The Mother of Antioxidants -Glutathione

We have all heard of antioxidants, but have we heard of the mother of all antioxidants? One that is the secret to prevent cancer, heart disease, aging, neurological issues and more? This single antioxidant has been studied in great depth yet most of us know nothing about it and  many doctors have no idea how to address the epidemic of its deficiency in humans.

We are of course talking about Glutathione (pronounced “gloota-thigh-own.”) This is a powerful detoxifier and immune booster and is crucial to a healthy life. Although the body does make some of its own Glutathione, poor food quality, pollution, toxic environments, stress, infections and radiation are all depleting out bodies glutathione.

What is Glutathione?

Glutathione is a simple molecule produced naturally in the body at all times. It’s a combination of three building blocks of protein or amino acids — cysteine, glycine and glutamine.

The best part of glutathione is that is contains sulfur chemical groups that work to trap all the bad things like free radicals and toxins such as mercury and heavy metals in our body then flush them out. This is especially important in our current world of heavy metal bombardment.

Where Can You Get Glutathione?

The body makes it, but it’s often not enough in our strenuous environment. Here are some food sources that either contain glutathione or its precursors to help the body produce more.

* Broccoli

* Brussels sprouts

* Cabbage

* Cauliflower

* Avocados

* Peaches

* Watermelon

* Cinnamon

* Cardamom

* Turmeric (Curcumin)

* Tomatoes

* Peas

* Garlic

* Onions

* Red peppers

Notice they are all healthy foods we often don’t get enough of? This is another big issue with our diets. We consume a lot of junk, meat, dairy and processed foods, items that clinically have been proven to be the number one causes of heart disease and illness yet we consume  them in huge quantities. The key is to limit these and eat a lot of fresh, lively foods that provide nutrients and don’t ask the body to perform a mega job to digest.

You can also increase your exercise as glutathione production increases when you exercise. Breathing and sweating are also great ways to get rid of toxins in the body.

Glutathione Protects Against Chronic Illness

What makes glutathione so important and powerful is that it recycles antioxidants. When your body is dealing with free radicals, it is essentially passing them from one molecule to another. They might go from vitamin C to vitamin E to lipoic acid and then to glutathione where they are cooled off. Antioxidants are recycled at this point and the body can now regenerate another glutathione molecule to go back at it again.

Glutathione is crucial for helping your immune system fight chronic illness as it acts as the carrier of toxins out of your body. Like a fly trap, toxins stick to glutathione and they are carried to the bile into the stools and out of the body. Glutathione is also powerful enough that it has been shown to help in the treatment of AIDS greatly. The body is going to get in touch with oxidants and toxins, the more we can deal with those the better our body will be at staying strong, this is why glutathione is so important.

9 Final Tips

Dr. Mark Thyman has given 9 tips to increase your Glutathione levels. Check them out!

1. Consume sulfur-rich foods. The main ones in the diet are garlic, onions and the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, watercress, etc.).

2. Try bioactive whey protein. This is great source of cysteine and the amino acid building blocks for glutathione synthesis. As you know, I am not a big fan of dairy, but this is an exception — with a few warnings. The whey protein MUST be bioactive and made from non-denatured proteins (“denaturing” refers to the breakdown of the normal protein structure). Choose non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics. Immunocal is a prescription bioactive non-denatured whey protein that is even listed in the Physician’s Desk Reference.

3. Exercise boosts your glutathione levels and thereby helps boost your immune system, improve detoxification and enhance your body’s own antioxidant defenses. Start slow and build up to 30 minutes a day of vigorous aerobic exercise like walking or jogging, or play various sports. Strength training for 20 minutes 3 times a week is also helpful.

One would think it would be easy just to take glutathione as a pill, but the body digests protein — so you wouldn’t get the benefits if you did it this way. However, the production and recycling of glutathione in the body requires many different nutrients and you CAN take these. Here are the main supplements that need to be taken consistently to boost glutathione. Besides taking a multivitamin and fish oil, supporting my glutathione levels with these supplements is the most important thing I do every day for my personal health.

