Finding Cancer Quick Facts is defining how carcinogens affect DNA and the best way to do that is try to understand how cigarette smoke influences DNA. Therefore we must understand the sequences of events that leads from smoke inhalation to formation of a tumor many year or decades later. One of the initial and most crucial events is damage of the genetic materials (DNA) by a cigarette smoke carcinogen.
This damage can under certain circumstances be corrected… by DNA repair mechanisms. However, if not repaired, these cells will attempt to duplicate their DNA during normal cell division; but are than impeded by the damage and will carry out an error – prone duplication process leading to gene mutations (changes on the gene.)
Such gene mutations are found many years later in the DNA of lung tumors. Gene mutations are particularly harmful “if” they occur in genes that controll cell division rates or genetic stability. According to current thinking, a number of genes need be mutated or functionally disabled before a normal cell loses all normal growth control mechanisms and is brought into a path of uncontrolled cell division and eventually leading to tumor growth.
Gene mutations have been found in genes such as p53, ras and p16 at a relatively high frequency in human lung cancer. One of these cigarettesmoke carcinogens implicated in the development of lung cancer that also is implicated in the development of lung cancer is benzo[a]pyrene. Since benzo[a]pyrene is not the only carcinogen found in cigarette smoke and p53 is not the omly gene that gets damaged by these compounds.
The theme of DNA damage is caused by a number of cigarette smoke carcinogens, which genes and which positions within genes are targeted is anybodys guess. However, what is known is that cigarette smoking is the number one cause of death in the United States yearly. Not only, does smoking cause 30% of all cancers; but also, responsible for diseases and other illness (Emphysema, COPD and heart disease.)
With everything floating around in the precious air we breath and buried in the ground we walk today. It’s no wonder we have the massive epidemic of chronic disease we have in this country today. Also with this Obamacare scare being what it is and fear that premiums will double by the end of 2013. We should all be concerned with…. what is causing cancer and can do to prevent this dreadful disease from happening in the first place.
When one has cancer it’s always fruitful to know which doctor would be best qualified to handle the particular type of cancer you have. However, what would be more beneficial is to figure out ways of not getting cancer in the first place. Througout this project of searching for the cause and effect of cancer and what really happens inside of your body.
It always somehow shifts back to chronic inflammation and thats not the type that one gets from banging your finger with a hammer. Acute inflammation is the initial response of the body to harmful stimuli and achieved by the increased movement of plasma and the leukocytes (especially granulocytes) from the blood into the injured tissue.
A cascade of biochemical events that propagates the inflammatory response. The thyroid is a small gland in your neck just below the adams apple that is key to your good health and well being. It functions as the thermostat for your metabolism, determining the heat and speed which each cell burns calories.
The thyroid also has a huge impact on hunger hormones, belly fat hormones and fat burning hormones. Everytime you put an inch on to the waist line, it’s a sign your thyroid could use a boost. That’s because excess pounds trigger reactions keeping the thyroid from functioning at it’s most efficient. Which makes it increasingly easy to gain weight and difficult to lose those additional pounds.
The most important thing one could do is to detox from the worse thyroid blockers: processed junk food, sugary product, saturated fat and excess starch. These culprits which tend to be found in foods overloaded with calories – also irritate our insides, causing inflammation throughout our bodies that can significantly impact activity of the thyroid and other body systems.
The more of these super nutrients that you get the more quickly inflammation subsides. Harvard research studies have found as few as three strawberries @ day makes us 14% less likely to show signs of chronic inflammation and being their is a connection between chronic disease, this theory just might be quite a health insurance policy.
While having a facebook friend the other night… suggest that someday Americans might have to live in underground bunkers to escape the every day trials & tribulations of living. His concerned based upon the nuclear fallout from Fukushima, Japan still spewing it’s radioactivity and getting in the global airstream. The first thought passing through my mind was Henry David Thoreau…. sitting in that one room cabin on Walden Pond writing about his appreciation for nature two years.
Then a vision popped into my mind…. living a life – like a groundhog and coming out only once a year with a hope of seeing my shadow. Caused by the fear of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Japan with no hope of being able to see the Redlegs play baseball. While his concerns of what the impact that disaster has on global proportions. As he realized my website doesn’t have anything in it concerning environmental issues.
