Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 Amino Acid Deficiency
Since amino acids are required to nourish the intestinal lining - indeed, as much as 50 percent of the amino acids we consume may feed the intestines directly - a lack of one or more of these building-blocks can contribute to a leaky gut. L-glutamine and N-acetyl-glucosamine (NAG) are the most important, but a variety of others play a role, too, including arginine, taurine and the branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine). |
Ann N. Martin
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 For dogs, vegetable protein does not contain all the amino acids that are required; therefore, a correct formulation of grains and other ingredients must be made if you plan on feeding your dog a vegetarian diet.
Indigestible proteins, such as those used in some commercial per foods (hair, feathers, fecal matter), obviously cannot sustain an animal. Meat, fish, eggs (a complete source of protein), and dairy products provide many, if not all, the amino acids that your pet requires. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Normally, when proteins are digested, these amino acids come apart one by one and are absorbed into the bloodstream to be used to build body tissues and repair any damage to your body.
Casein behaves differently. As it breaks apart, it does not simply release individual amino acids. It breaks into short strings of amino acids—strings of perhaps four, five, or seven "beads." They are not just the amino acid building blocks for protein; they are also biologically active compounds with a mild narcotic action. Scientists call them casomorphins—casein-derived morphinelike compounds. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 The bovine protein-lactalbumin increases the plasma ratio of tryptophan to the other large neutral amino acids and in vulnerable subjects raises brain serotonin activity, reduces Cortisol concentration and improves mood under stress. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2000;71:1536-1544.
Markus CR, Olivier B, de Haan EH. Whey protein rich in alpha-lactalbumin increases the ratio of plasma tryptophan to the sum of the other large neutral amino acids and improves cognitive performance in stress-vulnerable subjects. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Iun;75(6):1051-1056.
Miller GD et al. |
| And what is unique about the protein in quinoa is that it is complete, containing all essential amino acids, being especially high in the amino acids lysine, methionine, and cystine. By adding it to other grains, those proteins become complete too. It also complements soy, which is lower in methionine and cystine. Quinoa is rich in iron, potassium, and riboflavin as well as B6, niacin, and thiamin. It is also a good source of magnesium, zinc, copper, and manganese, and has some folate (folic acid). |
Jack Challem
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 Protein and Individual amino acids That Improve Mood and Behavior
Action plan: Protein consists of amino acids, which are the building blocks of neurotransmitters, so it's important to eat high-quality protein, such as fish, chicken, and turkey. In general, individual amino acid supplements are best taken on an empty stomach, ten to twenty minutes before breakfast and one hour away from eating food at any other time of day.
Protein
Principal use: To stabilize mood swings. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Whole grains have complex carbohydrates that supply a steady flow of energy rather than the spike and crash of simple sugars, and they're necessary to transport amino acids such as tryptophan into the brain. As you learned in chapter 4, tryptophan is a precursor necessary for the production of serotonin, and it and other important amino acids come from protein.
The brain is made up of more than 50 percent fat, so fats are important too, as long as they're the right kind. Trans fat, animal fat, and hydrogenated oils gum up the works, but the omega-3s found in fish are enormously beneficial. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 At the other end of the scale, there are the precise parameters that make life possible, such as the precisely ordered sequences of amino acids that must form to create the proteins that do the most crucial work in the body. If you change any of these constants by even a tiny bit, there is no universe as we know it and no amino acids stringing themselves together in useful ways.
However, it also is true that most of life persists not because of precision, but because of flexibility. Life is characterized by its amazing ability to adapt and change, to continually interact with its environment. |
Luca Turin
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 When you go to the health store and pay good money for largely useless amino acids, you will notice that the label says L-leucine. The L stands for left. There is no R-leucine for sale, and if there were, it would do you even less good than the L flavour because the enzymes that use it to make things have chiral binding sites. In fact, R-leucine, like all R amino acids, is likely to be either toxic or useless. amino acids are the beads making up the receptors, and we only use L forms. Making an exact mirror-image OR site to match the RO is
* John Leffingwell and his company (www.leffingweU. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 In another process, known as gluconeogenesis (gluco-neo-genesis means "sugar-new-making"), PLP is needed to convert amino acids to glucose.
Vitamin B6 Coenzyme form is: Pyridoxal Phosphate (PLP)
Many important neurotransmitters are synthesized using PLP-dependent enzymes. Serotonin is synthesized from tryptophan in the brain with the help of PLP. Other neurotransmitters that are synthesized using PLP-dependent enzymes are dopamine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and norepinephrine.
