Get to Know Bromelain

“Four hundred scientific papers on bromelain’s therapeutic applications have appeared in the medical literature. In these studies bromelain has been reported to exert a wide variety of beneficial effects, including reducing inflammation in cases of sports injury or trauma and prevention of swelling after trauma or surgery.” Taussigand et al

Bromelain a proteolytic protein-digesting enzyme derived from raw pineapple stems, breaks down a broad spectrum of proteins, has  anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrin properties; is an antibiotic and is effective over very wide pH range. 

Bromelain is absorbed intact through the gastrointestinal tract, with the highest concentration of bromelain being found in the blood one hour after administration. However, its proteolytic activity is rapidly deactivated by food so make sure you take it on an empty stomach.

Bromelain has anti-platelet aggregating properties so it can lower HBP  and help your blood to flow freely. Bromelain has been shown in clinical practice to be an excellent adjunctive treatment for upper respiratory problems such as chronic bronchitis and acute sinusitis.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_bromelain.htm

Osteoporosis is an Easily Solved Problem for Women AND Men

“I think of osteoporosis as being the greatest misunderstood women’s health problem of modern times. Doctors have been pushing calcium on us for decades and osteoporosis continues to plague us. Excessive calcium contributes to arthritis and heart disease, diseases that have become more prevalent in women ever since calcium has been emphasized. Not only is calcium not the solution, in many cases it’s the problem.”  Doctor Nan Fuchs PhD, Women’s health specialist

Osteoporosis a weakening of the bone is often thought of as a woman’s problem but men please take note, almost 30% of hip fractures, the most serious bone fracture, occur in men and 1 in 8 men over age 50 will have an osteoporotic fracture. Perhaps we should work together with our wives to avoid this man made scourge. Osteoporosis is strongly associated with low levels of magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin K  and boron. Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis respond favorably and rapidly to weight bearing exercise, higher levels of vitamin D plus vitamin K, boron, calcium, magnesium and if required progesterone.

      

Osteoporosis is Usually a Lack of Information

IMO osteoporosis is a condition often resulting from ignorance of the basic bone building process and pseudo-medical propaganda by milk manufactures and others. I cannot guarantee you will not get osteoporosis if you follow this protocol but I believe it will work for 99 + % of you. It does not matter how poor your bones are currently they WILL RESPOND rather quickly to the proper actions on your part! Osteoporosis is one of the easiest health problems for YOU to solve because it is almost ALL under your direct control. Solve your osteoporosis problem in your relative youth and you will be ahead of the game.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_osteop_1.htm

You Must be Aware of Hyper-Coagulated Blood

“The leading cause of death in the western world is the formation of abnormal clots inside a blood vessel. It is important for healthy people to take steps to prevent this.” Life Extension

 

“Abnormal platelet stickiness increases atherosclerosis and further narrows the internal diameter of the artery, factors that predispose one to stroke and heart attack.” Braly 1985

“Ginger inhibits abnormal platelet aggregation by two methods; it acts as a potent inhibitor of thrombi and has twice the anti-platelet power as aspirin.” Life Extension

When you get cut you want a clot of form and the wound to heal. You do not want to bleed to death. OTOH you do not want clots to form inside your body for no good reason. In order to do this your body has evolved extremely complex systems. Over 40% of the 50,000 or so proteins in your body are involved in this complex process.

As we age the blood clotting mechanism tilts toward over clotting for many people. One result is what is called “Thick” or Hyper-coagulated Blood. This can be a factor in MANY serious health problems including cardiovascular disease, cancer and other diseases. Doctor Gary Gordon believes "abnormal blood clots" are involved in 80% of all deaths. 

By being aware of this risk and taking the simple steps to counter the risk you will be obviating MANY serious health problems.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_bc.htm

 

Auto Immune Disease Man Made Causes

“Mycoplasma is the co-factor that alters the human immune system and opens the door for the autoimmune degenerative diseases such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, Bi-Polar Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chronic Fatigue/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Diabetes Type One, Fibromyalgia, Huntington’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease.”   Doctor Harold Clark 

“Tissue origin vaccines contain extraneous protein in addition to the [rabies] antigen that can lead to autoimmune disease,”  Insert from Pfizer’s Rabies vaccine, Note this is true for ALL vaccines

Auto Immune Disease Man Made Causes

1 Vaccination

2 Mycoplasma

3 Vitamin D Deficiency

IMO much of the insane increase in auto-immune disease of ALL types in the last few decades may be caused by three factors.  Please keep the two that come in needles in mind when dealing with ANY auto-immune disease. You can mostly avoid any further exposure from these evil twins by avoiding ALL needles and making sure your vitamin D levels are at least 65 ng/ml.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_auto.htm

