The secret to curing cancer:
You've been throwing it in the trash!
In 1921, a British doctor discovered that a remote tribal people were almost totally cancer-free. But when members of this tribe move away from their native land and change their diet, they get cancer just like anyone else. In their native land, they're cancer free thanks to a food most of us throw away as waste!

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One cancer expert calls this overlooked food "the key to curing AND preventing cancer" — and you can benefit NOW — without going to a doctor or buying expensive supplements. This little throwaway food tastes great. Bill Clinton (of all people) eats it regularly, and so can you.

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A Tick Bite Could Make You Allergic To Red Meat

As if tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever weren’t bad enough, researchers have discovered what looks like another tick problem. Tick bites, researchers claim, can make you allergic to red meat.

No one is sure why this is taking place, but scientists now believe that if you get bitten by a tick, something in tick saliva may lead your immune system to crank out antibodies to a sugar found in meat known as alpha-gal. This is an unusual type of allergy, since most allergic conditions are responses to proteins.

The researchers think the red meat allergy is linked to the lone star tick which has been spreading across the United States. An unusual feature of the allergy is that it does not occur right after you eat a steak or burger. In most cases, a victim develops hives, breathing problems and other allergic symptoms four to eight hours after consuming meat.

Some people have such severe anaphylactic reactions to meat that they have had to be hospitalized.

“You do not get hives until four hours, and you have no idea how strange that is for us as allergists,” University of Virginia researcher Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills says. “It’s a completely new form of food allergy in which you eat beef or pork or lamb, and three or four hours later, you develop hives.”

Energize Your Next Workout

If you’re getting bored on the treadmill, tired of spinning to nowhere on an exercise bike and ennui has enervated your weight routine, your exercise program might be missing the one element that can meld an energized mind to a buff body.

Next workout, bypass the gym and head to the great outdoors to shed fatigue and boost your brain cells as well as your muscle cells. Researchers at Glasgow University have found that exercising outside can improve mood, relieve mild depression, galvanize your outlook and defuse stress.

You don’t get the same benefits indoors.

After polling nearly 2000 people, researchers determined that being physically active outside may increase mental health by 50 percent.

“Being in areas that have lots of trees and grassy areas help to calm us down, and obviously a forest has this. I wasn’t surprised by the findings that exercise in natural environments is good for your mental health, but I was surprised by just how much better it is for your mental health to exercise in a green place like a forest, than in other places like the gym,” says researcher Richard Mitchell.

Improve And Balance Your Cortisol, Testosterone, Estrogen And Thyroid Hormones

Your hormones coordinate a carefully orchestrated interplay of the body’s organs. Correctly balanced, these chemical messengers improve your health and boost your mood. Luckily, there is a wealth of natural ways to keep your hormonal systems in sync and at optimal function.

In my previous article I discussed dietary nutrition for hormone health. In this column, I’ll discuss some important ways to improve the production and function of cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, and thyroid hormones that don’t require a prescription. It’s best if you can have lab testing to guide you in these methods.

Cortisol

In addition to stress reduction methods and learning to be peaceful, confident and calm amidst life’s stressful circumstances, there are particular nutrients that are also important for the adrenal hormones. We know that in the state of adrenal fatigue, these nutrients have been shown to help reverse hormone deficiencies.

• Vitamin C
• B vitamins
• Calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, sodium, manganese
• Phosphatidylserine (300 mg daily)
• EPA / DHA (omega-3 oils)

 
When you are stressed too often, you can help your adrenal gland from over-secreting cortisol by using:

• Theanine: 200-400 mg twice daily
• Ginseng
• Chamomile
• Lemon balm
• Licorice: twice daily

 
When herbs are not enough and you need extra adrenal support, you may need to go on glandular extracts or even prescription cortisol at low physiological replacement doses (e.g. 5 mg 2 times daily).

Testosterone

Amino acid supplements are known to increase testosterone secretion in the testes and adrenal glands. This goes along with a diet high in protein. Yet there are other factors influencing testosterone production in your body. The amount of free, active testosterone decreases when the binding protein called SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) is increased. In fact, most testosterone is bound, so small changes in the SHBG dramatically affect the amount of free testosterone. Here are items that increase SHBG and lower testosterone:

• Oral estrogen increases SHBG by 50 percent, while transdermal estrogens only increase it by up to 20 percent.
• Hyperthyroid state (thyroid hormone therapy).
• Smoking.
• Caffeine drinks.
• Vegan dieting.