In the discussion of niacin, it was noted that tryptophan can be converted to niacin. |
| ASSIMILATION OF FOLATE
Folate in food is normally bound to a string of amino acids; this is called the polyglutamate form. For intestinal absorption, it is necessary for folate to be bound to only one amino acid; this is called the monoglutamate form and is shown in Figure 1-19. |
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Figure 1-15 Vitamin B6, folate, and vitamin B12 convert the undesirable homocysteine to the useful amino acids cysteine and methionine.
Adults need about 1.3 mg to 1.7 mg of vitamin B6 to meet the RDAs. Severe deficiency is uncommon because vitamin B6 is found in many foods and fortified in refined grains; please refer to Graph 1-5. Alcoholics are at risk of deficiency. Increased protein intake increases the need for vitamin B6. Dietary intake of vitamin B6 in the United States averages about 2 mg/day for men and 1. |
Tom Bohager
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 A protein is made up of many amino acids, sometimes thousands, all bound together in a long chain. A particular enzyme can alter that protein by breaking certain links or bonds in the chain, but that enzyme can only break the chain in those very specific locations. A different enzyme is required to continue the job, breaking different links in the chain. Then a third, fourth, fifth, sixth enzyme takes over, until the protein no longer exists. |
| How carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are used by our bodies we have thousands of amino acids, unattached and unbound, ready for use by the body as the building blocks of tissue.
Because there are so many individual enzymes, they are categorized by the type of chemical reaction they catalyze. Although there are many different categories, the most important categories in terms of digestion and enzyme therapy are proteases, lipases, and carbohydrases. Each of these categories plays a specific role metabolically and digestively. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Propionyl-CoA carboxylase is needed for the metabolism of cholesterol, amino acids, and certain fatty acids.
Biotin Coenzyme forms are:
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase helps make fatty acids
Pyruvate carboxylase helps make blood sugar from fats and protein Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase helps metabolize the amino acid leucine Propionyl-CoA carboxylase helps burn fats
Biotin is needed to make energy in the mitochondria of the cell as shown in Figure 1-11. Biotin may also play a role in the transcription and replication of DNA.
Acetyl-CoA is a central step in the production of energy in the cell. |
Bill Sardi
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 Following are 12 ways of halting the spread of cancer and the natural products that are most likely to accomplish this:
Elevation of the immune system by boosting natural killer cell activity (resveratrol, vitamin D, vitamin E, beta glucan, beta carotene, IP6 rice bran
Maintenance of the collagen that surrounds malignant cells so they cannot spread (vitamin C, the amino acids proline and lysine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid, resveratrol)
Prevention of the adhesion of roaming cancer cells to the wall of blood vessels, and colonization (nat-tokinase, resveratrol and other nutrients). |
Andreas Moritz
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 Laboratory research has demonstrated that when amino acid depleted cells are given back the missing amino acids, these cells stop producing HIV particles because their DNA and RNA molecules are able to sustain their assembly line.
In addition, regular discharge of human semen into the rectum, which has no natural defense lines against the immune-repressive properties of the semen that bathes the sperm, eventually leads to a shutdown of normal repair work and cell replacement. This causes chronic toxicity, which also acts as a constant blow to an already weakened immune system. |
Bill Sardi
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| Green tea is utilized with collagen boosters, the amino acids lysine and praline, along with vitamin C. In lab dishes, this combination exhibits effective anti-cancer activity. In a mouse study, this combination inhibited tumor growth and spread by 53 %. [Oncology Reports 14:807-15, 2005]
Drawbacks of green tea
There are some nagging drawbacks to green tea.
Most of the side effects of green tea are the result of its caffeine content. Most green tea supplements contain small amounts of caffeine, about 5 to 6 mg in two 250 mg pills. One cup of brewed tea, however, has about 40 mg of caffeine. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Gallstones obstructing the bile ducts turn the bile toxic and lead to high levels of toxicity in the
4 Right from a newborn's first breath, the body produces amino acids and proteins from the nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen molecules contained in the air. liver and, ultimately, in the rest of the body as well.. This development is further exacerbated by one's intake of pharmaceutical drugs, normally broken down by the liver. The presence of gallstones prevents their detoxification, which can cause "overdosing" and devastating side effects, even at normal doses. |
Bill Sardi
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| The body produces its own cartilage from vitamin C and amino acids. But desperate cancer patients were misled for a time. The use of shark cartilage has waned in recent times.
Rife therapy
Developed by Dr. Royal Rife in the 1930s, this therapy utilizes a sound and light frequency generator to kill cancer cells. Still widely promoted in underground cancer
A story
Raul was a young, newly married man, who developed testicular cancer. A diet of southern fried foods didn't help his condition. |
| Townsend Letter for Doctors, March 1993J He now markets an affordable oral version of his therapy featuring amino acids, called Aminocare A10.
