Now that I'm on the right Low Toxin path, I've spent time thinking back over my life and places where I may have accumulated Vitamin A, copper and other toxins.
I grew up in a family of smokers - mom and grandparents and aunts and uncles: cigarettes dad: pipe
As a kid, I was constantly swatting away smoke.
I don't think they were maliciously trying to harm me, but I think now this could have contributed to a set of birth defects I was born with and some of my lifelong struggles. If you already start out toxic and then live a typical Western lifestyle, you start out with a stacked deck and just keep accumulating more and more. But now I'm breaking out of that cycle - hooray for this forum!
When I heard about spinach and other leafy greens being things we should avoid on this lifestyle, I had the 'aha' moment about tobacco, another leafy green. Luckily, I never became a smoker and now have even more reason to avoid those who do.
Tobacco is one of the richest sources for degraded carotenoids (also labeled as norisoprenoids, norterpenoids, or nor-carotenoids), with almost 100 chemical constituents being identified
Carotenoid breakdown products (CBPs) including highly reactive aldehydes and epoxides are formed during oxidative attacks in the course of antioxidative action
Concerning mitochondriotoxicity, we found that CBPs strongly inhibit state 3 respiration of rat liver mitochondria at concentrations between 0.5 and 20 microM. This was true for retinal, beta-ionone, and for mixtures of cleavage/breakdown products. The inhibition of mitochondrial respiration was accompanied by a reduction in protein sulfhydryl content, decreasing GSH levels and redox state, and elevated accumulation of malondialdehyde.
I grew up in a family of smokers - mom and grandparents and aunts and uncles: cigarettes dad: pipe
As a kid, I was constantly swatting away smoke.
I don't think they were maliciously trying to harm me, but I think now this could have contributed to a set of birth defects I was born with and some of my lifelong struggles. If you already start out toxic and then live a typical Western lifestyle, you start out with a stacked deck and just keep accumulating more and more. But now I'm breaking out of that cycle - hooray for this forum!
When I heard about spinach and other leafy greens being things we should avoid on this lifestyle, I had the 'aha' moment about tobacco, another leafy green. Luckily, I never became a smoker and now have even more reason to avoid those who do.
Carotenoid-Related Volatile Compounds of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) Essential Oils
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804150/Tobacco is one of the richest sources for degraded carotenoids (also labeled as norisoprenoids, norterpenoids, or nor-carotenoids), with almost 100 chemical constituents being identified
Beta-carotene degradation products - formation, toxicity and prevention of toxicity
Beta-carotene degradation products - formation, toxicity and prevention of toxicity - PubMedCarotenoid breakdown products (CBPs) including highly reactive aldehydes and epoxides are formed during oxidative attacks in the course of antioxidative action
Concerning mitochondriotoxicity, we found that CBPs strongly inhibit state 3 respiration of rat liver mitochondria at concentrations between 0.5 and 20 microM. This was true for retinal, beta-ionone, and for mixtures of cleavage/breakdown products. The inhibition of mitochondrial respiration was accompanied by a reduction in protein sulfhydryl content, decreasing GSH levels and redox state, and elevated accumulation of malondialdehyde.
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