Sentences with phrase «of aflatoxin does»

Yet he and his graduate student George Dunaif asked the question, «at what dose of aflatoxin does protein begin to promote cancer?»

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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.

Urinary levels of DNA - aflatoxin conjugates (marker for DNA mutation) went down 55 % compared to those who did not take it (20).

But the increased susceptibility of rats fed low - protein diets to environmental toxins doesn't stop at aflatoxin.

In several of his experiments, when the aflatoxin - exposed rats were fed wheat protein or soy protein in place of casein, they didn't develop any cancer — even at the 20 percent level that proved so detrimental with casein.5 It seemed that those plant proteins were not only PETA - approved, but also the least likely to turn rat livers into tumor factories.

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.