Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about limiting or eliminating your consumption of red meat and instead nourish your body with the phytonutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and even the living energy of plants. That's how you'll be the healthiest you can be. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All of this also goes to show why people who pursue healthy diets tend to have such a positive outlook and outstanding mental health -- it's the foods, stupid, because the food greatly affects your mental state, and if you eat healing foods, and foods rich in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, then you're going to have healthy mental function and will probably never experience depression, especially if you combine these foods with natural sunlight. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Certain vitamins, minerals, and special phytonutrients can promote this healing and strengthen our cells so that they are better able to protect themselves against future injury. In fact, recent evidence has shown that a common herb can rescue injured brain cells even when taken hours after the injury occurs!
Now let us begin our voyage into the wondrous land. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These phytonutrients help eliminate toxins and protect the body from parasites, bacteria and viruses, and other invaders. These biochemical effects are well-documented if you actually look at the scientific literature on these herbs. This is where most of the potency of these products gets recognized: the biochemical level.
Then there's the bioenergetic level, and that's what I spoke about earlier. And that's what sets these supplements apart from practically everything else on the market. |
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 Power Foods
Phytochemicals have also been shown to be effective in controlling blood sugar and insulin sensitivity:
A variety of phytonutrients derived from spices influence insulin sensitivity. For example, American scientists have found that 1 teaspoon of cinnamon a day may help control blood sugar levels. The common spice appears to rekindle the ability of fat cells to respond to insulin and increase glucose removal (Hodge 2000).
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
Soy is perhaps the best-known source for phytochemicals that protect against cancer and other diseases. |
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| Conquering depression through food choice
For clinical depression, all you need to do is get outstanding nutrition by avoiding processed foods, get plenty of phytonutrients in your body, consume healthy oils on a regular basis and get lots of sunlight. It's not difficult to avoid depression and you certainly don't need antidepressant drugs in order to have stable moods and healthy brain function. What you need is stable nutrition. |
| Berries are high in phytonutrients that prevent macular degeneration, heart disease, Alzheimer's, high cholesterol, and even help fight cancer. This includes blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc.
• Broccoli, cauliflower, and other cruciferous vegetables contain powerful anticancer phytochemicals and compounds that can help keep you cancer free. (Also, add onions, garlic, and ginger to the anti-cancer list.)
• Soy products contain isoflavones known to support the immune system and fight cancer. |
| We're eating plenty of food if you just count the calories, but not nearly enough of the right kinds of foods that provide nutrition in the form of phytonutrients, minerals, enzymes, healthy oils, vitamins, and other important nutrients. Malnutrition is alarmingly widespread: perhaps three-fourths of the population is deficient in zinc. Most people are deficient in magnesium. Nearly everyone who doesn't supplement with nutritional supplements in America is deficient in various B vitamins. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Olives and olive oil have been shown to be good for the heart, reduce bad cholesterol, raise good cholesterol, thin blood, and contain phytonutrients that retard cancer and aging, increase longevity, and lower blood pressure.
SALAD WITH VEGETABLE CROUTONS
2 eggplants, diced or cubed 4-6 zucchini, diced (and/or carrots, beets, potatoes)
Place on baking tray and sprinkle with herbal salt. Bake at a hot temperature or on grill until golden brown; remove and cool. |
Mike Adams
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| In fact, broccoli is loaded with anti-cancer phytonutrients that are far more powerful than any prescription drugs or chemotherapy at fighting and reversing various cancers in the body. Broccoli is one of the best anti-cancer foods you can eat. And yet you hardly ever hear it described in such terms. That's because the FDA forbids broccoli growers from making such health claims and simultaneously, pharmaceutical companies can't earn any money from broccoli, so there's no reason to fund clinical trials that actually prove broccoli's benefits. |
Mike Adams
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| While it's true that some phytonutrients are available as nutritional supplements, no matter how "complete" the supplements are, they're bound to leave out many of the phytos that are found in fruits and vegetables. Not only that, but the mixture of these nutrients that you get naturally from carrots, blueberries, broccoli, and other plant foods provides some benefits that generally can't be duplicated by a laboratory-produced pill. |
| The trap is that when you buy convenience foods, you may find yourself lacking a sufficient intake of all important phytonutrients (more commonly called "phytochemicals") that come from plant sources. The Standard American Diet is, in particular, lacking phytochemicals.
