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"Until recently, studies in lab animals were run for a period of two years. When working with rodents, scientists have generally ended the studies and the varmints' lives after 712 days, hoping in that time to get the animals to consume as much of whatever is being tested as a human would use in seventy years. But rats can live longer. It's entirely possible that by stopping studies at this point, we are missing an important part of the picture. What happens to animals or people in the last third of their lives? That's something that many of us want to know." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"During this test, lab animals were fed doses of SierraSil that ranged as high as the equivalent of thirty-five times the recommended daily dose for humans. This was done for a period of ninety days. It is important to note that the standard length for this test is twenty-eight days, but the Bentleys, in an effort to be even more thorough, instructed that the test last three times longer than the norm. Throughout the test and for a twenty-eight day recovery peri- od afterward, the test animals were monitored for health, dietary habits, and behavior." - Shari Lieberman, Alan Xenakis, Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss & Inflammation Naturally (Get the book.)

"Although it is always difficult to extrapolate results obtained with lab animals to humans, it is impossible, for the moment, to predict with certainty either the positive or negative impact of soy consumption on the risk of breast cancer recurrence. As a consequence, women with breast cancer or who are in remission should consume any dietary soy in strict moderation, while favouring other foods with the potential to prevent the development of breast cancer, such as omega-3 fatty acids (Chapter 12) or the glucosinolates present in vegetables belonging to the cabbage family (Chapter 6)." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"If results from the few animal feeding safety studies are any indication, then the odds are stacked against us." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"A rare metal found with other Minerals; enhances cell growth, doubles lifespan in lab animals. •TITANIUM (Ti) Atomic #22; .43% of Earth. A strong lightweight metallic chemical highly resistantto corrosion; found inrutile, ilmenite, andbrookite; used in aircraft skins. •TRITIUM (T, or H3) Atomic #39. A heavy isotope of Hydrogen (3 times heavier); used in hydrogen bombs. •TUNGSTEN (W) Atomic #74. A heavy metal found in wolfron and wolframium. Melts at 3,410 A C, higherthan any other metal. Used in light bulb filaments, and in surgical instruments. •URANIUM (U)Atomic#92." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "Enhancescell growth, doubles lifespan in lab animals. •SCANDIUM (Sc)Atomic#21.Arare grey metalfound in manyminerals(in Scandinavia). •TANTALUM (Ta) Atomic #73. A rare malleable non-corrosive metal derived from Tantalite; used as a wire suture or in prostheses repairing cranial defects. •TERBIUM (Tb) Atomic #65 A rare earth metal. •THALLIUM (Tl) Atomic #81. Similarto lead, extremely poisonous. •THORIUM (Th) Atomic # 90. A radioactive metallic chemical found in thorite and monazite. •THULIUM Tm)Atomic#69." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "A metallic element from rare earth; enhances cell growth, doubles lifespan in lab animals. •RHENIUM (Re) Atomic #75. A metal similar to Manganese. •RUBIDIUM (Rb) Atomic #37. Similarto Potassium; never found free in nature; reacts violently in water, and bums spontaneously in air. A deficiency may result in anorexia nervosa; and nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy. •RUTHENIUM (Ru) Atomic #44. A rare metal used in alloys; similarto Platinum, and found in Platinum ores. •SAMARIUM (Sm) Atomic # 62. A rare-earth element related to Cerium; discovered in 1879 in samarskite." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"This controversy is based on the weakly estrogenic character of isoflavones, as well as contradictory results obtained with lab animals on which mammary tumours were grafted. The nature and the sheer number of conflicting facts circulated in both the print and electronic media makes this topic worth looking at more closely. Soy and menopause Menopause occurs when women age; reproductive function is lost as levels of the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone in the bloodstream drop sharply." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"He exposed lab animals to the lowest supposedly nontoxic levels of three commonly used pesticides consecutively without time intervals between the exposures, and he noted no observable damage. However, when the animals were exposed to all three of these chemicals simultaneously, all at those same low level concentrations, they ad died. In the real world we live in, these very toxins are commonly found together in household insecticides, flea coUars and lawn care products—and usually at much higher than "safe" concentrations." