Re: Question about glandulars

[Guest guest]

heart is technically a muscle - i don't believe it " gives off "

hormones such as the ones you fear.

-jennifer

On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:03 PM, gailz059 wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I was recently told by someone that glandulars are frequently used

> for hormones and even if you use them for something like minerals

> you will get the hormones from glands as well. Is liver a glandular?

> I regarded liver to be like meat in the sense that when I eat meat I

> don't think that I am getting a significant dose of hormones unless

> the cow is fed growth or some other hormone. I was hoping to eat

> liver for the mineral content and for other things. Are organs such

> as kidney, heart and liver considered to be " glandulars " ? If I am

> concerned about hormones (specifically not disrupting my hormones

> with a source or hormones outside my body) should I avoid kidney,

> heart and liver?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Gail

>

[Guest guest]

I haven't heard anything about anybody overdosing on glandulars or getting any

potent effects from it.  I believe it works more to balance out your hormones

rather than significantly increasing them.  I was reading about a guy that eats

bull testicles, and while he did feel an increase in his libido and strength

increase, he didn't feel any different when doing it more than once a week.  He

recommended you only need to consume it once every 1-3 months in order to obtain

the optimal benefits from it.  This guy's name is Mike Brown and he ones a site

called leviticus.

I think consuming that organ does help your body better synthesize those

properties in the body whereas when you weren't consuming them your body wasn't

optimally performing and repairing itself as good as it could.

From: gailz059 <gailz059@...>

Subject: Question about glandulars

Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 5:03 PM

 

Hello,

I was recently told by someone that glandulars are frequently used for hormones

and even if you use them for something like minerals you will get the hormones

from glands as well. Is liver a glandular? I regarded liver to be like meat in

the sense that when I eat meat I don't think that I am getting a significant

dose of hormones unless the cow is fed growth or some other hormone. I was

hoping to eat liver for the mineral content and for other things. Are organs

such as kidney, heart and liver considered to be " glandulars " ? If I am

concerned about hormones (specifically not disrupting my hormones with a source

or hormones outside my body) should I avoid kidney, heart and liver?

Thanks,

Gail

[Guest guest]

I agree with and think this is a very interesting topic.

Eating heart helps your heart because it is loaded with CoQ10. I wonder if

glandulars are really used for the hormones or if " like cures like " , similar

to homeopathy, eat adrenals to help your adrenals, not necessarily for

adrenal hormone supplement, same with thyroid glandular. For example, eating

heart to help keep your heart healthy (the CoQ10 is probably just one of the

components), eat liver to help heal our own livers.

I would sure prefer to eat the organ than take a pill.

Here is a partial list of ingredients on the Standard Process Cardio Plus

product, which isn't exactly a glandular, but look at all the organs in it:

Bovine heart PMGT extract, bovine liver, ., porcine stomach, bovine orchic

extract, bovine spleen, ovine spleen, porcine brain, and bovine adrenal

CytosolT extract.

Kathy

From:

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Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:06 PM

Subject: Re: Question about glandulars

heart is technically a muscle - i don't believe it " gives off "

hormones such as the ones you fear.

-jennifer

On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:03 PM, gailz059 wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I was recently told by someone that glandulars are frequently used

> for hormones and even if you use them for something like minerals

> you will get the hormones from glands as well. Is liver a glandular?

> I regarded liver to be like meat in the sense that when I eat meat I

> don't think that I am getting a significant dose of hormones unless

> the cow is fed growth or some other hormone. I was hoping to eat

> liver for the mineral content and for other things. Are organs such

> as kidney, heart and liver considered to be " glandulars " ? If I am

> concerned about hormones (specifically not disrupting my hormones

> with a source or hormones outside my body) should I avoid kidney,

> heart and liver?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Gail

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Thanks for all the information about glandulars. It seems that since people

have been eating liver routinely that if there were a problem I would have heard

about it by now. At least through forums such as this one. Maybe liver is okay

but eating adrenals or thyroid might be a different matter (I say maybe because

these items are not part of common foods in the regular diet and as a result no

one has eaten enough of these things to complain about effects.) What is

interesting to me is that both times I was told about being careful about

hormones (in food or otherwise) the person commenting was a Chinese medicine

practitioner. They seem to be very aware of hormones and the effects of

supplementation, intentional or otherwise.

