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[AlternativeAnswers] Re: Re RE getting off psychiatric drugs for bipolar

English is not my first language so don't mind the style and the spelling. i have a sister in law who was diagnosed as a teenager suffering from depression. they staredt to medicate her with powerful drugs. Soon she was diagnosed as schizophrenic, two years later she jumped from a window the day of her birthday and died. I don t trust psychiatrists that are now medicating toddler for bipolar disorder. They are a liability for society.

50 % of teens screened for depression are coming out with a diagnosis and a prescription for one to tree medication.( generally addictive )

Now they want to extend the screening to young future mother and the result will be similar. The only difference will be the drugging of the foetus. Ron Paul is the only politician opposing these new measures.

More than 90 % of people who go for to the first time to visit a psychiatrist come with a prescription AND a diagnosis.

Psychiatric so called " studies are flawed and in the majority of cases with conflicts of interest.
Academic physicians who hold senior faculty positions at prestigious medical centers, who have trained at the finest US medical schools, are found to have engaged in fraud and deception, shamelessly hawking products for companies that pay them.

Prestigious academic institutions are finding that faculty members in the department of psychiatry are becoming a liability–their misconduct and sometimes erratic behavior undermines the institution's reputation. the last example is William Weeks, MD a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine is facing federal conflict of interest charges" involving contract between the Veterans Affairs department and Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth news reports that "The U.S. Attorney's office also filed an 11-count civil complaint against Weeks on Friday, including six counts of conflict of interest, four counts of false claims and one count of "breach of fiduciary duty."

Three years have elapsed since FDA medical officers reported the findings of their comprehensive review of clinical trial data at an FDA pediatric advisory committee hearing (March, 2006). The review included 49 randomized, controlled clinical trials in the pediatric development programs, as well as post -marketing adverse event reports (AERS). The evidence shows that hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms emerge in children prescribed every one of the ADHD drugs: In controlled trials, only children taking the drugs suffered treatment-emergent "Hallucinations involving visual and/or tactile sensations of insects, snakes, or worms…" whereas none of the children on placebo hallucinated or became psychotic.

Further underscoring that the drugs are to blame: Dr. Andrew Mosholder and colleagues report, that in 90% of the cases, "there was no reported history of a similar psychiatric condition." The authors note: "Patients and physicians should be aware that psychosis or mania arising during drug treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may represent adverse drug reactions."

SOURCE Hallucinations and Other Psychotic Symptoms Associated With the Use of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Drugs in Children.
Andrew D. Mosholder, MD, MPHa, Kate Gelperin, MD, MPHa, Tarek A. Hammad, MD, PhD, MSc, MSa, Kathleen Phelan, RPha, Rosemary Johann-Liang, MDb.

Harvard Psychiatrists Target 4-year old Children for Drug Trials

An example of crass commercialism: a Mass General Hospital advertisement (2001) posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkQdzU2DOk

Four-year old Rebecca Riley' was a casualty of psychiatric "treatment. Her death from a combination of prescribed toxic psychotropic drugs is a demonstration of medicine derailed from its legitimate therapeutic mission. http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/02/4-year-old-rebecca-riley-casualty-of.html

The public was shocked that when still a toddler–aged 28 months–Rebecca was "diagnosed" with both bipolar disorder and ADHD by a board certified psychiatrist.

i can go on and on .. You said that your livelihood is related to vitamins. Vitamins have s significant and evolving place in mainstream healthcare that I personally believe will empower patients and caregivers regarding some serious diseases. I am sure that you know the importance of Nutrition and mental health ?
the FDA approved last week a new drug that raise the level of suicide by several fold . we know

Psychiatric illness are not exclusively western diseases and you have many ways to deal with it. In Asia or i Africa the greatest attention will be focused on the Nutrition of the patient.Detox with herbs will be starting point... removing any processed food and chemical from the diet. Food allergies, adrenal glands exhaustion, hypoglycemia can triggers psychotics events so do many chemicals.

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Do you ever saw a psychologist or a psychiatrist teaching a patient how to see the difference between himself and his thoughts ? To train the patient to recognize the destructive pattern of the " monkey brain " jumping around all day long ?

It is how Buddhist monks cure mental problem; with Meditation , healthy nutrition and few herbs .They don't need barbaric electroshock and drugs to get the results ont he great majority of their patients.