So Before finishing up this websites archives with a main page. Detailing the highlights of this website. Let’s touch on direct and indirect carcinogens and my belief you have to come in direct contact with a carcinogen or have a genetic predisposition to get cancer. With environmental impacts a concern according toErin Brockovich cancer cluster theory, I feel you have to live in that immediate area to have it impact your life, however, you should always be made aware of your surroundings through research.
In Hinkley, California still today there is a higher then normal cancer rate with also Cancer Alleyin Louisana. Not to mention, Clyde, Ohio with it’s cluster stemming from a City Park and the area I consider home which also has a higher than normal cancer rate. People live… to be all ages and while looking around…. neighbors pass away young and old a like. However, the town I choose to live considered a Blue Zone in my opinion with all the 80+ year olds…. I see in the neighborhood.
Dr. Russell Blaylock states, ” that farm workers have a greater risk for Alzheimers than does others NOT in that career path through their usage of pesticides.” True their are safer options to some pesticides, however, I’ve known farmers whom have farmed with or without cabs on their tractors. For some whom have farmed without cabs some have out lived their counter parts well into there 80’s. While there neighbors have died in their 60’s.
Also true…. it can be told, that counties along… the Tributaries along the Mississppi and Ohio Rivers having higher rates of cancer. What’s not to say, “their nutritional habits…. aren’t as well adjusted as those living away from the river and isn’t caused from the river filth…. as some would have you to believe. County – by – county comparsions…. are sporadic and even my own barber’s…. belief that counties East of Interstate Highways…. cancer rates are higher than those on the West side because of air stream isn’t so.”
During the March 28th, 1979 event at Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster in Pennsylvania. Those living near the plant, down stream in it’s chem trail, lung cancer incidences went up 300 to 400 percent and leukemia rates were up 600 to 700 percent. While infant mortality rates and death rates among the elderly went higher during the early 80’s. With most of the information being skewed, the Pittsburgh area to this day still stands vibrant.
With the 34 th anniversary rapidly approaching, I feel the event of that day put nuclear power in it’s place. However, to say live…under ground in a bunker for me just isn’t gonna happen. I’m more concerned about vitamin deficiencies, with Vitamin D being peril… to your good health. While in most of the other blog post…. I think the alternatives to the prevention and NOT treatment of cancer is a viable option.
The month of February should prove interesting as I put a new twist on Solitarius with this blog post being the foundation for those blog post. My Goal: is to take this website…. in a whole new direction while putting the visitants in the perfect place…. to learn cancer prevention though awareness. What I would like to accomplish…. is build upon the building blocks within this blog and show how the process of aging can promote the chronic illnesses we contract in our “Golden Years.”
Whether reading…. Dr. Mercola’s spew on Artifical Perservatives like Brominated Vegetable Oil thats used as key ingredient in artifical citrus flavored drinks being responsible for it’s slightly “cloudy” look these beverages have. The main problem is that it’s fat soluble and builds – up in tissues, whereas, a 16 ounce soft drink with brominate vegetable oil contains appromiately 2mg of bromine. Which studies with animals shows decrease levels of “good” cholesterol to myocardial degeneration.
Or watching YourHealthTV with Dr. Richard Becker and having his note worthy guest daily. For insistence Dr. Russell Blaylock being on a soap box over vaccines, mercury, cadium, aluminum and fluoride. It makes me wonder about the validity of it all, whom is testing what for our safety and health. When you hear high levels of mercury in vaccines causing toddlers (1:150) badies being Autistic it makes ones mind do back flips for research.
Also the role of insulin excess… on the eicosanoid system; or the detailed physiology of the glutamatergic system, knowledge of the pathophysiology and biochemistry of the neurodegeneratve diseases increases when we age and this connection of excitotoxicity has become stronger. Which can be said, is especially so with the inter relationship between excitotoxicity – free radical generation.
Not only, as the brain ages…. it’s iron content increases making it more susceptible to free radical generation, but also, aging changes the blood brain barrier, microvascular changes leading to impaired blood flow, free radical mitochondrial injury to energy gernerating enzymes, DNA adduct formation, alterations in glucose and glutamate transporters. With this said, these free – radical and lipid peroxidation induced alterations in the neuronal membrane all act at making the aging brain increasingly susceptible to injury.
