March 21, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Okay, I've been looking into this licorice root extract molecule, glycerin, and its ability to protect the liver from alcohol consumption. | |
| And this has really intrigued me because I found out that this company called NTX, and you can read about them at ntxtechnology.com, They tried to get this herbal extract ingredient into alcohol products like vodka and the federal government blocked them and said actually they would punish them or they would prevent them and use regulatory powers to go after them if | |
| they did this, if they put it on the label of a vodka product or some other alcohol product. | |
| I wrote the whole science research system that you can find at science.naturalnews.com and I've been using that plus PubMed and I've been doing some more research on this and I got my hands on a clinical trial actually that used NTX in conjunction with alcohol consumption. | |
| So I'm just going to read you some of the Big highlights here that are absolutely shocking. | |
| I'm so amazed by this that I went out and just had to buy some more licorice myself because this protects the liver so much, not just from drinking alcohol, but from other things. | |
| I'm to the point where I think if you take Tylenol, you should probably make sure you take licorice herb together with it to protect your liver from the ravaging effects of acetaminophen. | |
| So, this is astonishing to me, and I'm fascinated by this, because, you know, I run my own lab. | |
| I have a food science research lab, and I've just finished my book on forensic food analysis, and I'm fascinated by all this. | |
| And the one thing that I learned in my book from doing all the research to put that book together is that we live in a world of lots of toxic chemicals, lots of toxicity from things that you eat or drink or are exposed to by putting them on your skin or inhaling them, for example. lots of toxicity from things that you eat or drink And it is the plant nutrients that provide the protection against the ravaging effects of all of these toxic chemicals. | |
| So whether you're talking about a heavy metal like arsenic or cadmium or lead or even mercury, or you're talking about some kind of toxic organic molecules such as a pesticide, an herbicide, like an atrazine type of molecule or glyphosate, For example, you're talking about benzenes in products or, you know, other kinds of sodium benzoate as a preservative, artificial colors. | |
| It is the plant nutrients that you're consuming that provide the barrier of protection. | |
| And that's why people who eat processed food diets that lack real plant nutrients, that's why they're so easily subjected to liver damage and heart damage and they get diabetes and cancer very easily because there's so many chemicals in the diet, but they have no defense against them. | |
| So if you're eating beef jerky and it has sodium nitrite in it, that's going to cause cancer unless you're consuming strawberries at the same time. | |
| You see, the strawberries, they have the vitamin C and the fiber that blocks the formation of nitrosamines, which happen when you combine the sodium nitrite with the amines of the meat product. | |
| They create cancer-causing nitrosamines. | |
| So if you have these fresh foods and these other plant derived ingredients, they have a protective effect. | |
| And that's what NTX is. | |
| NTX is this molecule. | |
| Well, it's not one molecule. | |
| It's a combination of glycerin from licorice and mannitol, which is a functional sugar, as it's called. | |
| And this combination provides a liver protective effect, like a bulletproof vest for your liver at the molecular level. | |
| And it's no surprise to me To find this out, but it's so fascinating. | |
| We've been drinking alcohol in this culture for forever, I guess. | |
| For as long as people could figure out how to get smashed, they've been getting smashed. | |
| And yet... | |
| No one has really come up with a way to make this alcohol less damaging to the liver until this guy comes along. | |
| Let me find his name. | |
| It's an Indian name, Chigurupati Technologies, NTX. The website is ntxtechnology.com, so he comes up with this. | |
| And he got it patented just recently, and the patent talks about the hepatoprotective effects, you know, protecting the liver. | |
| Anyway, I got my hands on this clinical trial, which has a sample size of 24, not huge, not tiny either, but check this out. | |
| This is from the administrative summary of the clinical trial, which is conducted by Medicus Research. | |
| And it says the results of the study suggest that the study product, in other words, NTX, may play a protective role in supporting improved liver health during alcohol consumption. | |
| This is supported by statistically significant increases in markers of acute liver injury in the placebo group only. | |
| In other words, people who did not get the NTX suffered liver injury, as well as increases in the glutathione levels in the active group that were over tenfold higher than the changes in the placebo group. | |
| In other words, glutathione is what detoxes the alcohol that you drink. | |
| You gotta have good glutathione in your body. | |
