Guest guest Posted December 1, 2000 Report Share Posted December 1, 2000 Vilik mentioned the sterols in butter on her Deliquesce list. I happened to run across the fact that saw palmetto is rich in sterols, and a little more research brought out this site about Thorne's Moducare: http://www.naturalhealthconsult.com/Monographs/moducare.html Here are a couple of pertinent paragraphs from the site: What do Saw Palmetto, pygeum, pumpkin seeds, devil's claw, milk thistle, ginkgo, Panax and Siberian ginseng, etc. all have in common? They are all medicinal herbs and are all rich in sterols. In fact, some researchers believe that their effectiveness as adaptogenic herbs lies in their sterol content. Natural healers also stress the consumption of raw fruits and vegetables for optimum health. Almost the entire Gerson cancer therapy, for example, consists of juicing raw vegetables for consumption. Could that have something to do with these same sterols? It is true that sterols are processed out of our diets by modern food preparation techniques. It is also true that even eating raw produce does not result in a very high intake of sterols since the sterols are bound to plant fibers (that's why juicing is so effective.) But what would happen if you concentrated these sterols and arranged them in just the right ratio? Would that have an even greater therapeutic effect? The answer is, " You betcha! " Thanks for bringing this up, Vilik! J. P.S. Saw palmetto seems to help with my urinary problems. I have a prolapsed bladder (probably contributed to by a birthing injury). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 There is some extremely good information on this site regarding sterols and other things: http://www.bulkmsm.com/DMG/web12.htm About a third of the way down oils containing the most sterols are listed and the idea of a cookie concoction is mentioned. I'm going to get my diabetic daughter to concoct some of these. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2001 Report Share Posted October 15, 2001 Patty, Do you mean plant sterols? I have been looking at a product called Moducare at http://www.moducare.com/ that contains plant sterols. Dennis Sterols Has anyone had any experience with sterols on this group? What effect? Thanks, Patty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2001 Report Share Posted October 15, 2001 Do you mean plant sterols? I have been looking at a product called Moducare at http://www.moducare.com/ that contains plant sterols. > > Dennis Yes, I do. A member of my saline support group has used them but with adverse affects. Patty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2001 Report Share Posted October 15, 2001 Do you mean plant sterols? I have been looking at a product called Moducare at http://www.moducare.com/ that contains plant sterols. > > Dennis Yes, I do. A member of my saline support group has used them but with adverse affects. Patty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 The way you read that is they approved it, with the recs they made? Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peg Diamond Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: [ ] Sterols I was scanning the EU regulations on food additives and found this item. Ihadn't realized that yogurt has about 3g of plant sterols in it and the maximum suggsted per day is 3 g. Also that the sterols are mostly GM foods.http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out192_en.pdfCanary Pegi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 > The way you read that is they approved it, with the recs they made? > > Regards. Yes I reread it and it appears to be so and the questionable part about amounts of products consumed ie anything more than 3 g a day, labelling and warnings for pregnant and lactating mothers seem to have been left in limbo. The fact that Squaline is an ingredient which is not approved by the FDA and presently the center of Anthrax investigations with Gulf War veterans is also questionable Canary Peg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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