>
> Both respectfully and curiously,
>
> Do you have bi-polar disorder or do you have an immediate family member who suffers? In my opinion, if either you or a loved one suffers from BPAD, you would know that it is a complex, devastating problem with multiple risk factors, initiators, symptoms, etc. Suggesting that any simple answer exists is incorrect.
>
> The vitamin and diet regimen you recommend may have a benefit to a portion of those who suffer. Regarding the article below, it reads like an agenda engineered backward to create a desired position. The facts may be correct, but the practices and "ethics" being questioned are fairly common across all drug research, especially with many of the research superstars and pundits. The same perspective could be taken on various forms of cancer, endocrine, metabolic...almost any highly-researched, financially lucrative disease state you can't "see" or "feel" as a third party. Again, consider cancer drugs. While the position might look good on paper when a human being isn't directly involved, it has little practical application.
>
> Additionally, the increase in diagnosis and treatment requires patient/caregiver participation. Economic modeling can demonstrate that continued/increased usage of any protocol will likely only take place if there is a demonstrable benefit. In this case, temporary relief/reduction of a common significant healthcare problem. Call it bi-polar or whatever. The continuum of mood disorders is wide and deep so the name of the disease and the solution for an individual is constantly changing based on body chemistry, external factors, etc. Vitamins are just one brick in a very large pyramid. The pyramid is the solution, not the brick.
>
> The observation that common medications used to treat a BPAD patient will render the patient "dumbed-down". In some cases this is correct. However, if one is confronted with the disease as a patient or a caregiver, what relevance does this fact have as anything other than an observation? The sky is blue. If the sky were on fire, it would still be a sky, but many more people would suffer under a sky of fire.
>
> I love vitamins, in fact my livelihood is related to vitamins. Vitamins have s significant and evolving place in mainstream healthcare that I personally believe will empower patients and caregivers regarding some serious diseases. At this point, I have not seen any compelling information nor talked to any BPAD sufferers who can rely on vitamins to relieve either BPAD or an existential crisis.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> M
>
>
> --- In AlternativeAnswers@yahoogroups.com, shaman urban <shaman_urban@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Your son is probably not a bi-polar but probably an healthy teenager with all the existentialist and hormonal turmoil of a regular child is age.
> >
> > How to get a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder?
> >
> > Harvard medics â€˜concealed drug firm cashâ€™
> >
> > By Guy Adams from the Independant
> >
> > Harvard University is at the centre of an academic and political scandal after three prominent members of its psychiatry department were accused of breaking conflict-of-interest rules by failing to declare millions of dollars in consulting fees from drugs manufacturers.
> >
> > An investigation by Senator Charles E Grassley uncovered evidence that Dr Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist who helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines, neglected to tell university officials that he had earned at least $1.6m (Â£810,000) from pharmaceutical companies that make them.
> >
> > Two of Dr Biedermanâ€™s colleagues, Dr Timothy E Wilens and Dr Thomas Spencer, also allegedly violated federal and academic rules by concealing outside income from the drugs industry of $1.6m and $1m respectively. Senator Grassley, a Republican, had discovered that data about consulting fees disclosed by the academics differed sharply from payment information held by drugs companies.
> >
> > In one example, Dr Biederman, whose work is held responsible for a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, claimed in an annual report to the university that he received no income from Johnson & Johnson in 2001. When Senator Grassley queried this figure, he confessed to receiving $3,500. The company says Dr Biederman was paid $58,169 that year, a discrepancy that remained unexplained last night.
> >
> > The relationship between the Harvard academics and drug companies is highly controversial because their research has advocated the use of previously unapproved psychiatric medicines in children. The university began a formal investigation yesterday into their outside earnings.
> >
> > â€œThe information released by Senator Grassley suggests that, in certain instances, each doctor may have failed to disclose outside information â€¦ that should have been referred,â€ read a statement by the university published by The New York Times, which revealed details of the affair.
> >
> > Dr Biederman said he took conflict of interest policies very seriously, adding: â€œMy interests are solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study.â€ Dr Wilens and Dr Spencer said they thought they had complied with the rules.
> >
> > =======================================================
> > Your son can switch to SAME and Multi vitamins with an healthy organic diet avoiding all chemicals and processed food.
> >
> > For more on the underworld of flawed psychiatric researches ;
> >
> > http://www.jmbblog.com/another-psychiatrist-busted-for-conflict-of-interest/
> >
> > 1. Disposable Children Mini Serie / Drugging Todder
> > http://www.jmbblog.com/disposable-children-mini-serie-adhd-drugs/
> >
>

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[AlternativeAnswers] Re: Should You Get a Mammogram?

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I hopes that you understood Yes you should NOT. My bad, but reading the post i am sure you understood my mistake!!
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[AlternativeAnswers] Solarized Water

Good Morning!

Solarized Water

Solarized Water is a wonderful way of applying color to the body. Water, when exposed to sunlight in a colored container for at least an hour becomes irradiated and takes on some of the vibrational energy of that particular color. This is called vibrational essence, color elixirs or Solarized water. Wrap a colored gel around a clear glass or bottle. Add water, cover and place in the sun.

Simply drink solarized water at regular intervals throughout the day. A red gel will give red solarized water; a blue gel, blue solarized water, etc. The longer the water remains exposed to the sun, the stronger is its potency.

Solarization depends on temperature, geographical location and the time of the day. One simple way to determine if the water has absorbed the sun's energy is to drop an ice cube in the glass of water to be solarized. When the ice cube has completely melted, the water is charged.

