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ALKYLGLYCEROLS
A
Major Ingredient in Mother’s Milk -
Stimulants to the Immune System, Aerobic Athletic Performance, & Virility
Alkylglycerols are a growth stimulant to the cells
in the bone marrow known as the bone-marrow stem cells. The
bone-marrow stem cells are the cells that make both white blood cells,
red blood
cells, as-well-as blood platelets.
Alkylglycerols have been used in Sweden &
Germany for over 50 years in cancer treatment to stimulate white blood cell
production. In addition, Because Alkylglycerols also stimulate red blood cell
production - so necessary in carrying oxygen to the tissues, Alkylglycerols
have been used by aerobic athletes who need to convey oxygen to the tissues.
Since red blood cells contribute to virility,
Alkylglycerols are also an
aphrodisiac. Since Alkylglycerols also
stimulate blood platelet production they are useful in low blood
platelets-(Thrombocytopenia)
In 1952 a young Swedish doctor got the idea of scraping
the marrow from fresh calves’ bones and giving It to children in the
hospital where she was working to see If It would help them with their low
white blood cell count (childhood leukemia). She reasoned that since the
white blood cells are made in the bone marrow, perhaps a bone marrow extract
would help In cases of low white blood cell production.
This doctor’s name was
Astrid Brohult, and the results she obtained in increased energy and white
blood cell count in this group of children, while at first uneven,
astonished both Dr. Brohult and the nurse who was assisting her.
Dr. Brohult asked her
husband, Dr. Sven Brohult, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry at a Swedish
university, to analyze the calf-bone marrow to determine what was in it that
stimulated white blood cell production. It took a number of years for
Professor Brohult to discover what It was in the calf-bone marrow that was
stimulating white blood cell production, but eventually he established that
it was a group of substances known as Alkylglycerols.
Alkylglycerols are a group of three natural substances first discovered by
two Japanese researchers in 1922.1 In humans, Alkylglycerols are found
naturally in mother’s milk (ten times more In human breast milk than in
cow’s milk),2 spleen tissue, and of course bone marrow. They are
manufactured in the liver in individuals who
are In good health.3 Alkylglycerols
are involved In the production of white blood cells in the bone marrow and
have been shown to be just as essential to white blood cell production as iron Is to red blood cell production.4
Once the Brohults had discovered that the group of substances in the calf
marrow was Alkylglycerols, they
brought the project to a major Swedish pharmaceutical company. The Brohults then realized that
Alkylglycerols were the same active ingredient that had caused Scandinavian
fishermen to drink shark liver oil as a remedy and preventative for hundreds
of years. {I have discovered that shark liver oil has also been
consumed by people of the Caribbean as a "blood builder" for many years}.
The purification process, which involved removing contaminants such as
PCB’s and pesticides, as well as removing other fatty substances such as
cholesterol. Squalene, Vitamins A and D, and. the EPA/DHA from the shark
liver oil while at the same time keeping the
Alkylglycerols (which are
somewhat unstable compounds) in the shark liver oil, took a number of years.
Then designing and building the machinery to produce it in commercial
quantities took a few more years, So it was In 1986 (34 years after Dr.
Brohult’s original discovery) that the first purified shark liver oil
containing large
amounts of
Alkylglycerols was made available to the public.
In the 67 years of research with Alkylglycerols
done In Europe and Japan, here are ‘some of the results that have been
obtained:
1. In 1962, Swedish researchers studied the presence
of
Alkylglycerols in
humans, cows, and the family of fish to which sharks belong.5
2. Giving patients
Alkylglycerols before, during and after radiation
treatment will reduce the sharp drop in white blood cells (leucopoenia)
usually seen with radiation treatment.6
3.
Alkylglycerols have been shown to elevate the production of all types of
white blood cells.7 This includes T-cells as well as the large white blood
cells which consume yeast and viruses known as macrophages. Therefore, Alkylglycerols are thought to be a general Immune stimulant useful in
chronic yeast and chronic virus conditions8 or wherever the elevation of
immunity is required.
4.
Alkylglycerols will also stimulate the production of blood platelets.9
5.
Alkylglycerols will ‘reduce the drop in the white blood cell count
accompanying either radiation or chemotherapy.10
NOTE: The increase in the white blood cell count during chemotherapy or radiation treatment seen with the administration of Alkylglycerols, will
be more pronounced if their use Is started 2 weeks before the onset of
radiation treatment. 11
Recommended Serving:
For health maintenance and as a preventative, the recommended serving of
Alkylglycerols is 200 mg. per day (1 capsule daily). The recommended
therapeutic serving in adults is 600 to 1200 mg. per day (1 to 3 capsules three times
daily).
References:
1Tsujimoto M & Toyama Y: Ueber die
Unverseifbaren Bestandteile (höheren Alkohole) der Haifish-und
Rochen-Ieberöle. I. Chemische Umschau, 1922: XXIX, 27-29.
2Hallgren B & Larsson S: The glycerol ethers in man and cow. Lipid Res.,
1952: 3, 39-43.
3Ibid
4Holmes H N, Corbet R.E., Geiger W. B., Kornblum N. & Alexander W.: J Amer.
Chem. Soc. 1941: 63, 2607.
5Hallgren B & Larsson S: The glycerol ethers in the liver oils of elasmo-branch
fish. Lipid Res., 1962: 3, 3 1-38.
6Brohult A: Alkoxyglycerols and their use in radiation treatment. Acta. Radiol. 1963, suppl. 223.
7Boeryd B. & Hallgren B: The influence of the lipid composition of the feed
given to mice on the immunocompetence and tumour resistance of the progeny.
Int. J. Cancer, 1980, 26, 241-246.
8Hallgren B, Stallberg G & Boeryd B:
Occurrence synthesis and biological effect of methoxysubstituted glycerol
ethers. ‘Progress in Chemistry of Fats and other Lipids’ 16, 45.
9Brohult A, Brohult J, Brohult S. & Joelsson I: Effect of Alkoxyglycerols
on the frequency of injuries following radiation therapy (or carcinoma of
the uterine cervix. ‘Acta Obstet. Gynecol. Scand’, 1977, 56:4, 441.
10Brohult A, Brohult J, & Brohult S: Regression of tumour growth after administration of Alkoxyglycerols. ‘Acta. Obstet. Gynecol. Scand’,
1978, 57:1, 79.
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