4. N-acetyl-cysteine. This has been used for years to help treat asthma and lung disease and to treat people with life-threatening liver failure from Tylenol overdose. In fact, I first learned about it in medical school while working in the emergency room. It is even given to prevent kidney damage from dyes used during x-ray studies.

5. Alpha lipoic acid. This is a close second to glutathione in importance in our cells and is involved in energy production, blood sugar control, brain health and detoxification. The body usually makes it, but given all the stresses we are under, we often become depleted.

6. Methylation nutrients (folate and vitamins B6 and B12). These are perhaps the most critical to keep the body producing glutathione. Methylation and the production and recycling of glutathione are the two most important biochemical functions in your body. Take folate (especially in the active form of 5 methyltetrahydrofolate), B6 (in active form of P5P) and B12 (in the active form of methylcobalamin).

7. Selenium. This important mineral helps the body recycle and produce more glutathione.

8. A family of antioxidants including vitamins C and E (in the form of mixed tocopherols), work together to recycle glutathione.

9. Milk thistle (silymarin) has long been used in liver disease and helps boost glutathione levels.

Sources:

http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/05/12/what-is-glutathione-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/10/can-you-use-food-to-increase-glutathione-instead-of-supplements.aspx

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-717-GLUTATHIONE.aspx?activeIngredientId=717&activeIngredientName=GLUTATHIONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hufj2AIPxQ SaveFrom.net

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/13/the-mother-of-all-antioxidants/

Yellowstone 'fleeing bison' video goes viral, fuels super-volcano fears

Survival panic, or will she really blow? A video allegedly showing bison 'fleeing' from Yellowstone Park's super-volcano went viral after an earthquake hit the park on March 30.

The backstory began on March 20 when YouTube user Zicutake uploaded a video entitled Animals Fleeing From Yellowstone Supervolcano? showing bison running down a road in Yellowstone Park. This was proof, the video's creators says, that the long dormant super-volcano under the park will erupt in 2014.

Another YouTube video entitled Animals Leaving Yellowstone? Earthquakes and Seismic Activity went online on March 23, and it shows Tom Lupshu, dressed in camouflage and a black beanie, commenting on the same subject.

Lupshu would later be revealed as the 'source' who highlighted the 'bison fleeing' video to Zicutake.

It had all seemed like innocent speculative fun until March 30 when a 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit near the Norris Geyser Basin in the northwest section of Yellowstone, which spans 8,992 sq km of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Although the area is known for small quakes every year, it was the park's strongest quake since 1980.

And that was when the 'bison fleeing' video, picked up on alternative news sites like Epoch Times, started receiving a huge surge in views. But it also triggered a wave of public panic, rippling across the online community and then back to Yellowstone itself.

Not the end of the world – just yet

Yellowstone park officials, who had to field dozens of calls and emails from the concerned public demanding if the video's claims are true, flatly dismissed the 'running bison' evidence.

They say the video actually shows bison galloping down a paved road that leads deeper into the park – not away from it, as was claimed. “It was a spring-like day and they were frisky. Contrary to online reports, it’s a natural occurrence and not the end of the world,” park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said.

The park also uploaded their own video to dispel the super-volcano speculations.

As for the recent earthquake: Even though geologists confirmed it was the largest to rattle Yellowstone since a 4.8 quake in February 1980, they say it was benign by seismic standards.

Even the fact that it occurred near an area of ground uplift tied to the upward movement of molten rock in the super-volcano – whose mouth, or caldera, is 80km long and 48km wide – failed to worry the scientists.

The fact is neither the quake, the largest among hundreds that have struck near the geyser basin in the last seven months, nor the uplift suggest an eruption sooner than tens of thousands of years, said Peter Cervelli, associate director for science and technology at the US Geological Survey’s Volcano Science Centre in California.

