| These enzymes, which evolved to break down phytonutrients, also protect our bodies from the chemicals found in drugs, from aspirin to the most potent antibiotic. The fact that drinking grapefruit juice can affect how your body breaks down the most widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs proves this point. When taken at usual doses, the blood levels of the drug are found to be twice as high after drinking double-strength grapefruit juice for three days. There is an enzyme on the surface of the small intestine whose production is inhibited by chemicals in the grapefruit juice. | | However, in the process of being broken down, these phyto-nutrients send a signal to our DNA to produce specific proteins, called "enzymes," that can break down both these phytonutrients and some
Phytochemicals Block the Cancer Process toxins produced in our cells or taken in from our diet. As you can imagine, only those toxins that have chemical structures in common with the phytonutrient in a particular fruit or vegetable are detoxified.
So it makes sense to take in as diverse a group of plant foods as possible. | | Eating the seven servings of the Color Code fruits and vegetables every day provides phytonutrients that help protect your muscle cells from damage by oxygen as you exercise.
In addition to eating fruits and vegetables, there are some antioxidant supplements, including vitamin E, that have been shown to reduce damage to muscle fiber following weight lifting. The signals being sent among your muscle cells are the same types of signals involved in infections, tumors, and heart disease. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Most people don't eat enough fruits and vegetables to get therapeutic amounts of phytonutrients like glucaric acid. That's where the supplement comes in handy. We would have to eat seven to ten servings of fruits and vegetables a day for cancer prevention, according to current recommendations. Living in a world where fast-food is the norm, most people struggle to get two servings a day. By taking glucaric acid in supplemental form—as d-glucarate—we can take a step toward cancer prevention by making up some of that daily deficit. |
Earl Mindell
See book keywords and concepts |  Isoflavones
Found in soybeans and other legumes, these phytonutrients are related to flavonoids. In the body they are converted into phytoestrogens (plant estrogens), hormonelike compounds that may help block the growth of hormone-dependent—and other—cancers. They also seem to help lower total cholesterol levels and reduce high blood triglycerides, providing protection against heart disease. (They may even prevent hot flashes in menopausal women.) The best-known isoflavones are genistein and daidzein. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
See book keywords and concepts |  Right now, these compounds have a "quasi-nutrient" status, so perhaps phytonutrients is a more accurate term. But the more common term remains phytochemicals.
In the past, phytochemicals were classified as vitamins: Flavonoids were known as vitamin P, indoles and glucosi-nolates were called vitamin U, and so on. But they lost their status as vitamins because specific deficiency symptoms could not be established. Today, phytochemicals are classified according to their functions as well as individual physical and chemical characteristics of the molecules. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Well, it's a way to get vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients all in one drink that happens to be "highly absorbable." What that means is, when you get your nutrients in this form, they're readily incorporated through your digestion into your bloodstream, and from there to the cells of your organs and tissues.
Studies show that most people consume woefully small amounts of fruits and vegetables in their daily diets. Yet, nutritional experts and researchers keep turning up evidence that our bodies can get a lot of protection from these same plant foods, if we just eat enough of them. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts |  Antioxidants: Get your kids started early on eating foods that are rich in phytonutrients, which research shows probably prevent cancer and slow aging and damaging free-radical oxidation. (Foods and their antioxidant compounds were discussed on pages 116-117.) Provide these nutrients through food as much as possible. For example, a tall glass of carrot juice every day, if you can get your child to drink it, will provide your child with extraordinary amounts of carotenoid compounds. (It's also a good source of calcium. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  DIETARY GUIDELINES
¦ Eat a healthy high-fiber diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, which contain valuable vitamins, minerals, and, perhaps most important, phytonutrients that may benefit the skin and have anticancer properties.
¦ Avoid sugar and saturated, hydrogenated, and partially hydrogenated fats and oils. These substances foster a toxic internal environment.
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
¦ To ensure an adequate supply of all major nutrients, take a good high-potency multivitamin and mineral supplement daily. | | Eat plenty of fresh fruit and green and yellow vegetables to ensure a good supply of vitamin C, vitamin A, minerals, and phytonutrients.
