Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Vitamin K2: 150 meg MK-7
Note: I also recommend a daily beverage of green tea for any of my patients suffering from angina pectoris. In one Japanese study including over 500 men with documented coronary artery disease, the only beverage that seemed to prevent heart attack was one daily cup of green tea per day.
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?Multivitamin/mineral foundation program with 1 gram of fish oil
?Coenzyme Q10: 180-360 mg
?L-carnitine: 1,000-2,000 mg
?D-ribose: 7-10 grams
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cat's Claw and green tea also have strong anti-cancer properties. Licorice helps stabilize blood sugar, Shitake mushroom is an immunomodulator, and St. John's Wort is a wonderful mood booster that works better than antidepressant drugs. So there are other benefits provided by these ingredients, beyond their anti-viral effects.
One note of caution, however: Because it contains St. John's Wort, be aware that this herb can potentiate many synthetic chemicals (prescription drugs), making them even more dangerous than they are normally. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Add in green tea and some rainforest herbs, and this number leaps to around 90 percent, by the way.) Why wouldn't everyone in the cancer industry want to save 75% of these women from breast cancer?
I'll tell you why, and you won't like the answer. It's because the cancer industry depends on all 100 of those women being diagnosed with cancer and treated with profitable cancer "management" protocols like chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Preventing cancer in 75 percent of women (or more) would deny the cancer industry three-fourths of its revenue. |
| Prevent cancer in your own life by getting sunlight, eating lots of raw, fresh produce, taking superfood supplements (like spirulina, green tea and rainforest herbs) and engaging in regular exercise. Two of the best anti-cancer supplements I know of are Blood Support from www.BaselineNutritionals.com and Arcozon from the Amazon Herb Company: www.amazondreams.amazonherb. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has green tea extract, grape seed extract, lipoic acid, and buffered vitamin C. We designed our red line to provide a solid foundation for pets' health.
We also offer a blue label line of supplements, which focuses on helping with specific conditions, like allergies. Allergies are a major problem in animals. Allergy Defense for pets is the same as our Allergy Support Plus for humans. Within hours you can stop the itching if you keep an animal on it. Many of them scratch away all their hair, and they are itchy and miserable. You can stop that with Allergy Defense. |
| I have it in my Pro-C, which is my super duper antioxidant formula that is like the Pet-C Plus for animals, where we put in green tea extract, grape seed extract, glutathione, n-acetyl-l-cysteine, lipoic acid, selenium, and vitamins B2 and B6 because those are in the pathways that make glutathione work.
These antioxidants operate in the redox cycles that the body uses and they all work together. They protect each other. One might free up another one to do the job that only it can do. Pro-C and Pet-C Plus are super duper products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Turmeric will shut off the blood supply to tumors and so does green tea. Without new blood vessels growing in and bringing nutrients and oxygen, tumors can't grow any bigger.
Mike: Why don't mainstream oncologists grasp this information about green tea and use it to the benefit of their patients? What could possibly be the reason?
Horner:I think that part of it is they don't have time to read, like I said, and secondly we have such an incredibly litigious environment. When you're dealing with cancer patients it's life or death. |
| There is 500 milligrams of green tea leaf extract. That's a potent combination.
Horner:It's the equivalent of drinking about six cups of green tea during the day. We also have a few different nutrients that are found in cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables are a family of vegetables that include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts and they're somewhat noteworthy because they have a natural hormone detoxifier in them.
They have tremendous heath benefits in addition to helping to protect against and fight breast cancer. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Natural Sun SPF 25 green tea Protective Sunscreen, Ideal for Children ($8.50 for 4 ounces) isn't ideal for children (or adults) because one of the active ingredients is padimate-o (PABA), though it is joined by titanium dioxide to provide broad-spectrum sun protection. This ends up being a decent, oil-rich sunscreen for dry to very dry skin. The jasmine oil is present in a tiny amount, but may still cause problems for those with sensitive skin (if the PABA doesn't stir things up first).
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Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Ice tea has become important in the cold drink industry. green tea is used in meat, fish and egg dishes, especially in China and Vietnam. Nutritional value Tea (especially green tea) is rich in phenolics with antioxidant effects. It also has stimulant properties (2-4% caffeine).