Several factors of aging…. have been shown…. to magnify this process. Over a lifetime of free radical activity and injury due to chronic stress, inflammation & infections, traumas, impaired blood flow, hypoglycemia, hypoxia and poor antioxidant defenses secondary to poor nutritional intake. The nervous system is insignificantly weakened and made more susceptible to further excitotoxic injury.
There are a growing number of clinicans and basic scientist who are convinced that a group of compounds called excitotoxins play a critical role in the development of several neurological disorders including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, also certain endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, learning disorders in children (ADD), dementia, AIDs, episodic violence, lyme borreliosis, hepatic eucephalopathy, and especially neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimers & Huntington disease and olivopontocerebellar degeneration.
WE know “how” that a loss of neuronal energy generation is one of the early changes seen with the neurodegenerative diseases. This occurs long before clinical disease developes, However, even earlier in a loss of neuronal glutathione functional levels. So “why” is this important: glutathione levels are strong indicators of a strong or weaken immune system leaving you susceptible to disease.
So What Are Excitotoxin? These substances usually acidic amino acids that react with specialized receptors in the brain, in such a way as to lead to destruction of certain types of neurons. Glutamate one of the more common known excitotoxins, however, there are over seventy known; while another popular MSG is the sodium salt in glutamate and aspartame is also known to cause the brain harm.
So how could a normal substance…. that is used by the brain…. harm it? This is because glutamate…. as a neurotransmitter exists in the extracellular fluid only in very, very tiny concentrations – – no more than 8 to 12uM. When the concentration of this transmitter rises above this level, the neurons begin to fire abnormally at higher concentrations; and the cells undergo specialized processes of delayed cell death, excitotoxicity (they are excited to death.)
While food additives are probably not direct causes of neurodegenerative diseases, they may well precipitate these disorders and certainly worsen their pathology as will may well shall see. So it may well be that many people with a propensity for developing these diseases, would have never developed a full blown disorder; had it not been for…. exposure to high levels of food borne excitotoxin additives.
I’m Not Vegan, However, Mimi Kirk Is Doing Something Right!!!
As you read through Solitarius there is a great amount of information about nutrition for the prevention of cancer. Plus finding the best doctors for that type of cancer you have, that can help you when dealing with the side effects of the treatment for that type of cancer. Especially when it comes to chemotherapy and supplementing for that type of chemotherapy. With the most intriquing aspect chemo sensitivity testing which is indeed very important. When you’re told your going to need 30 courses of chemotherapy it’s always best to know…. which combo of chemo would be the most cost effective. (Finding Affordable Health Care…. ehealthinsurance.com)
Being cost effectiveis what it’s all about ~ with Obamacare being a full array of new regulations, rules and taxes. What it’ll do is make business people think twice about returns on investments while trying to figure out reasonable estimates or calculate future cost. As our national debt is over $15 trillion and growing, what this astronomical sum of a borrowed amount will do… is have us all feeling a pinch (Healthcare.Gov)
What Obamacare and this constitutional trespass will bring is another $1 trillion bill for the next generation to spring for as we continue in a death spiral of 2:1 ratio of providers versus survivors. However what we Americans are finding out that fully loaded the real price for Obamacare may be have a price tag in the vicinity of $2 trillion dollars. What this additional cost of Obamacare might do… is push us toward insolvency.
Everybody looks only at their own situation, however, for the most part we need to take a better look collectively. When you see a country falling further behind with falling wages, shrinking tax base and a broken health care system. We have to ask ourselves can we afford Obamacare ~ in it’s presence stance. Why be concerned with terrorism when we will do ourselves in. Within Margaret I. Cuomo M.D. book A World Without Cancer comes these excerpts.
When then President Richard M. Nixon waged war on cancer in 1971, which impacted 2 out of every 3 families in the United States or 650,000 Americans was diagnosed with cancer. In 2012 with the N.C.I. fiscal year being what it was $2 billion dollars for research and another $1.3 billion was spent for advancement in treatments. This doesn’t include that in 2010 medical expenditure associated with cancer was estimated at $124.6 billion.