 
I think this underscores the need to find out your SHBG level. Other tests that would also be important along with your total/free testosterone levels are:

• PSA (prostate specific antigen)
• FSH (follicle stimulating hormone)
• LH (leutinizing hormone)
• Estradiol, DHT (dihydrotestosterone)
• CBC (complete blood count)
• Prolactin, lipids,
• Liver function tests
• Thyroid panel
• Fasting insulin
• Hemoglobin A1C
• HS-CRP (high sensitivity C-reactive protein along with other cardiac markers if at risk for heart disease)

 
Also, the factors that help block testosterone from converting to DHT include:

• Zinc [1] and selenium
• Saw palmetto
• Pygeum
• Stinging nettle
• Epilobium [2]
• L-lysine
• Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)
• Green tea extract (epigallocatechin gallate)
• Linolenic acid [3]
• Flaxseed
• Soy isoflavones
• Quercetin

 
Furthermore, supplements known to slow testosterone from converting to estrogen:

• Flaxseed
• Grape seed and red wine (procyanidins)
• Green tea extracts (EGCG)
• Vitamin C
• Anastrazole (brand name Arimidex)
• Chrysin (isoflavone extracted from blue passion flower)
• Stinging nettle, hesperidin (flavonoids)
• Epilobium [4] plant

 
Estrogen

We know estrogen gets converted to estrone metabolite forms that can increase breast cancer risk or to forms that can help protect you from breast cancer. We know that estradiol improves bone density. Ways to increase the estrone metabolites that protect from breast cancer include:

• Eat cruciferous vegetables (3 servings daily of broccoli, kale, bok choy, cauliflower, cabbage, or baby cabbage) which have approximately 400 mg indole-3-carbanol which also gets converted into DIM (diindolylmethane) in stomach acid.
• SAMe (S-adenosyl methionine).
• Omega 3 fats.
• B vitamins, vitamin D.
• Rosemary, turmeric.
• Don’t smoke.
• Exercise.

 
Thyroid

Did you know that 95 percent of people with fibromyalgia syndrome have thyroid deficiency? Did you also know that synthetic T4 replacement has never been proven in any study to resolve the symptoms of thyroid deficiency? It is important to recognize that thyroid function can be limited in many ways and enhanced in others:

• Soy can block thyroid function. In a study of 37 adults who ate a diet high in soy for 3 months, nearly half of them developed symptoms of low thyroid which resolved after going off soy. [5]
• Iron levels must be optimal for thyroid function to be normal.
• Calcium carbonate as well as aluminum hydroxide (in supplements) increases the excretion of thyroid hormone (thus lowering thyroid hormone).
• Some prescription medications are known to interfere with thyroid function: Birth control pills, metoclopramide, cimetidine, clomiphene, Dilantin, tegretol, phenobarbital, tamoxifen (if used longer than one year), rifampin, Ritonavir, sertraline, haloperidol, lithium, amiodarone, sucralfate, and bile acid sequestrants (e.g. cholestyramine).
• The micronutrients selenium, zinc, copper, potassium, iodide, vitamin A, vitamin E and riboflavin promote the conversion of T4 to the much more active T3. Deficiencies of vitamins B2, B3, B6 and C can decrease the production of T4.
• The amino acids tyrosine, cysteine and methionine enhance thyroid activity and increase conversion of T4 to the more active T3.

 
This is a lot to remember, I realize. However, if you think you may be experiencing an imbalance of any of these hormones, you can refer to these lists and hopefully take this information to your doctor who can assist you with tests or prescriptions when needed.

20 Scariest Food Facts

20. There are crushed bugs in your food.

Carmine, a vibrant red food colorant, is actually the crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, a beetle-like African insect. Not only is the thought of eating bug juice gross, but it also poses an ethical issue for some vegetarians and vegans. Look for it in red-colored candies and juices.

20 Scariest Food Facts

19. Fast food signs alter your behavior

A study published last year in Psychological Science reveals that the mere sight of a fast-food sign on the side of the road is enough to make people feel rushed, which can lead to impulsive decisions—and dangerous nutritional choices. Sidestep your impulses the next time you eat out: Plan your order before you walk through the door and then stick with it.

20 Scariest Food Facts

18. We drink twice as many calories today as we did 30 years ago.

The average American drinks 450 liquid calories every day, according to a study from the University of North Carolina. And booze isn’t the problem. Blame the bigger bottles of soda, the sugar-loaded coffee drinks, and the barrel-sized smoothies.