“The chance of that happening in our lifetimes is exceedingly insignificant,” said Cervelli, a scientist with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

Despite assurances by Yellowstone officials and government geologists that the ancient super-volcano beneath the park is not due to explode for aeons have apparently done little to quell fears among the thousands who have viewed recent video postings of the herb.

Robot sub to launch seabed search for missing MH370

 Bluefin-21, the US-supplied underwater drone fitted to Ocean Shield. 

The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was set to switch to the ocean floor today using a robot submersible after suspected black box signals were detected, one month to the day since the jet vanished.

After describing sonic "pings" picked up by the naval vessel Ocean Shield as the "most promising lead" so far, the head of the Australian-led search operation warned that hopes of finding surface debris were fading.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said that the moment was nearing to deploy the US-made autonomous underwater vessel Bluefin-21 to scour for wreckage on the seabed.

"I haven't had the discussion this morning, we'll be having that discussion a little later on," he told national radio. "I imagine we'd be getting very close to that point."

The search is now focusing on a 600-kilometre arc of the southern Indian Ocean, far off the coast of western Australia.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss sounded a note of optimism.

"Today is another crucial day as we try and reconnect with the signals that perhaps have been emanating from the black box flight recorders of MH370," he said.

"The connections two days ago were obviously a time of great hope that there had been a significant breakthrough."

But he added: "It was disappointing that we were unable to repeat that experience yesterday."

Ocean Shield is criss-crossing the area to try to home in on the signals again before launching the five-metre long submersible sonar device, and Truss indicated the deployment was imminent.

"I understand that we are using the autonomous vehicle to examine the waters in the areas of interests of today," he said.

The signals are being investigated as the clock ticks past the 30-day lifespan of the emergency beacons on the two data recorders from the Malaysia Airlines jet, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

"As a consequence there is a chance the locator beacon is about to cease transmission, or has ceased transmission," Houston said.

"I think it's absolutely imperative to find something else and hopefully when we put the autonomous vehicle down, its capability is such that it'll be able to find wreckage.

"Unfortunately with the passage of time, oceanic drift and all the rest of it – particularly as a cyclone went through that area in the last few days – the chances of finding anything on the surface are diminishing with time."

The US Navy's Bluefin 21 Artemis autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) being hoisted back on board the Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield. The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could soon head to the ocean floor using an autonomous sonar vessel after possible black box signals were detected. – AFP pic, April 8, 2014.

Houston explained that the 4.5 kilometre depth of the ocean floor was the absolute operating limit for a Bluefin-21, which is designed for deep sea surveying and can carry video cameras.

"It can't go deeper than that, so it's quite incredible how finely balanced all of this is," he said.

"It's a long, painstaking process, particularly when you start searching the depths of the ocean floor."

When the sonar detects unusual formations on the ocean floor, it is brought back to the surface to fit cameras before returning to the seabed.

"You can't have the side sonar and the camera down there together, it's one or the other," Houston said.

"We will continue sortie after sortie until such time as we pick up evidence that there's something unusual on the ocean floor. We would then send down the camera.

"What we're after is wreckage, a debris field as people would say."

Up to 11 military planes, three civilian planes and 14 ships were Tuesday set to take part in the unprecedented search 2,268 kilometres northwest of Perth, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said.

Ocean Shield, which picked up two series of pulses lasting two hours and 20 minutes and then 13 minutes, are operating at the northern end of the defined search area. China's Haixun 01 and Britain's HMS Echo will work the southern end.

Commander William Marks of the US Seventh Fleet has said one of the signals picked up strengthened for a time, then weakened, indicating crews were near its source.

"That is encouraging because that is what you would expect if you are indeed moving toward the black box – that it should get stronger and as you move away from it, it should get weaker," he told AFP. – AFP, April 8, 2014.

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MH370 FLIGHT : Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak full Press Statement 24/3/2014

This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path.

Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.

Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time.

MH370 : Last communications with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors.said.. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at Saturday's news conference.