¦ Drink plenty of pure water to ensure that you stay well hydrated.
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Although bedsores can improve dramatically with the help of supplementation, it is imperative to consult a health-care practitioner if bedsores develop. This is especially important if you have diabetes or another condition that makes bedsores able to intensify rapidly.
¦ People with bedsores are often deficient in one or more basic nutrients. | | Eat many and varied fresh vegetables to assure a full complement of phytonutrients. Eat them either raw or steamed. If you steam them, save the resulting broth to use in soups or gravies, or for cooking rice and other grains that absorb water.
¦ PID places considerable stress on the body. Take a good multivitamin and mineral complex daily, with meals, to ensure you have all the basic micronutrients you need.
¦ Digestive enzymes help to ensure complete digestion of foods and enhance the assimilation of nutrients, providing more nutrients to help rebuild damaged tissues. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of the best cell-protective agents we have are certain phytonutrients found in the food and spices we eat, such as the carotenoids in carrots, saffron, squash, turnips, pink grapefruit, and all deep orange or dark green leafy vegetables. Turmeric, one of the most widely used spices in Asia, contains curcumin, another excellent cell-protective agent. The cells themselves also manufacture enzymes and compounds that offer excellent protection against free radical assaults. | | Sprouting seeds are very nutritious and cost-effective and provide a relatively easy way to acquire many vitamins, minerals, and important cancer-inhibiting phytonutrients. Besides mung bean sprouts, found in many Asian dishes, and the recently popular broccoli sprouts, other seeds and legumes that sprout well include red clover, buckwheat, chickpea, radish, chia, and sunflower.
Another compound found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, called indole-3-carbinol, has been shown to increase the excretion of a form of estrogen called 2-hydroxyestrone, which is linked to breast cancer. | | Whole grains are filled with many important nutrients, including vitamin E, the B vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, and many other important phytonutrients. Whole grains contain a substantial amount of insoluble fiber. Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, contain soluble fiber. The combination of these two forms of fiber promotes bowel regularity and protects against colon cancer. It is estimated that colon cancer in the United States could be reduced by as much as one-third if people just consumed more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and less refined "white" starches. | | Vitamins, minerals, and other phytonutrients influence many cellular functions that are important in the induction and promotion of cancer, such as cell growth and cell differentiation, antioxidation, DNA synthesis, and cell membrane alterations. They protect against excessive oxidative stress, suppressing free-radical damage when cells are stressed by chemical or radiation-enhanced cell transformation. Protective systems affected by these antioxidants include enzyme induction (e.g. | | Flowers tend to be rich in many important phytonutrients, including large amounts of flavonoids and carotenoids, two of the most important nutrients for our health and well-being. Edible flowers can be added to many dishes or used as a garnish. Some of my favorites, which can be added to salads, vegetables, or soups, include viola, chive, rocket blossoms, coriander, nasturtium, rosemary, squash, bergamot, lavender, mint, sage, calendula, and borage. Even the dandelion flower can be eaten! |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts | | Antioxidant vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients are important for everyone, as we've emphasized, but they may be especially indispensable for diabetics because many of the complications associated with the disease can be linked at least in part to oxidative damage, and such damage may even play a role in pancreatic breakdown itself. Thus daily supplementation with vitamins A, C, E, selenium, mixed bioflavonoids and mixed carotenoids is highly recommended. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
See book keywords and concepts | | The anticancer effects of cranberries are similar to many other natural food phytonutrients; they work via the liver and its detoxifying enzyme systems. The most active anticancer constituent of cranberry is proanthocyanidin, which has an antioxidant capability ten times greater than that of vitamin E.16 Never buy cranberry juice sweetened with sugar or corn syrup. It is very simple to make your own (see chapter 14). Get a guide book and learn about the areas of the country and seasons when various berries are available. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  However, a synergy occurs when they are combined with other immune-enhancing agents, such as antioxidants, stress reduction techniques, and phytonutrients. Follow the entire viral immunity program in order to achieve the most benefits along these lines.