Gail

>

> > Hello,

> >

> > I was recently told by someone that glandulars are frequently used

> > for hormones and even if you use them for something like minerals

> > you will get the hormones from glands as well. Is liver a glandular?

> > I regarded liver to be like meat in the sense that when I eat meat I

> > don't think that I am getting a significant dose of hormones unless

> > the cow is fed growth or some other hormone. I was hoping to eat

> > liver for the mineral content and for other things. Are organs such

> > as kidney, heart and liver considered to be " glandulars " ? If I am

> > concerned about hormones (specifically not disrupting my hormones

> > with a source or hormones outside my body) should I avoid kidney,

> > heart and liver?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > Gail

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Gail,

I agree on the TCM practioners! They are much more aware, and they try to

balance the thyroid. I think they caution us because hormone supplementation is

SO prevelant in our society, from allopathic doctors prescribing them, to the

meat most people consume.

Kathy

---- gailz059 <gailz059@...> wrote:

=============

Hello,

Thanks for all the information about glandulars. It seems that since people

have been eating liver routinely that if there were a problem I would have heard

about it by now. At least through forums such as this one. Maybe liver is okay

but eating adrenals or thyroid might be a different matter (I say maybe because

these items are not part of common foods in the regular diet and as a result no

one has eaten enough of these things to complain about effects.) What is

interesting to me is that both times I was told about being careful about

hormones (in food or otherwise) the person commenting was a Chinese medicine

practitioner. They seem to be very aware of hormones and the effects of

supplementation, intentional or otherwise.

Gail

>

> > Hello,

> >

> > I was recently told by someone that glandulars are frequently used

> > for hormones and even if you use them for something like minerals

> > you will get the hormones from glands as well. Is liver a glandular?

> > I regarded liver to be like meat in the sense that when I eat meat I

> > don't think that I am getting a significant dose of hormones unless

> > the cow is fed growth or some other hormone. I was hoping to eat

> > liver for the mineral content and for other things. Are organs such

> > as kidney, heart and liver considered to be " glandulars " ? If I am

> > concerned about hormones (specifically not disrupting my hormones

> > with a source or hormones outside my body) should I avoid kidney,

> > heart and liver?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > Gail

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

well, kidneys and liver are organs. the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals,

pituitary and etc are glands. one will not likely have trouble taking

commercial glandular formulas unless by great handfuls, but you cannot eat the

whole adrenal glands of a large animal. contained therin could be too much of

the hormones the adrenals manufacture- adrenaline, for one, which could overload

your system. so that's why you can't buy certain of the whole glands from your

butcher, though native peoples used the vitamin c content of adrenals to stave

off scurvy, and t he the iodine content of the thyroid to prevent goiter.

it is my belief that it works both ways- that eating the glands supports our

glands (or would if we could get them), but also that homeopathic preparations

can stimulate healing in a specific way.

desh

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Aren't glandular products usually concentrated and therefore high potency? Most

people probably would not have access to the glands but would have access to a

possibly concetrated product it seems to me. Could you elaborate on the

homeopathic action and benefit?

Thanks,

Gail

>

> well, kidneys and liver are organs. the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals,

pituitary and etc are glands. one will not likely have trouble taking

commercial glandular formulas unless by great handfuls, but you cannot eat the

whole adrenal glands of a large animal. contained therin could be too much of

the hormones the adrenals manufacture- adrenaline, for one, which could overload

your system. so that's why you can't buy certain of the whole glands from your

butcher, though native peoples used the vitamin c content of adrenals to stave

off scurvy, and t he the iodine content of the thyroid to prevent goiter.

>

> it is my belief that it works both ways- that eating the glands supports our

glands (or would if we could get them), but also that homeopathic preparations

can stimulate healing in a specific way.

>

> desh

>