By 2020 that amount is expected to raise anywhere from between $158 billion and $207 billion. So we must ask ourself are we getting our moneys worth before throwing even more money at the situation. Since 1987, the Ovarian Cancer Screening Research Program at the University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center has screened 37,000 women and found 500 lesions of concern and determined with further testing that 60 women were proof positive for cancer.
Also with other various cancer medications and vaccines that are under clinical trial and under review by the FDA as of 2011. Drug cost will almost certainly continue to soar, while from 1996 to 2005 drug company spending in consumer advertising increased 330 percent; from $985 million to $4.24 billion. When physicians were surveyed 65 percent felt the ads confused their patients and 75 percent felt that patients believed the drug would be more effective then it actually was.
When you look at all the details my major concern being are they really looking to find a cure for cancer or to be super pill sales people. When you consider that Pharmaceutical Companies, also “woo” physicians with gifts dispensing $18.5 billion in free samples in 2005. While another $7.2 billion was spent that year on various forms of marketing and promotions…. it’s no wonder for those being treated…. thinks it’s a con game by con artist.
Much of these practices called “detailing” in which pharmaceutical representatives make sale calls to physicians offices. Ostensibly intended to educate providers detailing slide – overt medical practices to help them generate profits for the Big Pharma. In a sense making physicians drug pushers, my aunt says, “she has lived to be in her 90’s because she refused every pill they have ever wanted to give her since her 70’s.
The pharmaceutical industry is interested in profit only, they may talk research; but much of what they do is persuade physicians to push their products, explains the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine… Dr. James Holland. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association called the “Financial Conflict of Interest With an Impact on Treatment.” What needs to be done is to advocate more stringent regulations…. to modify a host of standard promotional practices for reimbursement for travel expenses??
What Dr. Larry Morton M.D. at the Evelyn H. LauderBreast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York whom is a proponent of cancer prevention through nutrition, lifestyle and more research in that area. While he’s opposed to a treatment focused approached of treating cancer after the fact. It’s my own opinion: we need to change that more of the same thinking so we will can get a different outcome. Instead of throwing more money at the problem while allowing lobbyist in Washington D.C. to waddle and throw more money at something that doesn’t cure cancer.
As we currently watch this scenario…. being played out in Greece with that country hovering on the edge of bankruptcy because bacisly of their Universal Health Care System. What could happen in Europe… is that the rest of the EuroZone will be there to help bail them out. While here in the United States ~ nobody will come running to our aide… those that do will expect interest on their investment (Frances Market Oriented System!!)
Another profound fallacy of Obamacare is allowing for abortions to be paid by all tax payers. With the divide of United States Citizens that believe in abortions. While taking the responsibility out of the hands of those that should be held accountable for their own actions. While on January 22, 2013 marked the 40 th Anniversary of Roe versus Wade.
Which was the supreme court decision… to make abortions legal in all 50 States. Since that time… what most Americans don’t realize is that the plaintiff in the caseNorma McCorvey never had her abortion and today is an active pro – life worker. Also Dr. Bernard Nathanson, whom founded the largest abortion chamber in this country. Resigned his position as an abortionist and went on to produce pro life books & videos.
While since that unfaithful day, Abby Johnson, the Former Director of a Planned Parenthood Abortion Chamber has turned pro – life activist and wrote about her trials and tribulations in a book, “Unplanned,” about her experiences as she “Changed sides.” The liberal media portrays abortion as a “right” and a “choice.” However for others whom precieve abortion as immoral who shouldn’t have the cost forced upon them.
Although abortions are legal, majority members of our society identify themselves as pro – lifers. Those numbers…. today are higher then anytime since Roe versus Wade went into effect. Also the reality of the situation is that many abortions involve some forms of coercion. As more and more women whom have abortions are becoming involved in pro – life activity.
After 40 years and over 55 million abortions, that can dull ones public conscience to the beauty of child birth. For the dignity of life, the tragedy of abortion, before birth and the baby, the mother and for American Culture. We must do a reality check (abort73.com) includes pictures of preborn babies, methods of abortion and resources of assistance.
