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"These elemental forms of calcium can easily bind to dietary oxalates and phytates, which results in their excretion. Calcium in food is normally chelated to other nutrients. Minerals are chelated when they are bound to organic molecules. Calcium in supplements is often chelated to citrates, lactates, and gluconates. These forms are easily broken apart in the stomach, which limits their absorption. If taken with food, the free calcium can combine with amino acids in the food, which aids their absorption. Some supplementary calcium comes already chelated with amino acids." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"More generally, the Cell Driver field bioenergetically optimizes cellular activities including creation of heat, absorption of oxygen and nutrients, excretion of cellular waste products, and cell replication. All of these processes are dependent on information—on the cell knowing what to do, when to do it, and in the case of cellular production processes, how much of an enzyme, hormone, or other molecule it should make. Cell Driver also correlates to liver function because your liver is the powerhouse of cellular energy metabolism and waste disposal." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "These cells actively ingest and metabolize food, maintain coordinated operation of their physiologic systems (respiration, digestion, excretion, motility, etc.), retain an ability to communicate with other cells, and are able to engage in appropriate responses to growth and protection-requiring environmental stimuli."12 Although these enucleated cells cannot divide or reproduce parts of proteins they need for long-term survival, Lipton's experiments demonstrate, nonetheless, that the nucleus is not the control center of the cell." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Fiber increases fecal excretion of excess estrogen, which may account for the protective effect of a high-fiber diet against a variety of hormone-sensitive conditions, including breast cancer. Other foods that are recommended specifically for hot flashes include flaxseed, high-lignan flaxseed oil, fennel, celery, and parsley. Both flaxseed and high-lignan flaxseed oil are rich in lignans, which can help normalize estrogen levels. Fennel, celery, parsley, and all legumes are excellent sources of phytoestrogens (natural estrogens found in plants)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Thiazide diuretics increase urine output and decrease the volume of fluid in your circulation by increasing sodium excretion from the kidneys, which drags water along with it. Examples include hydrochlorothiazide (Esidrix, Hydrodiuril, Microzide) and chlorthalidone (Hygro-ton). They work very well, are safer than other, newer meds used to treat hypertension, and because they are off patent and available in generic versions, cost a fraction of what other drugs cost. They also have some beneficial side effects. Thiazides promote calcium retention and prevent bone loss and fractures." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The correlation between established tumor volume and urinary lignan excretion "indicates that the reduction in tumor size is due in part to the lignans derived from... flaxseed." These findings are confirmed by additional work by Thompson and colleagues, who note that in another experimental study, dietary supplementation with flaxseed or isolated lignans reduced chemically induced mammary tumor size and number. There's a lot more to the protective powers of flax lignans." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "SHBG regulates estrogen levels by facilitating the excretion of excess estrogen from the body. It should be noted that lignans are thought to be estrogen modulators, balancing estrogen activity with both weak estrogenic and antiestrogenic abilities. Studies of women who consume flaxseed oil have shown significant hormonal changes and decreased estradiol levels—alterations similar to those caused by soy isoflavones. This makes flaxseed oil or meal a great choice for women who can't use soy or who simply want another source of phytohormones." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "There is a substantial reduction in breast cancer risk among women with a high intake (as measured by excretion) of phytoestrogens—particularly the isoflavonic phytoestrogen equol and the lignan enterolactone. These findings could be important in the prevention of breast cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Meantime, researchers from the John Innes Centre and Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK, say ITCs inhibit phase I enzymes, which are responsible for the activation of many carcinogens in animals, and induce phase II enzymes, which are associated with enhanced excretion of carcinogens. Many additional studies now show us that watercress is a very important detoxification herb." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Aldosterone is a hormone that increases urinary excretion of potassium. The symptoms of hypokalemia can result from alterations in membrane potential and lack of potassium for energy production. Symptoms include fatigue, muscle weakness, bloating, and intestinal sluggishness. Severe hypokalemia can result in muscular paralysis or abnormal heart rhythms that can be fatal." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "However, kidney stones are related to the excretion of high levels of calcium in the urine. Factors that increase urinary calcium, such as excess dietary sodium and excess dietary protein, increase the risk of kidney stones. Calcium combines with oxalates in the stomach, thus removing them from absorption. The unabsorbed calcium and oxalates are passed out into the stool. By reducing the absorption of oxalates, calcium can reduce the incidence of kidney stones. Lead toxicity can be reduced in two ways by adequate calcium intake." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Dairy products and calcium interfere with magnesium absorption, and refined sugar increases the urinary excretion of magnesium.14 Further data confirm these findings by showing that women with PMS have increased consumption of dietary fat, carbohydrates, and simple sugars and decreased consumption of protein. This study also showed that PMS sufferers had a higher number of "eating incidences" than women who did not meet the criteria for PMS." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"High levels of phthalates have been identified in domestic wastewater as a result of bodily excretion and product-dumping down sinks and commodes ( 30). Phthalates have also been identified in the urine of men shortly after the use of cologne, aftershave, hair products, and deodorants (31). A study using men from an infertility clinic showed a strong relation between low sperm motility and levels of a phthalate metabolite in the urine (32)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"This waste matter is passed on to the kidneys for excretion with the urine. However, with regular consumption of animal proteins, including meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, more and more intrahepatic stones are formed in the bile ducts of the liver.13 This greatly reduces the liver's ability to break down these proteins. Protein foods are among the most-acid-forming and blood-thickening foods of all. Therefore, when a major portion of the protein ends up circulating in the blood, it will, of course, thicken the blood." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"He discovered in many cases that initial TD-DMPS provocation testing yielded very little excretion of mercury. Then, after several weeks or months of his protocol, the excretion levels of mercury increased dramatically. And as the excretion levels rose, he observed that the patient's symptoms would begin to subside and fade away. The results of his observations seemed to indicate that the central problem with these autistic children was that for some reason, they just could not excrete the metals from their bodies efficiently. In his words, "They were just bad excreters!" - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"Cilantro, parsley, dark leafy greens help to bind up toxins, such as heavy metals, for excretion. iii. Goat milk, yogurt and cheese are more readily digested than cow dairy products. iv. Rice and soya milk are alternatives to goat or cow milk. v. Cottage cheese and plain cow milk yogurt are acceptable. vi. Oatmeal, buckwheat, quinoa and brown rice are healthy grains that do not contain gluten. Sometimes oatmeal is cross contaminated with wheat, which contains gluten. If you are a celiac, be careful with oats. vii. Use seasonings such as olive oil, honey, Bragg's seasoning, sea salt and spices." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"One cause of the depletion may be increased urinary loss of magnesium as a result of the increased excretion of glucose that accompanies poorly controlled diabetes. Magnesium deficiency has been associated with insulin resistance. Intercellular depletion of magnesium has been found to be a common feature of insulin resistance. Research has also shown that a decrease in insulin sensitivity occurs with a magnesium deficiency.143 There seems to be a clear association between the lowest consumption of dietary magnesium and the highest amount of insulin resistance in nondiabetic subjects." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Surgical removal of the gallbladder may be necessary, but this further reduces the excretion of bile. Make wise food choices and your body will reward you! GENERAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR BILE PRODUCTION Bile Salts Ox bile is often used as a digestive aid. This supplement is useful for those who lack bile, have had their gallbladder removed or other liver disorders. Typical dosage is 250 to 500 mgs with meals. Bile salts may be included in digestive enzymes." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"When Becky eats a dinner of mako shark in a pepper crust at her favorite seafood eatery, she is ingesting those plastics as well as traceable levels of the highly active contraceptives—from the excretion of birth-control pills through our sewage system—that also now appear regularly in test samples of U.S. seawater. These industrial compounds—both of which are known endocrine disruptors— magnify in intensity as they are passed up the food chain from host to host, reaching their second to highest concentration in us—and their highest of all in human breast milk." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Putting increase of urinary calcium aside for the moment, a British Medical Journal study in 2002 suggested that animal protein may increase the urinary excretion of oxalate, and that's something we definitely don't want. Animal protein will also likely increase the risk of uric acid stones. Moderate amounts of protein are probably fine, though all my usual precautions about factory-farmed meat still apply for other reasons, and if I were a stone former, I'd probably keep protein to a reasonable amount—say 20 percent or so—of my diet for a while. The Magic of Magnesium What about supplements?