Sentences with phrase «of damaging toxins»

Thyme is also a natural diuretic for frequent urinary of damaging toxins.

The term detoxification refers to the elimination of toxins, a process that is crucial to our health because of the damage these toxins do to our liver.

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You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is oil — yet the clean energy sector provides more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.

Hexate is a known toxin that can lead to nervous system damage when consumed in large quantities, so no wonder consumption of processed soy has been related to thyroid dysfunction, increased infertility rates, hormonal disruption and even increased rates of breast cancer.

ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.

This cancer - causing toxin damages the liver, is one of the more deadly food - borne toxins in existence, it feeds candida and more

I have to agree with you - in the phases of my life where I cared a lot about toxins etc, I did far more damage to myself by stressing myself out than that occasional muffin with xantham gum did.

That said, I know that if I think too much about toxins occurring in my food or elsewhere I become a paranoid, anxious wreck, and do more psychological damage to myself than an occasional serving of guar gum or xanthan gum does.

A good detox smoothie recipe should include a mix of fresh fruits and vegetables that fight inflammation and toxins while nourishing and rebuilding any damaged tissues or organs.

The phytochemicals in cruciferous vegetables keep toxins from doing the kind of damage to our DNA that leads to cancer.

Smoking one cigarette a week is likely far less damaging then breathing in some of the pollution and toxins many people are exposed to daily in the streets or even from carpeting or textiles, but we don't stop traveling or decorating our homes now do we??

Scientists have discovered that limited use of this toxin can numb muscles just enough so they can't function and at the same time, so that permanent damage does not occur.

And some genetically modified corn contains a gene that produces a toxin that kills off a certain type of insect so that the corn does not become damaged.

Check out the brain of a chronic alcoholic and you'll often find a particular region badly disintegrated; autopsy someone who was exposed to lots of organic toxins and you'll see damage in another brain area.

The researchers caution, however, that it's not yet clear how closely the toxin - induced neural damage in rats mimics the state of diseased neurons in Parkinson's, especially because the mechanism that leads to such damage in humans remains unknown.

They then induced Parkinson's symptoms in laboratory rats by killing the rodents» dopamine - producing neurons with toxins, and injected the viruses into the damaged tissue of some of the animals.

The iPhone did get a clean bill of health from Greenpeace in several areas: no cadmium (a carcinogen) or mercury (a toxin known to cause nerve and organ damage) was detected, and lead and chromium (toxic if ingested or inhaled) were detected in a small proportion of samples and at relatively low concentrations.

Moreover, she found, once the toxins are taken up by cells lining the mammalian gut, these sections become activated, setting in motion a chain of intracellular events that causes intestinal inflammation and tissue damage.

The upshot of this and other experiments conducted by Bogyo's team is that using ebselen to disable a toxin in C. difficile was enough to significantly reduce the clinical symptoms of the infection and block the persistent gut damage in mice.

While the inflammatory immune response is essential to protecting humans against viruses and bacteria, superantigen toxins cause an exaggerated response called an «immune storm» that can do a great deal of damage in the body and can result in multiple organ failure.

Any tissue (not just skin) that is chronically inflamed because of the persistent presence of pathogens, toxins or genetic damage helps to spur illness, from heart disease to cancer.

In one experiment, Cook's team tested 30 sea lions, each of which had undergone an MRI scan to assess brain damage because of suspected toxin poisoning or other health problems.

«Recent large toxic blooms off of the California coast and the attendant damage to local shellfish and the shellfish economy underscore the importance of understanding how long the marine snow remains toxic, how deep it can go and how long marine organisms are exposed to the toxin,» Schnetzer says.

Like jewels in a vault, our precious genetic material is stored in the nucleus of a cell — sequestered away from potentially damaging cellular components and toxins so that no harm can come to it.

Sunlight and toxins do much of the damage, but the biggest culprit may be highly reactive byproducts created as cells use oxygen to turn sugar into energy.

But scientists understand little about what's happening in the gut — the ingestion of environmental toxins or germs, perhaps — that leads to brain damage and the hallmarks of Parkinson's such as tremors, stiffness and trouble walking.

