Zija's Uncle Russ

All herbicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, petroleum based chemicals, pesticides, and genetic modification cause disease, cancers, birth defects and early death, at any exposure level, in seeds, soils, water, crops, livestock, food, etc.

~ Uncle Russ

A common herbicide used in the United States may be linked to an increased risk of a congenital abnormality of the nasal cavity known as choanal atresia, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other Texas institutions.

Exposure to herbicide may increase risk of rare disorder, study finds

Drugs KILL, Plants (cinnamon is ground tree bark) CURE!

~ Uncle Russ

Supplements of a cinnamon extract may help control blood sugar, as well as benefiting triglyceride levels in Chinese people with type-2 diabetes, says a new study.

Cinnamon again linked to improved blood sugar control for diabetics: Support from China

Who needs mice, PEITC is found in significant bioavailable amounts in moringa from only Zija®.

Literally, DRINK LIFE IN!®

~ Uncle Russ

The natural plant compound phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) hinders the development of mammary tumors in a mouse model with similarities to human breast cancer progression, according to a study published August 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Plant-based compound slows breast cancer in a mouse model

Literally, Drugs KILL, Plants CURE

~ Uncle Russ

The borrachero tree, which is marked by beautiful white and yellow blossoms that droop ever so innocuously from the plant’s slender branches, holds a secret that few people outside northern South America know about.

Most dangerous drug in the world can block free will, wipe memory – Was it involved in Batman shooting?

Fake spreads are polymer science and you should NOT consume them, period.,,they are NOT good for you.

~ Uncle Russ

Heart-friendly spreads expert Smart Balance has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that it does not include enough plant sterols in its spreadable butters to warrant the cholesterol-lowering effects claimed on pack.

Smart Balance is hit with lawsuit over plant sterol claims

Beware any products containing these oils!  They are gender benders.

~ Uncle Russ

A new study suggests that repeated topical use of products containing lavender oil and/or tea tree oil may cause prepubertal gynecomastia, a rare condition that results in enlarged breast tissue in boys prior to puberty.

Lavender and Tea Tree Oils May Cause Breast Growth in Boys

Drugs KILL, Plants CURE.

GOT ZIJA?!®… and a veggie pizza to go?

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2012) — Oregano, the common pizza and pasta seasoning herb, has long been known to possess a variety of beneficial health effects, but a new study by researchers at Long Island University (LIU) indicates that an ingredient of this spice could potentially be used to treat prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in American men.

Component of Pizza Seasoning Herb Oregano Kills Prostate Cancer Cells

This is like Satan announcing a consortium to cooperate with Heaven.

Unilever has an unofficial motto, told to me once a retired top executive there “Grab firmly and SQUEEZE until dry!”

If you really believe these guys want to sell wellness from plants, well let’s put it this way, I cannot fix stupid or dead.

Want real wellness from the National Institute Of Health’s specific varietal of moringa, only found fully bioavailalbe at the lowest price, now, and FREE?

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~ Uncle Russ

A new scientific consortium led by Unilever aims to identify nutritionally valuable varieties of fruits and vegetables from the past, in order to produce natural health ingredients for the future, says the industry giant.

Unilever aims to identify ancient plants with added nutritional value

Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a study from researchers at Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center suggests.

Curry spice component may help slow prostate tumor growth

Big Ag and Big Chemical is out to harm and kill you for profit.

If the unsafe and cancer as well as birth defect genetic modification does not get you, the pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides will.

“Cide”, from the Latin, means: “TO KILL”.

~ Uncle Russ

 The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are reporting in a new study.

Grafted Watermelon Plants Take in More Pesticides

Cancer KILLS, Plants CURE.

~ Uncle Russ

Federal inspectors say the contract manufacturer for Johnson & Johnson’s cancer drug Doxil hasn’t been maintaining equipment or promptly investigating defective product batches and other serious problems at its Bedford, Ohio, factory.