LIVE UPDATES FROM THE ‪#‎MH370 PRESS CONFERENCE AT KLIA

15th March 2014, 2:18PM

By the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

* We have conducted search operations over land and sea, in the South China Sea, Straits of Melaka, The Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean. At every stage we acted on verified information and followed every credible lead, which sometimes led us nowhere.

* There has been intense speculation. We understand the desperate need for information. On behalf of the families and those watching around the world, we have a responsibility to the investigation and the families to only release information that has been confirmed and corroborated.

* The search was done near MH370’s last known position at the South China Sea. At the same time it was brought to our attention by RMAF that based on their primary radar the aircraft (unidentified) made a turn back and flew north to Straits of Melaka.

* Data was corroborated with relevant authorities, we expanded area of search to include Straits of Melaka and later to the Andaman Sea

* Earlier this morning, PM was briefed by FAA, NTSB, AAIB, the Malaysian authorities and the acting Minister of Transport on new information that shed further light on what happened to MH370.

* Based on new satellite communications, we can say with high degree of certainty that the aircraft communications system was disabled just before the aircraft reached the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Shortly afterwards near the border between Malaysia and the Vietnamese air traffic control, the aircraft’s transponder was switched off. From this point onwards, the RMAF primary data showed that an aircraft which was believed (but not confirmed) to be MH370 did a turn back and went northwest of Malaysia. This movement was consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.

* Based on raw satellite data which was obtained from the satellite data’s service provider, we can confirm that the aircraft shown in the primary radar data was MH370.

* After much forensic work and deliberation - the FAA, NTSB, AAIB and the Malaysian authorities who had been working separately on the same data concur: according to the new data, the last confirmed communications between plane and satellite was at 8.11am local time on Saturday 8 March. The investigation team is making further calculation which will indicate how far aircraft may have flown after last point of contact to help us to refine search.

* We are unable to confirm the precise location of the plane when it last made contact with the satellite. However, based on new data, the aviation authorities of Malaysia and their intentional counterparts have determined that the last communications with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors: Northern Corridor: approximately at the border of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan to Northern Thailand. Or Southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the Southern Indian Ocean.

* In lieu of the latest development, Malaysia refocused their investigation to crew and passengers on board. Despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, I wish to be very clear, that investigation is still ongoing to determine why it deviated from its original flight path.

* The new information has significantly impacted the nature and scope of SAR. We are ending our operations at the South China Sea and reassessing the deployment of our assets. As the two new corridors involved many countries, the relevant embassies have been invited to the briefing on the info by technical experts.

* MAS has been informing the families on this new development. The search for MH370 has entered a new phase over the last 7 days and we are looking into every possibility.

* For the families and friends of those involved, we hope this new info brings us one step closer to finding the plane

Plane is hijacked, says report quoting Malaysian official

A Malaysian government official said investigators have concluded that one of the pilots or someone else with flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370.

The Associated Press quoted the unnamed official who is involved in the investigation as saying that the hijacking was no longer a theory.

“It is conclusive,” he said.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Flight MH370 may have flown beyond its last known position as the last satellite transmission from the missing airliner has been traced to the Indian Ocean off Australia, citing a person familiar with the analysis.

According to Bloomberg, a path from Malaysia to the ocean off Australia would have taken as much as 3,000 miles – the maximum distance MH370 could have flown with its fuel load.

Bloomberg also reports that investigators have found that someone in the cockpit of MH370 programmed it to turn away from its original path to Beijing, citing another person from the US government who is familiar with the investigation.

According to Bloomberg, spokesman for Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority Peter Gibson said he wasn't aware of the new information putting MH370 near Perth. However, he added that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority would have jurisdiction of the search if the information were true.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is expected to address a press conference on this latest development at 2pm today.

