LightLover
10-11-2006, 03:19 PM
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LL
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Mangosteen, Noni, Goji, Xango, Thai-Go, G3 and other fruit juices claim to
provide nutritional health benefits, or do they? I have tested all of these
so-called nutritional health drinks and they are all highly acidic at a pH
ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 with an ORP (oxidative reduction potential for buffering
acids and providing body energy) ranging from +250 mV to +450 mV. All of these
so-called nutritional health beverages would have the same toxic acidic effects
as drinking an acidic cola drink at a pH of 2.5 with an ORP at +250 mV. Great
for cleaning the corrosion off the battery cables of your car, but destructive
to the digestive system and especially the delicate intestinal villi of the
small intestine where blood is made. All of these exotic, proton rich fruits
and fruit drinks will pull energy from your body robbing you of needed electrons
to keep your body running healthy and strong.
You are better off eating or drinking green vegetables like broccoli and other
electron rich, cruciferous vegetables that contain several anti-acidic compounds
that have been shown to provide protection against cancerous causing agents like
nitric and lactic acid. However, there aren't any companies selling expensive
broccoli juice. Or are there?
The reason that products such as Mangosteen, Xango, Goji and Noni seem more
attractive is because the ingredients are "exotic" and most people just don't
know much about the ingredients. The truth is that these exotic fruits and fruit
juices are generally pasturized, full of sugar, and will acidify the blood and
tissues making you sick, tired and fat! Whatever little nutritional value they
might claim to offer is lost in their saturation of hydrogen ions making these
beverages void of any nutritional or energetic value!
Yes, there is some research on xanthones, a phytochemical found in Mangosteen,
Xango, Goji, Noni, but the scientific interpretations are incorrect. The
phytochemical xanthone is a potent anti-acid by itself. But, the value of the
xanthones found in these exotic fruits are not sufficient enough to neutralize
the high concentrations of acidic hydorgen ions, leaving these beverages highly
acidic at 2.5 to 3.0 pH and deficient of any energy value at +250 mV and up.
I would suggest looking at the published research on bioflavonoids (lutein,
zeaxanthin, lycopene, luctein, beta-carotene, and over 600 more of them),
polyphenols (which include proanthocyandins, anthocyanidins, catechins, etc),
indole-3-carbinol and sulfurophane (broccoli extract and cruciferous
vegetables), iridoids (mainly found in olive fruit), not to mention all the
vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants naturally found in electron rich fruits and
vegetables. The list could go on and on and on. Nearly all of these compounds
are found in the nutritional supplement that are in "The Comparative Guide To
Nutritional Supplements" and in our book, The pH Miracle for Weight Loss. You
could literally pull up hundreds of thousands of studies on all of these
phytochemicals.
Xanthones may have beneficial properties in the right concentrations but it is
only one compound among thousands that have well-researched benefits. If people
think they are getting some miraculous compound, secret juice or magic formula,
they are being misinformed. What they are getting is a highly acidic, enervating
fruit juice that will increase the acidic state of the body and damage the
delicate alkaline pH of the digestive and circulatory system. Add mangosteen,
Noni, Goji or Xango fruit or juice to your current vitamin/mineral regimen and
expect short term benefits from the acidic laxative affect and long term damage
to the small intestine and large intestine. Eventually the acidic damage done
to the small intestine will affect the quality of the blood that will in turn
affect that quality and health of every cell in the human body. This can then
lead to a serious health challenge. The nutritional health benefits of these
exotic fruits are highly exaggerated and misl
eading.
A scientific scale called the ORAC scale was developed to measure how well foods
neutalize oxidation or acids. Due to the varied antioxidants (water soluble, fat
soluble, etc.) in the tablets, there really isn't an accurate way of giving a
legitimate ORAC score to a nutritional supplement. As such, the ORAC scale has
little relevance to Mangosteen, Noni, Goji and Xango juice!
The following offers a more detailed explanation of some disadvantages of
relying on ORAC scores too heavily. In addition, there are some marked drawbacks
to the ORAC score.
The disadvantages of using the ORAC score, or at least in relying too much upon
it, are several, such as...
