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development of illnesses including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and dementia. Several antioxidant compounds have been shown in studies to produce positive results including
Carotenoids, vitamins A, C, and E, tocotrienol, alpha lipoic acid, melatonin, grape seed extract, and pomegranate.
Berries, especially cranberry and blueberry are extremely rich in antioxidant polyphenols. These, along with Omega 3, are extremely useful to help prevent oxidative stress that can
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Toronto animal study showed "dramatic" results.The spice that gives the kick to many Indian curry dishes might also help prevent the ravages of heart failure, a surprising new Canadian animal study has concluded. This spice is also found in a synergistic combination with Immunotec's Omega 3 daily supplement.
Researchers at Toronto's University Health Network found that curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, both prevents and dramatically reverses enlargement of the heart in mice.
Enlarged hearts can lead to cardiac failure, a common and often fatal condition where the organ is unable to pump enough blood to keep the body functioning properly.
If similar results were one day duplicated in humans, the widely available spice could repair heart damage in a way no drug is able to do now, say researchers behind the study, to be published Friday in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Curcumin has the added benefit of causing virtually no toxic side effects in even relatively large doses.
Despite their earlier hopes for the ingredient, researchers were taken aback by the scope of the improvement it actually made to the mice hearts.
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"That was quite a surprise," said Dr. Maral Ouzounian, a research fellow at the network's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. "It was quite dramatic."
The next step is to try to repeat the study in mice, then begin human studies, Dr. Ouzounian said. Even if it proves effective in people, however, curcumin as a treatment would probably not be on the market for another decade, said one scientist yesterday.
In the meantime, people should follow the usual steps for preventing heart failure: keeping blood pressure down, reducing cholesterol, exercising and eating healthily, the researchers said.
The new study is the latest to find promise in curcumin as a medicine, though it has long been used as a natural remedy in some Asian cultures. Human trials are underway to test the substance's efficacy in treating colorectal and pancreas cancer and Alzheimer's disease, after hopeful findings in animal studies.
Traditionally, it has been used in places such as India to heal cuts with a minimal of scarring, and fight everything from kidney disease to cataracts, though most of those applications have not been proven scientifically.
An animal study is a long way from a discovery applicable to humans, but the new research is good news, said Dr. Andreas Wielgosz, an Ottawa cardiologist and spokesman for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The foundation partly funded the Toronto study.
"The potential is tremendous because of all the people who develop heart failure," he said. "Potentially, it would be very useful because it would reverse some of the damage to the heart muscle."
Heart failure affects about 400,000 Canadians, and 40%-50% die within five years of being diagnosed, according to foundation figures.
Factors such as high blood pressure that put excess stress on the heart sometimes lead to enlargement or thickening of the heart muscle - called cardiac hypertrophy. If the underlying causes of the hypertrophy are not countered with medication or lifestyle changes, the condition can lead to heart failure.
Though curcumin had never been tried before in treating heart disease, the team led by Dr. Peter Liu of the Munk centre speculated that its anti-inflammatory properties might be applicable to cardiac hypertrophy.
What they found is that the substance actually interacted with the nucleus of heart cells, blocking activation of the genes that are turned on in the hypertrophy process.
The resulting reversal of heart enlargement or thickening was striking, clearly visible with the naked eye and in ultrasound images, said Dr. Ouzounian. "The changes we saw ... would be clinically meaningful."
A different test showed that curcumin could also prevent hypertrophy from happening.
The ingredient's medicinal potential seems generally to stem from its ability to attack "what's going on in cells at the nucleus level," said the researcher.
Current treatment of hypertrophy centres around using drugs such as beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors to combat underlying causes like high blood pressure. No therapy at the moment can actually correct damage already done to the heart, Dr. Ouzounian said.
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Why should I take Immunocal™/HMS90™?”
Based on the amount of pollution in the air we breathe acceptable contamination and chemicals in the food and water we consume and the thoughtless exposure to other people’s contagious ailments we encounter on a daily basis, everyone should be taking Immunocal™/HMS90™. Your immune system is the only natural defense your body has against these harmful intruders. Immunocal or HMS 90 as it is called in
If you are middle-age or older, you have probably witnessed changes in your body’s appearance when stepping out of the shower and standing in front of a mirror. Most of the changes seen in our reflection are actually originating from the changes taking place inside the body. It is nature’s way of letting you know your body is gradually losing the ability to maintain itself. Many people, who witness changes in their appearance, will run out and buy vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements in hopes of regaining their youth. Others will begin diets or exercise and jogging routines in an effort to improve their body’s appearance and perhaps their overall health.
Unfortunately, few people ever consider their immune system. Very few really know anything about their immune system and how it is suppose to function. Most people take the immune system for granted. The truth is, even the healthiest immune system fluctuates on a daily basis.