Fresh solarized water can be store for several days at a time. Blue solarized water can be kept safely for a week or ten days in hot or cold weather. Because of the light frequencies, red, yellow, and orange solarized water should be changed every two days in warm weather and every ten days to two weeks in cold weather, when storing. Because the color of the water does not change, it is necessary to label each container as to what color the water has been solarized.

If you would like to preserve the water for a longer time, it is a good idea to add a natural preservative to it. A 50/50 mix of the solarized water to alcohol such as brandy or vodka, will keep this vibrational water for many months. It is always a good idea to store your solarized essence in a brown or blue bottle where the sun won't destabilize its delicate balance.

Solarized Water can be used as an adjunct healing therapy in any situation where color is needed and applied. This water can work on all levels of our mental, spiritual, physical and emotional bodies in subtle and even profound ways.

· Use a dropper bottle and drop several drops under the tongue or into a glass of water that you could sip throughout the day.
· Drink a little each day.
· Drops can be placed directly on the pulse points; wrists, neck and top of feet.
· Add your vibrational colored water to a spray bottle. Spray directly on you or in any room that needs the color energy.
· Rub a few drops on the appropriate Chakra points.
· Add a few drops of the essence water into massage oil.
· Add several drops into your bath water.
· Blend your solarized essence with essential oils and place in an oil burner.
Spray your plants or pets with the energized water.

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[AlternativeAnswers] Re: Re RE getting off psychiatric drugs for bipolar

Both respectfully and curiously,

Do you have bi-polar disorder or do you have an immediate family member who suffers? In my opinion, if either you or a loved one suffers from BPAD, you would know that it is a complex, devastating problem with multiple risk factors, initiators, symptoms, etc. Suggesting that any simple answer exists is incorrect.

The vitamin and diet regimen you recommend may have a benefit to a portion of those who suffer. Regarding the article below, it reads like an agenda engineered backward to create a desired position. The facts may be correct, but the practices and "ethics" being questioned are fairly common across all drug research, especially with many of the research superstars and pundits. The same perspective could be taken on various forms of cancer, endocrine, metabolic...almost any highly-researched, financially lucrative disease state you can't "see" or "feel" as a third party. Again, consider cancer drugs. While the position might look good on paper when a human being isn't directly involved, it has little practical application.

Additionally, the increase in diagnosis and treatment requires patient/caregiver participation. Economic modeling can demonstrate that continued/increased usage of any protocol will likely only take place if there is a demonstrable benefit. In this case, temporary relief/reduction of a common significant healthcare problem. Call it bi-polar or whatever. The continuum of mood disorders is wide and deep so the name of the disease and the solution for an individual is constantly changing based on body chemistry, external factors, etc. Vitamins are just one brick in a very large pyramid. The pyramid is the solution, not the brick.

The observation that common medications used to treat a BPAD patient will render the patient "dumbed-down". In some cases this is correct. However, if one is confronted with the disease as a patient or a caregiver, what relevance does this fact have as anything other than an observation? The sky is blue. If the sky were on fire, it would still be a sky, but many more people would suffer under a sky of fire.

I love vitamins, in fact my livelihood is related to vitamins. Vitamins have s significant and evolving place in mainstream healthcare that I personally believe will empower patients and caregivers regarding some serious diseases. At this point, I have not seen any compelling information nor talked to any BPAD sufferers who can rely on vitamins to relieve either BPAD or an existential crisis.

Respectfully,

M

--- In AlternativeAnswers@yahoogroups.com, shaman urban <shaman_urban@...> wrote:
>
>
> Your son is probably not a bi-polar but probably an healthy teenager with all the existentialist and hormonal turmoil of a regular child is age.
>
> How to get a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder?
>
> Harvard medics â€˜concealed drug firm cashâ€™
>
> By Guy Adams from the Independant
>
> Harvard University is at the centre of an academic and political scandal after three prominent members of its psychiatry department were accused of breaking conflict-of-interest rules by failing to declare millions of dollars in consulting fees from drugs manufacturers.
>
> An investigation by Senator Charles E Grassley uncovered evidence that Dr Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist who helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines, neglected to tell university officials that he had earned at least $1.6m (Â£810,000) from pharmaceutical companies that make them.
>
> Two of Dr Biedermanâ€™s colleagues, Dr Timothy E Wilens and Dr Thomas Spencer, also allegedly violated federal and academic rules by concealing outside income from the drugs industry of $1.6m and $1m respectively. Senator Grassley, a Republican, had discovered that data about consulting fees disclosed by the academics differed sharply from payment information held by drugs companies.
>
> In one example, Dr Biederman, whose work is held responsible for a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, claimed in an annual report to the university that he received no income from Johnson & Johnson in 2001. When Senator Grassley queried this figure, he confessed to receiving $3,500. The company says Dr Biederman was paid $58,169 that year, a discrepancy that remained unexplained last night.
>
> The relationship between the Harvard academics and drug companies is highly controversial because their research has advocated the use of previously unapproved psychiatric medicines in children. The university began a formal investigation yesterday into their outside earnings.
>
> â€œThe information released by Senator Grassley suggests that, in certain instances, each doctor may have failed to disclose outside information â€¦ that should have been referred,â€ read a statement by the university published by The New York Times, which revealed details of the affair.
>
> Dr Biederman said he took conflict of interest policies very seriously, adding: â€œMy interests are solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study.â€ Dr Wilens and Dr Spencer said they thought they had complied with the rules.
>
> =======================================================
> Your son can switch to SAME and Multi vitamins with an healthy organic diet avoiding all chemicals and processed food.
>
> For more on the underworld of flawed psychiatric researches ;
>
> http://www.jmbblog.com/another-psychiatrist-busted-for-conflict-of-interest/
>
> 1. Disposable Children Mini Serie / Drugging Todder
> http://www.jmbblog.com/disposable-children-mini-serie-adhd-drugs/
>

