Sulfur Deficiency
Written by Stephanie Seneff, PhD
Saturday, 02 July 2011 20:37
A Possible Contributing Factor in Obesity, Heart Disease, Alzheimer’s and Chronic Fatigue
Obesity is quickly becoming the number one health issue confronting
America today, and has also risen to epidemic proportions worldwide. Its
spread is associated with the adoption of a Western-style diet.
However, I believe that the widespread consumption of food imports
produced by U.S. companies plays a crucial role in the rise in obesity
worldwide. Specifically, these “fast foods” typically include heavily
processed derivatives of corn, soybeans and grains, grown on highly
efficient mega-farms. Furthermore, I will argue in this essay that one
of the core underlying causes of obesity may be sulfur deficiency.
Sulfur is the eighth most common element by mass in the human body,
behind oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus and
potassium. The two sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and
cysteine, play essential physiological roles throughout the body.
However, sulfur has been consistently overlooked by those addressing the
issues of nutritional deficiencies. In fact, the National Academy of
Sciences has not even assigned a minimum daily requirement (MDR) for
sulfur. One consequence of sulfur’s limbo nutritional status is that it
is omitted from the long list of supplements that are commonly
artificially added to popular foods like cereal.
UNAPPRECIATED DEFICIENCIES
Sulfur is found in a large number of foods, and, as a consequence, it
is assumed that almost any diet would meet the minimum daily
requirements. Excellent sources are eggs, onions, garlic, and leafy dark
green vegetables like kale and broccoli. Meats, nuts, and seafood also
contain sulfur. Methionine, an essential amino acid, is found mainly in
egg whites and fish. A diet high in grains like bread and cereal is
likely to be deficient in sulfur. Increasingly, whole foods such as corn
and soybeans are disassembled into component parts with chemical names,
and then reassembled into heavily processed foods. Sulfur is lost along
the way, and so is the awareness that this loss matters.
Experts
have recently become aware that sulfur depletion in the soil creates a
serious deficiency for plants,17 brought about in part by improved
efficiency in the U.S. agricultural industry, which has steadily
consolidated into highly technologized mega-farms.
It is estimated
that humans obtain about ten percent of their sulfur supply from
drinking water. Remarkably, people who drink soft water have an
increased risk of heart disease compared to people who drink hard
water.2 Many possible reasons have been suggested for why this might be
true, and just about every trace metal has been considered as a
possibility.3 However, I believe that the real reason may simply be that
hard water is more likely to contain sulfur.
SULFUR AND OBESITY RATES
The ultimate source of sulfur is volcanic rock, mainly basalt, spewed
up from the earth’s core during volcanic eruptions. It is generally
believed that humans first evolved in the African rift zone, a region
that would have enjoyed an abundance of sulfur due to the heavy volcanic
activity there.
The three principal suppliers of sulfur to the
Western nations are Greece, Italy and Japan. These three countries also
enjoy low rates of heart disease and obesity and increased longevity. In
the United States, Oregon and Hawaii, two states with significant
volcanic activity, have among the lowest obesity rates in the country.
By contrast, the highest obesity rates are found in the midwest and in
southern farm country: the epicenter of the modern agricultural
practices (mega-farms) that lead to sulfur depletion in the soil. Among
all fifty states, Oregon has the lowest childhood obesity rates.
Hawaii’s youth are faring less well than their parents, however: while
Hawaii ranks as the fifth from the bottom in obesity rates, its children
aged ten through seventeen weigh in at number thirteen. As Hawaiians
have recently become increasingly dependent on food imports from the
mainland, they have suffered accordingly with increased obesity
problems.
In her recently published book, The Jungle Effect,25 Dr.
Daphne Miller devotes a full chapter to Iceland in which she struggles
to answer the question of why Icelanders enjoy such remarkably low rates
of depression, despite living at a northern latitude, where one would
expect a high incidence of Seasonal Affective Disorder. She points out,
furthermore, their excellent health record in other key areas: “When
compared to North Americans, they have almost half the death rate from
heart disease and diabetes, significantly less obesity, and a greater
life expectancy. In fact, the average life span for Icelanders is
amongst the longest in the world.” While she proposes that their high
fish consumption, with associated high intake of omega-3 fats, may
plausibly be the main beneficial factor, she puzzles over the fact that
former Icelanders who move to Canada and also eat lots of fish do not
also enjoy the same decreased rate of depression and heart disease.
