The major active compound in the amazing cancer fighting and immune boosting oleander plant is felt to be the cardiac glycoside oleandrin. However, the opinion among those who have studied oleander is virtually unanimous; it is a synergistic combination of many ingredients which makes oleander as successful as it is.

It has been reported that over 500 different compounds have been identified in the amazing cancer fighting and immune boosting oleander plant. Research has yet to discover exactly which ones work both independently and together for optimum effect, though oleander extract has shown remarkable success against a very broad range of cancers, including lung, liver, leukemia, breast, brain, prostate, stomach, pancreatic and more.

To paraphrase a department head at noted cancer research facility M. D. Anderson in Houston, "We don`t know yet exactly how it works, we just know that it does work, attacking and killing bad cells - and only bad cells - and stopping their multiplication."

Among the known cancer fighters and immune boosters which have been identified so far are:

Cardiac glycosides, long chain polysacharrides and other types of compounds including: Oleandrin, Oleandrinogen, Oleandrigenin, Beta-sistosterol, Quercitin, Linoleic-acid, Oleic-acid, Adynerin, Alpha-amyrin, Betulin, Foliandrin, Folinerin, Gitoxigenin, Isoquercitrin, Lauric-acid, Neriin, Oleanolic-acid, Rutin, Stigmasterol, Ursolic-acid, Uzarigenin.

Now, two Japanese studies from last year which were apparently conducted jointly appear to shed new light on yet other compounds in oleander which were tested against malignant fibroblast tumors, liver tumor cells, lung tumor cells and ovarian cancer cells.

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(NaturalNews) In a commentary in the latest edition of the journal Nature, several scientists make the dubious claim that healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks. "We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function," Henry Greely of Stanford Law School in California, Barbara Sahakian, a psychiatry professor from the University of Cambridge in Britain and others wrote, contending that boosting the brain with pills doing is no more morally objectionable than eating right or getting a good night's sleep

Dubious Opinions

Among several questionable justifications was this gem: since college students are already illegally taking prescription stimulants like Ritalin to help them study, demand for such drugs is likely to grow elsewhere. (One can only wonder if demand for other illegal drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines grew among college students would that justify recommending those drugs as well?)

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New research reveals that Hormone Replacement Therapy drugs double the risk of breast cancer. Quitting the use of HRT drugs causes the increased risk of breast cancer to rapidly vanish.

These are the findings of a new study that's making waves across the health industry today, but the drug companies are fighting back:

• They have been caught engaging in dishonest authorship (ghost writing) of medical journal articles pushing HRT drugs.

• They petitioned the FDA to destroy the bio-identical hormone market by threatening compounding pharmacies.

• They deny the conclusive research on the link between breast cancer and their HRT drugs, claiming their drugs are a "good healthcare option for women."

But the truth about HRT drugs can no longer be suppressed. The cancer risk is real, and the fraudulent nature of Big Pharma's HRT drug pushing is finally coming to light.

Read the full details in today's NaturalNews feature article, which discusses the details of this new study on HRT drugs and reveals the depth of fraud and deception practiced by Big Pharma today.

Read the details here: http://www.naturalnews.com/025090.html

Women, beware! You are being lied to (again) by Big Pharma and the FDA. If you continue to take HRT drugs, you may be putting your life at risk.

Click to read: HRT Drug Warning: Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs Double Breast Cancer Risk

Also read:  Wyeth Paid Ghost Writers to Author Favorable Medical Journal Articles on its HRT Drugs

Recent studies show red clover provides a wealth of benefits to women in hormonal decline

Hormone replacement with synthetic or conjugated estrogen drugs has fallen out of fashion. These drugs don't really even offer a replacement to estrogen at all. They offer only an alternative to estrogen. Because these drugs do not replicate the natural estrogen made in the body, they have a long list of side effects associated with them. Since they are foreign substances that are not recognizable by the body, they produce a response from the immune system, taking the immune system away from the job it was meant to do. They need to be detoxified in the liver, and they prompt the body to mount resistance to them.

As reported in the November edition of the journal Gynecology Endocrinology, researchers looking for alternatives to estrogen drugs studied red clover to determine its effect on the lipid (another word for fat) profile of postmenopausal women with increased body mass index. Sixty postmenopausal women aged 40 and older who were not users of hormone therapy were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Group one took capsules containing 80mg. of red clover isoflavones daily for a 90 day period. Group two took a placebo. After a seven day period to allow the isoflavones to clear from the bodies of group one participants, the groups were switched so that at the end of the study both groups had taken the isoflavones.

(NaturalNews) Bisphosphonate bone drugs have been in the news recently, and if you look outside the mainstream media you will find that the news is not good at all. Instead of a product that actually cures illness or corrects deficiencies, bisphosphonates are just the latest scandalous skeletons in the closet of Big Pharma. Like many other skeletons in the closet, they are no more than scam drugs created for profit which cause more harm than good.

Besides the fact that these drugs do nothing to contribute to healthy bone growth and osteoporosis prevention, they also pose grave health dangers as Byron Richards reported in Natural News:

"The most recent study released last month "showed that 2.5 to 3 percent of patients taking bisphosphonates experienced atrial fibrillation and 1 to 2 percent experienced serious AF, including hospitalization or death. Patients taking bisphosphonates were more likely to experience AF than patients receiving placebo and up to two times more likely to experience serious AF than patients receiving placebo." Based on the estimated number of American women taking this type of bone drug it means that, conservatively estimating, 100,000 to 200,000 women are seriously injured or killed by bisphosphonate-caused atrial fibrillation every year."

Organic is the best choice if you are considering one of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most heavily contaminated with pesticides when conventionally grown. Peaches, which are the most heavily contaminated, can contain up to nine pesticides per peach. By comparison, onions, which are the least contaminated with pesticides, contain no more than one pesticide per onion. (However, food-safety experts advise that the health benefits of eating produce -- organic or nonorganic -- outweigh the risks associated with pesticide exposure.)

But you don't have to buy organic all the time to reduce your exposure to pesticides.

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(NaturalNews) Consumption of red grapefruit pulp may increase bone strength and reduce the risk of osteoporosis, according to a study conducted by researchers from Texas A&M University and published in the journal Nutrition.

Researchers castrated 42 male rats as a way to induce oxidative stress and to increase the risk of osteoporosis. One-third of the rats were then fed a normal diet, one-third were fed the same diet plus 5 percent red grapefruit pulp, while the final third were fed the same diet plus 10 percent red grapefruit pulp.

After 60 days, the castrated rats on the normal diet showed significant decreases in antioxidant status, bone mineral content and bone quality when compared with 14 uncastrated male rats. They also demonstrated increased calcium loss and higher levels of urinary deoxypyridinoline, a marker of bone breakdown.

Decreased bone mineral content and bone quality are markers of a heightened risk of osteoporosis, as are increased calcium loss and higher urinary deoxypyridinoline concentrations.

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