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[AlternativeAnswers] Diagnosis through Accupressure

Are any details available regarding Diagnosis by Accupressure available.
Its just a thought that it may reduce the costs and also the fear.
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[AlternativeAnswers] Benefits Of Eating Raw Garlic

Eating Raw Garlic

Compiled and edited by David J. Stewart

So many people don't even hesitate to run to a doctor when they have health problems. Tragically, doctors kill 250,000 patients each year in the U.S. alone according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Unbeknownst to many people, there are thousands of natural cures and remedies available, without out all the dangerous side effects of most drugs. Every drug has side effects. In fact, it is the desired good side effect that causes doctors to prescribe a particular drug.

However, many drugs attack the liver, sometimes even causing death. Most drugs do possess potentially serious side effects. My personal opinion is that it's always better to at least TRY a natural home remedy than to risk taking Pharmaceutical drugs that may damage your body or make you one of those 106,000 patients who die EACH year from non-error negative drug effects. You'll hardly ever hear doctors these days recommend a change of diet and lifestyle to better your health. It's almost always more drugs.

Please don't misunderstand me, I thank God for doctors, and we definitely should go to the doctor if we need to. The irony of the 250,000 patients killed each year by drugs and doctors is that many people have also died because they DIDN'T go to a doctor. Many people have died within days of having nothing more than flu-like symptoms. Please keep in mind that I am NOT a doctor.

One road to improved health is including raw garlic in your weekly diet. Garlic has been used as a natural cure for centuries for everything from treating the common cold to fighting skin fungus. Garlic, hot peppers and onions have been used to prevent and treat colds for centuries. Some hot salsa will clear out your sinuses quickly. Some claim that skin fungus can be remedied and prevented by eating a few crushed cloves of fresh raw garlic daily. Fungus doesn't like garlic in your bodies' sweat. Also, cut back on your sugar intake which feeds the fungus. All those sugary donuts and soft drinks are horrible for the body anyway. As you will learn in the articles to follow, there are many claims that garlic may help to prevent cancer, lower cholesterol and kill viral infections. Not too much garlic though, you want to still have friends.

Few people realize just how critical water is to the body. Good health requires an overall effort in all areas, not just in the area of diet. A body needs fresh air, pure water, exercise, sunshine and very importantly... a sound mind to reduce stress. Things which cause stress will NEVER go away, so we must learn to reduce stress by taking everything to the Lord in prayer (Philippians 4:6). If you're not a Christian and would like to be, click here.

You are about to learn the fascinating truth about garlic. To reduce the effects of garlic odor on your breath, take the garlic before you go to sleep at night. Also, fresh garlic is potent and should be taken with a meal or else it could upset your stomach. I find that natural fruit juice goes well with garlic. It's important to crush the garlic up in your mouth (or with a spoon) before you swallow it. Don't cook it. Only crush the garlic when you're going to take it... crushed garlic loses it's effectiveness after about one hour. Garlic pills are worthless. Taking garlic once or twice a week is good.

Remember, no one one can take care of your body except you.

Raw garlic tackles cancer

Previous studies suggested a massive amount of garlic was needed

Doctors have suggested how much garlic they think a person would have to eat each day to gain from its anti-cancer properties - half a clove.

It should be served raw to have maximum effect, they said.

Previous studies had suggested that a human would have to eat their own weight in garlic before gaining any benefits.

But the new research suggests half a raw clove would be enough, rising to four and half cloves if cooked.

Established benefits

Although garlic is best known for its ability to stave off heart disease, scientists have also been examining its role in cancer.

They suspect it can counter the effects of particles that cause bowel cancer, but want to know which parts of the plant are actively involved in the process.

Rex and Christine Munday, a husband and wife research team based in New Zealand, were looking at what is thought to be one of the key ingredients - a substance called diallyl disulfide.

It causes the gut to produce enzymes that can clear it of cancer-causing particles.

Their findings are reported in New Scientist magazine and will be published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer.

Moderate intake

The two of them gave rats varying doses of disulfide, and found that it increased levels of the enzyme by up to 60% when given in amounts equivalent to a moderate daily intake in humans.