Who Needs an Immune Boost? This is easy to answer: in our postindustrial toxic world, everyone needs immune-enhancing. Those with chronic fatigue, all forms of chronic microbial infections includthe modern toxic environment—particularly urban dwellers. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts | | Note also that milk products do not contain any of the kinds of special nutrients we have discussed earlier, like the phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables that are found to have cancer-protective and immune-boosting effects. Milk doesn't even provide fiber.
In 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced its recommendation that whole cow's milk not be given to infants less than one year old. This was based on the link between BSA and milk-induced iron-deficiency anemia.
Dr. Lendon Smith, M.D. | | Citrus (Antioxidant compounds, including vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients)
CLEANSING EXTREMES Fasting
I'm personally not enthused about total fasting. Modified fasts in which you can have juice or other thin liquids, providing at least some sustenance, make more sense to me. I think it is important to consider that in the case of fasting, there is a price paid for whatever cleansing is accomplished. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts |  Research Highlights
• Bupleurum root, soy products, astragalus root, salvia root, and ginseng root all contain saponins and other phytonutrients that are beneficial to the heart. They reduce lipid peroxide formation in the cardiac muscle and the liver, and they decrease blood coagulation and cholesterol in the blood. Research also indicates that they "act either directly, by blocking the transfer of Ca2+ ions or modulating the function of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase, or they help resorb other active principles" (Purmova, 1995). |
James F. Balch, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Fresh fruits and vegetables provide the most vitamins and minerals, plus fiber and enzymes in proper balance: phytonutrients, working together (syner-gistically) to enhance each other's healing qualities. Try to cultivate a taste for them.
2. Whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes are also necessary in a balanced diet. They provide fiber to keep your body's digestive tract regulated. These are better sources for your proteins than meat, yet still supply all of your amino acid requirements. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. | | Phyto is Greek for "plant," and familiarity with this term is important to your understanding of the foods I suggest that contain phytonutrients or chemicals! These are the plant elements that have antioxidant properties such as flavonoids, carotenoids, and enzymes.
Cancer
In the United States, a person dies from cancer every minute of every day. There are at least another 3 million to 4 million Americans who have cancer, and out of those, one out of three will eventually die from this disease. | | Other flavonoids and phytonutrients, all of which may be related to the health benefit of tomatoes, must be studied also. This synergy within this lycopene—Lyc-O-Mato™ product may be the reason for its remarkable success against cancer and other oxidative stress disorders.
In a recent article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (1997), Lenore Kohlmeier, et al., presented a multicentered case control study to evaluate the relation between antioxidant status, assessed by biomarkers, and acute myocardial infarction. | | The reason garlic is such a powerful antioxidant is because it is loaded with most of the phytonutrients we consider to be the super antioxidants. It contains manganese, selenium, germanium, vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc.
Garlic and Lowering Your Blood Pressure
Garlic is known to be one of the most effective agents for lowering blood pressure. It has been found to lower both diastolic and systolic blood pressure.
Garlic and Boosting Your immune System
Garlic has long been known to be an important stimulator of the body's defense system. | | These are all powerful phytonutrients that have antioxidant qualities.
You can increase your life span by changing your habits or life-style. Oh, it takes work, but you can do it if you want to do it. .. just take it one step at a time.
1. First of all, attitude is the most important. The mind can make you sick or well. It's very powerful. You must think positively. Be happy. Don't worry! If your thoughts are consistently negative, your immune system will be weakened and you will get sick. Remember: your health's first line of defense is always an adequately functioning immune system.
2. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Blends of phytonutrients, green foods, and soy isoflavone-containing concentrates are also available commercially. Small amounts of fermented foods and condiments add significant amounts of enzymes to the diet; therefore, you do not need to use large amounts, but rather, you can add them to your diet as condiments.
For example, soy sauce, prepared from fermenting soybean flour and roasted wheat or barley (using the fungus Aspergillus oryzae), is a phytonutrient- and enzyme-rich liquid; it contains highly active enzymes called pronases that help in the breakdown of meat protein. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
See book keywords and concepts |  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.
Availability: Seven spice powder is readily available at grocery stores with Asian food sections or at Asian food stores. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Most oncologists remain unaware of the healing potential these nutrients can provide their patients.
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