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"Joseph's University in Philadelphia, but on Escherichia coli, microbes with a direct impact on human beings. Millions of this bacteria, which help to digest food and keep hostile bacteria at bay, peacefully reside in the gut. E. coli also metabolizes lactose, the sugar present in milk. Yet, as with many microbes, E. coli can suddenly turn unfriendly by migrating out of the digestive tract or mutating into a virulent form that causes illness. Many toxic strains are also present in food. E. coli represented an interesting choice for Nash." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Pork is said to have many microbes, parasites and viruses. Shellfish are bottom feeders and not appropriate for a cleansing diet. vii. Caffeinated drinks such as coffee, black tea and colas rob the body of nutrients and water. They also negatively affect the nervous system. viii. Condiments such as jam, jelly, ketchup, vinegar and sauces usually add to the bad bacteria in the gut. These things usually contain food colouring and sugar. Vinegar is fermented and contributes to allergic symptoms. ix." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"PART III BACTERIUM m CHAPTER SEVEN "Daughter of Chance and Number" It is not surprising that microbes now find us so attractive. Because the carbon-hydrogen compounds of all organisms are already in an ordered state, the human body is a desirable food source for these tiny life forms. Bacteria see us as a source of autopoietic maintenance in their ancient struggle against thermodynamic equilibrium." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Also, microbes and rootlet fungi in the soil must be present and healthy to enable the plants to absorb minerals. Some agricultural regions are low in certain minerals. Certain agricultural practices can kill some of the soil organisms that assist the uptake of minerals. Organically grown plants may have a more complete spectrum of minerals. Minerals are inorganic elements. Minerals are not destroyed by heat in cooking or processing. Minerals are, however, susceptible to being leached out into cooking water that is discarded." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"HOW TO USE Taken as a daily supplement, silver can support your health by supporting your immune system and interacting directly with infectious microbes. In the short term, you get the benefit of enjoying good health; in the long term, a healthy immune system may help defend your body against cancer. CONTRAINDICATIONS Take too much of it and you could turn blue, but the right amount of silver just might cure you." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"It also has cleaning agents that kill microbes and germs and a scent that makes breath naturally fresh. Peelu is an ideal brush that has been naturally endowed with more breath-freshening, mouth-cleaning compounds than any artificially made toothpaste. Finally, herbs like coriander, ginger, cumin, and fennel are helpful. Indian restaurants usually provide a little bowl of fennel seeds for customers. Chewing on them freshens the breath in the nicest and most natural way." - 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.) "Probiotic supplementation is especially critical if a lot of yeast is present, and will help restore a healthy balance of microbes in the digestive tract. Since a healthy digestive tract is critical for prevention of allergies, working with a health-care provider who can eliminate yeast and replenish some of the good bacteria through probiotics use will help to diminish eczema flare-ups. Folic Acid and NAC for Hearing Loss IF YOU'RE A woman and you're at an age when it's even possible that you can get pregnant, you've probably heard that you should be taking folic acid on a daily basis." - 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.) "Vitamin C also boosts levels of a group of cells in the body that are programmed to target and kill tumors as well as protect against a variety of microbes that might be out to do you damage. These cells are called natural killer cells (NK cells), and they're one of the big guns of the immune system. In one study published in Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, high doses of vitamin C enhanced natural killer cells by 78 percent. The authors also concluded that such levels of NK cells might help in the treatment of cancer." - 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.) "Fact is, most of the major manufacturers in the United States do their own testing for microbes, heavy metals, and toxins. If you buy any reliable brand from a well-known manufacturer, you should be fine. Any brand I list on my website, www. jonnybowden.com, is a brand almost exclusively sold through health practitioners, and virtually all of them are extremely thorough in their testing. Many even offer a certificate of analysis. You can trust them—I certainly do. vitamin C per week showed a significant decrease in blood pressure for hypertensive patients." - 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.)