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH - CEM) have created a «liver on a chip,» a model of liver tissue that replicates the metabolic variations found throughout the organ and more accurately reflects the distinctive patterns of liver damage caused by exposure to environmental toxins, including pharmaceutical overdose.

And, while not the focus of the study, early evidence suggests the MRI probe improves memory, too, by binding to the toxins to render them «handcuffed» to do further damage.

Rolland hadn't anticipated that whales might be damaged by noise, concentrating instead on causes of stress such as red tides, toxins, and disease.

When the researchers examined the frass of these pests − pests that cause enormous crop damage −, they found the toxin with sugar still attached.

The ability to detect amyloid beta oligomers, Klein said, is important for two reasons: amyloid beta oligomers are the toxins that damage neurons, and the oligomers are the first sign of trouble in the disease process, appearing before any other pathology.

On the drinking - water front, researchers from IBM, Central Glass, Ltd., of Japan, the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Texas at Austin are developing a new type of membrane that is resistant to damage by chlorine (the chemical most often used prevent bacterial growth in water supplies) and designed to filter out salts and harmful toxins in water such as arsenic (long - term exposure of which has been linked to cancer and other ailments) potentially creating new sources of drinking water.

The latter finding led Masoro to propose in 1998 a new theory for how calorie restriction extends life: As a mild form of stress, it might prime animals to cope more effectively with intense stresses, such as exposure to heat or toxins — and as - yet - unspecified damaging agents that contribute to aging.

Among women of childbearing age in those populations, 27 percent have enough of the toxin in their bodies to inflict damage to the nervous system of a fetus.

During sleep, a newly discovered network of water channels in the brain, called the glymphatic system, becomes active and functions as a waste disposal system, carrying toxins away which would otherwise accumulate and damage brain cells.

The study clarifies discrepancies in past research and may lead to a better understanding of the functioning of the glymphatic system as a possible cleanser of the neural toxins that inevitably accrete and do damage as we age.

Jansen is among those who think that a compromised network of blood vessels in the brain triggers Alzheimer's by allowing toxins to cross the blood - brain barrier, potentially leading to damage to neurons and inflammation.

«We suspect that lengthy exposure to a lower dose of the toxin produced significant liver damage without noticeable symptoms,» said author Dafna Gordon, MD, gastroenterology fellow at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

How might one prove that the newly - discovered induction of senescence in astrocytes was responsible for the damage, and not some other direct or indirect effect of the toxin?

Bacterial pathogens are well known to cause tissue damage by colonization, induction of intense inflammation, invasion of host cells, and production of toxins [59].

The last but not least cool fasting - enhanced process worth mentioning here is cellular autophagy — a physiological process in the body that deals with destruction of damaged cells and stimulating new cell formation, which is really important for flushing out damaged organelles, pathogens, non-functional proteins and toxins, supporting tissue regeneration and preserving lean mass.

One of the simplest amino acids in terms of molecular structure, alanine helps the body convert the simple sugar glucose into energy and eliminate toxins from the body, and it also protects cells from damage caused by intense aerobic activity.

(The risk of liver damage is high enough that, after taking the drug for a year or more, patients often require a liver biopsy to test for toxins in the organ.)

In fact, it actually aided in the release of toxins and an increase in antioxidant levels, which protects cells from damage.

This novel chemical has been shown to provide aggressive brain antioxidant protection, helping to reduce the damaging effects of villainous toxins called free radicals.

Frequent exposure to antibiotics, toxins, processed foods, chemicals, and beauty products damages the good gut bacteria in our intestines, which regulates everything from digestion and detoxification to brain health, and allows bad bacteria to thrive, which can cause a plethora of health problems.

Alcohol: Keep this in mind that next time you're knocking them back: Alcohol can damage the liver, which helps to filter toxins out of the body.

Due to its high antioxidant content, it fights free radical damage and helps you get rid of toxins.

It is the one in charge of metabolizing this toxin in your body and the process of doing it is taxing and can greatly damage it.

You also gain natural vitamins and minerals, as well as antioxidants and enzymes that assist your body in working to flush toxins and combat the damage done by poor food choices, stress, lack of sleep, and exposure to environmental toxins.