Both before and after abortions we must precede with drum beats about the “inevitability” of becoming “acceptible.” Thereby, pregnancy centers a bound for mothers with problem pregnancies which were founded by those pro – lifers just wanting to lend a helping hand. Giving those mothers whom have second thoughts about deliverence the opportunity to give their babies a chance of life before death?
I have to again state the main goal of Cancer Quick Facts @ Solitarius.org is to provide a centralized hub of cancer research. With the risk of plagorism violations or copyright infringement…. which isn’t the case on the internet. My main goal is providing the visitant a compass for a direction without credit for the answer to cancer. Each time the visitant clicks onto a link externally and enters into anothers website thats giving them credit. So how can that be a violation or infringement on anyboby’s rights.
Often family members have certain risk factors in common, such as smoking which can cause many types of cancer. Abnormal genes that are passed along from generation to generation, that is often referred to as inherited cancer causing 5% to 10% of all cancers. Do impart only 5% to 10% of all cancers is caused by abnormal genes going array.
Which breaks down into inherited gene mutations or acquired (somatic) mutations. Genes seemingly, have two major roles in the development of cancer. Some that’s called oncogenes can cause cancer, others also known as tumor suppressor genes stop cancer from developing or growing.
Oncogenes, Tumor Supressor Genes and Cancer: oncogenes are mutated forms of certain normal genes of the cell called proto- oncogenes. Proto – oncogenes are often genes that normally control what kind of cell it is and how often it grows and divides. When a proto – oncogenes mutates (changes) into an oncogene, it turns on or activates when it is not supposed to be.
When this occurs the cell grows out of control while turning into cancer. A tumor suppressor gene is like the brake pedal of a car. It normally keeps the cell from dividing to quickly as a brake keeps the car from moving to fast. An important difference between the oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. The oncogenes result from the activation of turning off the proto-oncogenes, however, the tumor suppressor genes causes cancer when they are inactivated (turned off.)
Even if you were born with healthy genes, some of them can become changed (mutated) over the course of your life. These mutations are known as sporadic or somatic, meaning they are not inherited. Sporadic mutations cause most cases of cancer. Those mutations ….may be caused by direct 0r indirect carcinogens that we are exposed to in our environment, including cigarette smoke, radiation, hormone imbalances, diet (although in many cases there is no obvious cause.)
Most genes mutations build up as we get older, leading to a higher risk of cancer. When someone has inherited an abnormal copy of a gene, their cells start out with one mutation. This makes it all the easier (and quicker for enough mutations to build up…. for a cell to become cancer. Although in a perfect world, if smokers wouldn’t smoke which causes 30% of all cancers and governments wouldn’t have to raise additional tax revenue from it; to pay off the cost of the health harzards from it.
Looking back through the blog post for the last several months. I see hope that the answers to cancer are in Solitarius. What it is…. is a centralized hub of cancer research: for those visitants looking for cancer quick facts or for the cancer patient searching for facts on cancer. Either way through the power of the internet alot of vital information is in one website.
When I started researching for this personal blog seven years ago, it was for the reason so much is unexplainable while dealing with others whom are dealing with this dreadful disease. Also for those times…. when you run into others during conversation, one being Mr. Z from a neighboring community whom you talk to and is 92 years old and looks like 82 years old. Who is a bit overweight…. is still healthy and active farmimg.
In other instances: some are in their early to mid 50’s and aren’t healthy. While weighing in at the correct body mass index and are either dealing with colon cancer or heart disease. Maybe for another reason…. explain how one farmer can get cancer…. while their neighbor is healthy as a fiddle. My own father worked years as a machinist with arms and hands exposed to a known carcinogen, “coolant for machining” with a known cause of bladder cancer.
While some experts argue the genetics and nutritional arguement as more and more cancer patients die. Throughout the first year which was one long – full year of wonderment. I created a progressive one blog post after the other while providing better information then the blog post before them. In this blog post my aim is to go back and bring information forward while creating a website that is highly accessible and easier to navigate.
Integrative Medicine: introduces the visitant to some of the better Integrative Medical Centers in Arizona with treatment options….
