Article on Mycotoxins--peanuts, corn, vitamins, health effects

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Here is another good article. It's a long one but here are a few excerpts:

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Peanuts contain 26 different carcinogenic fungi! As well, broken and ground

nuts of any kind must be avoided because they are ready targets for airborne

spores and quickly become rancid. About 35 years ago there occurred in Africa

clusters of patients with an unusual type of liver cancer, and the numbers were

very large. Investigation revealed a relationship to the consumption of peanuts

and showed that peanuts contain the fungus Aspergillus flavus and its

mycotoxin, aflatoxin. Research has also shown that aflatoxin can produce liver

cancer. Like peanuts, corn is poisonous and carcinogenic, containing 25

mycotoxin-producting fung! (See Table 2 in Appendix F.)

In our opinion, there is no specimen of corn in the world that is free of

mycotoxins. Don't say it too loud, though, because corn is grown all over the

world, and growers are major players in financial circles. Researchers have

reported the positive correlation of corn (and wheat flour) consumption and

death from cancer of the esophagus. Corn has also been positively associated

with gastric cancer.

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As emphasized, the primary diet of Y/F in our bodies is glucose for energy,

plus fats and protein (even genetic matter, nucleic acids) for development

growth. As these organisms feed, they produce was just like you do. Their

" urine and feces " are called my toxins (myco = fungus; toxin = poison), and

they are very poisonous to humans. This poisoning of the body mycotoxins is

called mycotoxicosis. Being ac themselves, mycotoxins greatly worsen the acid

caused by diet. They are released into the blood as w as inside cells. The

blood poisoning results in more cell and tissue poisoning, and all of this

further disturbs th microzymas, making us sick and tired. One very common

mycotoxin that is particularly troublesome is acetaldehyde. It is quite

detrimental itself, yet also breaks down to other products (called metabolites)

including oxalic acid, lactic acid, uric acid, and alcohol. All are disruptive

waste products of Y/F and are found in the

blood and tissues of a compromised terrain. Compounding the situation is the

fact that the presence of accatdehyde and other mycotoxins causes the liver to

increase low density lipoprotein (LDL or so-called " bad " cholesterol) in the

blood. This high-cholesterol complex is used to bind with toxins, thereby

deactivating them. The binding process is often referred to as chelation.

However, the resulting substance also has the tendency to become oxidized and

stick to lesions (toxic damage) in the artery walls, producing atherosclerosis.

Acetaldehyde can reduce strength and stamina, cause excessive fatigue, cloud

thinking and take away ambition. One mechanism for these problems is that it

directly destroys neurotransmitters, which are chemicals responsible for

completing all nerve impulses. Needless to say, this is not a desirable

situation! Another mechanism is that it can bind to the walls of red blood

cells, making them less flexible and therefore less able to get into and

through the capillaries of the circulatory system. This causes oxygen

deprivation in the tissues. Added difficulty is that the liver converts aceta

hyde to the mycotoxin alcohol.

DNA (genetic material) may also be damage when excess acetaldehyde reacts with

it, creating the following symptom pictures: pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas),

cardiomyopathy (enlarged, weakend heart), dilated cardiomyopathy (heart muscle

discord with an enlarged chamber), brain atrophy dement (wasting away of brain

with loss of reasoning), atrophied brain with large ventricles (interior fluid

spaces), jaundice, spider angina (broken surface blood vessels), enlarged

spleen, stomach ulcers, esophagea varicosity (enlarged blood vessels in the

esophagus) ascites (fluid in abdomen), cirrhosis, enlarged spleen tremor,

bleeding tendency, easy bruising, ankle edema and reddening of the palms, just

to name a few. Another example of the damaging effects of the waste products

of Y/F is the mycotoxin cyclosporin. This toxin suppresses the immune system so

greatly that it's used to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs. The

irony is that people

rarely get it directly from the fungus, but are dosed with it by doctors doing

transplants. Granted, the transplant may be necessary at the time it's done,

but the important question is what series of events created the crisis.

Cyclosporin has been shown to cause cancer and atherosclerosis (complete with

high blood fats as noted above) in all humans who have been long-term survivors

of transplants.

This process further reduce mineral supplies (because the body cannot make

them) and can create deficiencies. Fungal hampering of red blood cells also

reduces oxygenation (in red cells, internal evolution happens easily, resulting

in parasitized cells). The less oxygen there is in the body, the more alcohol

is produced, which can give the symptoms of being drunk, disoriented, dizzy, or

mentally confused. Acetaldehyde further reduces cell energy by destroying

essential enzymes. The immune system is provoked into trying to neutralize it

and to retard the Y/F by releasing large amounts of free radicals (or what I

call microzymian oxidative buffering specie or MOBS). If body pollution is

constantly generated, then immune response, our amazing house-cleaning process,

eventually becomes overloaded and exhausted. Thus, all immunological problems

and infectious conditions are caused or worsened by the presence of mycotoxins.

As with allergy,

disrupted digestion plays a major role in fatigue.

If you cannot digest and assimilate food, the tissues will eventually starve,

making you fell sick and tired. Acetaldehyde and other mycotoxins reduce the

absorption of protein and minerals, which decreases the ability to produce

enzymes and hormones. To make matters worse, the Y/F overgrowth is swapping its

wastes for your hormones, blood sugar and other nutrients. Consequently, you

are always hungry and/or have rapid drops in blood sugar (glucose) levels.

Such disruption interferes with cell replacement and with substances necessary

for energy production. The result is fatigue, poor endurance, and weakness.

Thus, Y/F are the major players in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, not the so called

Epstein-Barr " non-virus. " This syndrome may also involve damage to nerve tissue

by Y/F, and/or interference with nerve transmission by toxic breakdown of

neurotransmitters by acetaldehyde.

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