Grape Power Madness:

When something works, the crooks come out the woodshed. On the one hand, the entrenched phonies who jumped through their hoops will discredit natural therapies. On the other hand, they will steal it from you, and make you pay lots of money for it.

It is resveratrol, found in grapes and other normal... . . Food. Yes, all these crazy new super substances always existed in the boring foods that we take for granted. Don't take it for granted.

Here is the nitty gritty of the fisco-academic-political battle over grape power.

Curcumin, a curious molecule.

While the bioavailability is very low, the metabolites might have other effects too. It interacts with mitochondrial redox transduction, HO-1, and other pathways.

Curcumin

An Adult Human Problem: Hemorrhoids!

They strike with high frequency as people get older, and it will literally be a pain in the behind to try to play football or anything else. You will definitely know someone as you go along in life who gets them.

Here is something I found online for those who suffer it:

Horse Chestnut Extract

A new archeological find:

natural system activation deletes HIV virus

Eh what??? This has been known for several years??? Why don't sick patients get these natural therapies then?

"J Immunol. 2006 Apr 1;176(7):4252-7.
Hemin activation ameliorates HIV-1 infection via heme oxygenase-1 induction.

Devadas K, Dhawan S.

Immunopathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.

Hemin, a critical component of hemoglobin, is an active ingredient of a biologic therapeutic approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of acute porphyries. This report describes a biological function of this molecule in inducing host defense against HIV-1 infection via heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) induction. Treatment of monocytes with hemin substantially inhibited HIV replication, as evident by nearly undetectable viral RNA and cell-free HIV-1 p24 protein in a dose-dependent manner. Hemin exposure of these cells before infection, at the time of infection, or after infection caused >90% reduction of HIV DNA with substantially low levels of HIV-1 p24 and HIV-associated cytopathic effects. In addition, hemin treatment significantly suppressed infection of both monocytes and T cells inoculated with R5, X4, R5X4 tropic strains, and reverse transcriptase-resistant, azidothymidine-resistant, ddC/ddI-resistant, nivirapine-resistant, and other clinical HIV isolates. Intraperitoneal administration of hemin 4 days after HIV infection reduced viral load in the serum of human PBMC-reconstituted nonobese diabetic SCID mice by >6-fold. Suppression of HIV replication in hemin-activated cells correlated with the induction of HO-1 and was attenuated by tin protoporphyrin (SnPP) IX, an inhibitor of HO-1 activity, suggesting a pivotal role of this endogenous enzyme in the regulation of HIV infection. Hemin-induced HO-1 induction in the CCR-5, CXCR-4, and CD4 coexpressing GHOST(3) cells was consistent with the inhibition of Tat-dependent activation of long terminal repeat promoter leading to reduced GFP expression. These findings suggest an important role of hemin-induced HO-1 activity as a host defense mechanism against HIV-1 infection.

PMID: 16547262 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]"

Heme Oxygenase-1 in Inflammatory Disease

The Beginning and The End:

Yes! Get as much vitamin C as you can take without digestive distress. Additionally, get a good healthy dose of B-vitamins, and electrolytes. At least a couple grams of Lysine a day will help in many different ways too.

I don't know Italian, but I testify to its veracity: Natural Cardiovascular Preventive Medicine

Attack on Gingko Biloba

It was never claimed that it was a cure for several decades of degenerative brain disease caused by accumulation of amyloid plaque.

As far as the Cochrane Reviews go, these are mostly corporate funded studies designed to fail, thereby attempting to discredit natural therapies which are the source of most synthetic medical molecules.

So, we find that this corporate post denounces its effects but a really old German companyfinds that it definitely does work as it has for a long time for many people.

They never give up. The corporate hounds want you to depend on their non-working artificial molecules to make them rich by discrediting what cheap God given natural cures exist.

Well if it isn't Vitamin C again. Inducible Pluripotent Stem Cells Need It.

The race towards rejuvenating the body by literally rebuilding it continues on in the milieu of stem cells. There is still quite a large misunderstanding of what one is, and actually there isn't one, there are many from many sources. Right now, your body is churning out cells from your own stem cells in your bone marrow, muscles, organs, everywhere. The problem is to keep this process going in an organized way well into old age. Too little, and you get the familiar loss of function of old age. Too much, and you get things like cancer.

Another promising new field of work is taking any cell from the adult body which contains the chromosomal makeup of the entire body except in rare chimeric cases, and taking it back to a primordial source cell. This inducible pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) can be tweaked to become an entirely different cell, offering hope for organ and tissue regeneration and repair or even rebuilding entire systems in the future.

Some grouchy old persons will be annoyed to read that you can't do it efficiently without Vitamin C.