The Good and The Bad Of It: proper ratio’s of carbohydrates, fats to protein in your diet is very beneficial….
Bridge Over Troubled Water: I’m harping about Vitamin Deficiencies again…. you better believe I think it vitally important….
Power of Positive Thinking: Chinese Qigong “Life Energy” is the practice of aligning breath, movement and awareness for exercise into healing and mediation through the lymphatic system….
Hopefully, what might be in the future with Solitarius.org is a landing strip for those visitants looking for an Answer to Cancer. Also included will be a cancer patient forum where one cancer tell of a success story for their type of cancer. While lending support to others helping them overcome the the obstacles by reading others experiences. Which doctors and hospitals services they utilized for long term duration of cancer remission.
A daily multi – vitamin shouldn’t be a replacement for a healthy diet. Yes… We all know the virtues of leafy green vegetables and whole grains, but convenience and cravings that leads us astray. However, none of us is perfect and even my friends wait for me to eat an occasional slice of pizza to remind me of that. When it comes to healthy eating…. multi – vitamins aren’t partial protections from those lapses from a 80/20 diet of clean eating. I’ve had people tell me already ….I don’t eat foods with vitamins and minerals…. because vitamins and minerals aren’t good for you???
Some people scarf down mega doses, an approach most experts disagree with, while taking very large doses can cause symptoms and stopping them suddenly can lead to symptoms of vitamin deficiency; it’s also important to take a quality multi – vitamin that has all the standard quantities. It’s also well established that a trio of B – vitamins — B6, B12 and folate — lowers homocysteine levels.
Homocysteine is an amino acid that’s a risk factor for heart attack, stroke and dementia. The logical supposition: while having an ample supply of B’s coursing through your blood veins (and arteries) is essential and could improve your chances of avoiding cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline to healthy folks. However with this research patients in some of these studies had homocysteine levels that were normal or slightly elevated and may not apply to people with higher levels.
Some of the best results from a randomized controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in April 2006. Showed that while B vitamins lowered homocysteine levels, those studies results showed their weren’t fewer heart attacks or other major cardiovascular events. A second disappointing study was published in NEJM in 2006. Despite their homocysteine – lowering prowess B vitamins were no better than placebo at protecting people from cognitive decline.
Multi – vitamins…. which are already part of some health experts official recommendations. Also the Federal Government’s 2005 Dietary Guidelines suggest that people older then 50 years old, should take them as away of ensuring adequate vitamin intake. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises all women of child bearing age to take folic acid — because doing so lowers the risk of birth defects.
Also remember the importance of vitamin D deficiencies creating a higher risk of cancer. On average Americans have a vitamin D level in the 25Ng/ml level on average and that amount should be between 60 and 70 Ng/ml. So if you take a multi – vitamin… be sure to buy a major name or store brand product that meets standardized guidelines. When Consumers Union tested cut – rate products, it found almost half didn’t contain the listed amounts of at least one nutrient.
The National Institute of Health convened a meeting on Multi – Vitamins and Mineral Supplements in May 2006. The resulting statement from that conference was extremely cautious. Present evidence is thereby insufficient to recommend….. either for or against…. the use of multi – vitamins/multi – mineral supplements by the American public to prevent chronic disease which was the inconclusive conclusion.
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Americans eat alot of sugary foods as we know this habit is quite probably wrecking our bodies. While also triggering high rates of obesity, diabetes and also at the same time wrecking our train of thought. That’s the disturbing conclusion emerging in a body of research that links Alzheimers disease to insulin resistance, which in turn is than linked to excessive artificial sweetner consumption.
Scientists have known for some time that insulin regulates blood sugar, “giving the cue for muscles, the liver and fat cells to extract sugar from the blood and either use it for energy or store it as fat,” New Scientist Magazine a U.K. Magazine also reports, “trouble begins when our muscle, fat and liver cell’s STOP responding properly to insulin — that is, they STOP taking in glucose.” Also what is the Connection Between Sugar & Arthritis?
This condition known as insulin resistance and also prediabetes causes the pancreas to produce excess amounts of insulin, even as, excess glucose builds up in the blood. Type II Diabetes, in essence, is the chronic condition of excess blood glucose which symptoms include frequent bladder, kidney and skin infections, fatique, excess hunger and erectile dysfunction.
