Exciting New at Work!
Well, the moment everyone has been waiting for here at the office. One of our research papers has been published!
While this may not sound overly exciting, it really is. You see, I work for a company called EcoNugenics. We manufacture and sell premium-quality health supplements for people with specific health conditions, called "nutraceuticals" (yes, that is a real word! I promise we didn't just make it up. It's actually a very common term in the weirdness I work in Alternative Health World... you can google it!)
Anyway, this is *particularly* exciting, because this new research study that we've been working on with the researchers at Columbia University (don't mind me while I name-drop ^_^) is going to be published soon in the peer-reviewed journal of Integrative Cancer Therapies. And since we're on top of things, we've been doing our very best with making sure that the online version gets out to the public as fast and as efficiently as possible.
We ran a press release this morning at 5 am! And I've spent my entire morning updating websites and changing pages and hyperlinking left and right! ^_^ This is the first time I've been able to sort of just sit down and breathe for a moment, and that's only because Leah (my lovely co-worker and dear, dear friend) is in a meeting about the phone systems, and I can't really finish what I'm working on until she comes out and gives it her stamp of approval. (More on Leah later in a different post, I'm sure. ^_^)
The best part of this entire thing is that because we have new research, it also means we're going to get more business for the product side of the Eco Enterprise, as well! You see, the paper is on Modified Citrus Pectin, and prostate cancer...
Wait... you don't know what Modified Citrus Pectin is??? Well, please take out your notebooks and make sure your pencils are sharpened as I educate you in one of the most amazing developments in natural cancer treatments!
As you may know, pectin is generally used in cooking as a gelling agent. For example, you may have heard of it being used in jams and jellies to give it that solid, but wiggly, texture. Regular pectin is sold in grocery stores and is usually some form of apple pectin, since that seems to be pretty mainstream for cooking.
But did you also know that pectin can help with cancer? In 1995, Dr. Isaac Eliaz, M.D., M.S., L.Ac. refined a version of citrus pectin that would work on a cellular level, rather than a digestive one. This form of pectin is made up from the foamy white stuff in between the peel and the fruit of citrus fruits, referred to as the "pith" of the fruit. That's the part that has all the pectin. By enzymatically breaking down the molecules in from the pith, he managed to refine the "white stuff" to a powder that can be taken orally and through a complex process referred to as "digestion" it gets absorbed into the blood stream, and thereby gets distributed to the cells where it works it's magic!
But what good will that do, you ask? Well, once it's in your blood stream, the pectin will do it's job as a "sticky mass". When you add pectin to a substance (for example, orange marmalade, a personal fave of mine), it will form little clumps and bind to the sugary molecules in the jam and give you that gelled texture that is ideal for tasty add-ons for toast! ^_^ Modified Citrus Pectin (or MCP) does a similar job.
Aberrant cell growth, like that of cancers and such, is dangerous and potentially hazardous to your health. Even if it's so-called benign cell growth, it's still something that you should have your practitioner check on regularly. Most aberrant cells require molecules called "galectin molecules" as a food source. Modified Citrus Pectin is attracted to those galectin molecules, a type of sugar molecule that cancer cells like to eat, and it wraps itself around the galectins, essentially starving off the aberrant cells. When cancer cells can't eat, they go into apoptosis (which is a fancy science word for "cell death"). When a cell dies inside your body, it is released through the blood stream, where it gets cleaned up by the kidneys, and deposited into urine, which eventually makes it's way out of the body via "natural causes" ^_-.
The best part is, MCP will do this for both active and dormant aberrant cells, and because it's using it's functional "binding properties" in the blood stream, it can help to eliminate metastasis (the movement of naughty little cells from one part of your body to another) and even reduce the size of tumors!
This is stuff that we already knew from previous research and clinical studies. But now we have even more exciting and promising news from our latest study with Columbia University. You can read the *official* press release here and you can read the actual study (if you've a head for the technobabble ^_^ ) here.
The new stuff we've learned is that MCP is even more effective than before! This is fantastic new, not only for the cancer community, but also for my company, as we make PectaSol-C, the very same MCP that Dr. Eliaz formulated back in 1995! YAY!