Aspirin Depletes Vitamin C

"There is incontrovertible evidence that a shortage of vitamin C, emanating from poor diet, smoking, overuse of alcohol, aspirin, or vitamin-depleting drugs (the very drugs they treat flu patients with – steroids, antibiotics, etc.), is likely the primary cause of flu-related mortality.”   Bill Sardi Health Researcher, Note dehydration and low vitamin D and selenium  levels can do you in also 

"Aspirin depletes the body of vitamin C. Aspirin is known as one of the most powerful drugs at depleting vitamin C in normally healthy individuals."      Journal Clinical Pharmacology 1973; 13: 480 

Aspirin drastically depletes the vitamin C from your body. This leaves you at risk for many serious problems to include CVD and others. Most people are carrying much less than optimal levels of vitamin C to begin with and cannot afford to lose ANY vitamin C. This will drastically weaken your arteries as well as MANY body structures as it impedes your collagen production.  

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_aspirin.htm

YOU can Prevent MOST Breast Cancer

"Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of contracting the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels."  Vitamin D Pioneer Doctor Cedric Garland MD, Note IMO your vitamin D levels need to be at least 60 ng/ml

“Women with the lowest vitamin D levels had five times higher risk for breast cancer.”    Eur J Cancer. 2005 May;41(8):1164-9. Epub 2005 Apr 14

"In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Doctor Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast Cancer can be virtually 'eradicated' by raising vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is “the cure” for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to be searching for. The cure already exists! But the breast cancer industry simply refuses to acknowledge any “cure” that doesn’t involve mammography, chemotherapy or high-profit pharmaceuticals."   HFA

Breast, prostate, skin and colon cancer have a strong association with low levels of vitamin D and lack of sunlight. Doctor Mercola recommends getting your vitamin D levels  up to at least 70 ng/ml. IMO the most important thing a woman with breast cancer or seeking to avoid breast cancer, can do is to spend a few hours researching vitamin D.

The simple primal act of getting LOTS of the high noon sun on your bare “unprotected” skin in large amounts just may be the most important single thing you can do for your health. If the sun casts a shadow longer than you are tall you cannot make adequate vitamin D from the sun. You MUST take vitamin D3 at the daily rate of about 1000 IU/20 pounds of body weight.  

If you are currently afraid of the sun just take the vitamin D3 supplements until your fear has been removed by research into the sun and skin cancer.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_breast.htm

Selenium an Essential Mineral most People Lack

“Selenium is used to treat and prevent cancer, boost the immune system, and for cardiovascular and rheumatic disease ⁽²⁾. Recent data from four clinical trials suggests that selenium may prevent gastrointestinal cancer ⁽¹⁶⁾. A meta-analysis of 16 studies suggests that selenium may also afford protection against lung cancer ⁽¹⁷⁾. Findings from another clinical trial suggest effectiveness of selenium supplementation in reducing HIV-I viral load in infected individuals ⁽¹⁹⁾.” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Selenium an antioxidant, antiinflammatory, anti-viral, anti-retroviral, immuno-stimulatory, chelating mineral is a VERY important mineral for your health. Selenium is deficient in the soils surrounding the major population centers in this country. Most of the food we eat in some of the areas of the US is almost totally devoid of the minerals magnesium and selenium due to inherently low soil levels and the poor farming practices of our agriculture industry.  Selenium has been shown to be deficient in most of the population. A Selenium deficiency may worsen the effects of iodine deficiency on your thyroid function. Selenium deficiency may play a role in autoimmune disease. A Selenium deficiency can condemn you to a rapid death by AIDS should you contract AIDS. Make sure you get at least 400 mcg/day of selenium IMO especially if you suffer from any chronic distributed muscle pain.

http://healthyprotocols.com/3_selenium.htm

Weight Bearing Exercise Builds Bones Best

“Weight-bearing aerobic activities involve doing aerobic exercise on your feet, with your bones supporting your weight. Examples include walking, dancing, low-impact aerobics, elliptical training machines, stair climbing and gardening. These types of exercise work directly on the bones in your legs, hips and lower spine to slow mineral loss. They can also provide cardiovascular benefits, which boost heart and circulatory system health.”    Mayo Clinic, Exercising with osteoporosis

The best way to avoid or treat osteoporosis is weight bearing exercise  Stressing your bones will make the bone stronger. If you are right handed your right arm and right leg have greater bone masses than your left ones, often as much as 8% more. They have this greater mass and STRENGTH because you use them more. Incidentally just because a bone has greater mass does not always mean that bone is stronger. As we see modern wonder drugs such as the bisphosphonates can build bones with greater mass that are weaker and more likely to fracture.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_osteop_1.htm

