unsupportive of trying any protocols not “sanctioned” by the cancer industry. In some states, it’s even illegal for doctors to give (or even talk about) alternative cancer treatments.[3]
 If you or a loved one has already made the decision to undergo chemotherapy, though, the best thing you can do is to optimally support the process. Stay positive, and offer emotional support for whatever decision has been made. Most importantly, take measures that can minimize the risks of chemotherapy while maximixing its efficacy.
 A wealth of studies demonstrates that turmeric is a safe and effective natural remedy for accomplishing this task. Let’s take a look at some research-backed reasons why it’s wise for everyone undergoing chemotherapy to integrate turmeric into their treatment protocol.
 Patients obviously only willfully undergo the hardships of chemotherapy because they want it to get rid of their cancer—there’s nothing worse than having to endure the exorbitant cost and frightening side effects of chemo, all for a less than inspiring chance at full recovery.
 Chemotherapy already doesn’t have an overly impressive success rate, and it’s made even worse by multidrug impediment, wherein cancer cells become resistant to one or more of the drugs comprising a patient’s chemotherapy cocktail.
 To minimize this issue, which researchers have called “a major impediment to effective chemotherapy,” the medical community has begun the search for chemosensitizers—that is, low-impact therapeutic adjuncts that make patients’ bodies more sensitive to chemotherapy drugs (and thus allow the treatment to be more effective).[4]
 A landmark study published in the journal Anticancer Research demonstrated that curcumin (one of the beneficial compounds in turmeric) effectively sensitizes drug-resistant cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs.[5] Other studies confirmed that this mechanism works against a variety of cancer cells, including breast cancer,[6] esophageal cancer,[7] colon cancer,[8] stomach cancer,[9] and pancreatic cancer.[10]
 It carries out this feat by altering the genetic coding of proteins that control resistance in cancer cells, by damaging the DNA of cancer cells (while leaving healthy cells untouched), and by disrupting the signaling pathways necessary for cancer cell maintenance and proliferation.
 And that’s just the beginning—turmeric uses plenty of other tricks that directly combat cancer, with the end result that the chemotherapy patient has a better chance of recovery. Curcumin helps the body’s own defenses fight the spread of the disease,[11] induces apoptosis (programmed cell death) in cancer cells,[12] and can even slow or halt the regeneration of cancer stem cells (the drug-resistant “mother cells” that control that growth of tumors).[13]
 It’s because of these incredible healing mechanisms that turmeric could redefine the way we treat cancer. While chemotherapy and other risky treatment methods remain standard, though, turmeric can at least help can the protocol as safe and effective as possible.
 But here’s the catch: as we’ve discussed in our other articles, it’s very difficult for the body to absorb curcumin and the other beneficial alkaloids in turmeric. Even a 95% standardized extract of curcumin will only be 1% bioavailable—so obviously, raw turmeric root or powder is negligibly beneficial when used therapeutically for cancer or other severe illness.
 Researchers testing the anti-cancer properties of turmeric always use a formulation method that increases the bioavailability of curcumin (usually some kind of nano-encapsulation method that binds turmeric alkaloids to lipids, thus allowing the compounds to pass directly through cell walls).
 Liposomal turmeric is one of the leading types of formulations—curcumin is a lipophilic (fat-loving) molecule, so it lends itself perfectly to this delivery method.