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "In one study, calcium restriction led to an increase in the absorption and excretion of oxalate in the urine, and this happened both in people with and without kidney stones. You can ensure this doesn't happen by making sure you get enough calcium in the first place. (Note that calcium supplements should be taken with meals rather than on an empty stomach; that way, they have the best chance of binding to O oxalates found in food." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Autoimmune theories are based on detecting antinuclear antibodies, increased urinary excretion of eosinophilic cationic protein, and the tendency of IC to affect women. Other evidence includes IgM in the uroepithelium, immune deposits in vessel walls, and T and B cell nodules in patients with IC. • Inflammation. Most biopsies of IC bladders show mild chronic inflammation to significant infiltration of T cells, B cells, plasma cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells. Inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-6 are also increased. • Infection." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Adding to the evidence, urinary excretion of lignans has been found to be lower in nonvegetarians and in postmenopausal women with breast cancer as compared with healthy women.4345 Foods for Bone Health. Several dietary factors affect bone health and are involved in the development of osteoporosis: insufficient calcium intake, vitamin D deficiency, low calcium and high phosphorus intake, low fatty acid intake, insufficient dark leafy greens, a high-protein diet, excess salt intake, and excess alcohol." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "As you will learn in the nutritional supplements section, vitamin K is involved in the mineralization of bone, and boron decreases the urinary excretion of calcium and magnesium. Soy foods appear to also have some role in preventing or slowing bone loss. Soy contains a class of compounds called phytoestrogens. The phytoestrogen especially high in soy foods is isoflavone. Phytoestrogens and isoflavones are discussed in more detail in Chapter 12; here we'll focus on their effect on bone health. Soybeans contain phytoestrogens called isoflavones and a particular isoflavone called daidzein." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Alcohol also impairs the absorption of thiamin, while increasing excretion of thiamin. Enzymes present in raw fish and shellfish destroy thiamin. Also, tannins in tea and coffee can oxidize thiamin, reducing the availability of thiamin in the diet. Extreme thiamin Table 1-1 RDAs for the B vitamins are bold and the AIs are not bold. B Vitamins RDAs &AIs Years of Age mg B2 nig B3 mg Biotin meg B5 mg B6 mg Folate meg B12 meg Infants OtoM 0.2 0.3 2 5 1.7 0.1 65 0.4 Infants ^tol 0.2 0.4 4 6 1.8 0.3 80 0.5 Children 1-3 0.5 0.5 6 8 2 0.5 150 0." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Kyle took multiple courses of antibiotics, which interfere with the excretion of heavy metals. • Kyle got three vaccinations while he was ill with ear infections, and was taking antibiotics. Kyle had food allergies and bowel problems. You probably missed other clues, though, just as I did when I first met Kyle. Here's the short version of the more obscure clues. I'll tell you more about them later, as together we unravel the mystery of autism." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"There is some suggestion that the external excretion of the pancreas becomes deficient in enzymes in diabetes, and that oral administration of enzymes had a beneficial effect.121 Dr. Bassler reported a deficiency in amylase in the duodenum in more than 86 percent of cases of diabetes he studied. Drs. Harrison and Laurent, in twenty-nine cases of Type-2, reported fourteen cases with a significantly lower blood amylase and thirteen cases with values from the low to lowest limits of the normal range." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The treated group exhibited a 54 percent decrease in twenty-four-hour urine excretion of glucose, as well as a reduction in total cholesterol.180 Fenugreek seeds are also 55 percent fiber, so they slow down the rapid absorption of glucose. Fenugreek normalizes glucose after meals and improves insulin response in the body, and it lowers total cholesterol and triglycerides. CINNAMON Cinnamon is a powerful herb for blood sugar control. Dr. Richard Anderson, in a study with the U.S." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "High-Stress Lifestyle and Hypertension When the body is under stress, many hormones are released that indirectly increase insulin excretion and indirectly create insulin resistance, a precursor to a diabetic physiology. These hormones release energy in the form of glucose and fat, which is made available to the cells of the body. This provides fuel for what has been traditionally referred to as the "fight or flight" response." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Well, physicians have long been aware that alcohol and caffeine promote excessive urinary excretion of magnesium, as do diuretics. Excessive loss of magnesium in the urine is the major cause of magnesium deficiency in diabetes, and low magnesium states have also been associated with insulin resistance. In addition, various bowel diseases and some medications impede the intestinal absorption of this mineral." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

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