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A Food Called Natto! Nattokinase
Your Health And Food Friend
"Natto is the perfect
food for curing what ails most Americans.
There's a large body (pun!) of evidence
suggesting that eating natto on a daily basis
significantly reduces the risk of heart disease,
stroke, and high blood pressure (all exacerbated
or caused by excessive blood-clotting), as
well as arthritis and rheumatism (caused
by stiff or swollen internal tissues). It
is bold to claim that natto can prevent so
many ailments, and unless you dig a little
deeper, it probably seems no more reliable
than the claims made for any other health-food
or supplement. But I think natto is different.
The evidence is there, and it's worth
paying attention to, if only for a few minutes..." ... see this below ...
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According to the experts; many of
them, anyway; natto is the perfect
food for curing what ails most Americans.
There's a large body (pun!) of evidence
suggesting that eating natto on a daily basis
significantly reduces the risk of heart disease,
stroke, and high blood pressure (all exacerbated
or caused by excessive blood-clotting), as
well as arthritis and rheumatism (caused
by stiff or swollen internal tissues). It
is bold to claim that natto can prevent so
many ailments, and unless you dig a little
deeper, it probably seems no more reliable
than the claims made for any other health-food
or supplement. But I think natto is different.
The evidence is there, and it's worth
paying attention to, if only for a few minutes;
The specific details of how natto does its
magic are still being sorted out in scientific
inquiries, but it appears pretty safe for
us to think of it as a natural dispersing
agent inside your body; when things (especially
certain proteins) start getting together
and creating problematic little bundles of
blood or tissue, natto helps them to relax
and break apart again.
This property of natto appears to be due
to the
presence of a unique enzyme, called nattokinase,
which was first identified by Dr. Hiroyuki
Sumi in 1980. He was studying the thrombus-destroying
power of a variety of conventional medicines
at Chicago University, and put some natto
in the Petri dish on a whim. (Thrombus;
is one of many technical names for a blood
clot that blocks arterial flow, causing heart
attacks, etc.). Anyway, the thrombus was
completely dissolved with 18 hours, which
was far less time than what was needed for
any of the other medicines he was working
with. So he was impressed. He went on to
isolate nattokinase as the active agent in
natto, and has since examined its significance
extensively; he remains a pioneer in the
field. (People in the industry are fond of
referring to him as Dr. Natto;).
His studies are widely available in English
online, but here's a decent place to
start if you're interested in a little
more depth: http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=205051&Scope=archiv.
I’m not a biologist, chemist, or otherwise
certified professional, but I have read a
bit of what those folks have published, and
it appears that there is one overwhelming
component in the body's formation of
both blood clots and stiff internal tissues.
It's name is fibrin. Fibrin is a naturally
occurring substance, created when two proteins;
fibrinogen and thrombin — interact.
Fibrin is essential to many bodily functions,
but when you've got too much of it,
bad things start to happen.
And (you guessed
it) most Americans have too much of it. Nattokinase
is an extremely effective fibrin-destroyer
(fibrinolytic agent, its called), which is
a large part of what makes it so good for
you; think of the dissolving thrombus
in the Petri dish; but before we can
appreciate this point fully we should probably
take a closer look at fibrin and its constituent
components.
Here’s an interesting little story
about fibrinogen: back in 1929, a few curious
men working at the Rockefeller Institute
removed the livers
from a number of rabbits
and observed that these (in technical terms,
hepatectomized) bunnies ceased to produce fibrinogen. Wow!
From that time on, the liver was acknowledged
as the body's sole source of fibrinogen.
Though it's unclear why exactly this
was considered important at the time, subsequent
studies have revealed fibrinogen to be an
important ingredient in a wide spectrum of
bodily functions…and have supported
the supposition that your liver is its only
source.
We want to buy the organic foods that provide the most bang for their buck,
that make the most sense. You've probably heard of the Dirty Dozen - that annually-updated list of the twelve fruits and vegetables that contain the highest levels of pesticide residues. Let's go beyond that, though, because unless you're a vegan or a fruitarian who lives on produce alone, you'll want to hear about other foods too. Particularly animal products, which you're probably eating on a fairly regular basis." ... Please click on the heading to this full text ...."
"If people let the
government decide what
foods they eat and what
medicines they take, their
bodies will soon be in as
sorry a state as are the
souls of those who live
under tyranny."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Disease Is Reversible
"Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for
Diseases of which they know nothing at all." Voltaire
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