1) Despite the fact that it is sometimes touted as a "Total Antioxidative Power"
score, the ORAC assay can only measure one particular type of antioxidative
activity, namely the ability of antioxidants to quench or neutralize only one
specific type of oxidizing free radical (aka "reactive oxygen species", or ROS)
known as the peroxy (e.g., as found in peroxide) radical. The biggest problem
with this test is the peroxide radical is released by the white blood cells to
buffer or neurtalize metabolic acids to help maintain the delicate pH balance of
the body fluids at 7.365. All "oxygen species" or free radicals are released by
the cells, including the white blood cells to neutralize the damaging affects of
metabolic acids. You see, free radicals are good guys not bad guys and are part
of the body's protective system against hydrogen ions or acids. When you drink
Mangosteen, Noni Juice, Goji Juice, Xango, Thai-Co, G3, etc. you have just
increased your acidic levels of hydro
gen ions and the body responds by releasing free radicals to buffer the poison
or acid or hydrogen ions from these exotic drinks. In truth, the ORAC assay
measures the acidity or toxicity of a food or drink, not its ability to
neutralize free radicals.
2) Thus, the ORAC score when interpreted correctly offers a picture of the true
antioxidant, or better said, anti-acid power of an antioxidant or mixture of
antioxidants since antioxidants like xanthone works with free radicals like
peroxide by quenching or buffering metabolic acids. Other alkalizing free
radical species commonly found in the body and released by the white blood cells
are the superoxides, triplet oxygen, singlet oxygen, and the hydroxyl radical
which protects us against acids from digestion, respiration, fermenation and
degeneration. Indeed, some highly powerful and effective antioxidants or
anti-acids like sodium bicarbonate, potassium hydroxide, sodium chlorite,
singlet oxygen, superoxides, triplet oxygen and peroxide would score extremely
poor or low on an ORAC assay. What does this tell us about the ORAC score? It
is being misinterrupted!
3) An excellent example of naturally occuring antioxidants or anti-acids (and
in reality there are plenty more) are the carotenoid family of antioxidants
which includes beta carotene, lycopene, luctien, canthaxanthxin and zeaxanthin,
among others, and which are found extensively in strongly-colored fruits and
vegetables. Most carotenoids show little activity against the peroxy radical
because they work together to buffer metabolic acids.
5) The ORAC score derived from the ORAC assay shows only antioxidant activity
in liquids in a test tube (in vitro) rather than within complex living
biological systems within the body. The problem here is that some substances or
foodstuffs may show great ORAC scores in test tube measures, but may perform
poorly in the body due to poor bioavailability, and vice versa.
6) A number of incorrect or invalid ORAC scores for common fruits and vegetables
are now in circulation due to faulty methods of testing or faulty interpretation
and reporting, or both. Why? Because the ORAC score does not take in
consideration the fermentation of sugars that turns to acid in the body.
7) The original ORAC assay method, called the B-PE method (for
beta-phycoerythrin, a reagent), has been largely discredited in the scientific
literature in the past few years as being inaccurate and yielding poor
repeatability. Many of the original advocates in the antioxidant field of the
ORAC B-PE Assay, including Dr. Guohua Cao, a USDA research scientist) now
recommend a more sophisticated ORAC assay, called the ORAC FL method, where the
"FL" stands for fluorescein, a fluorescent reagent used in the test. The newer
ORAC FL method yields an ORAC score ranging from 95% to about 400% (4X) of the
older ORAC score, and, on average, yields a score which is about 120% to 200% of
the score from the older ORAC B-PE method.
8) Unfortunately, the vast majority of ORAC assay scores to be found on the web
and in the scientific literature for various foodstuffs, including fruits,
vegetables, juices, and supplements, were produced using the older ORAC B-PE
method.
9) Indeed, most of the ORAC scores to be found in the literature and on the
Internet are from a set of ORAC scores published by the USDA in the late 1990's,
all derived using the ORAC B-PE method. There has also been some confusion in
interpretation of the USDA scores, with some companies and authors reporting
scores for freeze-dried (concentrated) samples as scores for fresh samples,
resulting in inflated scores, and with others reporting the score in units per
100 grams (or even 65 or 6 grams) rather than the standard score which is
reported in ORAC units per gram.
With any of the putative "single score" "total antioxidant" assays, the older
ORAC B-PE assay and the newer ORAC FL assay may offer a single score, but they
hardly offer a true picture of total antioxidative or anti-acid ability.
Bottom line: stay away from all these exotic fruits and fruit drinks. They are
all acidic and by drinking them you put your health and fitness at risk!
