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 What the research reveals about our amazing products and about
the exciting field of nutrition in general.
In a nutshell, what the research reveals is this:
- The human body is a marvelously designed living
organism with the ability to grow, regulate, repair and defend
itself when given natural, high quality full spectrum nutrition.
- New Earth's Wild BlueGreen™ ( Aphanizomeon
flos-aqua , AFA) is a rare food plant with unique biomodulating
capabilities.
Why is this significant?
Good question.
Let's define the concept of nutritional biomodulation:
(Please hang in there with us for just a few minutes…this is very important
information that can make a real difference in your New Earth product experience!)
A biomodulator is a nutritional substance that seems to increase the
synergy of the human body. Synergy means that the whole is much more than
the mere sum of the parts. The synergy of the human body is a fancy way of
saying that everything is working better because everything is more connected,
cooperating, and flowing. When synergy is taking place inside the human
body, (or anywhere else for that matter) it starts to feel like a different
reality, where one plus one always equals more than two!
When synergy is taking place, there is little or no observable obstruction in
the way of more optimum and near perfect internal functioning. By providing
a full spectrum of balanced micro-nutrients, a biomodulating food succeeds in
nourishing all the parts of the body, (cells, organs, tissues systems) and by
so doing provides the opportunity for the whole body to function much closer
to its original design, structure, function and purpose.
Nutritional biomodulation is hugely important in understanding how and why and
what makes the New Earth products so unique. Nutritional biomodulation is also
hugely important in helping to explain why paying attention to the rest of
your diet and lifestyle is one of the keys to complete customer satisfaction
on the journey to better nutrition!
Nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals
Nutritional biomodulation from various foods and supplements is very different
from the active effect of most drugs and pharmaceutical substances. Most
pharmaceutical substances target very, very specific biochemical functions
either by attempting to "turn on" (stimulant drugs) or "turn off" (depressant
drugs) various parts and pieces of our biochemistry. There are always negative
biochemical consequences with the introduction of pharmaceutical substances into
the human body…always. These consequences are well known to everyone. They are
called side effects. There are many other important differences between food grade
nutraceutical substances (such as New Earth's Wild BlueGreen™!) and pharmaceutical
substances. This is just one of them.
Researcher Gitte S. Jensen Ph.D (and several associates) at the Royal Victoria
Hospital, in Montreal, Quebec, wrote the article entitled:
Consumption of Aphanizomenon Flos-Aquae Has Rapid Effects on the Circulation and
Function of Immune Cells in Humans, with the subtitle: a novel approach to
nutritional mobilization of the immune system
This was published in the January, 2000 Journal of the
American Nutraceutical Association Vol 2, No.3
What the research reveals is stated as follows, which appears in the conclusion
statement of the article:
"Consumption of AFA leads to rapid changes in immune cell trafficking, but
not direct activation of lymphocytes. Thus, AFA increases the immune
surveillance without directly stimulating the immune system."
What does this mean?
Basically what this means is this: Consuming New Earth's Wild BlueGreen™
restored normal function of the natural killer cells without causing
any abnormal stress to the immune system or any other part of the
body. This is significant because research on pharmaceutical substances
reveals a variety of toxic side effects in exchange for their highly
targeted stimulating or depressing activities. And this is the biggest
and most important difference between Nutrition
and Medicine. (between nutritional biomodulation and pharmacological
medicine)
Back to our research conclusion statement:
Natural Killer Cells (NK cells) are a unique subset of cells within
our immune system. Known as lymphocytes, their primary function is to
constantly lookout for pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and diseased
cells in the blood, lymph and tissues of our body. But wait…they not only
perform surveillance duties. These magnificent protectors and defenders of
our health are very lethal adversaries indeed. When they are wide awake, they
are armed to the teeth and fully capable of identifying, neutralizing, and
completely eliminating from the body things that don't belong there.
Without a fully awake and fully empowered legion of NK cells on
duty 24 hours a day, we would suffer the slow ravages of a constantly
depressed immune system, and a variety of chronic dis-ease conditions and
symptoms. Not much fun at all.
What the research reveals is that New Earth's Wild BlueGreen™ Algae contains
enough of the right nutritional stuff to keep our entire legion of NK cells fully empowered. The discoveries made about the nutritional impact of New Earth's Wild BlueGreen™ on NK cells in this study (and subsequent studies) have
far-reaching implications in our ongoing understanding of the many relationships
between nutrition and human health.
Let's conclude this conversation section about what the research reveals with
some thoughts about the field of nutrition in general.
What research like this reveals is concrete evidence of a major, long overdue
paradigm shift within the scientific research community. Much scientific
research and practical clinical study has contributed to the exploration and
discovery of the positive and negative influence of pharmacological substances
on the various cells, organs, functions, and systems of the human body.
Miraculous discoveries have been made in some areas, and not much progress
has been made in other areas.
Functional nutrition is based on a variety of traditional health approaches
combined with the most sophisticated of modern scientific techniques.
Functional nutrition is based on the simple observable phenomena that what
we eat affects our health. What a concept!
As we saw in our brief review of New Earth's natural killer cell study,
functional nutrition is not trying to stimulate or depress the normal
functions of the human body…as all pharmacological substances do…but to
nourish, strengthen, build up, and compliment the normal functions of the
human body …via better nutritional habits…with the goal of attaining optimal
biological functioning and optimum human health.
Here's how author and nutrition consultant Jerry Stine, in the recently
published book, Optimal Digestion (Avon Books, 1999, page 5) describes the "new"
medicine and the future of functional nutrition:
"The metabolism of food is a primary focus in the new functional
and nutritional medicine and now has center stage. Food is now
recognized as the primary source of the chemicals we require for
life. Our responses to food are an excellent example of bio-chemical
individuality, since food is also one of our primary chemical
interactions with our environment. We are chemical beings. The
way our body reacts to foods and processes them is a significant
component of maintaining health or developing illness."
Isn't our journey to better nutrition interesting?
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