Strenuous exercise, dieting and fatigue from working can all reduce the efficiency of our immune system. The lower your immune system drops, the more vulnerable you become when exposed to virus or flu bacteria and other contagious ailments.
Every part of your body competes for the antibodies produced by your immune system. Your liver is the filter system for your body so it demands a majority of the available antibodies to combat chemicals, pollution and toxic substances that enter your body.
Each organ within your body has a specific and dedicated function. Your immune system is a guardian to protect the health of each organ and your entire body. Nothing can do more to protect your overall health than maintaining your immune system at its optimum level. In fact, researchers have found that a low immune system drastically reduces the benefits a person ca receiver from vitamins, minerals and other supplements. This finding holds true with many treatment medications. The lower the immune system, the less effective any treatment becomes. So, if you want to get your money’s worth from the medications and supplements you take you should elevate your immune system first. Immunocal™/HMS90™ is patented and supported by clinical studies to perform according to its manufacturer’s claims.
Research has determined that once a person passes the age of fifty, the efficiency of their immune system can drop as much as 34%. Perhaps this explains why so many seniors are making more frequent trips to their doctors. A daily dose of Immunocal™/HMS90™ will maintain the immune system at its optimum level which can allow the body to provide a natural defense for combating aging and many of the age related ailments.
More and more healthcare professionals are in agreement, based on the lack of natural nutrients in the food groups, people should be taking nutritional supplements to ensure their own better health. The most recommended are vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Immunocal™/HMS90™ is not only an antioxidant but it provides the body with the ability to take full advantage of any other vitamin, mineral or antioxidant supplement.
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Some interesting statistics that may interest you regarding the leading cause of death in North America.
There is an inexpensive test called CRP (C- Reactive Protein) that will tell you the risk you have of having a heart attack.
If your test results are: 3+ you are a walking heart attack, 2 or less – at risk, 1-1.5 – moderate risk, .5 or less – almost never have heart attack or stroke
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Immunocal Platinum gets rid of inflammation. There are no other natural products that will reduce inflammation like Immunocal Platinum.
Alternately: It is expected that in North America $105 B in sales in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by 2012. Celebrex will be the prescription drug of choice.
Celebrex side effects
Gastrointestinal Abdominal: pain, Diarrhea, Dyspepsia, Flatulence, Nausea
Body as a whole: Back pain, Peripheral edema, peripheral nervous system, Dizziness, Headache
Psychiatric: Insomnia,
Respiratory: Pharyngitis, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Upper respiratory tract infection
Skin: Rash
Immunocal Platinum side effects:
No side effects (initial detoxification may occur), no interaction with prescription drugs.
Those taking anti-rejection drugs due to organ transplant; or those with true milk protein allergies must consult their doctor before taking HMS90 or Platinum. Immunotec has made application to make the claim that Platinum is effective in reducing inflammation.
12.04.2007
Jim Hammond is an elite athlete. He works out two hours a day with a trainer, pushing himself through sprints, runs, and strength-building exercises. His resting heart rate is below 50. He’s won three gold medals and one silver in amateur competitions this year alone, running races from 100 to 800 meters. In his division, he’s broken four national racing records. But perhaps the most elite thing about
He is 93. And really, there’s nothing much wrong with him, aside from the fact that he doesn’t see very well. He takes no drugs and has no complaints, although his hair long ago turned white and his skin is no longer taut.
His secret? He doesn’t have one.
They say aging is one of the only certain things in life. But it turns out they were wrong. In recent years, gerontologists have overturned much of the conventional wisdom about getting old. Aging is not the simple result of the passage of time. According to a provocative new view, it is actually something our own bodies create, a side effect of the essential inflammatory system that protects us against infectious disease. As we fight off invaders, we inflict massive collateral damage on ourselves, poisoning our own organs and breaking down our own tissues. We are our own worst enemy.
This paradox is transforming the way we understand aging. It is also changing our understanding of what diseases are and where they come from. Inflammation seems to underlie not just senescence but all the chronic illnesses that often come along with it: diabetes, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s, heart attack. “Inflammatory factors predict virtually all bad outcomes in humans,” says Russell Tracy, a professor of pathology and biochemistry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, whose pioneering research helped demonstrate the role of inflammation in heart disease. “It predicts having heart attacks, having heart failure, becoming diabetic; predicts becoming fragile in old age; predicts cognitive function decline, even cancer to a certain extent.”
The idea that chronic diseases might be caused by persistent inflammation has been kicking around since the 19th century. Only in the past few years, though, have modern biochemistry and the emerging field of systems biology made it possible to grasp the convoluted chemical interactions involved in body wide responses like inflammation. Over a lifetime, this essential set of defensive mechanisms runs out of bounds and gradually damages organs throughout the body.