For more information visit our website at: www.phmiracleliving.com
ph Miracle Center
16390 Dia Del Sol
Valley Center, California
92082
US
LL
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Mangosteen, Noni, Goji, Xango, Thai-Go, G3 and other fruit juices claim to
provide nutritional health benefits, or do they? I have tested all of these
so-called nutritional health drinks and they are all highly acidic at a pH
ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 with an ORP (oxidative reduction potential for buffering
acids and providing body energy) ranging from +250 mV to +450 mV. All of these
so-called nutritional health beverages would have the same toxic acidic effects
as drinking an acidic cola drink at a pH of 2.5 with an ORP at +250 mV. Great
for cleaning the corrosion off the battery cables of your car, but destructive
to the digestive system and especially the delicate intestinal villi of the
small intestine where blood is made. All of these exotic, proton rich fruits
and fruit drinks will pull energy from your body robbing you of needed electrons
to keep your body running healthy and strong.
You are better off eating or drinking green vegetables like broccoli and other
electron rich, cruciferous vegetables that contain several anti-acidic compounds
that have been shown to provide protection against cancerous causing agents like
nitric and lactic acid. However, there aren't any companies selling expensive
broccoli juice. Or are there?
The reason that products such as Mangosteen, Xango, Goji and Noni seem more
attractive is because the ingredients are "exotic" and most people just don't
know much about the ingredients. The truth is that these exotic fruits and fruit
juices are generally pasturized, full of sugar, and will acidify the blood and
tissues making you sick, tired and fat! Whatever little nutritional value they
might claim to offer is lost in their saturation of hydrogen ions making these
beverages void of any nutritional or energetic value!
Yes, there is some research on xanthones, a phytochemical found in Mangosteen,
Xango, Goji, Noni, but the scientific interpretations are incorrect. The
phytochemical xanthone is a potent anti-acid by itself. But, the value of the
xanthones found in these exotic fruits are not sufficient enough to neutralize
the high concentrations of acidic hydorgen ions, leaving these beverages highly
acidic at 2.5 to 3.0 pH and deficient of any energy value at +250 mV and up.
I would suggest looking at the published research on bioflavonoids (lutein,
zeaxanthin, lycopene, luctein, beta-carotene, and over 600 more of them),
polyphenols (which include proanthocyandins, anthocyanidins, catechins, etc),
indole-3-carbinol and sulfurophane (broccoli extract and cruciferous
vegetables), iridoids (mainly found in olive fruit), not to mention all the
vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants naturally found in electron rich fruits and
vegetables. The list could go on and on and on. Nearly all of these compounds
are found in the nutritional supplement that are in "The Comparative Guide To
Nutritional Supplements" and in our book, The pH Miracle for Weight Loss. You
could literally pull up hundreds of thousands of studies on all of these
phytochemicals.
Xanthones may have beneficial properties in the right concentrations but it is
only one compound among thousands that have well-researched benefits. If people
think they are getting some miraculous compound, secret juice or magic formula,
they are being misinformed. What they are getting is a highly acidic, enervating
fruit juice that will increase the acidic state of the body and damage the
delicate alkaline pH of the digestive and circulatory system. Add mangosteen,
Noni, Goji or Xango fruit or juice to your current vitamin/mineral regimen and
expect short term benefits from the acidic laxative affect and long term damage
to the small intestine and large intestine. Eventually the acidic damage done
to the small intestine will affect the quality of the blood that will in turn
affect that quality and health of every cell in the human body. This can then
lead to a serious health challenge. The nutritional health benefits of these
exotic fruits are highly exaggerated and misl
eading.
A scientific scale called the ORAC scale was developed to measure how well foods
neutalize oxidation or acids. Due to the varied antioxidants (water soluble, fat
soluble, etc.) in the tablets, there really isn't an accurate way of giving a
legitimate ORAC score to a nutritional supplement. As such, the ORAC scale has
little relevance to Mangosteen, Noni, Goji and Xango juice!
The following offers a more detailed explanation of some disadvantages of
relying on ORAC scores too heavily. In addition, there are some marked drawbacks
to the ORAC score.
The disadvantages of using the ORAC score, or at least in relying too much upon
it, are several, such as...
