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"Ecosystems, Biomes, and Habitats An ecosystem consists of a community of organisms and the physical environment in which they live. Ecosystems vary greatly in size, ranging from small ponds to coral reefs to the vast expanse of coniferous forests. All the members of a species that live within an ecosystem constitute a population. A group of ecosystems occupying a large area of land and having characteristic climate, soil, and mixture of plants and animals is called a biome." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems, including the internal ecosystem of the body. Along with bacteria, fungi are the major decomposers in most terrestrial and some aquatic ecosystems. As decomposers, they play an indispensable role in nutrient cycling, especially as saprotrophs and symbionts, degrading organic matter to inorganic molecules. They become essential when the body accumulates organic waste matter, heavy metals and chemical compounds." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Everyone has an ecosystem within his or her body. There are five elements at which we are looking. These are described in the old textbooks as 'wind, cold, dampness, dryness, and heat.' Acupuncture also balances this ecosystem within the body." How is the balancing done? " Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "This balancing is done with fine needles applied to specific body areas which are pierced. This relieves certain body ailments. We also balance the ecosystem with acupuncture injection therapy." "What is acupuncture injection therapy? " Dr. Shyler L." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Recent advances in molecular techniques can overcome these limitations and pave the way for a better understanding of the complex GI tract ecosystem. Scientific breakthroughs in this field will permit researchers to move from observation to the prediction of disease using biomarkers based on the metabolic capabilities of intestinal microflora. Dietary intervention strategies including the consumption of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics may also be developed to enhance overall health and reduce disease incidence." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Like the discovery of a new ecosystem, the relationship between probiotics and human health is complicated—it's a whole new world to discover. Over the next decade, more research will open our eyes to the benefits of probiotics and the possibilities they hold. Your interest in this field is shared with millions around the world. Probiotics may soon prove to be the biggest health discovery of the twenty-first century. Summary Probiotics have a bright future. There are so many things to still learn about probiotics." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This geometrical model also illustrates how the stages of consciousness function together as a relational system of evolution, similar to an ecosystem. And as we have seen, the health of this internal ecosystem must be maintained to preserve both the path of development of each individual as they grow up from infancy, as well as the functional stability of complex civilizations. We will return to our discussion of the dialectic character of evolutionary development in chapter 10 on "The Directions of Evolution." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"When overheated, the perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in Teflon and other nonstick substances can pollute our ecosystem and may threaten our health. Cook in cast iron or stainless steel instead. Avoid plastic wraps and aluminum foil. Plastic and aluminum might leach toxins into the food you eat. To protect yourself, use waxed paper for covering food in the oven and refrigerator. And instead of plastic sandwich bags, we use brown wax paper baggies made by Natural Value (which you can purchase at www.amazon.com or www .shopnatural.com). I send Wyatt off to school with them every day." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"We know vitamin D is important early in your immune system's development, establishing tolerance to your own ecosystem yet preparing your body for microbial threats. Once your immune system becomes self-tolerant, it remains important lifelong for its protection from infection. As time goes by, the tolerance that was set up during your childhood is used as intolerance to cancer cells. Some of your ability to fight cancer later in life is probably "learned" before adolescence. To be immuno-competent, you need normal calcium and magnesium balance and adequate protein from your diet." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"For the past 30 years, coral reefs, the centerpiece of the sea's ecosystem, have been vanishing from the Earth. When oceans warm, the algae hugging coral reefs get sloughed off, and without this protective layer, the coral reefs themselves die. About 97 percent of a certain species of coral has disappeared in the Caribbean alone, and the U.S. government has recently declared elkhorn and staghorn coral to be endangered species." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Scientists have already discovered changes in the ecosystem that they believe may be caused by the witch's brew of pharmaceuticals flowing through the nation's waters. Some species of fish may be among the first casualties. In 2006 Dr. Vicki Blazer, a fish pathologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, reported that a team had caught dozens of bass on the Potomac River and its tributaries in Virginia and Maryland that had strange sexual deformities. The fish were males but had taken on female traits. They had immature eggs growing inside their testes." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Borneo's genetic pool is so rich because it's a relatively undisturbed ecosystem that wasn't affected by the crystallized extinctions of the Pleistocene Ice Ages. It gets up to seven meters of annual rainfall. Like other equatorial rain forests in South America and Africa, Borneo is bursting with extraordinary life-forms: tiny owls, deer the size of mice, flying lizards, Oz-like flying apes, luminescent mushrooms and colorful fungi resembling coral reefs. Butterflies suckle on human sweat while expelling creamy secretions. Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A molecular view of the intestinal ecosystem. Curr. Issues Intest. Microbiol. 1, 1-12. 72. Holland, J. L., Louie, L., Simor, A. E., and Louie, M. (2000). PCR detection of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 directly from stools: Evaluation of commercial extraction methods for purifying fecal DNA. J. Clin. Microbiol. 38, 4108^1113. 73. Zoetendal, E., Ben-Amor, K., Akkermans, A., Abee, T., and de Vos, W. (2001). DNA isolation protocols affect the detection limit of PCR approaches of bacteria in samples from the human gastrointestinal tract. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 24, 405^110. 74. McOrist, A. L." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"We are hardwired to find the most calories for the least effort, but in any ecosystem there are only so many calories to go around. But why then do we seem to just keep eating? I think our genes are looking for something: the building blocks of cells, the micronutrients. So important are micronutrients to proper cellular functioning that a few of us in the research community believe that our bodies are genetically programmed to continue eating until we consume a bare minimum of micronutrients." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Molecular methods for exploring the intestinal ecosystem. Br. J. Nutr. 87, 199-201. 10. Tannock, G. W., Fuller, R., Smith, S., and Hall, M. (1990). Plasmid profiling of members of the family Enterobacteria-ceae, lactobacilli and bifidobacteria to study the transmission of bacteria from mother to infant. /. Clin. Microbiol. 28, 1225-1228. 11. Zetterstrom, R., Bennet, R., and Nord, K. (1994). Early infant feeding and microecology of the gut. Acta Pediatr. Japonica 36, 562-571. 12. Edwards, C., and Parrett, A. (2002). Intestinal flora during the first months of life: New perspectives. Br. J." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"A WORD ABOUT PROTEASE AND PROBIOTICS There has been some recent concern that protease taken with probiotics kills both the probiotics consumed orally and the microflora that are already a part of the intestinal ecosystem. This idea is based on the simplistic understanding that protease breaks down protein. Though this is true, it is incomplete. Plant-based proteases (from aspergillus) have the ability to break down a fairly wide range of proteins in a reasonably wide pH. However, they do not break down all proteins." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Longevity is more dependent on how poor you are relative to those who are advantaged in your ecosystem. For example, the greater the gap in income between the rich and the poor (the "Robin Hood effect") across states in the United States, the sooner the poor die. This relationship between income gap and longevity holds across the advanced world." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Remember, in any ecosystem, there is only so much food; if you appear to be taking more than your fair share, you're weeded out as a threat! Avoid Injury and Pain With the possible exception of teenagers wanting to get their bodies pierced in places you didn't know could be pierced, animals have an innate desire to avoid pain; that's because in most circumstances, pain equates with the potential for injury. If an animal is wounded, it becomes predator bait and its genes die with it." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Just as the Earth holds an abundance of life forms (sometimes existing harmoniously, while struggling fitfully at other times), the human body likewise harbors a vast internal ecosystem consisting of thousands of billions of living microorganisms that co-exist in peace or in conflict. This vast internal ecosystem (referred to by many researchers as "human intestinal flora") dramatically influences and even directs each person's state of health and well-being, including our physical and mental health and metabolism." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"A review of lactobacillus treatments for WC in 200368 found that vaginally administered or orally ingested lactobacillus is able to colonize the vaginal ecosystem and that most supplementation needed to continue for two to six months in order to sustain continued colonization. The author also concluded that controlled trials are encouraging but few, and that these trials had small numbers of women, inadequate controls, lack of blinding, high attrition rates, and were not consistent in the form of lactobacillus used. In addition, they had conflicting results." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Nutrition I cannot overemphasize how the health of the entire body affects the internal ecosystem of the vagina. The pH of the vagina, the microflora that live there, the hormonal cycles, and the immune tissue in the vagina are all influenced by our general health and dietary habits, and this in turn determines how susceptible we are to vaginitis. A generally healthy diet—well balanced, rich in whole foods, and low in fat, sugars, refined foods, and alcohol—is optimal in preventing infections." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Since then we have learned that a wide variety of microorganisms are present in a healthy vaginal ecosystem. The range of bacterial types is immense, including Staphylococcus species, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptococcus species, Bacteroides species, Lactobacillus species, Mobiluncus, even Candida species, most commonly Candida albicans, and more. Yet the predominant organisms are members of the Lactobacillus genus. The body's ability to control the vaginal microflora is no easy feat. The normal vaginal microflora defend against abnormal vaginal colonization." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "It is the result of alterations in the vaginal ecosystem rather than an infection caused by any single microorganism. In BV, the ordinarily lactobacilli-dominant vaginal environment is overgrown with anaerobes (mainly Prevotella, Peptostreptococcus species, Eubacterium species, and Mobiluncus) and facultative bacteria (Mycoplasma species, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus species, and Gardnerella vaginalis)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Just like Liebig, whose focus on the macronutrients in the human diet failed to take account of the important role played by micro-nutrients such as vitamins, Haber completely overlooked the importance of biological activity in the soil: the contribution to plant health of the complex underground ecosystem of soil microbes, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi. Harsh chemical fertilizers (and pesticides) depress or destroy this biological activity, forcing crops to subsist largely on a simple ration of NPK." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Rarely do we think of the ecosystem on our body in the form of bacterial communities residing on the skin, oral cavity, genitals, and GI tract. On average, the human GI tract [i.e., small intestine and large intestine (colon)] is 27 feet long. Its surface area is greatly enhanced by the formation of microvilli on the surface of each intestinal villus (Figure 1). Because of this anatomical folding, the GI tract creates a large surface area for bacterial colonization (approximately 150-200 m2 or 1614-2153 ft2) [1]. As a comparison, the human skin covers only approximately 2 m2 (21.5 ft2)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"How intelligent is a species that understands it is destroying the ecosystem crucial to its existence, and continues to destroy it? Any individual who behaved in such an irrational manner, without any care or respect for their own welfare or that of others, would be classed as insane. Such behavior has close parallels with cancer. When cancers become malignant, they can grow very fast, with no regard for the rest of the organism. They are part of the body, yet in many respects behave as if they were completely separate." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"We eat a SAD diet (Standard American Diet), which is low in fiber and nutrients and rich in sugar, additives, and chemicals, which changes the ecosystem of our gut. We are under chronic stress, which damages the normal intestinal barrier and affects the ENS. Our drug culture pushes antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, aspirin, steroids, and acid-blocking medications that all disrupt our gut's ability to stay in balance and do its job. And we are exposed to toxins such as mercury, which damage our normal gut function. All in all, we live in dangerous digestive times." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Bacteria that live in your gut (about three pounds' worth containing five hundred different species) produce vitamins and health-giving molecules that are all part of your gut ecosystem. ??Protects You • ?Your gut immune system makes up 60 percent of your total immune system and is called the GALT (or gut-associated lymphoid tissue). It lies under that one-cell layer I mentioned above through which nutrients are absorbed. Its job is to protect you from illness.When it is in balance, you are well." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "To treat it we need to address the whole system—the ecosystem of your body. That means we need to understand how the whole body operates as a system, not just how different pieces of the body operate independently from one another. We need to treat people, not body parts; we want to treat the causes of disease, not symptoms. I was trained according to the dogma of separate medical specialties—for heart problems you see the cardiologist, for stomach problems you see the gastroenterologist, for joint pain you see the rheumatologist, for skin problems, the dermatologist." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Another reason for keeping your digestion in good shape is the ecosystem of bacterial flora, the trillions of bugs that reside in your gut.There are more than five hundred species of bacteria in your gut, most of them "good guys," helping you digest your food, produce vitamins, excrete toxins, regulate hormones, and generally keep your gut healthy and balanced. These functions are impaired when there are too many of the "bad guys" and not enough of the "good guys." But most important, an imbalance in the flora can damage the delicate gut lining and lead to Spent." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

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