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 "A mechanical approach to a metabolic, biochemical epidemic, he argued, was not the answer. Dr. Thomas further cautioned that there would be a moral and ethical challenge to physicians down the road: to relinquish this halfway technology in favor of simpler, safer metabolic and biochemical cures.
The time is now. The weight of scientific evidence and public opinion, once the truth is known, will prevail. And finally, we can start teaching people how to walk alongside the edge of the cliff, instead of desperately trying to save them after they fall off."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "B vitamin pantothenic acid, developed the concept of "biochemical individuality." Williams contended that everyone needs the same nutrients but that we are highly individualistic in the amounts we need. For one person, 100 milligrams daily of vitamin C might be sufficient for health; for another, 3,000 milligrams. In other words, we are all so biochemically unique that our nutrient needs differ. These differences might even be as much as tenfold between people. I agree with Williams and Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D."- Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) |
 "They don't help us feel joy about our amazing bodies or motivate us to get off the couch and maximize our own personal biochemical makeup. Tina had no part in creating her genetics, but she could cook up a beneficial environment in which her genes operate.
The Fates have also been unkind to Tom's family. His male lineage has a genetic predisposition to early cardiac disease. His grandfathers, father, paternal uncle, and brother all died of heart attacks before the age of fifty-three."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "If a particular biochemical from an herb tests as "non-active," we can eliminate it from standardization of that herb. But what if that component has a different value in the grand scheme of things? What if, although it may do nothing by itself, its presence makes another component twice as effective? What if...
'Keeping in mind that there are people who actually prefer the taste of Sunny Delight.
An obvious question has to be occurring to you right now: "If what I'm saying is true, then why is 'everybody' standardizing their herbs now?"- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "First, as we've already alluded to, no testing process in the world can test for the synergistic factor of all the biochemical components in herbs. No testing process can determine if a compound, even though it may not be biologically active itself, serves to increase the biological activity of another compound. That's why no testing process can match the skill of the professional herbalist (just as it cannot come close to matching the palate of the professional wine taster) in determining the effectiveness of an herb. 2." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
 "This response can involve a complex series of biochemical changes that struggle to bring you back to your pre-stressed state. For example, when you're stressed your body releases various hormones and chemicals including adrenaline, Cortisol, and others that shift your body into a flight-or-fight response. These hormones increase your metabolism, your heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and muscle tension. If these bodily changes are channeled into a physical activity—fighting a lion or running a marathon—the stress can be resolved."- Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) |
 "As little as 10 minutes on a cell phone can trigger changes in brain cells linked to cell division and cancer, suggests a new study conducted by researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and published in the biochemical Journal. The changes they observed were not caused by heating of tissues.
• Regular cell phone use raises the risk of developing a brain tumor for many users, according to a new Finnish study published online in the International Journal of Cancer."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The recurring alteration of day and night regulates our natural sleep/wake cycles and essential biochemical processes. The onset of daylight triggers the release of powerful hormones (glucocorticoids), of which the main ones are Cortisol and corticosterone. Their secretion has a marked circadian variation. These hormones regulate some of the most important functions in the body, including metabolism, blood sugar level, and immune responses. Peak levels occur between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. and gradually decrease as the day continues. The lowest level occurs between midnight and 3 a.m." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Tryptophan—or the product your body converts it into, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP)—can be particularly useful because these substances are part of the biochemical chain producing serotonin, a substance in the brain responsible for normal sleep. Although I usually prescribe only one dose before bed to aid sleep, a controlled study reported that taking 5-HTP three times a day led to improved sleep and less pain in FM patients. The second product is melatonin, a hormone that is also related to serotonin."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
| "Echinacea also contains echinacein, a biochemical that protects against germ attack by neutralizing the tissue dissolving enzyme, hyaluronidase, produced by many germs. Also, studies such as one published in Infection and Immunology show that echinacea contains substances that boost the ability of your body's macrophages to destroy germs. And other studies from the University of Munich have shown that echinacea extracts boost T-cell production by as much as 30% more than immune boosting drugs." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
| "Studies show that opening up new options leads to positive emotions and optimism, which have healthy biochemical and energetic effects. Specifically, they reveal that optimistic patients return to activity sooner after surgery. Plus their coronary arteries are more resistant to the development of dangerous thickenings, and their offspring are born with healthier birth weights. On the other hand, feeling stuck is associated with pessimism, which one animal research study called learned helplessness." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "For most of the diseases, the biochemical basis is still unknown. For approximately 200 of them, the disease is known to be due to a deficiency or malnutrition of a single enzyme." Since 1982 many more diseases have been attributed to such a deficiency.