"Even organic produce can leech noxious microbes into our bloodstream, as a recent rash of infected spinach demonstrated. There are regular outbreaks of E. coli in melons and apple juice; salmonella in orange juice, cantaloupes and tomatoes; hepatitis viruses in strawberries; cyclospora in different berries; and Vibrio cholerae in fruits that have been in contact with contaminated water. There have even been documented cases of apple juices containing radioactive isotopes because the concentrate came from orchards within fallout range of Chernobyl." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Penile discharge is often a sign of urethritis—inflammation of the urethra, the tube SIGNIFICANT FACT through which urine leaves the ^SSFSSff The thick, sticky, smelly, conduit tor microbes to enter and , , , , t ., is called smegma. Its made up of oily seleave the penis. These germs can cretions and dead skin cells. Ironically, the come from such sources as a word smegma comes from the Greek for catheter, a prostate infection, or an- "soap"—A hint, perhaps? other person during sexual activity." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Infections caused by certain microbes such as viruses, bacteria and parasites can cause lactose intolerance. Some common bugs that are culprits are giardia, the Norwalk virus and rotavims. 3. Those who suffer with celiac disease, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome or gastroenteritis may all have difficulty digesting milk products. Any disease that affects the border of the small intestine may lead to lactose intolerance. 4. Some people are bom without the ability to digest milk. It is a genetic disorder. How is Lactose Intolerance Diagnosed? 1." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"It bioenergetically correlates to microbes including yeast, molds, fungi, and protozoa, including amoebas. Because this is a particularly robust Terrain in terms of its web of bioenergetic connections, dealing with more families of microorganisms than any other Terrain, the related Infoceutical can have a strong effect when you take it, so it always should be taken in minimum dosages to start. Energetic Terrain 14 The skin and lungs tend to host this Energetic Terrain, so bioenergetically it is associated particularly strongly with low Source energy." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Certain microbes can encourage an overgrowth of bad gastrointestinal bacteria. Leaky gut syndrome may occur if these bad bacteria are out of proportion to the good bacteria. Also things such as stress and drugs (steroids, painkillers and antibiotics) can cause leaky gut. Leaky gut is characterized by the cell junctions in the GI tract separating. This allows partially digested food proteins to leak into the bloodstream. These particles of food start a medley of immune reactions. Immune cells start recognizing these particles as "non-self and launch an attack." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "This acid can easily permeate fatty cell membranes of microbes, thus it is very effective against bacteria because it can break into its hard cell membrane. It is naturally found in coconuts and breast milk. Typical dosage for caprylic acid is 500 to 1200 mgs per day. Avoid if you are pregnant or nursing. It may cause some gastrointestinal upset because it alters the body's natural flora. Be sure to use probiotics while you use this product. Fibre Foods that are high fibre help with constipation but also clear bile, cholesterol and toxic debris from the gastrointestinal tract." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Then the white corpuscles were presented with microbes from the same culture to see their effect on or power to destroy them. Five hundred white cells in the first sample destroyed 245 microbes. Five hundred white cells from the second destroyed 681. This increase in microbe-killing under the influence of magnesium chloride was 180% over the other solutions. More experiments were performed; in one there was an increase to 129%, in another, 333%. 17 Back in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof.Pierre Delbet, M.D." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Macrophages (a kind of white blood cell) that scavenge other microbes, debris, and aberrant tissue are found in greater numbers in the early stages of endometriosis.36 This increase in macrophage activity may correlate with decreased fertility and possible reaction to sperm perceived by the woman's body as foreign.37 In the peritoneal fluid (fluid aspirated from the area behind the membrane lining the abdominopelvic wall) of women with severe endometriosis, natural killer cell activity has been found to be suppressed." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The British, for example, continued to build pavilion hospitals and Nightingale wards (both of which were designed to fight disease as it was conceptualized by sanitarian and miasmatic, not germ theory, models—via eliminating filth and putrefaction, not microbes) until the 1930s. On the front lines of the new science of bacteriology, meanwhile, its adherents were building a more sophisticated and integrated model in which both 'seed' and 'soil' were essential to disease aetiology." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"UV-B protectants and phytoalexins), signaling between plants and microbes, and regulating auxin transport (Winkel-Shirley, 2001). Many of these functions cannot occur unless flavonoids are properly localized within the cells. Anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins (also called condensed tannins), and flavonols are three major subclasses of flavonoid compounds. Anthocyanins do not show their brilliant colors until they are accumulated in the acidic vacuoles. Proanthocyanidins are polymers of the catechins and/or epicatechins monomeric precursors (Xie et al., 2003)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (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.) "Fats make up the structure of our cell walls, the ratios between the various kinds influencing the permeability of the cells to everything from glucose and hormones to microbes and toxins. Without adequate amounts of fat in the diet, fat-soluble vitamins like A and E can't pass through the intestinal walls. All this was known in 1977. But the Hippocratic oath—"First do no harm"—evidently does not apply to official dietary advice, which at least in 1977 followed a very different principle: "Why not?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"These nano-sized particles of silver are considered more lethal to beneficial and harmful microbes both. The petition asked that the nanoparticles of silver be treated as a type of new pesticide, a regulatory category that would require safety analysis and oversight before products containing them could be released to the public. The FDA had not responded as of this writing." - 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.)

