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"At the ranch, we teach kids the value of discipline, structure, and self-reliance. And it might seem surprising, but most kids actually like the lessons of discipline we instill. At first, they grumble a little, like I did when my parents first assigned me chores, but by the second day, they're jumping out of bed at 5:30 a.m., eager to go muck out the stables. Kids benefit from structure—they don't like sitting around in a chair all day. Hard work teaches them how to be engaged and enthusiastic." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In his summary, Poponin wrote that he and the researchers were "forced to accept the working hypothesis that some new field structure is being excited."11 Because the effect appeared to be directly related to the presence of the living material, the phenomenon was named the "DNA phantom effect." Poponin's new field structure sounds surprisingly similar to the "matrix" that Max Planck identified more than 50 years earlier, as well as the effects suggested in ancient traditions. • Summary of Experiment I: This experiment is important for a number of reasons." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"In the 1970s a professor at Yale University, Benoit Mandelbrot, developed a way for us to see the underlying structure that makes the world as it is. That structure is made of patterns—and more specifically, patterns within patterns within patterns . . . and so on. He called his new way of seeing things fractal geometry, or simply fractals. Before Mandelbrot's discovery, mathematicians used euclidean geometry to describe the world. The belief was that nature itself was too complex for there to be a single formula that represents it accurately." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Thus, the structure of coenzyme Q10 includes a benzo-quinone, or chemical structure containing a six-carbon benzene ring featuring two sets of double-bonded carbons. The isoprenoid side chain is attached at the sixth carbon on the ring (see Figure 4.1 on page 67). The number of isoprenoid side chains can vary from zero to ten, depending on the animal species. In humans, coenzyme Qi0 has ten isoprenoid units—thus the name coenzyme Qiq. A deficiency in any of the required amino acids, vitamins, and other minerals impairs the endogenous formation of coenzyme Qi0 in the body." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Free radicals have an electric structure that makes them especially reactive, too. Although they only survive for a tiny fraction of a second, they react so readily with everything that they take oxygen's place in the chemical reaction oxidation. The result is oxidative destruction. Think of them as microscopic explosives that can destroy delicate biological structures, such as cell membranes or nuclei. All carotenoids have an abundance of internal structures that react easily with these superoxides, free radicals, and the toxins they produce." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Once the architecture of these internal struts is lost, there is no structure left onto which calcium can be added. (See Figure 13-1.) The new bone, formed as a result of taking the osteoporosis drugs, is then formed primarily on the outer part of the bone, the cortical bone. This increases the FIGURE 13-1. NORMAL BONE (LEFT) AND OSTEOPOROTIC BONE (RIGHT). REPRODUCED FROM THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH 1 (1986): 15-21, WITH PERMISSION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BONE MINERAL RESEARCH." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Mirko Beljanski (1923-1998), whose work first showed the connection between changes in DNA structure and cancer, the compounds in Prostabel appear to interact directly with DNA and promote the growth of healthy cells, which leads to improvement in cellular health. It is currently the subject of a clinical trial for men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, with positive results thus far. HISTORY Molecular biologist Mirko Beljanski, Ph.D." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "The unique liquid extracts are kept frozen until use in order to preserve the structure and properties of the active proteins. Both in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated the benefits of liquid cartilage extract, which include helping to maintain a healthy angiogenic balance as well as a healthy hematocrit level and red blood cell count. Scientists studying angiogenesis inhibitors hypothesized that cutting off blood supply to tumors would literally "starve" the cancer tumor to death. Many anti-angiogenic drugs have been developed and are undergoing clinical trials." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"If acupuncture was rendered amorphous in the absence of theory, homeopathy was rendered brittle by an overly rigid theoretical structure. And that brings us again to the question of culture, and the cross-cultural specificity (or not) of medicine. Were the different responses to and trajectories of acupuncture and homeopathy influenced by the fact that the former originated in China and the latter in Europe, and if so in what ways?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "By interpreting illness in terms of these more or less elaborate systems of correspondences, doctors added structure and analytical power to their empirical experience of disease. These three medical cosmologies also gave healers the intellectual tools they needed to recognize patterns, organize knowledge gained from experience, and render it more readily applicable." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "These bodies interact, through perception and digestion, with the physical environment and the social structure; they are affected by and affect changing mental states. Religion too plays a role in each system, underpinning cosmological beliefs and offering an additional explanatory mode: supernatural as well as natural entities and actions could cause illness." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Like Ayurveda, Chinese medicine has traditionally been concerned with functional rather than structural anatomy—in other words, Chinese doctors focused on physiology (which, of course, could be assessed from the outside) rather than on physical structure (which would have demanded extensive, and culturally forbidden dissection). Thus, despite sharing names with the western anatomical organs, the 'organs' in Chinese anatomy should be considered not as physical entities but as groups of closely related physiological functions." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"IPg has been found to have a structure very similar to a potent inhibitor of the PI-3 kinase enzyme. IPg, thus, appears to work against, or inhibit, tumors by blocking the action of the enzyme. While cancer drugs could be developed to block PI-3 kinase as well, these same cancer drugs are inherently toxic. IPg when combined with inositol also enhances cellular immunity by markedly stimulating natural killer cell activity. Natural killer cells play a central role in various aspects of the defense system, particularly against tumors. The work of Abul Baten, M.D., Ph.D." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"It is exactly myths such as these that Thomas Kuhn was referring to in his groundbreaking book The structure of Scientific Revolutions, published in 1962. Kuhn coined the term "paradigm" to describe the unspoken professional values, beliefs, and techniques shared by a community of scientists or professionals. The shared paradigm then defines the range of problems that are legitimate to investigate, the range of legitimate solutions, and the criteria that justify belief that the findings are true." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Our thoughts and words change the structure of water. In turn, as we ingest the resulting water through eating, drinking, and breathing, we are affected positively or negatively. Knowing this, what kind of qualities do you think the water in your life is taking on? How are you affecting it? How is it affecting you? Personally, I will never take water for granted again as just something my body requires to stay fluid. I have a new and profound respect for it and the role it can play in helping my body stay healthy." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"As long as the definitions of "quality of care" and the price structure of drugs, devices, and procedures are determined largely by commercial interests, universal health care will continue to appear unrealistic and in some vague way "un-American." Yet the additional cost of covering all Americans is estimated to be $34-$60 billion annually—a trivial sum compared with the extra $500 billion spent each year on medical care "informed" by the findings of commercially biased science." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In our world these embracing connections evolve rapidly, and it is one of the ends of intensive growth to order them, creating coherent structure in place of random proliferation. The second and third ends of intensive growth are directly linked with the first. These ends are to deepen the level of communication and raise the level of consciousness of the communicators. Communication unfolds on multiple levels. First of all, we need to communicate with ourselves, caring for and developing our consciousness and personality." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "In this domain it is not the genetic structure that mutates but the dominant civilization: how people are organized, what ideas and values they entertain, and how they see themselves and the world around them. Mutations in society are all-encompassing, involving every segment and every aspect. They are shifts in civilization: shifts that are "macro." Across numerous hills and valleys, and occasional abrupt leaps, these Macroshifts drive toward the progressive integration of different peoples, enterprises, economies, societies, and cultures in systems of larger and larger dimensions." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "At the threshold of a critical instability, fluctuations that were previously corrected by self-stabilizing negative feedbacks within the system run out of control—they break open the system's structure. The system enters a period of chaos. Its outcome is either the disintegration of the system into its individually stable components (breakdown) or rapid evolution toward a kind of system that is resistant to the fluctuations that destabilized the prior system (breakthrough). At the critical bifurcation point various attempts are made to move beyond the crisis." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "What we observe as material bodies and forces," he noted, "are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space." A further strand of evidence concerns the propagation of light in empty space. There is significant evidence that relativity theory's claim that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum is not universally true. Already in 1913 G. Sagnac provided experimental proof that the speed of light varies with the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of the light source, but this finding was almost entirely disregarded by the physics community." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"First, it creates structure; your child will understand that when he or she is in the workspace, it is time to work. Second, you can control the presence and proximity of distractions and reduce the hassle of finding lost assignments and school supplies when all the work is done in one place. Make sure the workspace is well lit—preferably with a white-light lightbulb; it's been shown that yellow light is harsher on the eyes and can therefore cause sleepiness. Anything else that you can do to make the workspace peaceful and comfortable can help your child want to stay in it." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "These results show that even though it may seem that many activities fail to hold the attention of children with ADD/ADHD, in truth they are capable of performing tasks with commitment and a surprising single-mindedness if some structure is supplied. They are much more likely to do well at a task for which they have a clear-cut goal or end point, and for which there is obvious evidence of their ongoing progress. The challenge for you is to make improving behavior part of a larger project of self-improvement, with clear benchmarks along the way." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "When children and teens are given a good, nutritious diet and when you arrange and enforce a schedule that allows more sleep and more structure, you discover a child who can sit and learn and take directions. The change is nothing short of remarkable, and it comes from the "sacrifice" of eating healthy foods, playing outside more, and getting a good night's sleep. Every parent knows what happens when a kid comes home from a birthday party." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "In fact, they can be accustomed to completing most tasks with determination and efficiency when they perceive that there is a clear structure to an activity. A recent five-year study conducted at Lehigh University, paid for by the National Institutes of Health, showed encouraging results. In the study, behavioral therapies that stressed consistent rules and routines, time limits for certain tasks, and more praise for good behavior than punishment for bad were applied to 135 preschoolers with severe ADD/ADHD." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"The cells that maintain the internal structure of the ovary (the stroma), as well as the adrenal glands and fat tissue, combine to produce about one-tenth as much estrogen after menopause as was produced before. Estrogen levels do not, however, decline steadily as women go through menopause. They fluctuate as the body adjusts to its new "tune." Hot flashes and night sweats are caused by the hypothalamus (the part of the brain that controls body temperature) responding to fluctuating levels of estrogen in the blood." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Peter later would come to the conjecture that some kinds of changes that scientists call mutations are caused not by a microbe actually changing its genetic structure but by it shifting from Integrator to Integrator. Because each Energetic Integrator functions at a different frequency range, Peter's would eventually come to define a mutation, from an energetic perspective, as a microbe changing its carrier frequency. Much later, when Peter developed the Infoceuticals, he would create one called Field Stabilizer that prevented, or at least slowed, this kind of Integrator-shifting mutation." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"EAR INFECTION Infection of the middle (the eardrum and surrounding structure) or outer ear (the external part of the ear and the ear canal) can cause pressure to build up in tiny spaces that can place pressure on delicate nerve endings, causing pain. The most common type of ear infection is swimmer's ear {external otitis), usually caused by bacteria in the ear. Water trapped in the ear can make ear infections more likely. Symptoms include discharge from the ear, slight fever, a pain that intensifies when the ear is pulled or touched, and possibly a temporary loss of hearing." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Over time, these antibodies damage the lining of the small intestine, causing an abnormal structure. This results in an impaired ability to absorb vitamins and minerals, or malabsorption. Malabsorption generally becomes a serious problem. A diagnosis of celiac disease is confirmed by a biopsy of the small intestine. Symptoms of celiac disease include diarrhea, nausea, abdominal swelling, foul-smelling greasy stools, weight loss, anemia, joint or bone pain, and skin rashes. Dietary recommendations include eliminating of foods containing gluten or milk products." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "The most common causes of sports injuries are failure to warm up or cool down properly before or after exercise, structural abnormalities (for example, abnormal joint structure), and weak connective tissues. Some injuries can become chronic, particularly repetitive stress injuries. Sports injuries are a very common occurrence and many of them can be treated without major medical intervention, the exceptions being bone fractures and torn connective tissue. After a sports injury, a series of metabolic processes often known as inflammation take place." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Proteases in the bloodstream are used by the immune system to break down the protein cell structure to allow the immune cells to destroy the parasites. In addition, enzymes can promote overall health by balancing pH levels. A probiotic formula can improve an imbalance of bacteria in the intestines." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

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