When you start to think about aging as a consequence of inflammation, as Tracy and many prominent gerontologists now do, you start to see old age in a different, much more hopeful light. If decrepitude is driven by an overactive immune system, then it is treatable. And if many chronic diseases share this underlying cause, they might all be remedied in a similar way. The right anti-inflammatory drug could be a panacea, treating diabetes, dementia, heart disease, and even cancer. Such a wonder drug might allow us to live longer, but more to the point, it would almost surely allow us to live better, increasing the odds that we could all spend our old age feeling like Jim Hammond: healthy, vibrant, and vital. And unlike science fiction visions of an immortality pill, a successful anti-inflammatory treatment could actually happen within our lifetime.
For the last century and a half, the average life span in wealthy countries has increased steadily, climbing from about 45 to more than 80 years. There is no good reason to think this increase will suddenly stop. But longer life today often simply means taking longer to die—slowly, expensively, and with more disease and disability. “If you talk to many old people, what they are really desperate about is not the fact that they’re going to die but that they are going to be sick, dependent, have to rely on others,” says Luigi Ferrucci, chief of the longitudinal studies section at the National Institute on Aging and director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, the nation’s longest-running study of old age.
Biologists have known for a while that inflammation increases with age, but until recently, given everything else that slumps, spikes, or goes off the rails as we get old, it didn’t seem especially important. Some researchers on aging still think that way.
But a big clue linking inflammation with aging came in the late 1990s, when Tracy and his colleagues showed that C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory protein, is an amazingly accurate predictor of a future heart attack—as good as or better than high blood pressure or high cholesterol. At least in heart disease, inflammation isn’t just a bystander. What’s more, we could do something to decrease it. Aspirin, which was already known to help people with heart disease, seems to work primarily by reducing inflammation.
So why should our own immune system rely on such an apparently dangerous mechanism? The answer lies in the fact that infectious disease has historically been the number one killer of human beings, and responding to this threat has profoundly shaped our biology. Possessing a fierce and ferocious immune response primed to keep us alive long enough to reproduce was an evolutionary no-brainer.
Damage to the joint from sever arthritic inflammation often requires a hip replacement.
Inflammation is what gives us that response. It serves as all-purpose protection against invaders and traumatic damage. To take a simple scenario, suppose you are bitten by a cat. First, coagulation factors promote clotting in order to stanch bleeding and prevent germs from spreading from the wound site. A menagerie of phagocytes, which swallow and destroy pathogens, surge out of the bloodstream and squeeze into the affected tissue, engulfing bacteria and secreting cytokines—messenger proteins that send out the call for more responders. The phagocytes also generate reactive oxygen species, unstable compounds that chew up bacteria as well as damaged human tissue.
At the same time, other switches get flipped throughout the body, modifying everything from metabolism to cell growth, via other cytokines, such as IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor–a, and things like CRP, which mark bacteria for destruction. The specialized adaptive immune response eliminates any remaining germs.
So far, so good. But the inflammation response can kick in even when there’s no invader. Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is a classic example. In response to fatty deposits on the walls of the arteries, a type of phagocyte called a macrophage identifies the growing lesions as trouble spots and infiltrates them, swelling and destabilizing the deposits. Those lesions can then break open, resulting in the formation of a blood clot that can clog blood vessels and cause heart attacks. The more active the macrophages are, the more CRP is in the bloodstream, and the more likely the lesions will break open, block your arteries, and kill you.
The evidence that inflammation is behind other diseases is indirect, but it is mounting. Researchers have long known that in patients with Alzheimer’s, the areas of the human brain clogged with senility-associated plaques also bristle with inflammatory cells and cytokines. Modern research has found that cytokines block memory formation in mice. In diabetes, inflammation and insulin resistance apparently track together, and drugs that effectively restore insulin sensitivity also appear to reduce inflammatory factors like IL-6 and CRP. Inflammation is also being investigated by a group at
These findings have provided researchers with a totally new appreciation of how subtly inflammation can work and how wildly awry it can go over time. It’s not about “a massive infection or a welt the size of an egg because you got hit in the head with a two-by-four,”
Evolution has designed into us a cruel trade-off: What saves us in the short term kills us over the long haul. As we get older, acute episodes of inflammation tend to turn into chronic ones, perhaps because the regulation of the immune system becomes less efficient. Inflammatory factors in the blood can increase two- to fourfold. Chronic infections may be partly to blame. Although we usually don’t know it, nearly all adults are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus, and at least 60 percent of us with cytomegalovirus. These two pathogens can stay in our bodies in a latent state, hiding out in our cells. But Ronald Glaser, a viral immunologist at
Early experiences may also influence the way that inflammation affects an individual’s aging, says Caleb Finch, a neurobiologist and gerontologist at the
Looking beyond provocative findings like those in Finch’s study, Tracy and other researchers on aging say that it may be too simplistic to think of inflammation in terms of straightforward cause and effect. Instead we must think of human biology as a group of interdependent systems. “Is inflammation a response to aging, or is it causing aging or disease?”
