Sentences with phrase «more of the aflatoxins»

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There are neurotoxins in the form of aflatoxins in peanuts, almonds and walnuts, brazil nuts, that I feel are far worse and more highly consumed.

But in underdeveloped countries, especially in some parts of Africa, aflatoxin exposure rates go up to more than 90 percent.

In more realistic models where the rats were dosed with smaller (but still large) amounts of aflatoxin every day, the low - protein diets proved fatal, even in adulthood.

The results suggested that low doses of aflatoxin were both more toxic and more carcinogenic to monkeys fed low - protein diets.

That's the direction I'm pushing, not perfection, but just awareness of problems, more research, and I've got about 900 studies on OTA and 1,200 on aflatoxin.

The model of aflatoxin - dosing used in these studies, discussed in more detail below, was much more realistic than the model used in most of Campbell's studies, and thus the balance of the evidence suggests that adequate protein likely offers very powerful protection against cancer in someone who hasn't already developed the disease.

Indeed, the researchers weren't pulling our legs: This study really did show that a low - protein diet was both more «cancer promoting» and more deadly than a high - protein diet when the dose of aflatoxin was lower.

Monkeys on low protein diet [with 0.16 ppm aflatoxin] surviving for 90 weeks or more show foci of preneoplastic lesions, whereas those on high protein diet reveal no such alterations at the corresponding time interval.

In the late 1980s, more researchers from India were conducting experiments with casein and cancer — but this time used different doses of aflatoxin, and studied rhesus monkeys instead of rats.

Please read my Forks Over Knives review for more information on what's wrong with the conclusions drawn from Campbell's casein / aflatoxin research, and if you'd rather look at peer - reviewed research than the words of some random internet blogger, see my collection of scientific papers based on the China Study data that contradict the claims in Campbell's book.

Campbell never tells us, however, that these Indian researchers actually published this paper as part of a two - paper set, one showing that low - casein diets make aflatoxin much more acutely toxic to rats (1), and the other showing that these same diets make aflatoxin much less carcinogenic (2).

There are neurotoxins in the form of aflatoxins in peanuts, almonds and walnuts, brazil nuts, that I feel are far worse and more highly consumed.

With more realistic doses of aflatoxin, protein is actually tremendously protective against cancer, while protein - restricted diets prove harmful.

More clues for understanding the casein - cancer research come from another Indian study — this one published in the late 1980s, and examining the effects of protein in aflatoxin - exposed monkeys instead of rats.14 As with Campbell's experiments, the monkeys were fed diets containing either 5 percent or 20 percent casein, but with one important difference: instead of being slammed with an astronomically (and unrealistically) high dose of aflatoxin, the monkeys were exposed to lower, daily doses — mimicking a real - world situation where aflatoxin is consumed frequently in small amounts from contaminated foods.

But I was not comfortable taking the usual path of declaring that casein is a carcinogen that was far more powerful than aflatoxin («the most potent carcinogen ever discovered» according to the people who favor the chemical carcinogen hypothesis).

And one of the things that has come out from my work is that we're doing more harm to ourselves than we recognize by consuming aflatoxin, ochratoxin and some of the other common mycotoxins in our food supply at levels that are some sometimes considered safe and that by lowering those like making better choices like not eating something as simple as raisins.

For instance, it would be unethical to dose a group of volunteers with high - cholesterol foods to see if they had more heart attacks, or to feed them high doses of the fungal poison aflatoxin to determine whether they suffered more cases of liver cancer.