"It's been recognized that garlic is an inducer of these enzymes, but previous studies have all been with doses at meaningless levels," Rex Munday told the magazine.

"They implied you'd need to eat your own weight in garlic to achieve beneficial effects."

Instead, the Mundays found that in rats the benefits kicked in at between 0.075mg and 0.3mg of disulfide per kilogram of body weight, or half a clove of garlic for the average human.

'Larger study needed'

Lesley Walker, head of science information at the Cancer Research Campaign, said: "It's an interesting study, but people shouldn't get too excited about it."

This was because the research was performed on rats and did not look specifically at bowel cancer, but at a substance that can reduce the risk of bowel cancer.

She said it would take a much a larger study to prove any benefits, but there was no harm in eating plenty of garlic as eating plenty of fruit and vegetables reduces the risk of cancer.

"It's lovely to think that eating half a clove of garlic reduces the risk of bowel cancer, and if you like garlic then go for it - but don't necessarily be surprised if you then develop cancer."

Shrinking cancer

Diallyl disulfide was first proven to have the ability to slow the growth of bowel cancer in 1995.

Dr Sujatha Sundaram, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University, found that it caused human bowel cancer tumor cells to shrink and die when transplanted into mice.

Dr Sundaram was also responsible for finding another compound found in garlic that slowed the growth of breast cancer in rats.

SOURCE

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RAW Garlic For Parasites and Viral Infections
The following article is abstracted from the European producers of a freeze-dried garlic preparation that is used for the animal industry. It is a translation from German so the grammar is not terrific in some areas. The article explains why nearly every commercial garlic preparation that you purchase is virtually worthless. If you are going to use garlic you need to use fresh RAW garlic. -- Dr. Mercola
When we talk about allicin there is a group of compounds that are formed when you crush the garlic clove which are called the thiosulphanates. Of the thiosulphanates, allicin is the dominant one. About 70 to 80% of the thiosulphates is allicin.

We tend to talk about allicin as the antimicrobial agent but there is other thiosulphates in there that are also antimicrobials, but much less work is being done on them. And this is why we use the whole clove rather than trying to synthesize things like allicin.

Enteroguard

The developers call it a new antimicrobials complex for the feed industry. They developed Enteroguard from two active natural ingredients to replace the use of antibiotics at low levels that are incorporated in animal feed. Feed like pig feed, poultry fee, milk replacement for calves, because we've known for a long time and it is been recognized that having these antibiotics in feed at low levels is causing resistance problems in the human population.

So it is this cross resistance in there.

Antibiotics like Virginiamycin, Tylosiin, Spiramycin have been used at low levels in the feed as growth promoters simply in there to promote growth of the animal. But these growth promoters belong to a family of antibiotics of which there is a human equivalent. So Virginiamycin is a Streptogramin in the antibiotics category. An example of this on the human side is synercid.

So the possibility then or the potential then is the cross resistance into the human population where you build up a reservoir of organisms that then have resistance.

So in Europe in January of 1999, these six growth promoters were banned across the whole of the EEC. They could not be used as growth promoters. They allowed them four months into which to work out their stocks, then that was it.

There are still left two, that they are trying to get rid of but the main grouping is gone. At that stage people became interested in our equivalent to see if it would work in this big feed industry where they produce one half to one million tons of feed at a time. And looking for that growth enhancement of the animals as well as some disease protection in there. That is where we came in.

Enteroguard is a combination of two potent plant derived antimicrobials.

And what I would like to do is to take you through individually the two active ingredients in there in terms of why we selected them and what are known about them. The first one is allicin from garlic and I'll come on to that one in a minute, but the second one is also a natural and it's cinnamaldehyde from the oil of cinnamon.

The researchers first came across allicin about 10 years ago. They screened over 200 natural plant substances for antimicrobials activity. They determined allicin from garlic to be a potent sulfur containing antimicrobial. Its chemical name is thiosulphonate. Its only found in small concentrations in a group of food plants called the Allium group which contains onions as well as garlic. But the largest concentration of alliin is actually found in garlic which is why they selected garlic as the source of allicin.

This is the structure of allicin or diallyl thiosulphonate. In some ways it almost resembles an antibiotic- two cysteine derived molecules on the ends, but it is this S-S double bond which is the very potent part of the molecule that gives it its very strong antimicrobials activity.

Why Do They Actually Freeze Dry The Garlic?

This comes down to the fact that if you take a garlic clove and you peel it very carefully and you smell it. There is very little smell. But as soon as you crush it...boom! You get an instantaneous smell. This is a clean smell, that is allicin that is produced.

And the reason is that in garlic itself you don't find allicin but what you do find is a precursor molecule called alliin. And alliin is found within the garlic clove within the mesophyl cells and also in the garlic clove you then find around the phloem in the cells around the vascular bundle you find an enzyme called alliinase.

And these two are physically separated within the cell. When you crush it these two come into contact and immediately the combination of the two produce allicin, and the other thiosulphonates.

