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Biotech / Medical : Mining Cholesterol -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (94)	7/27/2006 11:49:43 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

This one looks balanced and good. aor.ca Copper and chromium are deficient in most NA diets. Copper should be 1/10th of zinc. And if we increase our B's we need more zinc. But what pray tell of each is in the diet. Selenium is also often deficient in NA diets but where it is not people suffer strokes the least. (Canada is favoured here over most nations as Canada has the lowest stroke rate of all nations apparently.). Vitamin E is totally deficient in 25% of all individuals. Why this is so is a mystery, but it may have a lot to do with the toxicity of insecticides, hormones and pesticides in food, the ubiquity of which is well known and the effect of which has been shown biochemically to be fatal to the survival of this common anti-oxidant. Gamma tocopherol should be 3 times as high as alpha for best effect. Alpha tocopherol should not therefore be supplemented without a gamma balance as a long term imbalance can happen otherwise. Vitamin E, Magnesium, and selenium are most concentrated in the serum (blood stream) of groups and individuals who suffer heart attack, stroke, cholesterol blockage and cancer the least of all. This ratio is such that people who have 5 to 20 times the average amount of these three substances and bioflavonoids as well, have 10% of the rate of the most serious illnesses mentioned above, namely CVD and Cancer. It also appears with reference to segregated groups of primitive diets, that it is highly correlated, is that the thinner the blood of subjects the less they suffer from CVD. Obviously however the vascular integrity of these particular subjects must also be similarly enhanced or the rate of hemaeorraghic strokes would be anomalously high. The chief dietary differences amongst populations where CVD and cancer are most rate, is that the diet is least likely to have toxic organic chemicals, most likely to have a high component of seafood, and is very high in anti-oxidants. Three such populations are the Cretans, Okinawans and the Inuit where they have a primitive, practically meat only diet. Commonalities to all three populations is the reliance on self caught sea fish, or other sea animals, a high anti-oxidant level, supplied by differing sources, and/or self grown vegetables and low grain or limited whole grain food. The dietary intake is also somewhat meagre and cyclical. It would appear another differene of these diets is that they are much higher in PUFAs than most diets. en.wikipedia.org Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable plant. It is one of the very few plants that contains the long-chain omega-3 EPA. [2] It also contains vitamins (mainly vitamin C, and some vitamin B and carotenoids, as well as dietary minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium and iron. Also present are two types of betalain alkaloid pigments, the reddish betacyanins (visible in the coloration of the stems) and the yellow betaxanthins (noticeable in the flowers and in the slight yellowish cast of the leaves). Both of these pigment types are potent antioxidants and have been found to have antimutagenic properties in laboratory studies