| In fact, glutathione is the miraculous detox nutrient, frankly, that you have to have in your body. | |
| Alcohol is subjected to this detoxification process as well with glutathione. | |
| But if your glutathione levels are low, which they are in people who are suppressed in their immune function, people who are malnourished, they don't have enough vitamin D or certain minerals or phytonutrients, they're lacking good plant-based nutrition or superfoods or nutritional supplements, they have low glutathione levels. | |
| And what happens then is as they drink alcohol, the alcohol... | |
| In essence, nullifies or uses up the glutathione that they do have, leaving them defenseless with no more glutathione, and that's when the alcohol really starts to damage the liver. | |
| But by using this NTX, according to this clinical study, they saw tenfold higher glutathione level changes in the active group versus the placebo group, which means this thing is turbocharging your glutathione. | |
| So it's allowing your liver to actually detoxify the alcohol so that it doesn't cause damage. | |
| So, continuing from the abstract here, the administrative summary, in conclusion, it says, these results suggest that consumption of NTX during alcohol consumption may support improved liver health compared to drinking alcohol online. | |
| Yes, it's exactly true. | |
| Exactly true. | |
| Now, here's something else I found. | |
| I did some more research on this. | |
| Here's an article that was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. | |
| And you can find this on PubMed. | |
| And it's called Hepatoprotective and Antioxidant Effects of Licorice Extract Against CCI-Induced Oxidative Damage in Rats. | |
| And this was conducted in China and published in 2011. | |
| So it talks about licorice as being a folk remedy in China. | |
| Now, in China, licorice has been used for thousands of years as part of traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM. It's a very, very safe and even delicious root, actually. | |
| You know, the licorice candy is based on the taste of licorice root, but of course, sweetened up and so on and so forth. | |
| But anyway, if you use licorice, it has all kinds of astonishing healing properties. | |
| And let me find the... | |
| Here we go. | |
| There are tables of the results in this study that just blew my mind. | |
| This is from the study, page 8. | |
| To evaluate the protective effects of this licorice molecule on the liver oxidative damage in rats induced by CC1, we determined the primary antioxidant enzymes in liver. | |
| CC1 significantly increased the concentrations of liver MDA in the CC1-treated group, which was a product of lipid peroxidation compared to that in the normal group. | |
| But as shown in Table 5, CC1 markedly decreased the content of liver MDA. GSH, which was reversed by LE, LE being the licorice, in a dose-dependent manner. | |
| This is key. | |
| It's in a dose-dependent manner. | |
| What this means is that, effectively, this glycerin, or licorice extract, that's what LE stands for here, licorice extract, is the more you take, the better your liver enzymes function. | |
| And the less you have oxidative damage to your liver. | |
| At least rats, in this case. | |
| This was done on rats. | |
| And this also looked at, by the way, Table 5 shows the effect of licorice extract on glutathione levels, GSH. Glutathione levels in different groups. | |
| And check this out. | |
| When you give rats a little bit of licorice extract, their glutathione levels go up... | |
| Well, let's see. | |
| Let me get the baseline here. | |
| Looks like 88 is the baseline. | |
| It goes up to 104 milligrams per gram, plus or minus 10. | |
| So roughly a 10% variation on that. | |
| But if you give even more licorice extract to these rats, 300 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, then their glutathione levels go up to 150 milligrams. | |
| Plus or minus about less than 10% also. | |
| So what we're saying here, what this study shows, is that if you pre-feed the licorice extract at either 100, 150, or 300 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, it significantly enhanced the liver antioxidant enzyme activities, SOD, CAT, GSH, GR, GST, those are different liver enzymes, in licorice extract-treated rats in a dose-dependent manner. | |
| Think about that. | |
| So why wouldn't this be awesome for reducing liver damage in humans who are drinking alcohol and therefore have a lot of stress against their liver, a lot of oxidative type of assaults on their liver? | |
| Licorice extract is the answer, and this company, NTX, figured it out. | |
| And yet the government doesn't want you to have this. | |
| Just bizarre. | |
| Totally bizarre. | |
| Of course, they hate the fact they don't want you to have any herbs or any vitamins or any nutrients. | |
| Hey, if the FDA had its way, they would outlaw everything except drugs and vaccines. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| That's all they want you to take. | |
| So spread the word on this. | |
| My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. | |
| This is HealthRangerReport.com. | |
| Spread the word. |
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