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Here’s what JAMA reports on the subject: A recent Journal of the American Medical Association study found that vitamin E is not effective in preventing prostate cancer and in fact also raised the possibility that it’s tied to prostate cancer. That report is the latest ding to a dietary-supplement business that saw its industry revenues fall to $350 [...]

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Redox Signaling Messengers Like any community, the body cells depend on communication for their coordinated and harmonious function together. Communication depends on messengers, both inside the cell between the various actors and “micro machines”  and outside the cell between the one-hundred-billion cells that compose our bodies.  These next few posts will be about these messengers, [...]

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Actually, there is no “immune system” as such in the body. There is rather an “immune alliance” made up of many organs and systems whose shared primary role is the elimination of toxic waste from the body. Inflammation is literally a fiery response to infection in an effort to burn up what can’t or won’t be easily eliminated. Infection is an immune response brought on by pathogens, such as bacteria , fungi and viruses, that multiply faster than the elimination systems can deal with. The thymus gland, which is thought of as the “immune system” plays a central role in tagging and eliminating toxins from the body.

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