"Probiotic and other functional microbes: From markets to mechanisms. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 16, 204-211. 88. Alander, M., Satokari, R., Korpela, R., Saxelin, M., Vilpponen-Salmela, T., Mattilla-Sandholm, T., and von Wright, A. (1999). Persistence of colonization of human colonic mucosa by a probiotic strain, Lactobacillus rhamnosus G. G., after oral consumption. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 351-354. 89. Tannock, G. W., Munro, K., Harmsen, H. J. M., Welling, G. W., Smart, J., and Gopal, P. K. (2000)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Nixing Nanobacteria We think that cardiology will soon take up the challenge of nanobacteria—the miniscule microbes 1/1000th the size of other bacteria. Finnish experts believe that this insidious microorganism causes the calcification present in diseased arteries. They are refining a treatment method aimed at killing the bacteria and decalcifying the arteries. We have used it and seen patients improve and arterial calcium scores fall dramatically. This is a new CVD therapy that needs further refinement, but pilot studies in the United States and around the world have been positive." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"To work out the growth rates of these tiny organisms, Nash employed an electrophotometer, which counts the microbes by measuring the slightest differences in the density of the media in which they are suspended. Each of his sixty student participants received nine test tubes containing both lactose-negative and lactose-positive strains, of E. coli culture. The students were asked to mentally encourage the transformation of the unmutated bacteria in the first three test tubes from lactose-negative to lactose-positive." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Yet, as with many microbes, E. coli can suddenly turn unfriendly by migrating out of the digestive tract or mutating into a virulent form that causes illness. Many toxic strains are also present in food. E. coli represented an interesting choice for Nash. If humans could control its growth, they might avoid serious E. coli infections and improve their general digestive health. Nash decided to test whether mental influence could affect the mutation rates of E. coli bacteria. Usually, an E." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"In fact, we have more of these microbes living in our intestinal tract than we have cells in our body (only about 80 trillion). These bacteria are either good for you, bad for you, or neutral. When people ask me about the number one root cause of most chronic illness, they are often surprised when I say poor digestion and an inability to detoxify efficiently is likely to blame." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Although environmental toxins are most certainly an important contributing factor, digestive toxins, which include those produced by harmful microbes in our gastrointestinal tracts, are an equally important, though often overlooked, source of disease in the body. Combined, both external and internal toxins are a double whammy. They make for a heavier body burden as well as a dysfunctional digestive system, which can contribute to all manner of disease, not just gastrointestinal disorders." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Indoor pollution typically comes from formaldehyde, aerosol spray products, air fresheners, asbestos, microbes and mold spores, carbon dioxide, house dust, cooking gas, colognes, and cleaning products. In a poorly ventilated building, these pollutants are concentrated and can give rise to a number of symptoms. Airborne chemicals can also come from lead-based paints, indoor pesticides (e.g." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Without these critical microbes, soil minerals become locked up, and the health of the soil declines. Consequently, plants become malnourished, sick, and easy prey for insects. Here we may make another comparison: overacidified soil is like the human body that has become overly acidic as a result of eating a junk food diet. Such a body also becomes prey to "bugs"—in the form of germs. The body that is overly acidic is toxic, for many toxins are of an acidic nature." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

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