FDA Finds Serious Problems At Cancer Drug Plant

Phytoestrogens are plant compounds which, in the human body, can attach to the receptors for the female sexual hormone estrogen and which are taken in with our daily diet.

Plant Hormones May Lower Cancer Risk

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

New research suggests that saffron provides a significant chemopreventive effect against liver cancer in animal models. When saffron was administered to rats with diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced liver cancer an inhibition of cell proliferation and stimulation of apoptosis was observed.

Saffron Shows Promise Against Cancer

A derivative of a common culinary spice found in Indian curries could offer a new treatment hope for sufferers of the painful condition tendinitis, an international team of researchers has shown.

Curry spice could offer treatment hope for tendinitis

Sage is a wonderful herb that can add flavor to soups, salad dressings and juices. The herb also has anti-inflammatory and powerful memory enhancing qualities.

Use sage for everyday brain health

Drugs KILL, Plants CURE!

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~ Uncle Russ

»Medicines from plants« – one thinks of herbal teas or valerian drops. However, that has nothing in common with what the researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen, Germany, are doing.

Medicines from plants

Zija® is formulated by fools like me, but only the God can make a moringa tree! (Apologies to the Late Great Srgt. Joyce Kilmer)

~ Uncle Russ

A new study published in the journal Nature Chemistry provides new insight into the power of a rare type of tree bark to relieve serious pain.

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

Summary:Rats that were exposed to the apigenin developed fewer tumors and experienced significant delays in tumor formation compared to those rats that were not exposed to apigenin. Hyder believes this finding could impact women who are taking certain hormone replacement therapies.

Parsley, Celery Carry Crucial Component for Fight Against Breast Cancer, MU Researcher Finds

Research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day finds that plants in East Africa with promising antimalarial qualities — ones that have treated malaria symptoms in the region’s communities for hundreds of years — are at risk of extinction. Scientists fear that these natural remedial qualities, and thus their potential to become a widespread treatment for malaria, could be lost forever.

Antimalarial trees in East Africa threatened with extinction

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

University of Adelaide researchers have shown for the first time how peppermint helps to relieve Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which affects up to 20% of the population.

Peppermint earns respect in mainstream medicine

Plants CURE, Drugs (Plus Radiation & Chemicals) KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

New research conducted by Minna Krejci and her colleagues at Northwestern University in Chicago, and published in ChemSusChem, suggests that the algae, Closterium moniliferum, might one day soon be used to help separate strontium from calcium in nuclear waste.

Research shows some algae might help reduce nuclear waste

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

GOT ZIJA®?!

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Mar. 17, 2011) — An international study, with Spanish participation, has shown that the phenotypic plasticity of plants, which enables them to change their structure and function, helps them to adapt to environmental change. This research will make it easier to anticipate plants’ response to current climate change.

Plasticity of Plants Helps Them Adapt to Climate Change

An international team of researchers including professor Emmett Duffy of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has published a comprehensive new analysis showing that loss of plant biodiversity disrupts the fundamental services that ecosystems provide to humanity.

Loss of plant diversity threatens Earth’s life-support systems

GOT ZIJA®?!

~ Uncle Russ

Plants Cure, Drugs Kill$

~ Uncle Russ

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a natural product isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant commonly known as thunder god vine, or lei gong teng, and used for hundreds of years to treat many conditions including rheumatoid arthritis works by blocking gene control machinery in the cell. The report, published as a cover story of the March issue of Nature Chemical Biology, suggests that the natural product could be a starting point for developing new anticancer drugs.

Solving a traditional Chinese medicine mystery

(PhysOrg.com) — People are increasingly obtaining endangered or threatened plants, often illegally, and moving them outside their native range, according to an article published this week in the journal Nature by Patrick Shirey and Gary Lamberti in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame.

Biologists call for regulation of rare plant sales

Cultivating trouble: Plant protection efforts falling short, report says

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

Turmeric, a bright yellow spice from south Asia belonging to the ginger family, is the main ingredient in curries — and ancient wisdom suggests that it’s also good for your health. Taking this wisdom to the laboratory, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that turmeric’s active ingredient called curcumin amplifies the therapeutic activity of highly toxic anti-inflammatory drugs used to fight colon cancer when used at high doses.

