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"But Joseph's studies show that when you feed lab animals extracts of blueberries, wonderful things start happening—or, more accurately, bad things don't happen. Such as mental deterioration. Rats that chow down on blueberries in the Joseph lab act like they've found the Rat Fountain of Youth. Blueberries actually help neurons in the brain communicate with one another more effectively. "Old neurons are kind of like old married couples," Joseph says. "They don't talk to each other so much anymore." Memory goes down and the "processing" necessary for coordination and balance tends to decline." - 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.)

"For already there is one method of dramatically extending lives in lab animals: Undernutrition, or feeding the animals half as much as they would like to eat, at every meal. This is not starvation, though, because the researchers use supernutritious food and are careful to supply all necessary nutrients. As a result, over the years, scientists have found that mice that were supposed to live 14 months, for example, went on to live for four years after being put on an undernutrition-without-malnutrition diet." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Chew More, Eat Less, Live Longer I t's known that obesity cuts millions of lives short, but only in lab animals have scientists \ been able to prove that caloric restriction extends /O ^ life spans. That's enough \\)\ _ proof for many folks, how- /\^J^ ever, to consider how to eat // \ M I v\ less, over a lifetime, without going on a diet. One solution: Chew more. A lot more. Most of us chew MM _\ our food an average of only seven times before swallowing (go ahead, count at your next meal)." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"When that point is reached—because, as in the case of Fairweather's mice, the immune cells never get the message to put on the brakes—her lab animals develop myocarditis, an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune fighter cells attack the tissue of the heart. "It's a matter of balance," says Fairweather. If the body is constantly fighting new autogens, that balance goes out of whack. Mast cells begin to proliferate even more, causing more cytokines to be produced—when the exact opposite ought to be happening and the immune system ought to be damping down. All gas, no brakes." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "It remains to be seen if PAP-1 will work in people as well as it does in lab animals. Meanwhile, such discoveries speak to the importance of protecting our plant and animal biodiversity. Ironically, many of the same factors that are precipitating today's autoimmunity epidemic—environmental degradation and chemical pollution both on land and at sea—are threatening to extinguish plant and animal species that may one day turn out to hold the very cures we seek for autoimmune disease. GLUCOSAMINE." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Using a mouse model of MS, neurologists recently found that doses of glucosamine similar to those commonly taken as supplements dramatically delayed the onset of MS symptoms and improved the ability of lab animals to walk and move. Researchers believe that glucosamine may prove useful in human trials for those suffering from MS. PROBIOTICS. One area in which a great deal of research has been done in autoimmune-disease patients is that of probiotic supplementation." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Almost all Americans now have some detectable amounts of Teflon in their blood, and they are getting close to the level that harms lab animals. Pending review, the Environmental Protection Agency is now advising consumers to stop using Teflon products. Is Cooked Food Addictive? We know that fermenting food sugars and starches into alcohol makes them addictive for many people. Would heating food do the same thing? Raw fooders are convinced that cooked food is addictive. They base this conviction on the empirical (observational) evidence of both their own and others' subjective experiences." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Nevertheless, the quest to make the invisible visible—and demonstrate, in lab animals, how exposure to a particular chemical causes autoimmunity—is the holy grail of autoimmune disease and immunotoxicology research. The immune response involves one of the most complex systems in the body. Indeed, the number of cell interactions that go into one immune response—say, fighting off the microparticles that come out of a blast of diesel exhaust—would take up three consecutive chalkboards to show in its entirety." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Substances such as artificial colors, sweeteners, stabilizers, nitrates, and preservatives are often linked to cancer in lab animals and may be harmful or cancer promoting in humans. They are best avoided. You can find out what additives are in a given food by knowing how to read the label. Lets take a look at a sample this packaging. Start Here ^ QcheckCalones > Limit these Nutrients Get Enough Oof these Nutrients w -?" - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"According to John Culhane, in his 1980 article "PCBs: The Poisons That Won't Go Away," only a few parts per billion of these substances can cause cancer and birth defects in lab animals.19 The tenth annual Council on Environmental Quality, sponsored by the U.S. government, reported PCBs in 100 percent of all human sperm samples. According to a Washington Post article in 1979, PCBs are considered one of the main reasons that the average sperm count of the American male is approximately 70 percent of what it was thirty years ago." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, feeling stuck is associated with pessimism, which one animal research study called learned helplessness. When lab animals are subjected to stress over which they have no control, they have strong physical responses. Over time, the poor critters learn to be helpless, close down emotionally, and have heightened responses to future stresses because they've learned it's futile to look for alternatives or escape. This is a pattern frequently seen in humans who have experienced highly traumatic events in childhood or adulthood. Hope When we don't have options, we don't have hope." - 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.)