Anyway, I think I've delayed returning to work for long enough now... back to the marketing and PR frenzy!
While this may not sound overly exciting, it really is. You see, I work for a company called EcoNugenics. We manufacture and sell premium-quality health supplements for people with specific health conditions, called "nutraceuticals" (yes, that is a real word! I promise we didn't just make it up. It's actually a very common term in the weirdness I work in Alternative Health World... you can google it!)
Anyway, this is *particularly* exciting, because this new research study that we've been working on with the researchers at Columbia University (don't mind me while I name-drop ^_^) is going to be published soon in the peer-reviewed journal of Integrative Cancer Therapies. And since we're on top of things, we've been doing our very best with making sure that the online version gets out to the public as fast and as efficiently as possible.
We ran a press release this morning at 5 am! And I've spent my entire morning updating websites and changing pages and hyperlinking left and right! ^_^ This is the first time I've been able to sort of just sit down and breathe for a moment, and that's only because Leah (my lovely co-worker and dear, dear friend) is in a meeting about the phone systems, and I can't really finish what I'm working on until she comes out and gives it her stamp of approval. (More on Leah later in a different post, I'm sure. ^_^)
The best part of this entire thing is that because we have new research, it also means we're going to get more business for the product side of the Eco Enterprise, as well! You see, the paper is on Modified Citrus Pectin, and prostate cancer...
Wait... you don't know what Modified Citrus Pectin is??? Well, please take out your notebooks and make sure your pencils are sharpened as I educate you in one of the most amazing developments in natural cancer treatments!
As you may know, pectin is generally used in cooking as a gelling agent. For example, you may have heard of it being used in jams and jellies to give it that solid, but wiggly, texture. Regular pectin is sold in grocery stores and is usually some form of apple pectin, since that seems to be pretty mainstream for cooking.
But did you also know that pectin can help with cancer? In 1995, Dr. Isaac Eliaz, M.D., M.S., L.Ac. refined a version of citrus pectin that would work on a cellular level, rather than a digestive one. This form of pectin is made up from the foamy white stuff in between the peel and the fruit of citrus fruits, referred to as the "pith" of the fruit. That's the part that has all the pectin. By enzymatically breaking down the molecules in from the pith, he managed to refine the "white stuff" to a powder that can be taken orally and through a complex process referred to as "digestion" it gets absorbed into the blood stream, and thereby gets distributed to the cells where it works it's magic!
But what good will that do, you ask? Well, once it's in your blood stream, the pectin will do it's job as a "sticky mass". When you add pectin to a substance (for example, orange marmalade, a personal fave of mine), it will form little clumps and bind to the sugary molecules in the jam and give you that gelled texture that is ideal for tasty add-ons for toast! ^_^ Modified Citrus Pectin (or MCP) does a similar job.
Aberrant cell growth, like that of cancers and such, is dangerous and potentially hazardous to your health. Even if it's so-called benign cell growth, it's still something that you should have your practitioner check on regularly. Most aberrant cells require molecules called "galectin molecules" as a food source. Modified Citrus Pectin is attracted to those galectin molecules, a type of sugar molecule that cancer cells like to eat, and it wraps itself around the galectins, essentially starving off the aberrant cells. When cancer cells can't eat, they go into apoptosis (which is a fancy science word for "cell death"). When a cell dies inside your body, it is released through the blood stream, where it gets cleaned up by the kidneys, and deposited into urine, which eventually makes it's way out of the body via "natural causes" ^_-.
The best part is, MCP will do this for both active and dormant aberrant cells, and because it's using it's functional "binding properties" in the blood stream, it can help to eliminate metastasis (the movement of naughty little cells from one part of your body to another) and even reduce the size of tumors!
This is stuff that we already knew from previous research and clinical studies. But now we have even more exciting and promising news from our latest study with Columbia University. You can read the *official* press release here and you can read the actual study (if you've a head for the technobabble ^_^ ) here.
The new stuff we've learned is that MCP is even more effective than before! This is fantastic new, not only for the cancer community, but also for my company, as we make PectaSol-C, the very same MCP that Dr. Eliaz formulated back in 1995! YAY!
Anyway, I think I've delayed returning to work for long enough now... back to the marketing and PR frenzy!