Here in the United States, Type II Diabetes rates have tripled since 1980. What’s emerging is that insulin also regulates neurotransmitters, like that of acetylcholine; which are crucial for memory and learning. That’s not all, “it’s also important for the function and growth of blood vessels. Which supply the brain with oxygen and glucose. As a result reducing the level of insulin in the brain can immediately impair cognition.”
So when people develope insulin resistance, insulin spikes also begin to overwhelm the brain. Which can’t constantly be on high alert and then bad things happen, either those changes associated with Type II Diabetes, or seperately; the brain may begin to turn down it’s insulin signalling, while impairing your ability to think and form recent memories before leading to permanent neural damage and eventually Alzheimers.
Chillingly, scientist also have been able to induce these conditions in lab animals. At her laboratory at Brown University, Suzanne De’ la Monte whose experiments blocked insulin to flow into the brains of mice while essentially inducing Alzheimer. When she examined their brains here is what she found as described by New Scientist.
Areas associated with memory were studied with bright pink plaque, while many neurons had toxic protein that was disintegrated — they lost their connections with other neurons and were teetering on the brink of death. There is also research tying brain dysfunction directly to excessive sugar consumption. In a 2012 Ucla research study, scientist fed rats a heavy ration of both fructose (which makes up roughly half of both table sugar and high fructose corn syrup.)
As noted from this study…. both insulin resistance and impaired brain function occurred within six weeks. Interestingly, also they found that both insulin function and brain performance improved in the sugar – fed rats when they were feed omega – 3 fatty acids. Another facet of American Diets are lots of cheap added fats, may also trigger insulin problems and brain dysfunction.
New Scientist Magazine red flags yet another recent study, while this one from University of Washington researchers. Finding that rats fed a high fat diet for a year lost their ability to regulate insulin, developed diabetes while showing signs of brain deterioration. In the United States alone, 24 million or 8% of all Americans…. have been diagnosed with this condition. What’s also further concerning is 79 million Americans are considered prediabetic showing early signs of insulin resistance.
When you take into account another 5.4 million Amercans or nearly two percent having Alzheimers costing in estimates of $200 Billion Dollars annually. If Alzheimers and Type II Diabetes share this common thread, levels of dementia may follow a similar trajectory as these people age making this situation tragic for the generations that come after ours. While providing a death spiral for the country…. as we become a 2:1 ratio nation of age versus youthful providers.
Dr. Hal Huggins whom created also the Huggins Diagnostic Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado believes. Even though he had his dental liscense revoked in 1996 for thinking out of the box. Supposely tricks the chronic ill patients into thinking the true cause of their illness was mercury poisoning. Dr. Hal was investigated by the FDA for his marketing of the Amalgameter, which is an advice which claimed to detect positively or negative charged dental fillings in teeth. Thank GOD… non – Amalgam Fillings!!!
The ADA’s position that dental amalgams are a safe and effective material to fill cavities. This stance which is also supported by the U.S. Public Health Service, the European Commission, the World Health Organization and by many studies. In late 2004… a group called the Sciences Research Office also reviewed seven years worth of insufficient studies and concluded. That there is insufficient evidence, “of a link between dental mercury amalgams and health issues except in rare instances of allergic reactions.”
Mercury is a naturally occuring element that is found in air, water and soil. Additionally mercury enters the air from mining ore, burning coal and trash. Also exposure to mercury occurs from breathing contaminated air, while ingesting contaminated water and food. With this all told…. can we get cancer from eating fish. We know high levels of mercury exposure can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs and the immune system of people of all ages.
However there isn’t enough human data suggesting that it causes cancer. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has determined that methylmercury is a possible human carcinogen. Methylmercury is made primarily by microscopic organisms in water and soil. Therefore Methylmercury builds up in the tissues of fish over time. So while the oldest and largest fish have higher levels of mercury.
Research shows most people that consume fish usually are healthier than those whom don’t eat fish. My only advice is…. don’t eat fish that have gray pigmentation in it’s tissue because some fish have higher concentrations of mercury than others that can harm developing nervous systems of a fetus or young child.