Inflammation is not uncontested as a theory of aging. There are many competing hypotheses. Yet inflammation reinforces some more than others, potentially establishing a plausible constellation of mechanisms responsible for aging.
For example, according to the “free radical” hypothesis of aging, we get older because of constant cellular damage caused by reactive oxygen compounds that are a natural product of metabolism. Inflammation can partly explain how this might work. Macrophages, as part of the inflammatory response, produce reactive oxygen species in order to attack bacteria. Oxidative stress and inflammation clearly egg each other on, and calming one can inhibit the other.
To take another prominent example, a low-calorie diet is known to increase the life spans of creatures ranging from flatworms to rats, but no one knows why, or whether it will help humans live longer. Inflammation provides a clue: Dietary restriction sharply inhibits the inflammatory response, and that may be part of why it promotes longevity at the same time that it reduces insulin resistance and slows dementia. Yet another widely discussed theory of why we age blames the shortening of telomeres, chromosomal structures that, in most cells, dwindle with each division and may ultimately limit the number of times any cell can divide. It is possible that inflammation could play a role here, too, because it prompts the faster turnover of cells in the immune system and other tissues.
Still, nobody thinks that there is a single root cause of aging—different species may age in different ways, and multiple mechanisms are probably at work. “I think it would be a mistake to suggest that inflammation is the cause of aging, or that all theories of aging must be tied to it,” Cohen says. Then again it may not ultimately matter whether inflammation is the most significant cause of our decay. More important is that inflammation offers an unparalleled opportunity to do something about it.
Some ways to reduce inflammation are elementary. It is impossible to know exactly what is going on in Jim Hammond’s body, but all the aspects of his regimen—healthy food, exercise, and a good attitude—reduce systemic inflammation. Those of us without his tenacity can turn to drug companies, which are exploring new anti-inflammatory drugs like flavonoids. Researchers are also looking at new uses for old drugs—trying to prevent Alzheimer’s using ibuprofen, for example. “The research is really to prevent the chronic debilitating diseases of aging,” says Nir Barzilai, a molecular geneticist and director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in
Some of this research stretches the boundaries of what we know. Rudi Westendorp, head of the department of gerontology and geriatrics at the
The caveat with these experiments is that by modifying inflammation, we are playing with fire. After all, fighting off infection is an absolutely essential bodily function. “The danger of monkeying around in a system like that is that you may do more harm than good,” Cohen says. But humans appear willing to renegotiate the ancient evolutionary bargain that traded robust reproductive health for frail old age.
Think of Jim Hammond if you have any doubts. In his blog, he describes running the 800-meter race in the 2007 National Senior Olympics games. “I won in a photo finish, and I broke the national record,” he wrote. The crowd went nuts. At the age of 93,
Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre, Hamilton, Ontario.
Cysteine-Rich Protein Prevents Weight Loss in Lung Cancer Patients:
A Promising Intervention Study
The massive loss of body weight and muscle mass in advanced cancer patients is typically associated with psychological stress, financial burden and a decreased quality of life. Until now there have been no dietary interventions known to satisfactorily prevent this process.
Immunotec's new study included 66 patients with advanced lung cancer receiving state of the art chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The patients had already suffered significant involuntary weight- loss prior to treatment. During a six month treatment period the patients were given either casein, a protein supplement low in cysteine which is widely used in clinical nutrition ("placebo") or IMN 1207, a specially-prepared glutathione enhancing cysteine-rich whey protein isolate supplied by Immunotec Inc. The results showed that patients in the placebo group continued to lose weight whereas patients treated with IMN 1207 showed a significant increase in body weight. Incidentally, these patients also showed an increase in strength and quality of life parameters. This study showed for the first time that cancer-related weight loss (cachexia) can be prevented by a single source of protein. Dr. Gerald Batist, Chair, Department of Oncology,
Among other questions, this clinical trial also addressed the controversy about antioxidant use in chemotherapy. Since radiotherapy and many types of chemotherapy work by raising levels of oxidative stress and free radical formation to destroy cancer cells, oncologists have voiced concern that treatment of the patient with antioxidants may "protect" the cancer from the toxic effects of the therapy. If this were the case, antioxidants could even be expected to shorten the life span of the patients.
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PMID: 18158761 [PubMed - in process]
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http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/ars.2007.1919
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