Turmeric might be ‘the right spice’ to fight colon cancer

A FEW years ago I noticed something odd at the health food store. There, rubbing elbows with the extra-virgin olive oil and cold-pressed canola oil was virtually the last fat I expected to see in such esteemed company: coconut oil.

Once a Villain, Coconut Oil Charms the Health Food World

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2011) — Most people would never suspect that a “trash tree,” one with little economic value and often removed by farmers due to its ability to destroy farmland, could be the key to fighting a deadly bacterium. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found an antibiotic in the Eastern Red Cedar tree that is effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a “superbug” that is resistant to most medications.

Chemical Compounds in Trees Can Fight Deadly Staph Infections in Humans

Tulips

THIS island, 140 miles west of New Orleans, is best known for the Tabasco peppers that have been grown here since the 1860s by the McIlhenny family for their famous Louisiana hot sauce. But the three-mile-long island, surrounded by bayous, is also home to some 450 varieties of camellias, many rare enough to be considered endangered.

A Camellia Preserve on an Island Known for Tabasco Peppers

Plants, like many other organisms, have circadian clocks that help them anticipate various environmental and biological events that occur at precise times of the day. Processes like photosynthesis, fragrance emission and time of bloom are all regulated by this timekeeping mechanism.

To Defend Against Disease, a Plant Checks the Clock

Drugs KILL, Plants CURE.

~ Uncle Russ

A Purdue University scientist has found genetic evidence of how some plants adapt to live in unfavorable conditions, a finding he believes could one day be used to help food crops survive in new or changing environments.

Plants can adapt genetically to survive harsh environments

Plants are attacked by a multitude of insects and mammals. As defense against these herbivores they developed complex defense mechanisms over the course of evolution: spines, thorns, leaf hairs and a number of toxic chemical substances. For decades it has been controversially discussed whether the production of defense traits incurs costs to the plants.

Fast growth, low defense — plants facing a dilemma

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

(PhysOrg.com) — A Colorado State University biologist has shown that plants can serve as highly specific detectors for environmental pollutants and explosives.

Biologists produce plants that detect environmental contaminants, explosives (w/ Video)

Translation to English: genetic modification of any kind KILL$.

~ Uncle Russ

Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell’s nucleus.

Nailing down a crucial plant signaling system

Plants Cure, Drugs Kill.

~ Uncle Russ

More than a third of American adults use some form of complementary or alternative medicine, according to a government report. Natural remedies have an obvious appeal, but how do you know which ones to choose and whether the claims are backed by science?

Remedies: Peppermint Oil for Irritable Bowel

Plants CURE, Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

Plant Cure, Drugs Kill.

GOT ZIJA®?!

~ Uncle Russ

Plants CURE. Drugs KILL.

~ Uncle Russ

As the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity draws to a close, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are celebrating the diversity of the planet’s plant and fungal life by highlighting some of the weird, wonderful and stunning discoveries they’ve made this year from the rainforests of Cameroon to the UK’s North Pennines. But it’s not just about the new — in some cases species long thought to be extinct in the wild have been rediscovered.

Weird and Wonderful Plant and Fungal Discoveries of 2010

Plants cure, drugs kill.

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2010) — A synthetic derivative of the curry spice turmeric, made by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dramatically improves the behavioral and molecular deficits seen in animal models of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Two new studies suggest that the novel compound may have clinical promise for these conditions, which currently lack good therapies.

Compound Derived from Curry Spice Is Neuroprotective Against Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury

Plants cure, drugs kill.

~ Uncle Russ

A synthetic derivative of the curry spice turmeric, made by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dramatically improves the behavioral and molecular deficits seen in animal models of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Compound derived from curry spice is neuroprotective against stroke and traumatic brain injury