Charge your phone from the vibration of your moving car

Harvesting kinetic energy to charge gadgets is nothing new. We've covered piezoelectric generators that are embedded in sneakers or even backpacks that charge a battery that can then charge your phone. A new nano generator developed by researchers at University of Wisconsin, Sun Yat-sen University in China and the University of Minnesota Duluth could be embedded in the phone itself or in an outer case so that power harvested from vibrations like those created by a moving car could be used to instantly charge the phone. No wires needed.

The researchers describe their device as a mesoporous piezoelectric nanogenerator. University of Wisconsin explains just what that means:

The nanogenerator takes advantage of a common piezoelectric polymer material called polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF. Piezoelectric materials can generate electricity from a mechanical force; conversely, they also can generate a mechanical strain from an applied electrical field.

Rather than relying on a strain or an electrical field, the researchers incorporated zinc oxide nanoparticles into a PVDF thin film to trigger formation of the piezoelectric phase that enables it to harvest vibration energy. Then, they etched the nanoparticles off the film; the resulting interconnected pores - called "mesopores" because of their size - cause the otherwise stiff material to behave somewhat like a sponge.

The sponginess is key. The softer the material is, the more sensitive it is too small vibrations, the researchers say.

The nanogenerator is made up of the soft mesoporous polymer film sandwiched between two thin electrode sheets. This flexible film can be attached to flat or curvy surfaces including human skin, but in this case, the researchers see it being used in a phone's back panel or housing where it can automatically harvest energy from vibrations to power the phone directly.

This device has great potential because not only could it make self-powered phones and sensors possible, but it can also be scaled up to large manufacturing.

The world’s largest solar plant opened today

In the heart of the Californian Mojave desert, the world’s largest solar plant officially opened today.

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a project conceived by Google, NRG energy, and Brightsource energy. It contains hundreds of thousands of mirrors and spans an impressive distance of over 5 miles. It is estimated that the $2.2 billion dollar project will generate enough renewable energy to power over 140,000 homes.

This project, the first of its kind in the United States, is seen as a catalyst for things to come. After President Barack Obama’s announcement that his administration is dedicated to tackling climate change, extensive clean energy investments like Ivanpah need to be the top priority.

The US has watched as countries like China and Germany have taken the lead in developing large scale renewable energy projects that lower their carbon footprint and create thousands of new jobs. All the while the US was stuck wondering if it would ever join them as an industry—and world—leader.

Looks like we have our answer.

With the death of coal on the horizon and more impressive projects like Ivanpah planned across the country, the clean energy revolution is not only possible, it’s happening now.

Take a moment to reflect on this news America. Our movement is stronger than ever.

Photo credit: Brightsource Energy

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Canada to contribute $20m for polio eradication

ISLAMABAD: Canada has announced a contribution of $20 million to be paid over the next three years for eradication of polio in Pakistan. The contribution will support the Unicef ‘Polio Plus Initiative’ by increasing coverage, access and effectiveness of polio vaccine.

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Canadian Minister of State for Multiculturalism Tim Uppal, concluding his visit to the country on Wednesday, said: “Canada’s continued support will increase the number of children immunised, improve access for vaccinators by increasing community acceptance and increase effectiveness of the vaccine by decreasing vulnerability to polio from malnutrition and illness.”

“In Pakistan, Canada was the first donor to tackle the conditions that allow polio to continue to keep a foothold, something of which we can all be proud of,” said Mr Uppal.

Canada is a leading supporter of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s goal of eradicating the disease by 2018, and contributing to fight against polio in several critical areas, including sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan and in three primary endemic high-risk areas in Pakistan.

Mr Uppal held talks with government officials and met vaccinators and doctors during the trip. He also visited a mosque, Gurdwara Nankana Sahib and Joseph colony of Christian community in Lahore.

The ‘Polio Plus’ initiative directly engages community groups, religious leaders and elders in endemic areas to address gaps in the delivery of social services, enhance community sensitisation and trust which in turn increases acceptance and safe passage for polio vaccination teams. The initiative supports polio eradication by increasing coverage, access and effectiveness of vaccine and targets three primary endemic high-risk areas.

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