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"Nutraceuticals Echinacea is an example of a nutraceutical, a class of food-based chemicals that are thought to have an effect on health. The number of these products multiplied greatly after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), a law that allows the sale of "natural" health products or nutraceuticals with only minimal government oversight. While DSHEA did legislate FDA oversight of these products, the rules governing their use are extremely liberal." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "These naturally occurring chemicals are a part of our food but in addition to having nutritional value, they can influence how we feel. One well-known example is St. John's wort. While a number of early studies showed a positive effect of this nutraceutical in reducing symptoms of depression, a carefully controlled study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) came up negative. So whether this food supplement is helpful in relieving depression is still up in the air. Nevertheless, consumers often buy it in an effort to try to help themselves." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"When combined with an activated carbon filtration system, however, they can remove the entire spectrum of impurities from the drinking water, including organic and inorganic chemicals. Many RO units now have pre- and post-filters to take care of any residual impurities that the RO unit does not remove. In RO, the water to be filtered is forced through a semi-permeable membrane by the moving elements from more-concentrated to less-concentrated solutions. The membrane is permeable to pure water but not to most of its impurities." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This shot is for multiple allergens, including foods, inhalants, and chemicals. It consists of very low doses of the allergenic extracts, in mixtures. The mixture is potentiated by an enzyme that helps ensure the proper immune response, even at a very low dose. This makes it safer, and simpler to use. Among the most practical ways to avoid contact with airborne allergens are to institute environmental controls, such as: covering mattresses with a pad to avoid dust mites; installing air purifiers; washing away mold and mildew; and keeping animals out of the home." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Most antidepressants work by helping make certain natural chemicals called neurotransmitters (serotonin, norepinephrine) more accessible to the brain. Neurotransmitters are necessary for normal brain function as well as the control of mood. Some people find that taking an antidepressant during the first few months of therapy is just the extra lift they need to get them back on track, and then they stop the medication. This was the strategy Rosemary used to help beat her clinical depression." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"We are exposed to them through certain chemicals (xenoestrogens) and through specific types of foods and plants (phytoestrogens). Although most of our exposure to xenoestrogens comes in small amounts, the problem is that most of us are exposed to many tiny doses every day, which has a dangerous, cumulative effect. Chronic exposure to environmental estrogens can contribute to estrogen dominance occurring at a much younger age. The increasing number of younger women who are experiencing anovulatory menstrual cycles is a silent signal of estrogen dominance." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"When an athlete performs, the nerves that signal to the muscles along a particular pathway are stimulated and the chemicals that have been produced remain there for a short period. Any future stimulation along the same pathways is made easier by the residual effects of the earlier connections. We get better at physical tasks because our signaling from intention to action has already been forged. It is not unlike a train track laid down through wild, inhospitable country. Future performances improve because your brain already knows the route and follows the track already laid down." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"At the end of the long axon the cell releases chemicals called neurotransmitters that shuttle across the gaps in between neurons, called synapses, to stimulate chemical transmission and enhance neuronal firing or inhibit electrical activity in the dendrites of the receiving cell. This release of neurotransmitters at numerous dendrites enables neurons to link together synaptic connections with thousands of other neurons. These complex neural circuits, through processes science doesn't entirely comprehend, create and maintain our memories." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"You may be physically addicted to the "diet" chemicals without realizing it. Use your well-developed skills to sort out where the draw is. Usually when people go off caffeine they don't feel well for a while and then they feel enormously better. The effort was well worth it. However, going off caffeine may have some problematic effects. If you're depressed, you may be using caffeine to cover your symptoms. When you complete your caffeine detox, you may find it is extremely difficult to get out of bed, that you are tired all the time, you have no energy and you just want to sleep all day." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "Brain Chemicals: Beta-endorphin Beta-endorphin is the brain chemical that's gotten the least attention in the diet, depression and addiction books. That's very strange because it is immensely powerful and can drive you inexorably toward deeper addiction—or raise your spirits to a level of health that you may never have known before." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Not genes and chemicals, but nurture and environmental explanations of mental predicaments ruled the day. And until quite recently, biological psychiatry was often seen as totalitarian and ruthless in its oppressive force. If one didn't comply with the rules of society or rules of the wards, one was shocked into compliance—or, at the very least emasculated. (Think A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The animation then morphs into two nerve cells with chemicals moving between them. The simultaneously soothing and authoritative voice continues: "Zoloft, a prescription medicine, can help. It works to correct chemical imbalances in the brain, which may be related to symptoms of depression." The face returns, now smiling, and bounces along after the fluttering butterfly. An appealing logo for Zoloft appears, and then the voice intones, "When you know more about what's wrong, you can help make it right." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Diabetes that develops because of another disease or because of taking certain drugs of chemicals. self-monitoring blood glucose—A way for people with diabetes to find out how much glucose is in their blood. A drop of blood from the fingertip is placed on a special coated strip of paper that "reads" (often through an electronic meter) the amount of glucose in the blood. sorbitol—A sugar alcohol produced by the body, which, if levels get too high, may cause damage to the eyes and nerves." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Within a living cell, molecules communicate, not by chemicals but by electromagnetic signaling at low frequencies, and each molecule has its own signature frequency.24 Until the end of his life in 2005, Benveniste explored the possibility that these molecular signals could be transferred simply by using an amplifier and electromagnetic coils. He demonstrated that it was possible to affect a molecular reaction without the presence of the molecule in question simply by playing the molecules unique "sound." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"That means that there are hundreds of chemicals present in our environment that could be contributing to neurodevelopmental disorders in our children and hastening our own cognitive decline in old age. As the authors of the Lancet piece wrote, "The few substances proven to be toxic to human neurodevelopment should ... be viewed as the tip of a very large iceberg."31 Lead Lead poisoning has contributed to cognitive dysfunction in human populations for at least 2,500 years." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Having waves, rather than chemicals, as the communication mechanism of a living being also solved the central problem of genetics—how we grow and take final shape from a single cell. It also explains how our bodies manage to carry out tasks with different body parts simultaneously. Popp theorized that this light must be like a master tuning fork setting off certain frequencies that would be followed by other molecules of the body." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Think about all of the auto tires on the road that are spinning off cadmium in their wheels as they wear down, all the 50,000 chemicals in the environment that weren't there 50 years ago. We are all being exposed to toxins. Dr. Davis from England has shown that these gradually and insidiously accumulate in our systems with every decade that we live. So we have to face the strong likelihood that this toxic buildup is interfering with our enzyme function." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Buttram identifies several specific groups of environmental chemicals. "Group one consists of toxic heavy metals, of which lead, of course, is the best known. This category would also include mercury, cadmium, aluminum and others. Our concern here is more with the other category, the volatile organic compounds, which are made up of carbon molecules. The commercial uses of volatile compounds break down into three major classes: formaldehyde, organic solvents and pesticides. "Formaldehyde is present in many, many commercial products." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Increasingly, environmental pollution and exposure to heavy metals, pesticides, estrogen-like substances, and other chemicals are implicated in cases of infertility in men and women. Depending on the specific exposure, duration, and load, different aspects of fertility can be affected." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"We are facing a planet that is poisoning and drugging itself with chemicals and drugs, drugs, drugs. A new type of man is the actual scandal, a dying race. So what is the solution? THE SOLUTION Well, the solution is certainly not to establish some more controls of the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA (the Food and Drug Administration, located in Rockville, Maryland) is obviously not doing the job. The German newspaper Der Spiegel stated that, with the Vioxx scandal, the reputation of the FDA is gone." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Serotonin is one of these chemicals, and it is thought that by increasing the activity of serotonin, the chemical imbalance would be handled and depression thwarted. Or so believed the pharmaceutical companies. Lily came out with the drug in 1988. Its purpose was to increase the activity of serotonin. The leader of the research team, Ray Fuller, was awarded the Pharmaceutical Discoverer's Award from Narsad189 for the discovery of fluoxetine (Prozac). Bryan Molloy 187 The Merck Manual, Merck Research Laboratories: Rahway, N.J: 1992 188 http://www.prozac." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Indeed, an understanding of the power of conscious thought may also bring science closer to religion by offering scientific proof of the intuitive understanding, held by most of us, that to be alive is to be far more than an assemblage of chemicals and electrical signaling. We must open our minds to the wisdom of many native traditions, which hold an intuitive understanding of intention. Virtually all these cultures describe a unified energy field not unlike the Zero Point Field, holding everything in the universe in its invisible web." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"They are also rich in other nutrients and plant chemicals such as beta-sitosterol, a phyto-chemical that has cholesterol-lowering properties and may aid in reducing the size of the prostate gland and fighting prostate cancer too; lutein, a phytochemical that helps fight macular degeneration and inhibits prostate cancer growth; and carotenoids, which help the body to absorb fat-soluble nutrients and protect against cancer, eye problems, and heart disease. Home Remedies Every part of the avocado has been used at one time or another to tackle a few of life's inconveniences." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Just think about the number of bacteria and chemicals you ingest each day. As such, your gastrointestinal tract is lined with its own set of immune cells to help prevent these harmful substances from gaining entry to your body. These immune cells are called the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). The GALT is the largest mass of immune tissue (lymphoid tissue) in the human body and as such is an important element of the body's immune system. You may be familiar with other lymphoid tissues such as the tonsils and spleen." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Sixty-five thousand of these chemicals are considered hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemical are released into the environment each year. Although there is not a lot of data available, it does suggest that the heavy metals, especially arsenic, mercury, cadmium and lead, interfere with the specific function of insulin and the insulin receptors. Others, like fluorine in our water and a variety of pesticides and herbicides, are metabolic poisons that may further derange the already deranged metabolism of diabetics." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"These chemicals increase the stickiness of the endothelial wall and make it even more permeable to white blood cells and LDL cholesterol, which continue to enter and burrow inside. The lesion grows and attracts other chemical bedfellows such as CRP and fibrinogen, all produced in the liver and dispatched to sites of injury or infection. C-reactive protein is probably the most pervasive of these substances, abundantly present in all inflammatory fluids, in the intimal layer of the atherosclerotic artery, and in the foam cells (LDL-engorged macrophages) within the lesions of the forming plaque." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"These chemicals can be controlled, with help from a sleep expert, by such seemingly simple activities as preparing for bed at a consistent time and turning down the lights an hour before bedtime. For those of us whose sleep problems crop up intermittently during stressful times at work or when we travel, the occasional sleeping pill can help. But that doesn't make sleeplessness a sickness. What both the National Sleep Foundation and its corporate sponsors did was conflate serious, chronic insomnia, which can be truly debilitating, with garden-variety trouble sleeping." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"See Pitted soles, a rare form of psoriasis, which can be a reaction to certain medications or chemicals such as steroids, lithium, penicillin, and iodine. This condition can also be triggered by infections and emotional stress. SPOTS AND VEINS Small Red Raised Spots If you start noticing small red or violet, slightly raised, smooth, rounded spots popping up on your torso, you may have Campbell de Morgan spots (aka cherry angiomas). The spots may look like red domes and are usually smaller than 'A inch." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Dry Eyes When our eyes don't produce enough tears or our tears contain chemicals that cause them to evaporate too fast, we wind up with dry eye, which usually affects both eyes. People with dry eye often complain of eyes that feel sandy or scratchy. This condition is very common, particularly as we age, and is more so in women. A woman's body naturally produces less oil as she ages, especially after menopause because of reduced estrogen That's about one blink every four seconds. tually be a sign of dry eye. If tears and moisten your eyes, out they spill." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Essentially, when molecules split as a result of bodily metabolism—a natural process by which chemicals in our body are created and destroyed?free radicals are born and react quickly with other nearby compounds to try to regain stability. These free radicals effectively "steal" electrons from other molecules, setting off a cascade of disruptions that can detrimentally affect living cells, including neurons." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

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