If we could somehow identify the metabolic enzyme needed for a specific health issue, manufacture it, and deliver it to the cell, metabolic enzyme pills would be in every health food store and pharmacy in the world and would no doubt be contributing to the prevention and reversal of many of the most fatal diseases known to man."- Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
| "Each can create alterations in your body's biochemical environment, and all correlate with a variety of health benefits. Not only are you creating a healthier body, you're also building a heightened sense of competence and personal control. This healthy state, in mind and body, increases your feelings of happiness and exhilaration, empowering you to continue using the nine behaviors as you climb higher. The best news: all of these practices are completely within your control. You can choose to move upward toward Brilliant Health or live in negative emotions and tumble downward." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "We are the chefs because we create much of the biochemical environment in which our genes function through the combination of our life experiences, including everything we eat, everything we think, and everything we do. Because of this, we are instrumental in encouraging certain genes to express themselves while suppressing others. While we may always have a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we can exercise, eat healthfully, not smoke, take necessary medications, and implement the nine practices in the Brilliant Health model." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "Whatever the advantages of the new industrial system, it could no longer meet the biochemical requirements of the human body, which, not having had time to adapt, was failing in new ways.
Whether or not you're willing to travel quite that far with Dr."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "But at the root of all these biochemical changes is a single ecological change. For the shift from leaves to seeds affects much more than the levels of omega-3 and omega-6 in the body. It also helps account for the flood of refined carbohydrates in the modern diet and the drought of so many micronutrients and the surfeit of total calories. From leaves to seeds: It's almost, if not quite, a Theory of Everything." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "They also play parts in the biochemical processes which sustain our health and our life. An essential fatty acid deficiency can cause an imbalance of prostaglandins, substances that regulate immune cell activity and thus control inflammation and allergic reactions, both of which play a part in asthma. Disorders such as depressed immunity, eczema, poor healing of wounds, cardiovascular abnormalities and PMT have all been associated with EFA deficiencies."- Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) |
 "They are the most ill people ever described who are spared any end-organ damage, demonstrable organ dysfunction, or specific biochemical abnormality (Showalter 1996). In that regard they are fortunate. But that is not to belittle the pall under which they subsist (Greenhalgh 2001; Barker 2005). Nor is it to deny the Kafkaesque nature of a disability-determination process that must question the veracity of their perception of illness (Hadler 1999). Fibromyalgia is a social construction. It is the fashion in which our society has come to medicalize woefulness (Hadler and Greenhalgh 2005)."- Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
 "A great deal of biochemical information on the flavonoid 2-ODD enzymes has emerged since the mid-1980s, starting with the seminal work of Lothar Britsch and colleagues (reviewed in Prescott and John, 1996). Recent studies incorporating HPLC analysis into enzyme assays using conventional radiolabeled substrates, or increasingly unlabeled substrates, have provided evidence for overlapping substrate and catalytic specificities among these enzymes."- Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
| "Through the mind/body connection, any repressed feelings of wanting and deserving harmony, peace, stability, and a simple sense of joy in life are translated into appropriate biochemical responses in the body. This effectively deprives the body cells of all these positive qualities as well. Cells are not physical machines that have no feelings, no sense of "I"-ness, no reaction to external changes or threats." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Molecular targets of dietary agents for prevention and therapy of cancer. biochemical Pharmacology. 2007 May;71(10):1397-1421.
Arjmandi BH et al. Dried plums improve indices of bone formation in postmenopausal women. / Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2002 Ian-Feb;ll(l):61-68.