Spices and Herbs: A no cal way to double your food's Nutritional Value

“If you set up a good herb and spice cabinet and season your food liberally, you could double or even triple the medicinal value of your meal without increasing the caloric content.”    Diane Hartle, Note spices are perhaps the best way to increase the nutrient density of your food; don't miss this one

On my kitchen counter are 18 quart bottles of spices and herbs. EVERYTHING I prepare to eat gets a good unmeasured shaking of herbs and often some spices. Most of my teas and drink concoctions will receive LOTS of spices. You can easily double your anti-oxidant and other nutrient intake this way.

Herbs and spices often have antiseptic, anti-bacterial, anti-CANCER, anti-fungal,anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic, antimicrobial, anti-congestive and anti-diarrheal properties; they impart a flavor and zing without adding calories which aids digestion and have many other salubrious properties.

I buy herbs often by the five pound lot.

Antioxidants are Keeping YOU from Self Destructing

“No one antioxidant may be effective and total antioxidant capacity is important in reducing the risk associated with fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease.”    Ceriello et al

Antioxidants Keeping you from Self-Destructing

There are over one hundred body products, foods, vitamins, minerals, supplements and procedures that have high antioxidant properties. Antioxidants keep free radicals from destroying your body by donating an electron and quenching the free radical rendering it harmless. An antioxidant value of foods has been measured, the ORAC value.

A recent study showed that women taking a daily antioxidant supplement had measurably longer telomeres than the controls. This indicates a probability of a longer live. 

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_antioxidant.htm

You are probably NOT getting Enough Omega 3 EFAs

"Our findings contradict the current belief in the medical community that increasing the intake of omega-3 fatty acids produces only long-term cardiac benefits, In fact, our study group showed improvements in heart function in as little as two weeks." Fernando Holguin, MD, Emory University

Your body cannot make the EFAs so you MUST eat them. There are very few good sources of Omega 3 EFAs in the American diet. This is why there is a strong possibility, almost a certainty, that YOU are not currently getting enough of the absolutely critical Omega 3 EFAs. You MUST learn these few sources and WORK to include them in your diet. It is not easy but it is essential that you provide your body with this essential fat.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_omega_3.htm

Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease

“Cardiovascular Disease is essentially unknown in animals producing their own vitamin C at a daily rate of several grams.” Doctor Matthias Rath

Most animals that produce ascorbate from glucose in their own bodies do NOT get Cardio Vascular Disease. This is an important clue to CVD. If YOU make sure YOU get at least 3 grams of ascorbate a day YOU will probably not get CVD. It is just that simple. Of course there are LOTS of other things you SHOULD do to prevent 99%+ of possible CVD.

Ascorbate is the natural form of vitamin C as found in food. Ascorbic acid is a component of ascorbate. A good natural source of ascorbate is acerola cherry. As ascorbate is destroyed by heat eating your food as raw as possible will give you more ascorbate.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_cvd_1.htm

Don't be Afraid of Good Saturated Fat

“As a result of being misled, we have a consuming public terrified of natural fats and oils--a public, which, by its avoidance of these natural fats and oils, and consumption of fabricated, man-manipulated fat and oil replacements, such as the transfats and the unstable polyunsaturates, is becoming increasingly obese and ill.”     Mary Enig PhD Food Scientist

Saturated fat is easy to recognize because it is usually solid at room temperature. Humans have eaten animal products for most of their existence on earth and therefore they have consumed saturated fats for their entire existence. To say these saturated animal fats are harmful to humans is just plain silly. Folks ya got to remember one thing WE ARE ANIMALS!  We are constructed of saturated fatty acids in large part. When an animal eats us it ingests plenty of saturated fat.

http://healthyprotocols.com/2_saturated.htm

Initial Post: Purpose of this Blog

Welcome to the Healthy Protocols Blog. I will herein attempt to supply you with easy to remember health tips that will hopefully simplify and make your life more healthy. A full rational will be 
given for each tip. Your health is almost COMPLETELY in YOUR hands. Well you do need the co-operation of the man upstairs. The new science of epigenetics has shown us that our daily habits, what we eat and do not eat; what we drink and do not drink, what we do and do not do is DAILY effecting our genome and thus our health, enjoyment of life and our longevity. Live and eat right and you are DAILY strengthening your genome. The expression of your orthogenetic genome will be a healthy body, a calm rational mind and perhaps a soul you can live with.


To your heath.

Lou