Thiosulphonates As A Group Are Antimicrobials

Allicin constitutes between 70 to 80% of those thiosulphonates because they provide the total antimicrobial activity. One interesting thing is that the amount of enzyme is almost the same as the amount of alliin. This is very unusual because enzyme systems usually require very little enzyme to make a conversion. But in garlic it is absolutely stocked with the enzyme.

So the same amount of enzyme there is, is equivalent to is alliin; which is one of the reasons you get that instantaneous conversion. And the conversion of all the alliin to allicin in the garlic occur within 20 seconds. When you crush it.

As far as the plant is concerned, the plant uses this as an antimicrobials because you can imagine the garlic clove which becomes the seed of the plant. If it is invaded by bacteria or a single cell pathogen will start to break down the cells. So when the cells start to break down you get alliin and alliinase coming together locally with a little puff of allicin and boom you knock out the protozoa or bacteria or yeast.

The developers import garlic from China as the soil is very rich in sulfur there, which contributes to increase activity. The product has been analyzed at the University of Bonn in Germany which found one of the highest garlic concentrate in tems of alliin content.

Imported Frozen Garlic From China

They make sure it raised in an area and a way that gives it the highest alliin content, but they then hand peel the garlic so in the fields there are 700 women sitting at tables gently peeling the cloves by hand. Now you could get a machine to do this but it would cause too much allicin to be released through cell damage which causes the alliin to react with the alliinase.

Then allicin over a period of days will actually start to break down. So after it is hand peeled they blast freeze it. It is frozen very quickly. It goes into these big stores where they pump cold air into it at -30 degrees and they are frozen solid. It is then imported from China to a factory in UK as frozen garlic cloves.

It is shipped in 12-ton containers where they keep it frozen all the way through. They then take those frozen cloves and put them through a machine that chops them three or four times, some of the small cloves are not chopped at all. This chopping just helps in moisture removal. Then this garlic then goes into a freeze-drying facility.

It is put into trays and put straight into the freeze dryer. And the freeze dryer removes all that moisture in a virtual vacuum. So in a vacuum at -30 degrees C the moisture doesn't actually turn into a liquid. It goes straight off as moisture to gas. It is rather like frozen CO2. When that is warmed it doesn't go a liquid phase it comes immediately into a gas phase.

They use this process as a gentle method of removing water. Now with the moisture removed, the alliin and the alliinase are separated and totally inactive because they can only react in the presence of moisture. So they can then take the dried clove out of the freeze dryer and mill them into a powder.

If the garlic were milled while the moisture content was still high in the garlic then they would react to produce allicin and the allicin would disappear in a few days. This is the problem with all the garlic products that are on the market. There is no allicin left.

For when they milled their product there was moisture in it. When Enteroguard is taken in by the animal or the human as it is rehydrated as it makes its way down the digestive track is becomes active the alliin reacts with the alliinnase and allicin is produced just where you want it in the gut.

The allicin appears to be effective against

E. coli.

Staphylococcus aureus

Clostridium perfringens

Salmonella spp.
However the lactic organisms and the enterococci are virtually unaffected by garlic. Why is this good? Because this group contains the beneficial bacteria in the gut. So here you have an organism that is anti yeast and anti fungi, anti gram negative and gram positive bacteria, and yet against a group of very beneficial organism it doesn't have any activity.

Not only does garlic kill pathogenic bacteria but it also kills rotavirus infection which is responsible for many cases of diarrhea. At concentrations of 20 parts per million garlic totally protects these mammalian cells from being invaded pathogenic viruses.

It has also been helpful in protoza infections like Cryptosporidium parvum. It was first discovered in the USA in 1971 in the following 22 years in has become absolutely endemic on the dairy farms; 90% of all dairy farms are infected by Crypto. And as soon as you get 100+ dairy cows on a unit all of them are infected.

Even in these cow/calve operations where the calves are raised with their mothers out in the fields, 40% of them are infected because the heifers before they are weaned they shed these oocysts through their saliva into the pastures and these little oocyst just stay around and the next generation gets them.

It is the single major cause of contaminating the human water supply.

The Enteroguard is now sold to vets in the USA for Rotavirus and Crypto.

During the First World War, garlic was the major battle field wound dressing. They made a paste of it and rapped wounds with it. So when the antibiotics were developed all the publications on garlic stopped.

Allicin is active interracially in the gut and once absorbed it is quickly converted into diallyl suphides in the liver. Diallyl sulphides have low antimicrobials activity and these are then expressed through the urine, through the breath and through the skin. The diallyl sulphides is the smell you get when you cook garlic or when you eat lots of garlic.

But the allicin is the clean smell you get when you crush it which is a different smell than the diallyl sulphides which is stronger in smell and what you get when you cook it. Allicin is a cascade molecule and as it breaks down there have been 150 different breakdown molecules from a molecule of allicin. So you get allicin slowly degrading into other molecules which themselves react with each other to form molecules which may be very active against protozoa like giardia and trichomonous.

