Minutus

Dear Colleagues

From an article in the Guardian 16/05/2000.
Back in 1969 a Harvard graduated medical researcher at Boston by the name of Kilmer McCully was examining the tissues of a baby who had died at age 2 months. The child had suffered from homocystinuria. Homocysteine (Homo-Sis-teen) is an aminoacid / protein, so this child had excess of this protein to the degree that it could be found in its urine.
What he discovered was the arteries of this child were like that of a very old person - one who had suffered a heart attack or stroke.

He checked on a few other babies suffering from the same problem and his findings were confirmed.
He realised that perhaps it was the high levels of Homocysteine that was damaging the arteries and not the fat intake. Homocysteine is made from another protein -methionine - which comes from animal proteins, i.e. meat, milk and eggs.
In 'test tube' studies it can be shown that Homocysteine attacks and injures blood vessel linings, it allows scar tissue to build up and also encourages blood clots (essential for well being otherwise we would bleed to death in ourselves, but if the levels are high, then you already know the results).
Even from the autopsies and dissections done by Leonardo da Vinci atherosclerosis (build up of fat and other deposits in the arteries) could be seen, especially in the rich of the time - who ate more meat and animal products.
McCully tried to publish, but as the whole medical thought was on fat and cholesterol, they even took his lab away! After all the drug houses had invested a lot of money on cholesterol reducing drugs and had to get their money back some how! Ditto the food industry.
30 years on, now the medical profession is re-thinking. The Lancet regards Homocysteine as the prime cause of heart disease.

[What has changed? They did the same to Hahnemann about 200 years ago. Have we progressed?]
Now the good news: The levels of Homocysteine can be naturally controlled by Vitamins B6 and B12 and also folic acid. [Green vegetables, fruit and whole foods but take care as these are easily destroyed by processing]
Happy eating. Enjoy your salads and uncooked greens.

Also please see http://www.sums.ac.ir/semj/vol3/jan2002/homocystine.htm

Keep healthy and smile

Soroush

Several years ago Joseph Mercola was posting about homocysteine being the cause
of heart disease. He had laid out the inflammatory process with study resources listed.

Mercola is a big protein/meat person, but he also promotes eating high levels of green
leafy vegetables, and eating them raw as much as possible.

t

Every day, when I am not fasting, I eat at least one monster salad, not a little bitty salad. I have recorded my pulse many times at below 54 and once recently even at 50.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:27:47 -0400
Subject: RE: [Minutus] cholesterol protocol - it is homocystein you need to watch!

Several years ago Joseph Mercola was posting about homocysteine being the cause
of heart disease. He had laid out the inflammatory process with study resources listed.

Mercola is a big protein/meat person, but he also promotes eating high levels of green
leafy vegetables, and eating them raw as much as possible.

t

The homocysteine issue is an inherited one. Some people have it, and some do not. It is one of at least a dozen factors to look at for health of the heart. There is a test to see if one has the hompocysteine gene problem or not, (the baby above clearly had it) so that one can take more Vit B6 etc and control it.
Also they do not say so but the baby had to be male.
Women do not get the same kind of arterial damage that men do. Heart attacks work differently in females - to do with spasm of the artery as opposed to plaque blockage. Either way cuts off the blood sypply, but it helps to know who has what risks and how to mitigate them.

It is false to suggest that methionine is the result of eating meat, fish and eggs (and it is often a bad idea to use research that is from as long ago as 1969 without looking for updates on the conclusions made, even if the research is correct as here.)
The research showed the homocysteines involvemenet and is correct. The assumptions and conclusios about meat, fish and egg, are not correct.
Updated research also tells the gene connection.

High levels of methionine can be found in sesame seeds, Brazil nuts, fish, meats and some other plant seeds; and most importantly, methionine is also found in cereal grains.

The point is not to become vegetarian as the methionine will still be there even in a vegan diet - but to control the homocysteine, by smart eating or supplements, if one has the gene. A simple blood test tells if the gene is present or not. The scar tissue tendency is also overcome by high dose Vit E plus fish oil.

Namaste,
Irene
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P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
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