Bacterial theory
Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, MD, postulated in the 1990s that cancer is caused by a sole bacterium which she called Progenitor cryptocides. Her therapy included vaccines derived from urine, enemas, digestive enzymes, vegetarian diet, mineral supplements, and stress reduction. Livingston-Wheeler came close, but fell short of a cancer cure. Bacteria, viruses and other germs are believed to cause 10 percent of all cancer. |
| The therapy utilizes mixtures of amino acids and other simple organic substances that are said to promote the body's natural defenses. The public outrage over sanctions against alternative medical practitioners has caused authorities to back away from banning antineoplastin therapy outright. The treatment costs around $20,000 per patient and is not available outside of Texas. Because of its high cost and lack of affordability, and because there are many potentially more efficacious therapies at hand, this therapy is not promoted in this book. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In contrast to collagen, however, gluey plant polymers are made up of repeated sequences of sugars, not amino acids. Very long polymer strings of sugar occurring in nature are called cellulose. Somewhat shorter strings of sugar also occur in nature. They are not as stiff as cellulose, but they too can be usefully sticky.
Wheat paste is the most familiar example of a shorter sugar polymer glue (microwaved instant oatmeal may be a close runner-up). A variety of different plant-derived, sugar-based polymers are exploited commercially for their gluelike qualities. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Other Names: Grain, Groats, Oatmeal, Straw
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS: AVENAE HERBA
Soluble oligo- and polysaccharides: including saccharose, kestose, neokestose, beta- glucans, galactoarabinoxylans
Silicic acid: to some extent water-soluble
Steroid saponins: avenacoside A and B
Unusual amino acids: avenic acid A and B
Flavonoids
EFFECTS: AVENAE HERBA
In a doubtful experimental investigation, the drag was said to lower the uric acid level and to display an antihepatoxin effect in animal experiments. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 There's a ton of research on vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, amino acids, fatty acids, and other nutritive substances. (Want proof? Go to the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health online library, www.pubmed.gov, and put any vitamin you can think of in the search engine.) The problem isn't that there's an absence of research—it's that a great deal of this research flies under the radar screen of those whom we turn to for health advice (more on this later).
But the research exists. I've found it, you can find it, and your doctor can find it. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Miitsch-Eckner M, Erdelmeier CAJ, Sticher O, A novel amino acid glycoside and three amino acids from Allium sativum. In: JNP 56(6):864. 1993.
Nagae, S et al., Pharmacokinetics of the garlic compound S-allylcystein. In: PM 60(3):241. 1994.
Reuter HD, 6. KongrefS der Gesellschaft fiir Phytotherapie.-Satelliten-Symposium "International Garlic Research". In: ZPT 17(1): 13-25. 1996.
Reuter HD, Chemie, Pharmakologie und medizinische Anwendung von Knoblauch. In: ZPT 10(4): 124. 1989.
Reuter HD, II. Internationales Knoblauch-Symposium. In: ZPT 12(3):83. 1991. |
| COMPOUNDS: AVENAE STRAMENTUM
Soluble oligo- and polysaccharides: including saccharose, kestose, neokestose, beta-glucans, galactoarabinoxylans
Silicic acid: to some extent water-soluble
Steroid saponins: avenacoside A and B (unusual amino acids, avenic acid A and B)
Flavonoids
EFFECTS: AVENAE STRAMENTUM
There is no information available concerning the efficacy of oat straw. |
Bill Sardi
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| Alternative Medicine Review 3: 174-86, 1998]
A mixture of vitamin C, two amino acids (lysine, proline) and antioxidants (green tea) have repeatedly been shown by Dr. Matthias Rath to inhibit the breakdown of collagen and prevent the spread of cancer. [Experimental Lung Research 32:69-79, 2006; Medical Oncology23:105-11, 2006; In Vivo 20:25-32, 2006; Oncology Reports 14:807-15, 2005; International Journal Gastrointestinal Cancer 35:97-102, 2005; In Vivo 19:179-83, 2005]
Blood clots and sticky cancer cells
Oncologists are fully aware of the link between blood clots and cancer. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Injuries to cultivated BJA-B cells by ajoene, a Garlic-derived natural compound: cell viability, glutathione metabolism, and pools of acidic amino acids. J Cell Physiol; 158(l):55-60. 1994
Schiewe FP, Hein T, Knoblauch bei Hyperlipidamie. ZPT 16(6):343-348. 1995
Schoetan A et al., Experientia 40(3):261. 1984
See, D, Gurnee K, LeClair, M, An in vitro screening study of 196 natural products for toxicity and efficacy. J AN A Winter;2( 1 ):25-39. 1999
Sendl A, Phytotherapie. Barlauch und Knoblauch im Vergleich. DAZ 133(5):392. |
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