It's as if people are so focused on the immediate taste sensation they desire that they forget about their body's other health needs. This is an easy dietary trap to fall into, since so many manufactured foods contain no phytochemicals.
Meat, milk, and eggs for example, have no phytochemicals whatsoever. |
| Certain vitamins, minerals, and special phytonutrients can promote this healing and strengthen our cells so that they are better able to protect themselves against future injury. In fact, recent evidence has shown that a common herb can rescue injured brain cells even when taken hours after the injury occurs!
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| These substances are being called phytochemicals (phyto-being from the Greek word for "plant"), or phytonutrients, or sometimes nutraceuticals or foodaceuticals. The idea behind these terms is that food can be medicinal as well as nutritious.
Phytochemicals are powerful, biologically active compounds found in plants. This biological activity can be extraordinarily helpful (in preventing cancer, for example), and the beneficial effects of these phytochemicals occurs in concert with the full spectrum of nutrients found in each plant. |
Mike Adams
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| Blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries are all rich in phytonutrients that ward off cancer, improve vision, enhance your immune system function, cleanse your blood and kidneys, and perform an astounding array of other health-enhancing activities in the human body. Without a doubt, every person should be eating some berries as a regular part of their diet.
Avocados: the great underdog of superfoods
Avocados are another superfood in my book. Avocados offer outstanding nutrition. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Most people do not come close to meeting this guideline, particularly the recommendation for vegetables, because they do not like cruciferous vegetables, the vegetables are not readily available, or they cannot eat the quantity required each day to meet recommended dietary guidelines fot phytonutrients. Sometimes raw vegetables are not easy for the system to digest. Storage and processing by the suppliet or overcooking in the home contributes to loss of phytonutrients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: And what kind of -- I don't know if you can even talk about this -- but can you talk about the results that you see when these women begin to change their diet and supplement these phytonutrients and nutrients that are really good for them?
Lucille: Well, first of all, I don't advertise at all, and I have a very busy practice. So by the time somebody comes to me and seeks me out and finds me, they're exhausted because what they have been doing or what they've been given is not working, and they're uncomfortable, and they're wanting something more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Private Reserve Superfood is a flax-based superfood meal replacement powder that's loaded with phytonutrients and healthy oils. At first, I found the taste a bit strong on the flax, but I got used to it in a couple of weeks and now I frankly enjoy it. Definitely not cheap stuff, but worth every penny. Only for those who want the very best for their bodies.
Additional reading
Read an interview with Jon Barron about the new Glucotor formula.
Also, I'm including Jon Barron's description of the clinical trial below. The following is written by Barron and used with permission.
Glucotor v. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Prunes are said to be loaded with antioxidant phytonutrients, so they are a healthy choice if consumed in moderation. They are not the only dried fruit that can be helpful in an attempt to overcome constipation. Dried figs and even apricots provide a little variety. They may not have any specifically laxative components, but they certainly are good sources of fiber, and some people find them quite helpful.
Dried apricots (two a day) and plenty of water can relieve constipation. It helps me and has helped my friends.
FLAXSEED
Another source of fiber is not nearly as well known as prunes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These ingredients are so often mentioned in breast cancer studies as containing phytonutrients that inhibit the growth of breast cancer tumors. Now, I know you can't make those claims for your product, but what's behind your choice of these specific herbal combinations?
Lovejoy: Well, also I added astragalus, which is also known to be effective for breast cancer, and it's actually anti-viral and anti-microbial. They've done some incredible studies with astragalus. Being an herbalist, I really wanted to add the right ingredients for prevention. It's all about prevention. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| Often, only half the phytonutrients in any serving of raw vegetables ultimately becomes available for absorption—the other half is quickly eliminated from the body. Concentrated vegetables (particularly those with the water content temoved and which are ground to the consistency of powdered sugar) are more digestible. In this form, it is estimated that 90 to 100% of phytonutrients, and all of their cancer-fighting properties, become available for absorption into the body (Mowatt 1998). (Indole-3-carbinol is available from Life Extension in capsule form. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The colors of the food are indicative of the nutrition they have and each color is indicative of different phytonutrients. I call it the medicine in your food and that medicine is in this product in freeze-dried form, correct?