1) Despite the fact that it is sometimes touted as a "Total Antioxidative Power"
score, the ORAC assay can only measure one particular type of antioxidative
activity, namely the ability of antioxidants to quench or neutralize only one
specific type of oxidizing free radical (aka "reactive oxygen species", or ROS)
known as the peroxy (e.g., as found in peroxide) radical. The biggest problem
with this test is the peroxide radical is released by the white blood cells to
buffer or neurtalize metabolic acids to help maintain the delicate pH balance of
the body fluids at 7.365. All "oxygen species" or free radicals are released by
the cells, including the white blood cells to neutralize the damaging affects of
metabolic acids. You see, free radicals are good guys not bad guys and are part
of the body's protective system against hydrogen ions or acids. When you drink
Mangosteen, Noni Juice, Goji Juice, Xango, Thai-Co, G3, etc. you have just
increased your acidic levels of hydro
gen ions and the body responds by releasing free radicals to buffer the poison
or acid or hydrogen ions from these exotic drinks. In truth, the ORAC assay
measures the acidity or toxicity of a food or drink, not its ability to
neutralize free radicals.
2) Thus, the ORAC score when interpreted correctly offers a picture of the true
antioxidant, or better said, anti-acid power of an antioxidant or mixture of
antioxidants since antioxidants like xanthone works with free radicals like
peroxide by quenching or buffering metabolic acids. Other alkalizing free
radical species commonly found in the body and released by the white blood cells
are the superoxides, triplet oxygen, singlet oxygen, and the hydroxyl radical
which protects us against acids from digestion, respiration, fermenation and
degeneration. Indeed, some highly powerful and effective antioxidants or
anti-acids like sodium bicarbonate, potassium hydroxide, sodium chlorite,
singlet oxygen, superoxides, triplet oxygen and peroxide would score extremely
poor or low on an ORAC assay. What does this tell us about the ORAC score? It
is being misinterrupted!
3) An excellent example of naturally occuring antioxidants or anti-acids (and
in reality there are plenty more) are the carotenoid family of antioxidants
which includes beta carotene, lycopene, luctien, canthaxanthxin and zeaxanthin,
among others, and which are found extensively in strongly-colored fruits and
vegetables. Most carotenoids show little activity against the peroxy radical
because they work together to buffer metabolic acids.
5) The ORAC score derived from the ORAC assay shows only antioxidant activity
in liquids in a test tube (in vitro) rather than within complex living
biological systems within the body. The problem here is that some substances or
foodstuffs may show great ORAC scores in test tube measures, but may perform
poorly in the body due to poor bioavailability, and vice versa.
6) A number of incorrect or invalid ORAC scores for common fruits and vegetables
are now in circulation due to faulty methods of testing or faulty interpretation
and reporting, or both. Why? Because the ORAC score does not take in
consideration the fermentation of sugars that turns to acid in the body.
7) The original ORAC assay method, called the B-PE method (for
beta-phycoerythrin, a reagent), has been largely discredited in the scientific
literature in the past few years as being inaccurate and yielding poor
repeatability. Many of the original advocates in the antioxidant field of the
ORAC B-PE Assay, including Dr. Guohua Cao, a USDA research scientist) now
recommend a more sophisticated ORAC assay, called the ORAC FL method, where the
"FL" stands for fluorescein, a fluorescent reagent used in the test. The newer
ORAC FL method yields an ORAC score ranging from 95% to about 400% (4X) of the
older ORAC score, and, on average, yields a score which is about 120% to 200% of
the score from the older ORAC B-PE method.
8) Unfortunately, the vast majority of ORAC assay scores to be found on the web
and in the scientific literature for various foodstuffs, including fruits,
vegetables, juices, and supplements, were produced using the older ORAC B-PE
method.
9) Indeed, most of the ORAC scores to be found in the literature and on the
Internet are from a set of ORAC scores published by the USDA in the late 1990's,
all derived using the ORAC B-PE method. There has also been some confusion in
interpretation of the USDA scores, with some companies and authors reporting
scores for freeze-dried (concentrated) samples as scores for fresh samples,
resulting in inflated scores, and with others reporting the score in units per
100 grams (or even 65 or 6 grams) rather than the standard score which is
reported in ORAC units per gram.
With any of the putative "single score" "total antioxidant" assays, the older
ORAC B-PE assay and the newer ORAC FL assay may offer a single score, but they
hardly offer a true picture of total antioxidative or anti-acid ability.
Bottom line: stay away from all these exotic fruits and fruit drinks. They are
all acidic and by drinking them you put your health and fitness at risk!
For more information visit our website at: www.phmiracleliving.com
ph Miracle Center
16390 Dia Del Sol
Valley Center, California
92082
US