Franklin M, Bu SY, Lerner MR, Lancaster EA, Bellmer D, Marlow D, Lightfoot SA, Arjmandi BH, Brackett DJ, Lucas EA, Smith BJ. Dried plum prevents bone loss in a male osteoporosis model via IGF-I and the RANK pathway. Bone. 2006 October."- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
 "The slower a tumor is to grow, the less susceptible it is to chemotherapeutic agents, which work by interfering with the biochemical process of cell division. The faster cells are dividing, the harder chemo hits them. That makes blood cancers, which grow at lightning speed, acutely vulnerable to chemotherapy. By contrast, high doses of chemotherapy can't kill every last breast cancer cell as effectively, because they grow much more slowly.
Transplanters were also fooled when it came time to look at how their breast cancer patients fared over the long term."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Because NES works at the level of information and is not biochemical, it is compatible with pharmaceuticals, herbs, supplements, and other healing agents. Clients are counseled to continue their other treatments and to confer with their other health care professionals.
Randolph was eighty years old at the time he sought NES practitioner and naturopathic physician Jason Siczkowycz's assistance. Six months prior, he had been hospitalized with pneumonia, and since that time he had debilitating fatigue."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "In effect, NES and some of the other complementary medical systems, such as TCM, are working via the energetic and informational feedback loops that are not evident in the biochemical model of healing of most allopathic medicine. According to our research, these feedback loops are what drives the body's biochemistry." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "According to NES theory, the constant metabolizing and processing of fats, minerals, proteins, and carbohydrates in the stomach and bowel linings actually generates an energy field of what is known as magnetic confetti, those tiny bits of magnetic energy left over from the forming and breaking of bonds and other such biochemical processes. However, the huge toxic load that can accumulate in these organs because of foods contaminated by chemicals from pesticides and fertilizers may severely compromise the bioenergetics of your stomach field." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Within each one of these cells there are numerous biochemical actions taking place, all initiated and accelerated by enzymes.
Dr. Edward Howell discovered the principle of enzyme nutrition in 1932. He did extensive research and teaching on the role of enzymes in nutrition, human health, and disease. He found that a full complement of digestive enzymes must be consumed, in or with food, for its complete nutritional value to be delivered to the cells of the body. When food is incompletely digested, it becomes toxic and a burden to the body."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "They are the living catalysts that activate all biochemical reactions within our bodies. Without sufficient enzymes, the body degenerates into disease. Other than traumatic physical injuries, there is no disease that can maintain its existence in our bodies if our enzyme resources are complete and functioning perfectly." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
 "Diabetes may cause some of the early biochemical changes found in Alzheimer's disease," explains C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., president and director of the Joslin Diabetes Center, "but those early changes probably aren't enough by themselves to cause Alzheimer's."
Scientists do, however, believe that further research is needed to clarify how the effect of insulin resistance on the brain cells interacts with other genetic and biochemical problems to trigger various dementias. "We hope to begin to uncover common mechanisms that could play a role in the onset of the disease," Dr. Kahn says."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
| "A free radical is a cellular killer that wreaks havoc by damaging DNA, altering biochemical compounds, corroding cell membranes, and destroying cells outright. In this sense, a free radical can be thought of as an invader attacking the cells of your body. More technically, a free radical is a molecule that has lost one of its electrons and become highly unbalanced. It seeks to restore its balance by stealing a vital electron from another molecule." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
| "Effects of parsley (Petroselinum crispum) on the liver of diabetic rats: a morphological and biochemical study. Phytother Res. 2004 Dec;18(12):996-999.
Ozsoy-Sacan O, Yanardag R, Orak H, Ozgey Y, Yarat A, Tunali T. Effects of parsley (Petroselinum crispum) extract versus glibornuride on the liver of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. /Ethnopharmacol. 2006 Mar 8;104(1-2):175-81.
Yoshikawa M et al. Medicinal foodstuffs. XVIII. Phytoestrogens from the aerial part of Petroselinum crispum Mill. (Parsley) and structures of 6"-acetylapiin and a new monoterpene glycoside, petroside." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
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