Garlic also appears to be very active against Helicobacter pylori.

Toxicity

You would have to eat ten to twenty grams per kilo weight which means you would have to eat a trunk load of garlic to have any toxic effect.

Mode Of Action

How does it kill bacteria cells? This is what is called the macroeffect. What we know is that allicin disrupts the cell membrane biosynthesis. It inhibits DNA polymerases and inhibits RNA synthesis. So it is disrupting the whole enzyme system that is responsible for cell replication.

Allicin also destroys the SH groups in proteins. These sulfur containing groups are found in thiol enzymes which are a large part of the physiology of lower organisms- bacteria, virus, and protozoa. Antibiotics tend to target a single metabolic pathway in an organism and take apart this pathway. Now as far as the bacteria is concerned a single gene mutation with just the random mutations that go on all the time, can often find an alternative way from getting from A to B. When an antibiotic destroys that ability from getting from A to B the cell is killed.

So when this cell has a successful mutation then resistance is accomplished. When you take something like an allicin which is affecting groups which are found in many enzymes in the lower organisms, they are being destroyed.

But these enzymes are building proteins that go into the cell membrane, or proteins are part of other enzyme systems that are then used in the DNA polymerase and the RNA polymerase synthesis system. And they are the building blocks of all sorts of proteins. Now it is impossible for the bacteria to spontaneously find its way around all these different enzyme systems and to find alternative ways of doing it. So they can't get resistance with natural compounds like allicin.

Resistance to the allicin in garlic can't be induced. When you think about it, is makes sense for as far as a plant is concerned it just needs a simple mechanism which will kill microorganisms without allowing them to develop resistance for if they develop resistance them the plant will be destroyed. It would no longer be around after 10,000 years. Garlic is around so there are no resistant pathogens that have developed that are resistant to allicin.

Why Doesn't The Garlic Harm Mammalian Cells

If you take a mammalian cell, we don't use S-H compounds extensively used. Additionally S-H group can be protected. Glutathione is known to protect groups. You can demonstrate this in a test tube. You can take a sulfur containing enzyme. This mechanism of protection is the same for the lactic acid organisms. So they have developed the same protective mechanisms. If this was not so then in the garlic eating nations they would have eradicated their lactic acid bacteria long ago, which is certainly not the case.

So in summary with Allicin you have a broad spectrum of activity against bacteria, virus, and protozoa.

No resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use.

It has no effect on mammalian cells, and no effect on the lactic acid bacteria.

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Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Garlic is one food that you should be eating every day. Dr. Klinghardt and I are very impressed with its ability to optimize bowel flora and kill pathogenic organisms.

It is important to note that the garlic MUST be fresh. The active ingredient is destroyed within one hour of smashing the garlic. Garlic pills are virtually worthless and should not be used. When you use the garlic it will be important to compress the garlic with a spoon prior to swallowing it if you are not going to juice it. If you swallow the clove intact you will not convert the allicin to its active ingredient.

One problem, of course, is the smell, but generally a few cloves a day are tolerated by most people. If one develops a socially offensive odor then all you do is slightly decrease the volume of garlic until there is no odor present.

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Garlic the wonder food
by Marc Leduc

Garlic and its cousins (onions, chives and scallions) are probably the most intriguing of all vegetables. Garlic lowers cholesterol, reduces the risk of heart disease, fights infection and boosts immunity. And, as if that weren't enough, the data is strong for the prevention of cancers of the digestive system, including the esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum. The National Cancer Institute is sponsoring a huge clinical trial on garlic's ability to prevent stomach cancer. But why wait years for the results of this clinical trial?

It was Louis Pasteur who first described the antibacterial effect of garlic and onion juices. Garlic is effective even against antibiotic-resistant strains. It even kills Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a kind of bacteria which is implicated in the cause of some stomach cancers and ulcers.

Several studies (1-3) show that garlic benefits the following conditions:

Atherosclerosis
Colon cancer (reduces risk of stomach, esophageal, and colon cancers)
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
High triglycerides
Many publications have shown that garlic supports the cardiovascular system, while earlier trials suggest it may lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood.

Garlic and cancer
Human population studies suggest that eating garlic regularly reduces the risk of esophageal, colon and stomach cancer.(4,5) This may be partly due to garlic's ability to reduce the formation of carcinogenic compounds.

Parts of China have the misfortune to have an inordinately high rate of cancer of the esophagus and stomach. Scientists at the Nanjing Cancer Institute compared the incidence of several cancers among thousands of people who ate lots of allium vegetables versus thousands who ate little or none. ('Lots' in this case means at least once per week while 'little' means less than once per month.)

Here is how allium vegetables prevented cancer of the esophagus:

85% reduction for those who ate lots of scallions
75% for onions
70% for garlic
43% for chives

The figures for stomach cancer prevention are equally impressive:

83% reduction for those who ate lots of onions
78% for scallions
69% for garlic
60% for chives

Studies indicate that eating garlic seems to protect against colorectal cancer as well.