Burt: It is. It's all been dehydrated at low temperatures. It's not from juice. They're whole-leaf fruits and vegetables. You're actually getting a dehydrated version of fresh fruit.
Mike: That's wonderful. What is the sweetener that's used in the product?
Burt: We use a little stevia in it. We also have a little of organic soymilk in there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 More specifically, the consumption of foods and beverages that actually deplete the body of its essential nutrients, and the lack of foods and beverages that provide good nutrition -- the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, amino acids, fiber and all the other elements that the human body needs in order to be healthy and free of chronic disease.
Today, the conventional medical community is looking at these disease correlations, such as the correlation between diabetes and heart disease, and using that as a justification to more aggressively treat the symptoms of one of those diseases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have to have the phytonutrients, the pigmentation in these foods -- the blues in the berries and the reds in the tomatoes and peppers, the orange in carrots and so on.
The colors of foods are actually potent phytochemicals, and these colors have highly protective effects on the nervous system. They also boost immune system function in the body and can help reduce arthritis and inflammation. They have a lot of beneficial effects in the body, yet children today are growing up on mostly processed foods and junk foods.
You probably remember what you ate as a teenager. It's an atrocious diet. |
Mike Adams
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| The water has been removed from them, and the resulting powder contains far more phytonutrients per ounce than the raw plant. Generally speaking, dehydrating plants removes 90 percent of their weight, and a considerable portion of their volume as well.
In other words, you can "squeeze" a lot of broccoli - which is rich in anti-cancer compounds - into powdered broccoli capsules. A mere four capsules might contain the same phytochemicals as an entire serving of fresh broccoli florets. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is a great example of how this product not only provides support of nutrition, but also defensive phytonutrients.
Kunin: Of course. And at the same time, for those people who have genetic mutations whereby B vitamins are notorious for not working very well, we're now finding out for the first time that we actually can measure the genetic mutation level in our patients. Who's able to use their folic acid properly? Who's able to use their B12 properly? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The herbs work far better than the drugs because they offer a multitude of complementary phytonutrients, not isolated chemical extracts.
Weeds are smarter than the pharmaceutical industry
Take a close look at a plant and marvel at how it is an independent pharmaceutical factory; how one plant sitting in a yard can produce $100,000 worth of healing phytochemicals that save many lives, even though it doesn't know what it's doing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is because minerals are not manufactured by plants, whereas vitamins and phytonutrients are. When plants create such nutrients, they synthesize them through chemical and energetic processes that can only be called miraculous. But as capable as they are, plants do not create minerals. Minerals have to be absorbed through the soil, and if they are not present in the soil, then the plant's roots cannot take them up, and therefore they will not be present in the plant.
The nutritional and mineral profile of the plant ultimately depends on the mineral content of the soil. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 Since one of chili's phytonutrients, capsaicin, is widely believed in Japan to be a fat burner, young Japanese use this powder with everything they eat. Folk tales about "fat burning" aside, the hemp seeds provide omega-3 fatty acids, the seaweed is very high in calcium, and there are a host of other phytonutrients, from carotenoids to flavonoids, in seven spice powder.80 Highly recommended.
How to use: This powder can be used for any food that needs a bit of flavor. Just sprinkle onto soup, grilled fish, noodles, or simmered vegetables. It even makes a nice addition to plain rice or potatoes. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 Like all nuts, pistachios are particularly rich in the phytonutrients that are associated with reducing cholesterol and protecting from a variety of cancers.
Nuts in a Nutshell
A serving of shelled nuts is 1 ounce. One ounce of nuts is 10 to 48 nuts, depending on their size. A single serving of nuts provides between 150 and 200 calories.
While walnuts are the flagship food in this category, as we know by now, it's the synergy of multiple nutrients that provides the most benefits. |
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