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"A few are starting over, trying to fashion a new vaccine using new TB antigens that seem better able to stimulate immunity in lab animals. At least a half-dozen candidate vaccines are in various stages of development. For decades pharmaceutical companies have shown little interest in developing a more effective vaccine, because the big markets were perceived to be in underdeveloped countries that did not have the money to make production worthwhile. The situation changed in 2000 when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation posted $25 million for work on new vaccines." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "The standard alternative research approach would be to test drugs in lab animals that have latent TB. Mice are commonly used in research because their immune system has been studied extensively, and for the most part behaves similarly to the human system. But TB advances somewhat differently in mice than in men. Because the classical lab culture and lab animal approaches to developing drugs that can overcome resistance have not panned out, TB researchers, like many other disease specialists, are turning to genetics." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "Furthermore, smallpox infects only humans and monkeys, so lab animals such as mice, normally used widely in disease research, offer no help. The challenge is greater still. Because smallpox is so incredibly contagious, scientists can study the virus only in labs that can insure the highest level of containment—biosafety level 4 (BSL-4). In these labs, scientists must wear protective "space suits" and breathe through respirators." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "Better yet would be a method scientists achieved in novel experiments done in 1992, in which they extracted genetic DNA from an influenza virus, created more copies, and injected just this "naked DNA" into the muscle of lab animals. Much to everyone's surprise, early results indicated that the DNA alone was enough to stimulate an immune response in certain immune cells. Vaccines made with naked DNA would be safer because no carrier virus is used, and therefore there is nothing that could replicate to threaten a person with a weakened immune system." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"ADD) and other forms of hyperactivity. The website www.diet-studies.com is a treasure trove of scientific studies and medical papers that offer indisputable evidence of the malevolent role food additives play with our health and behavior. Square meals "Artificial and natural flavors" is a catch-all phrase for often make a concoction of hundreds of chemicals used to make you round people, think you're tasting a delicious apple or a juicy grape. —E." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Scientists at Johns Hopkins University found that lab animals fed cruciferous vegetables and then exposed to the deadly carcinogen aflatoxin had a 90 percent reduction in their cancer rate.'" Cruciferous vegetables are able to increase the body's production of glutathione peroxidase, which is one of the more important protective enzyme systems in the body. -Mushrooms. Goixrmet chefs have long prized various mushrooms for their subtle and exotic flavors. Now there is an abundance of scientific evidence showing that Rei-shi, Shiitake, and Maitake mushrooms are potent anti-cancer foods." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.) "Garlic and onions fed to lab animals helped to decrease the number of skin tumors.* Researchers found that onions provided major protection against expected tumors from DMBA in test animals.^ Mice with a genetic weakness toward cancer were fed raw garlic with a lower-than-expected tumor incidence.* The most common form of cancer worldwide is stomach cancer. Chinese researchers find that a high intake of garlic and onions cuts the risk for stomach cancer in half' Garlic provides the liver with a certain amount of protection against carcinogenic chemicals." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Eggleston states that the nickel alloys being used in dental practices today are actually quite similar to a form of nickel that is commonly used by cancer research centers around the country to induce cancer in lab animals. Two cases involving nickel-alloyed porcelain crowns are particularly disturbing. The first one involves kidney disease, and the other involves breast cancer. The first story was a case of Dr. Eggleston's and is described by him. It involved a female patient who was admitted to Long Beach Memorial Hospital with kidney disease." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Haley in which he has been able to reproduce the lesions of Alzheimer's disease in various lab animals, simply by exposing the animals to small amounts of mercury vapors. He has testified several times before Congress regarding the many dangers of amalgams. But are his findings well received throughout the medical community? Certainly not by the ADA and FDA. Something as obvious and serious as the link between chronic illnesses, mercury amalgams, and vaccines containing mercury preservatives should not have to be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"The anti-cancer potential of strawberries and raspberries, the principal dietary sources of ellagic acid, has been studied using lab-grown cancer cells as well as in lab animals subjected to substances that cause tumours to form. Both strawberry and raspberry extracts are able to counter the growth of tumour cells, these effects being directly related to the quantity of polyphenols contained in these berries and not to their antioxidant potential." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"We see the same thing in lab animals; if we feed them so they grow faster, they die younger.31 Ominously, the onset of menstruation has been occurring at a younger and younger age in Western societies during this century.32 The average age in the United States is now about twelve years. According to the World Health Organization, the average age at which puberty began in 1840 was seventeen." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.) "These fats promote the growth of cancer in lab animals more than olive oil (a monounsaturated fat) does. MONOUNSATURATED FAT These fats have only one double bond in their carbon chain. They are liquid at room temperature and thought to have health benefits. The supposed health benefits of these fats appear when these fats are used in place of dangerous saturated fats. Even polyunsaturated oils will lower cholesterol if used in place of saturated fat. Monounsat-urated fat is found in avocados, almonds, peanuts, and most other nuts and seeds." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"The kuru agent proved quite infectious—one gram of infected brain had the potential to kill 100 million lab animals. Kuru wasn't the only disease Gajdusek wanted to try transmitting to lab animals. He was curious to see if amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Pick's, and other neurological diseases were similarly transmissible. His team prepared homogenates from the brains of people who had died from these diseases and injected them into test animals." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Moreover, heart disease only occurred in Price's lab animals when the person the root canal-filled tooth had come from had suffered from heart disease. If the person had suffered from another illness, that would be the illness that would show up in the rabbit. For instance, if the patient from whom the tooth was taken was suffering from kidney disease, then the rabbit with the piece of that person's tooth embedded in it would also develop kidney disease. Dr. Price's first clinical case involved arthritis." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.) "Over a 25-year period he conducted experiments on 5,000 lab animals after which he recorded and published his results in a two-volume report totaling 1,174 pages. Dr. Price also published 220 articles and two additional books, which can be found in the dental and medical literature. It is extremely unfortunate for all of us that few dentists today have even heard of Dr. Weston Price and his research. In an effort to remedy this lack of awareness a noted dentist, Dr. George E. Meinig, recently undertook the mission of carefully reading all 1,174 pages of Dr. Price's two-volume report. Dr." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Enhances cell growth, doubles lifespan in lab animals. •NIOBIUM (Nb) Atomic #41. Found with tantalum: formerly called Columbium. Used to make stainless steel and other alloys. •OSMIUM (Os) Atomic #76. A metal. •PALLADIUM (Pd) Atomic #46. Found with Platinum; but lighter and more easily used in alloys of Gold and Silver, and as acatalyst. As a powderabsorbs 800times its volume of Hydrogen gas. •PLATINUM Similar to Gold. Platinum family metals are Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, Rhodium, and Ruthenium. •PRASEODYMIUM (Pr) Atomic #59." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"A recent study showed that although substances containing purified isoflavones did indeed cause an increase in the growth of mammary tumours already present in lab animals, the food itself, even with an equivalent isoflavone content, had no effect on cell growth. These results agree with epidemiological studies showing that not only did Asian women have a much lower incidence of breast cancer, but those stricken with the disease had higher survival rates." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"It was the Canadian physician and researcher, Hans Selye, MD, who coined the term "the stress of life" as he could document the physiological changes that took place in lab animals when exposed to noise, bright lights, confinement and electric shocks. The thymus gland is a pivotal organ in immune system protection against infections and cancer. Dr. Selye noted that stress would induce thymus gland shrinkage, increases in fats in the blood (for the beginnings of heart disease) and erosion of the stomach lining (ulcers)." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

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