Dr. Lenore Arab and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed 18 studies looking at garlic eaters.

The average intake of the consumers of raw or cooked garlic was 18.3 grams per week (about six cloves).

Based on 6 studies, the findings suggest "high consumption of raw or cooked garlic decreases the risk of colorectal cancer from 10% to nearly 50%," the researchers write(6).

Garlic and heart disease
Recent studies (7) have uncovered what is perhaps
garlic's most important health benefit: lowering the risk of heart disease.

The studies suggest that garlic may:

lower total cholesterol
lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol
lower blood pressure
help keep blood thin, reducing the risk of blood clots and stroke,
function as an antioxidant.
There are also some preliminary findings suggesting that garlic may lower elevated serum levels of homocysteine.
These effects are wide-ranging and likely result from several different mechanisms.

Regular garlic consumption appears to prevent the buildup of fatty plaque in the arteries and may even shrink existing plaques, according to German researchers who recently concluded a 4-year study of 280 adults (8). People who ingested 900 mg of garlic powder daily had up to 18% less arterial plaque at the end of the study than those taking a placebo. The effect, seen in both sexes, was most pronounced in women. Plaque volume rose by 53% in women on the placebo, while it declined by 4.6% in those taking garlic.

Another benefit which has been confirmed by medical research is garlic's antibiotic activity. Studies have repeatedly confirmed that garlic is effective against bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Garlic can be safely taken for mild, recurring or chronic infections which are not dangerous. Examples include colds, infections of the mouth, ears, throat and especially candida. (9)

Garlic supplements
Many people avoid eating garlic since it can make one's breath smell pretty strong. In that case, garlic supplements are a convenient alternative.

For those who prefer it, odor-controlled, enteric-coated tablets or capsules with approximately 1.3% allicin are available. Several clinical trials which have shown benefits have used 600–900 mg (delivering approximately 5,000–6,000 mcg of allicin potential) per day in 2 or 3 divided amounts.(10,11)

Which garlic supplement should you choose? Well, that depends on whom you ask. Nutrition experts continue to debate whether aged garlic extracts are superior to standardized high-allicin extracts.

Aging is a method of preserving garlic. It was developed thousands of years ago by Chinese herbalists, who found that "steeping" garlic in vinegar for a few years actually increased the herb`s potency. A Japanese company reinvented the process in the 1950s. In the modern version, organically grown garlic is placed in large vats of vinegar for 2 years.

Proponents say that aging the garlic in this way enhances the herb`s antioxidant properties, prevents the rapid deterioration of important compounds, and removes the odor as well as irritants which might cause stomach upset.

Indeed, if you`re concerned about garlic breath, an aged extract or enteric-coated tablet is the way to go. If you`re treating an infection of some kind, a standardized high-allicin extract or the actual food is the better choice. Aging destroys garlic`s antibiotic properties.

And if your main concern is preventing heart disease or cancer, you can choose either the food, an aged extract or a high-allicin extract.

I spend a lot of time researching the best prices for supplements on the internet and in my opinion, the best price for high quality garlic supplements can be found here.

Some individuals who are sensitive to garlic may experience heartburn and flatulence. Because of garlic's anticlotting properties, those taking anticoagulant drugs should check with their nutritionally oriented doctor before taking garlic. Those scheduled for surgery should inform their surgeon if they are taking garlic supplements.

References

(1). Warshafsky S, Kamer R, Sivak S. Effect of garlic on total serum cholesterol: A meta-analysis. Ann Int Med 1993;119:599–605.

(2). Silagy C, Neil A. Garlic as a lipid-lowering agent—a meta-analysis. J R Coll Phys London 1994;28:39–45.

(3). Neil HA, Silagy CA, Lancaster T, et al. Garlic powder in the treatment of moderate hyperlipidaemia: A controlled trial and a meta-analysis. J R Coll Phys 1996;30:329–34.

(4). Dorant E, van den Brandt PA, Goldbohm RA, et al. Garlic and its significance for the prevention of cancer in humans: A critical review. Br J Cancer 1993;67:424–9.

(5). Fleishauer AT, Poole C, Arab L. Garlic consumption and cancer prevention: meta-analyses of colorectal and stomach cancers. Am J Clin Nutr 2000;72:1047–52.

(6) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition October, 2000;72:1047-1052.

(7) Nutrition in Clinical Care August 2000;3:145-152.

(8) (Atherosclerosis, May 1999) Date Posted: 10/31/2002

(9) SOURCE: Lin, Robert. Garlic in Medicine. Speech made to American College of Advancement in Medicine. May 14, 1992 p 46.

(10). Brown DJ. Herbal Prescriptions for Better Health. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1996, 97–109.

(11). Blumenthal M, Busse WR, Goldberg A, et al. (eds). The Complete Commission E Monographs: Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines. Boston, MA: Integrative Medicine Communications, 1998, 134.

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