"S0102-86502003001100009&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en) 26 Researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized, are hidden by FDA approval, and certainly doctors and the food industry are not informing parents that they and their children are being poisoned by white flour containing alloxan. Diabetes and Chemical Poisoning. Source: (http://imva.info/) 27 Consumer Reports (Feb." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"When thiamine was added to the food of diabetic lab animals, kidney damage (common in diabetics) was cut by 70 to 80 percent. Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Surprising tidbit: Even over-the-counter cold and allergy medications can contribute to memory problems; in fact, injecting lab animals with the active ingredient in Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is a research model for memory loss that immediately simulates Alzheimer's. YOU Tip: Learn to Tell a Joke. There's lots of evidence that a good laugh can help improve your immune system, and humor can also have a valuable effect on your memory." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Rife inoculated 400 lab animals with this virus, created 400 tumors, and then miraculously eliminated every cancer tumor by using an instrument he invented to modify its electronic signature. He was using energy! Some people call it frequencies. Rife used the same technology for other "incurable diseases." Constructing his own equipment, Rife painstakingly analyzed the precise energetic signature unique to each pertinent microbe. Rife theorized that the smallest virus, microbe, or bacteria each had a unique vibration, or energetic signature, or frequency." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Activated vitamin D (calcitriol) inhibits the growth of parasites in lab animals. 23. Anaphylaxis is several times more common in northern than southern states, indicating that vitamin D may help to prevent this potentially deadly allergic response. 24. Epileptics have a high rate of vitamin D deficiency. 25. Viral infections are closely correlated to many autoimmune diseases and cancers, and vitamin D may reduce these diseases due to its viricidal properties. 26. Metabolic syndrome is closely correlated to vitamin D deficiency. 27." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Pomegranate juice also has been found to contain phytochemical compounds that stimulate serotonin and estrogen receptors, reducing symptoms of depression and increasing bone mass in lab animals.52 Given the fact that pomegranate juice is so rich in heart-protective compounds (and the benefits are so well documented), I recommend it for all patients with heart disease, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, and I have added it to my cholesterol-lowering supplement, LDL Protect. Policosanol—Policosanol is an extract from the wax of the sugarcane plant. (It also can be derived from beeswax." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"A similar spectrum of health effects found in the lab animals exposed to certain phthalates was also occurring in people: sperm counts appeared to be declining in industrialized countries, birth defects of the male reproductive tract had been increasing, and testicular cancer was on the rise. Scientists called these human health effects "testicular dysgenesis syndrome," and some suspected the disorders could be caused by phthalates and other chemicals that interfere with male sex hormones." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"In other words, when lab animals receive this herb in sufficient quantities, tumors or colon cancer is often the result.73 Remember—there is only a fractional amount of DNA differentiating human beings from many other mammals such as rats, primates, or even a household fly... so what can kill one animal can probably kill most. You obviously don't want to ingest this herb or any of its derivatives. Take the time to seek out a product supporting your body's ability to cleanse and heal itself, rather than relying on a dangerous laxative that causes more harm than good." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"This spectrum of health effects is so common in lab animals exposed to phthalates that scientists have come to call it "phthalates syndrome." But what does that mean for people? Limited human data was available. The method to detect phthalate metabolites in human fluids had only recently been developed by CDC scientists John Brock and Benjamin Blount and reported in their October 2000 paper. Human health trends over the past few decades provided a possible clue." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"It is particularly alarming in light of consistent reports of immune system responses in lab animals and humans exposed to Bt, in animals fed Bt crops and in humans handling Bt cotton or breathing Bt corn pollen (see section 1). ased on reasonable ' scientific certainty, there is no identifiable maximum level of Cry9Cprotein that can be suggested that would not provoke an allergic response and thus would not be harmful to the public. "S2 — EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel 1." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "So too is the non-investigation of deaths among lab animals and offspring, livestock sterility, reports of illness by those exposed to GM crops and pollen, unidentified proteins, and the overwhelming evidence linking cancer with a hormone that is significantly elevated in milk from rbGH-treated cows. Even when StarLink—a potentially allergenic corn variety unapproved for human consumption—contaminated the US food supply, the response was feeble at best. It is not as if science lacks the tools for proper investigations." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"In addition to being good for your heart and blood vessels, pomegranates have been shown to inhibit breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and leukemia and to prevent vascular changes that promote tumor growth in lab animals.50 Pomegranates' potent antioxidant compounds also have been shown to reduce platelet aggregation and naturally lower blood pressure, factors that prevent both heart attacks and strokes." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"These included lab animals with damage to virtually every system studied, thousands of sick, sterile, or dead livestock and people around the world who traced toxic or allergic reactions to eating GM products, breathing GM pollen, or touching GM crops at harvest. Then, 45 ways in which genetic engineering may be responsible for these and other health problems were presented. Here we review the findings, looking for patterns and discussing probable causes for some of the adverse reactions." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"When thiamine was added to the food of diabetic lab animals, kidney damage (common in diabetics) was cut by 70 to 80 percent. Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"In one study, injecting lab animals with celery lowered their blood pressure by 12 to 14 percent. If you're a human, you'd get that effect with about four stalks. Dr. Mark Houston, head of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital and Medical Center in Nashville and my go-to guy for all things related to hypertension, has celery at the top of his list of foods for his patients with high blood pressure. The substances in celery that seem to produce the benefit are phytochemi-cals called phthalides." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Quick Facts: When researchers at Johns Hopkins studied the effect^ of sulphoraphane on tumor formation in lab animals, those animals given sulforaphane had fewer tumors. And the tumors they did develop grew more slowly and were smaller in size. Quick Facts: A study published December 2003 in the cancer^ journal Oncology Report, demonstrated that sulforaphane is a potent inducer of Phase 2 liver detoxification enzymes. It also induces cell death of abnormal cells in both leukemia and melanoma cells. Carrots Why: Carrots are a rich source of carotenoids." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"But what Joseph's studies show is that when you feed the lab animals extracts of blueberries, wonderful things start happening; or, more accurately, bad things don't happen. Bad things meaning mental deterioration. And loss of coordination and balance. Gone. Those rats that chowed down on the blueberries behaved like young studs. In Joseph's lab, they'd found the Rat Fountain of Youth. Blueberries contain compounds like antho-cyanin that are antioxidant and anti-inflammatory." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Alicia Fernandez was a proud, hard-working Mexican-American immigrant who spent more than ten years in the "clean rooms" of IBM's chip factory in San Jose, California, working with more than a dozen different chemicals known to cause cancer in lab animals. She and her coworkers, all women, wore caps and gloves to keep human hair, skin flakes and perspiration from contaminating the delicate wafers onto which computer chips were etched. But their lungs got no protection from the fumes and dust that filled the room. Fernandez was thrilled to have what she was told was "a job for life ." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Diehl was responsible for testing anti-inflammatory drugs on lab animals. In order for him to test the drugs, he first had to artificially induce arthritis in the animals by injecting a heat-killed bacterium called Freund's adjuvant. Dr. Diehl discovered that Swiss albino mice did not get arthritis after injection of Freund's adjuvant. Eventually, he was able to determine that cetyl myristoleate was the factor present naturally in mice that was responsible for this protection. When CMO was injected into various strains of rats, it offered the same protection against arthritis." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

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