In my view, the key to Icelanders’ good health lies in the string of
volcanoes that make up the backbone of the island, which sits atop the
mid-Atlantic ridge crest. Dr. Miller pointed out that the mass exodus to
Canada was due to extensive volcanic eruptions in the late 1800s, which
blanketed the highly cultivated southeast region of the country. This
means, of course, that the soils today are highly enriched in sulfur.
The cabbage, beets and potatoes that are staples of the Icelandic diet
are likely providing far more sulfur to Icelanders than their
counterparts in the American diet provide.
Source: http://www.westonaprice.org/vitamins-and-minerals/sulfur-deficiency
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Drug’s do not heal but merely suppress symptoms
Organic sulfur crystal study healings (numerous conditions)
It’s too bad that the medical profession does not live up to this part of their oath.
Synthetic, toxic chemical prescription
Drug’s
do not heal but merely suppress symptoms while never addressing the
cause. Organic sulfur crystals, along with a relatively clean or
synthetic chemical-free diet,
will dramatically change one’s health for the better, thereby improving one’s quality of life.
…. and, let us remember the foundations of healing
Original Hippocratic Oath
The Cellular Matrix Study, centered around Organic Sulfur Crystals, was started 12 years ago,
after the Director’s son did not die of testicular cancer despite being sent home to die by the cancer doctors.
His therapy?
One tablespoon of Organic Sulfur Crystals twice a day.
Why twice a day? because the oxygen permeating the body from the crystals leaves the body in 12 hours.
Twice a day, therefore, creates an aerobic environment in the body constantly.
Originally,
the study was started as a photographic study. All that was required
was a before and after photograph, six months apart, of the face.
The photograph would have indicated the cellular transformation within the body- evident in the face. What happened was startling.
Telephone calls kept coming in from all parts of the world indicating unbelievable results.
Before delving into that it should be noted that a study done at the
Institute of Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of South
Hampton in the UK, in 2006, discovered that the crystals produce all
essential amino acids, the production of Omega3 fatty acids and B
complex vitamins, including vitamin B-12 – a blessing for those that
consume no animal flesh.
REVERSAL OF CANCER
DIABETES
People
with diabetes reported a minimum of a 20% reduction in their insulin
requirements to total elimination of the need for insulin.
The
lowering of the numbers increased exponentially when their diets
increasingly became free from preservatives, pesticides and other toxic chemicals.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
The situation with high blood pressure is best described as no one is still on blood pressure lowering medication.
DEPRESSION
Those that were taking anti-depressants no longer take them.
NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
With regard to those with neurological and/or traumatic degenerative disease
the response was slow. This is due to the fact that the myelin is
multi-layered and thick and takes longer to respond. Nonetheless,
people reversed the degenerative process.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE EMPHYSEMA ASTHMA
With regard to Parkinson’s disease, 37 people reported no longer shaking or drooling; 45 people reversed Alzheimer’s disease; 36 people reported reversals in emphysema; and also asthma reversal was reported.
AUTISM
Six candidates for by-pass surgery reported being symptom free in 8 to 12 months. The most prolific result was the reversal of autism in a little girl that developed autism after being vaccinated two years ago. She had been receiving the sulfur through mothers milk for three days.
OSTEOPOROSIS
With regard to osteoporosis,
one person reported going from a (-) 3-bone density to a (+) 2 within 5
months and countless others reported the total alleviation of joint
pain within days. Also reported were elimination of allergies, healthier skin, hair and nails, greater flexibility and increased blood circulation,
HANGOVER RELIEF
removal of hangover symptoms within 30 minutes, and reduction in the scar tissue associated with cataract surgery. People living in Hawaii are subjected to vog,
which arises when southerly winds blow toxic vapor from the Big
Island’s active volcano statewide. Those ingesting the crystals are not
affected by the vapor. Overall, there has never been a complaint,
as evidenced by the 70,000+ that have participated in the study, which
has been on going for the past 12 years, except for the discomfort
associated with the detoxification process that usually occurs within
the first week of ingestion.
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is not given as medical advice. Nor is it intended to propose or offer
to propose a cure for any disease or condition. Before starting any
medical treatment, please consult a physician.