NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER 2004
HOT PINK LOTUS
CINNAMON:
The following is according to Wonder Labs, an FDA approved vitamin, mineral, etc. lab in Tennessee: Studies have shown that cinnamon extracts can increase glucose metabolism, triggering insulin release - which also affects cholesterol metabolism. Researchers speculated that cinnamon might improve both cholesterol and glucose. And it did.
Who is at greatest risk for Type II diabetes?
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65 years or older
Overweight
High Cholesterol
Exercising less than 3 times a week
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Family History of Diabetes
Ancestry: African-Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, Pacific Islanders and Hispanic Americans |
Cinnamon should be a part of our daily diet whether we have, or are at risk of having, Type II Diabetes or not. However, for best effects, just a sprinkle is not enough and cinnamon in the loose powder does not assure you of getting a uniform dose, according to Wonder Labs.
ORAL CHELATION:
Wonder labs is also the place to look if you have been interested in oral chelation. As many of you know, chelation is helpful in reducing the risk of heart attack, among other things, and the intravenous kind is rather costly. This is Wonder Labs’ specialization, affordable oral chelation. Chelation removes any heavy metals that might be stored in the body. www.wonderlabs.com
Note: if you do oral chelation, eat plenty of protein while doing it.
VITAMIN E OVERDOSE:
From the British publication, New Scientist, comes the information that there is a correlation between an increased likelihood of death in heart patients who are taking higher doses of Vitamin E (over 1500 mg a day is considered high.) So it cannot be good for the rest of us, right? Low doses, around 200 a day, are good for you, however. Apparently at higher doses the effect reverses, and the Vitamin E behaves differently. We already knew that Vitamin E in excess can cause blood thinning, bruising, etc.
Once upon a time not so long ago Vitamin E, which is not stored in the body, was considered by most to be totally harmless at any dose.
WOUND TREATMENT
According to Ingrid Naiman, doctor of naturopathy, to stop the bleeding of a wound you can apply cayenne pepper (ground up, of course), or turmeric or a tropical rainforest herb called Dragon’s Blood. The only downside to the cayenne is that it stings; turmeric and Dragon’s Blood do not. Turmeric and cayenne are common herbs that can be found in the grocery store, and on many people’s kitchen shelves.
ALSO, speaking of kitchen spice racks, did you know that meat tenderizer will take the sting out of jellyfish stings, and insect stings (remove the stinger first), etc.? Yes. It’s true. Just cover the affected area with meat tenderizer, which has papaya enzymes in it. And while we are on that subject, there have been studies in England in which fresh papaya was applied to wounds as the only treatment, and the wounds healed faster than with medicinal treaments, and there was less gangrene. The papaya was strapped onto the wound with a bandage. Aloe vera can be used like this, too, for smaller wounds and burns.
INDIGO CHILDREN FILM:
Spiritual Cinema, James Twyman, Neale Donald Walsh, and Stephen Simon. have made a film about the Indigo Children which will have a test release in certain cities on January 29th. If there is a big turnout, AMC theatres will carry the film. The cities are:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit , Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Norfolk, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington, DC
To learn more you can go to www.emissaryoflight.com
which is James Twyman’s site.
REALLY BIG VOLCANO
Now this is interesting! Scientists have recently discovered a great big volcano under the water on the edge of a continental shelf off Antartica. (That is the continent at the southernmost end of the earth.) And the volcano is not extinct, either. Global warming, hmmm....
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DID ALIENS DO THIS?? (Because I know I didn’t...)
(Interesting but has nothing at all to do with your health that I know of. This also came from New Scientist, the British publication.)
Rogue finger gene got bats airborne
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A change to a single gene allowed bats to grow wings and take to the air, a development that may explain why bats appeared so suddenly in the fossil record some 50 million years ago.
Bats have been an evolutionary enigma. That’s because the oldest fossil bats look remarkably like modern ones, each having wings formed from membranes stretched between long fingers, and ear structures designed for echolocation. No fossils of an animal intermediate between bats and their non-flying mammal ancestors have been found.
Now Karen Sears, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, has discovered why intermediate forms may be missing in the fossil record. In a bid to understand where bats’ specialised finger digits evolved from, Sears compared their embryological development with that of the finger digits of mice.
In both animals, digits form from cartilage cells which divide and mature into bone in regions called growth plates. But in bats, a key region of the growth plate called the hypertrophic zone is much larger than in mice, which allows their digits to grow much longer. That difference is controlled by a single gene known as BMP2, one of a family of genes important for limb development in mammals.
Elongated digits
Sears found that a protein produced by BMP2 is present in the hypertrophic region of bats, but not in mice. When she applied the protein to the digits of mouse embryos growing in the lab they elongated just like bat digits.
Sears believes that bats began to evolve when this one gene became activated. Although it is a small developmental change, if it allowed the ancestors of bats to grow extended digits it could explain how bats evolved flight so rapidly, Sears told the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Denver. Relatively few transitional forms would have existed just briefly before being displaced by more advanced forms.
"We’ve never had an adequate explanation" for the sudden appearance of bats, Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History in New York told New Scientist. "This sounds like a remarkable discovery."
The lack of transitional forms has also led to speculation about the origin of bats, with some believing that primates are their closest relatives. Genetic studies now show they are closest to ferungulates, which include horses and pigs, or to the shrews and moles.
