NEWS LETTER & TESTIMONIALS
HEALTH MATTERS
JANUARY 2009
Why You Should Consider Fizz Active Immune instead of Emergen-C
Fizz Active-Immune contains not only Vitamin C, Zinc, and Potassium but also a proprietary blend of antioxidant herbs shown to stimulate the immune response. These herbs include Beta Glucans, Arabinogalactan, Echinacea purpurea Root Extract, Elder Berries Extract, and Korean Ginseng Extract. It contains no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
Emergen-C contains several vitamins (often synthetic) and no immune stimulating herbals. It has 6 grains of sugars and additional aspartic acid (Aspartame, a synthetic sweetener created by chlorinating sugar).
Once again, Nature's Sunshine Products has come up with a superior product for your health and well-being!
Silver Shield Continues to Amaze Us
Karol reports that a client had had cystic acne on his back since he was a teenager (he is about 40 years old now). He began to use Silver Shield Gel on each spot each night and took one teaspoon of Silver Shield liquid twice daily. Within several months, all signs of acne were gone. The greatest part is that it is has not returned in the two months since he stopped using the Silver products.
Margretha reports that she sprayed Silver Shield in her eyes twice daily and in about 3 months, her floaters disappeared. If you aren't comfortable spraying your eyes, you could use a dropper to put drops in the eyes twice daily. Adding Thai-Go or Super ORAC and/or Super Antioxidants would be of further help as any eye problem is usually associated with a lack of antioxidants ..
Joan Vandergriff, Senior National Manager, had surgery on her foot last June during which they inserted several screws. When she had the screws removed, she developed a bone infection that was antibiotic resistance (MRSA). The infection traveled to her lungs where cysts developed. The doctor told her that she would have to have antibiotic IV’s three times a week for six weeks or this infection would kill her. Even with that, they couldn't be sure they could save her.
She chose instead to try large doses of Silver Shield while she went on the recent Cruise to the Mediterranean that several of us had the pleasure of attending. Each of the ten days on the Cruise, she took a full bottle of Silver Shield. (Previously she had been taking 3 teaspoons a day with no benefit.) When she returned home from the Cruise, she had her lungs scoped and they were absolutely clear-no infection; no cysts! She feels the Silver Shield saved her life and saved her from the problems that develop when you take large doses of antibiotics. Moral of the story: If a little doesn't work, take more as you cannot overdose on Silver Shield!
Want to stay healthy in this cold and flu season? Take 1-2 tablets of Vitamin D3 daily (the farther north you live, the more important this is). Also use Silver Shield in your mouth (gargle and swallow), eyes (sprayed or dropped), lungs (sprayed in mouth), and ears (dropped in or use Gel) at least twice daily. At the first sign of symptoms, begin Fizz Active-Immune.
Grape Seed Extract Kills Laboratory Leukemia Cells,
Proving Value of Natural Compounds
"What everyone seeks is an agent that has an effect on cancer cells but leaves normal cells alone, and this shows that grape seed extract fits into this category."
An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died after being exposed to the extract.
The investigators, who report their findings in the January 1, 2009, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, also teased apart the cell signaling pathway associated with use of grape seed extract that led to cell death, or apoptosis. They found that the extract activates JNK, a protein that regulates the apoptotic pathway.
While grape seed extract has shown activity in a number of laboratory cancer cell lines, including skin, breast, colon, lung, stomach and prostate cancers, no one had tested the extract in hematological cancers nor had the precise mechanism for activity been revealed.
"These results could have implications for the incorporation of agents such as grape seed extract into prevention or treatment of hematological malignancies and possibly other cancers," said the study's lead author, Xianglin Shi, Ph.D., professor in the Graduate Center for Toxicology at the University of Kentucky.
"What everyone seeks is an agent that has an effect on cancer cells but leaves normal cells alone, and this shows that grape seed extract fits into this category," he said.
Shi adds, however, that the research is not far enough along to suggest that people should eat grapes, grape seeds, or grape skin in excess to stave off cancer. "This is very promising research, but it is too early to say this is chemo-protective."
Hematological cancers—leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma—accounted for an estimated 118,310 new cancer cases and almost 54,000 deaths in 2006, ranking these cancers as the fourth leading cause of cancer incidence and death in the U.S.
Given that epidemiological evidence shows that eating vegetables and fruits helps prevent cancer development, Shi and his colleagues have been studying chemicals known as proanthocyanidins in fruits that contribute to this effect. Shi has found that apple peel extract contains these flavonoids, which have antioxidant activity, and which cause apoptosis in several cancer cell lines but not in normal cells. Based on those studies, and findings from other researchers that grape seed extract reduces breast tumors in rats and skin tumors in mice, they looked at the effect of the compound in leukemia cells.
Using a commercially available grape seed extract, Shi exposed leukemia cells to the extract in different doses and found the marked effect in causing apoptosis in these cells at one of the higher doses.
They also discovered that the extract does not affect normal cells, although they don't know why.
"This is a natural compound that appears to have relatively important properties," Shi said.
Source: Newswise/American Association for Cancer Research (January 4, 2009)
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