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- Description:
- Researchers have known for decades that MSM is a normal constituent in the body. The
importance of its role in human nutrition and good health has only been recently
identified. It appears that most diets of civilized man are deficient in MSM.
- While MSM is not a "vitamin," it provides the body with a very important
nutrient that is a required essential element. This element is sulfur, MSM, taken orally,
digests and metabolizes to provide the body with sulfur in a form it can readily use.
Sulfur is one of the six major elements required in the human body. Within the American
diet today, we primarily depend on two amino acids (cysteine and methionine) found in some
protein foods to deliver the necessary sulfur we need. Protein intake in our diets today
is highly variable. Protein foods include poultry, fish meats, eggs, tofu, beans, seeds
and nuts. Both the variable quantity and quality of protein in our diets today contribute
to a questionable intake of these two little amino acids necessary to provide the body
with all the sulfur it needs, in the amount it needs, when it needs it. Additionally,
vegetarians must be careful to properly complement their protein foods to insure
sufficient dietary intake of amino acids. Vegetarian or not, simply increasing consumption
in the diet to insure sufficient intake of these two amino acids is not necessarily the
best solution because excessive dietary protein is potentially dangerous. A proper balance
of all types of foods is important for optimal health.
- MSM is a white, crystalline powder, looks like table sugar, is safe and non- toxic.
Naturally occurring in fresh fruits and vegetables, raw meats, fish and some grains, it is
water-soluble and is easily rinsed away in normal food preparation. Cooking, heating,
dehydration, pasteurization and long-term storage destroys naturally occurring MSM in
foods. As a result, processed foods, which most Americans consume in great quantity, are
devoid of MSM. Interestingly, as infants, the primary source of MSM is mother's breast
milk.
- Why should I take MSM?
- MSM naturally exists in the healthy human body, found in the body fluids and tissues.
Tests have shown that levels of MSM within the human body decrease with age. This appears
to be influenced by insufficient intake in the diet. Scientists have found correlations
between lowered blood levels of MSM and some abnormal physiologic symptoms, especially
those related to sulfur deficiencies.
The roll of sulfur in the human body is well known. Sulfur in the body is a component
of: co-enzymes (co-enzymes help the body process all vital functions), some hormones
(hormones direct the body to maintain proper balances), some B -vitamins (vitamin B-1,
biotin), two amino acids (building blocks of protein), and other physiological substances.
Sulfur is a component of protein structure. It helps stabilize and strengthen structural
integrity and it is a vital constituent in all the connective tissues in the body, as well
as hair, skin and nails and other protein components
Sulfur is constantly utilized by the body to maintain vital body processes and tissue
integrity. As a result, consistent and regular sources of sulfur in the diet are
essential. This is similar to vitamin C, as vitamin C is water soluble, heat sensitive and
required by the human body on a daily basis.
- What Will MSM Do For Me?
- MSM provides the body with a useable form of the essential nutrient sulfur. In doing so,
it will help strengthen the integrity of connective tissues, hair, skin and nails.
- MSM alleviates pain and discomfort associated with arthritis.
- MSM inhibits nocturnal and arthritic activity-induced muscle cramps.
- MSM exhibits in vitro toxicity, effective in inhibiting the growth of parasites.
- MSM helps improve a variety of pathological conditions when administered systematically
and preferably orally to persons displaying symptoms of physiological response to stress,
e.g., gastrointestinal distress, and inflammation of the mucous membranes and allergic
reactions.
- MSM relates to a method of improving the overall state of health and resistance to
disease by supplying naturally occurring methylsulfonylmethane to maintain a body level of
at least 1-ppm. Many precursor compounds normally found in natural unprocessed foods are
readily converted into MSM in the body. Dosage: 500 to 1000 mg /day capsules or in juice.
- Sulfur also plays important roles in the body, including the forming of
"tie-bars" or disulfide bonds holding molecular strands of connective tissue
together.
- It plays many other essential roles, such as determining the contour of diverse
biomolecules, and is essential to the activity of many enzymes that protect and sustain
life processes.
- MSM is a key nutritional ingredient, available and assimilated by plant and animal life
from their beginnings on earth.
- MSM has the surprising ability to reduce the incidence of or eliminate entirely muscle
cramps, leg and back cramps, particularly in geriatric patients who experience such cramps
at night and after long periods of inactivity as well as while sitting.
- MSM relieves severe leg cramps experienced by athletes including runners, football,
basketball and soccer players during participation in their sport.
- Ingesting MSM in capsule form or powder mixed with one or more foodstuffs for from 1 to
90 days will reduce the incidence of such cramps or eliminate them entirely.
- MSM has an ameliorating or curing effect on a variety of parasitic systemic microbial
infections. Examples of parasitic infections susceptible to treatment with MSM are
commonly associated with infection of the intestinal or urinogenital tract including
Nematodes, Trichomonas vaginalis, Giardia, Enterobius and other intestinal worms,
systemic, infections by Histoplasma capsulation Coccidioides Toxoplasm and other in vitro
susceptible organisms.
- Migraine sufferers have obtained substantial relief at oral dose levels of 500 mg per
day.
- MSM reduces the allergic response to environmental and chemical allergies in allergic
individuals.
- MSM enhances wound healing especially when taken with vitamin C.
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