Terrain, Flu, Cancer, and You! Plus September 2011 Top Reads

1.      It's here! A review and summary of this month's don't miss headlines: September Top Reads 2011!

2.      Naturopathic Philosophy Highlight Fun Fact: It's all about the Terrain! (Flu, Cancer, and you....see below)

3.      Information on NEXT WEEK's Health Forum

4.      Updated Link Resources on my homepage

5.      Radio For Your Body-Mind-Soul: Shift Happens! with Robert Holden

6.      Dr. Oz's Sharecare

Next week: Get my take on the new Slimming Tea for Weight Loss

Fun Fact:

It's All About Terrain, Not Killing the Bug!

Highlight on Flu: Tis the Terrain, not the Antimicrobial Sanitizer!

Exposure to influenza viruses is necessary, but not sufficient, for healthy human hosts to develop symptomatic illness. The host response is an important determinant of disease progression. In order to delineate host molecular responses that differentiate symptomatic and asymptomatic Influenza A infection, we inoculated 17 healthy adults with live influenza (H3N2/Wisconsin) and examined changes in host peripheral blood gene expression at 16 timepoints over 132 hours. Here we present distinct transcriptional dynamics of host responses unique to asymptomatic and symptomatic infections. We show that symptomatic hosts invoke, simultaneously, multiple pattern recognition receptors-mediated antiviral and inflammatory responses that may relate to virus-induced oxidative stress. In contrast, asymptomatic subjects tightly regulate these responses and exhibit elevated expression of genes that function in antioxidant responses and cell-mediated responses. We reveal an ab initio molecular signature that strongly correlates to symptomatic clinical disease and biomarkers whose expression patterns best discriminate early from late phases of infection. Our results establish a temporal pattern of host molecular responses that differentiates symptomatic from asymptomatic infections and reveals an asymptomatic host-unique non-passive response signature, suggesting novel putative molecular targets for both prognostic assessment and ameliorative therapeutic intervention in seasonal and pandemic influenza.

TRANSLATION:  Two people are exposed to the same virus, 1 gets sick, the other doesn't, why? The health of the body's terrain, or immune system prior to exposure! If you have a healthy gut, and give the body the proper nutrition, all the bugs in the world can come at you, and you're like Iron Man in his protective suit (Iron Man 1).

Yongsheng Huang. Temporal Dynamics of Host Molecular Responses Differentiate Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Influenza A. PLoS. August 2011. Infection http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.100223

What Makes Sugar so Appealing to Cancer Cells? (Dr. Mercola)

In 1931 the Nobel Prize was awarded to German researcher Dr. Otto Warburg, who first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. Malignant tumors tend to use a process where glucose is used as a fuel by the cancer cells, creating lactic acid as a byproduct. The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to your liver.

This conversion of glucose to lactic acid generates a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid buildup.

This is a very inefficient pathway for energy metabolism, which extracts only about 5 percent of the available energy in your food supply. In simplistic terms, the cancer is "wasting" energy, which leads you to become both tired and undernourished, and as the vicious cycle continues, will lead to the body wasting so many cancer patients experience.

Additionally, carbohydrates from glucose and sucrose significantly decreases the capacity of neutrophils to do their job. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that help cells to envelop and destroy invaders, such as cancer. Meanwhile, fructose appears to be preferred by cancer cells for cell division, which contributes to its growth and spreading throughout your body. Even though the theory that sugar feeds cancer was born nearly 80 years ago, most conventional cancer programs STILL do not adequately address diet and the need to avoid sugars and fructose if you have cancer.

Translation: Sugar=compromised insulin-hormonal issues + decreased ph + oxidative stress + liver conversion of fatty acids compromised=risk for cells not knowing when to stop dividing due to DNA damage=cancer (if not addressed)

OCTOBER 6^th:  Health Forum

Information on NEXT WEEK's Health Forum found here

Updated Link Resources on my homepage

New Links:

Fish & Mercury

How Much Fish?

Radio For Your Body-Mind-Soul: Shift Happens!

...with Robert Holden

Join the Hay House Book Club this month as we chat about Dr. Robert Holden's book Shift Happens! Robert share his powerful mix of principles and exercises from his private coaching practice that can help create real breakthroughs

Dr. Oz's Sharecare: view my answers here.