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, it's tough if you look at things like green tea. You have to drink six to ten cups of green tea a day to help. I had a girlfriend in Santa Fe that was I was talking to about all these different ingredients. She said, "Christine, if you would just put these all into one pill, I'd take it."
I thought, "You know this is not a bad idea." There's this Wortle Statistic that states 90 percent of heart attack victims go back to their original diet and lifestyle within one year. Strangely, death is not a motivator for human beings on a daily basis. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Intelligence Skin Conditioning Oil ($18 for 1 ounce) has several oils that are incredibly beneficial to severely dry skin and even includes a hefty amount of antioxidant green tea oil in stable packaging. It's unfortunate such goodness has to be marred by adding irritating rosemary and geranium oils.
© Intelligence Exfoliating Masque with Thermal Fusion ($32 for 4.6 ounces) may very well get its thermal qualities from the irritation incited by the volatile citrus oils contained in this exfoliating clay mask. |
| Anti-irritants include substances such as allantoin, aloe, bisabolol, burdock root, chamomile extract, glyc-yrrhetinic acid, grape extract, green tea, licorice root, vitamin C, white willow, willow bark, willowherb, and many, many more. Their benefit for skin should be strongly considered because they are that rare thing—a case where too much of a good thing is better!
EMOLLIENTS
For those with truly dry skin—that is, where the dryness is not caused by irritating or drying skin-care products—emollients provide lubricating ingredients that are critical for making skin feel hydrated. |
| Antioxidants are good for skin, but moringa has no advantage over dozens of other options, including green tea or pomegranate. Exotic-sounding plant extracts tend to be a good hook for consumers who are looking for something new to address concerns about their skin, but up to this point no special plant (or any ingredient for that matter) has been proven to be the sole answer for wrinkles.
This water-based serum contains salicylic acid, but the pH of 4.2 means the exfoliating properties are weak (a pH of 3 to 3.5 would be better). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The organic sea vegetables, spirulina, green tea, selenium and zinc ingredients all help prevent breast cancer, far better than any prescription drug or conventional cancer therapy.
As a meal replacement product, LivingFuel Rx Super Greens is for useful for strengthening liver function, boosting cellular energy, detoxifying the body, boosting thyroid function to promote healthy weight loss, balancing body pH, cleansing the digestive tract and protecting the circulatory and nervous systems from oxidative damage. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I do want to note one thing about theanine, which comes from green tea. It is the only nutrient that has been shown to increase deep sleep -- and there are very few medications that have been shown to do this. Sun Theanine -- and it needs to be the Sun Theanine form, not the regular theanine -- has been shown to increase deep sleep.
So, you can get your eight hours of solid sleep a night. Let me also note that the average night's sleep 100 years ago was nine hours a night in the United States. We're now down to less than seven. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and confiscated.
Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license."
Citizens owning personal inventories of "unapproved drugs" (vitamins and herbs) may have their homes raided at gunpoint and their inventories confiscated by armed law enforcement agents.
The importation of herbs and functional foods from all countries may be banned.
Keep in mind that the FDA is the same agency that:
Wants to label irradiated foods as "pasteurized. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| It contains mostly water, emollients, plant oil, green tea, silicones, anti-irritant plant extracts, aloe, more plant oil, skin-identical ingredients, and preservatives. The inclusion of geranium oil isn't ideal, but the amount is unlikely to be a problem.
© $$$ Lineless Gel ($100 for 1.5 ounces) is a very light, gel-type moisturizer that contains appreciable levels of antioxidants, yet it also includes a significant amount of drying ethyl alcohol, which isn't helpful for skin. This is packaged to keep the antioxidants stable, and may be an OK option for very oily skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Prostate cancer, for example, is just as sensitive to synthetic estrogen mimickers in foods and food packaging as breast cancer, and preventing prostate cancer is as straightforward as preventing breast cancer: Avoiding bisphenol-A in plastic packaging and water bottles, avoiding sodium nitrite in processed meat products, supplementing with zinc, green tea, lycopene, various isoflavones, etc.
Thanks to popular culture, the image of men eating healthy diets has been "sissified. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Does green tea Contain Toxins?
