Immune Factors, Plants

Thank you. I'm very excited to be here today to tell you about some really exciting research on a particular phytonutrient called plant sterol and sterolin. This particular plant nutrient has been researched in Germany and South Africa for the last 22 years extensively, and it's actually been looked at in the US by the Cancer Agency since as early as 1922. Many of you may have already heard about it originally in its form that the Cancer Society was looking at here in the states under the name beta-sitosterol. One thing that the U.S. Cancer Agency made a tremendous mistake on when they were researching this particular plant sterol was that they broke the glucoside molecule off it, and at that point it no longer had any immune modulating activity.

Plant Sterols

Now we're talking about balancing the immune system. In nature, plant sterols are found with their glucoside. So if we're talking about beta-sitosterol, it also has to have beta-sitosterol attached to it. And this is key. You'll see many beta-sitosterol products on the market currently to date, being sold for prostate problems. These do not have any immune modulation action. So when I'm talking about plant sterols and sterolins, I'm talking about the type as found in nature, found in our foods. I'm also going to have to give you a brief look into the immunology lesson, just so you'll understand how important these plant nutrients are to your health. And as well, I'd like you to understand that this particular research that's been done has not been done in food. It's been done where they isolate beta-sitosterol and beta-sitosterolin, put it in a capsule and look at it in humans. And I think this is another very important fact that we're talking about human research here that's been published in many of the well-respected journals around the world, The Lancet, the Journal of Immunopharmacology, as well as the Sports Nutrition Journal, and soon to be one of the most respected AIDS journals next year. So I'm going to slowly go through these particular plant sterols. You can find out more information in my book, which is also coauthored with Professor Patrick Buick, who's the researcher who's actually been doing a lot of the work in South Africa in regards to HIV autoimmune disorders, as well as general immune dysfunction.

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You're pretty much blinded up here, so I can't tell if anybody sleeps in the audience. You do get a break in half an hour, so I'm going to be pretty brief. I love this slide. If you