Some web sites on the Internet claim that tea is very high in fluoride content. Fluoride in tea is supposedly much higher than the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) set for fluoride in drinking water. Another site confirms that information, adding that the typical cup of tea exceeds one milligram of fluoride, which is well over the recommended amount for fluoridated drinking water. On yet another site, it says that fluorine and its compounds in food are entirely different from chemically-produced sodium fluoride. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Interestingly, the equivalent amount of grape juice, apple juice, green tea, or chocolate—all rich sources of proanthocyanidins or related compounds—did not produce the same result.
"The cranberry's proanthocyanidins are structurally different than the proanthocyanidins found in the other plant foods tested, which may explain why cranberry has unique bacterial anti-adhesion activity and helps to maintain urinary tract health," Howell says.
Best of all, new research seems to point to the use of cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections in the first place. |
| I highly and wholeheartedly recommend green tea as a supplement for the metabolically challenged, especially since it appears to have no adverse effects and so many health benefits," says my dear friend and author of The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, nutritionist extraordinaire Shari Lieberman, Ph.D., C.N.S.
Last but Not Least: Chromium
Finally there's chromium. I talked about chromium's effect on blood sugar elsewhere in the book (page 46), but it's worth mentioning here as well. |
| Those who got the EGCG-caffeine combo had a significant increase in their energy expenditure, leading Dulloo to conclude that "green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se."
More recently, Canadian researchers tested out different doses and mixes of EGCG and caffeine. They gave subjects 200 mg of caffeine together with either 90, 200, 300, or 400 mg of EGCG to be taken three times a day; the control group got a placebo. |
| EGCG plus 50 mg caffeine), or a placebo. Dulloo then measured the subjects' energy expenditure (a measure of metabolic rate). Those who got the EGCG-caffeine combo had a significant increase in their energy expenditure, leading Dulloo to conclude that "green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se."
More recently, Canadian researchers tested out different doses and mixes of EGCG and caffeine. |
| The concept of orthomolecular medicine has served us well over the years, and while it's been expanded to include many things that we don't necessarily "make" on our own (for example, saw palmetto or green tea), the spirit of the term informs everything that's in these pages—substances that are highly unlikely to hurt us, that our body recognizes for the most part, that are non-toxic, and that come from herbs and plants together with treatments that don't involve drugs. |
Andreas Moritz
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| By contrast, during the production of green tea, the leaves are stabilized through exposure to both humid and dry heat. This eliminates fermentation-producing enzymes and safeguards the nutrients.
Due to fermentation, black tea assumes drug-like qualities. Since tannins and other important nutrients are no longer present in the tea, its caffeine appears in free and unbound form. The stimulating effect of the quickly released caffeine causes the addictive effect of black tea. It triggers a "fight or flight" response in the body. |
Michael Castleman
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 The people with cancer drank significantly less green tea. A Japanese follow-up study showed the same result—the more green tea, the less cancer. Subsequently, scientists at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, added green tea to the drinking water of experimental mice and then exposed them to chemicals known to cause a variety of tumors in rodents. The mice who drank the green-tea-laced water developed considerably fewer tumors than the mice who drank plain water.
These studies prompted headlines proclaiming "Green Tea Prevents Cancer. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The same applies to green tea and cranberry juice concentrate. The product Primal Defense has also proved beneficial for some Candida sufferers, but not for everyone.
Apply the muscle test to all the foods and beverages you normally consume. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Green Tea: Studies have shown that the use of green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine decreases obesity by increasing fat oxidation and metabolism. It appears that the thermogenic effects are due to ingredients other than just the caffeine.
Lifestyle
Contributing lifestyle factors to obesity are poor diet and lack of exercise. Obesity may also be associated with suboptimal thyroid function, including Wilsons temperature syndrome. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Dozens of herbs and common foods have similar effects to guggul. green tea alone has shown to have great benefits for cholesterol health. Most fruits and vegetables, including apples, citrus fruit, berries, carrots, apricots, cabbage, and sweet potatoes have also shown to be helpful in naturally balancing cholesterol. Almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, oats, barley, etc., are just as effective. It is important to understand that natural food or herbs can only balance cholesterol levels when the underlying conditions responsible for such elevated levels are also improved. |
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