Forskolin, Coleus
Avoid Forskolin, Coleus
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Coleus forskohlii
Forskolin
The fluid within a cyst is the same fluid inside the plant coleus. The late PKD Foundation co-founder Dr. Jared Grantham, has identified a bizarre substance within the cysts of massively enlarged PKD kidneys. Dr. Grantham, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, found that PKD kidneys accumulated a highly potent fatty-like substance with the capacity to stimulate growth, but it's taken more than 12 years to discover what this fatty-like chemical is~ Coleus forskohlii.
For this reason it would be prudent for PKD'rs to avoid forskohlii supplements. He discovered this through google. By putting the formula through a google search. The answer was Forskolin. It is commonly used to raise levels of cAMP (cyclic AMP) in the study and research of cell physiology. Caffeine in chocolate, cola, and coffee enhances the action of cAMP by inhibiting its breakdown, resulting in more circulating cAMP, increasing cyst growth, creating more cysts, enlarging cystic organ size and increasing symptoms.
Chlorophyll or Green Juice
Many potent food alkalizers are filled with chlorophyll: cereal grass juice, kale juice, leafy greens juice. Chlorophyll is said to have a similar structure to that of blood hemoglobin. The chlorophyll molecule and the hemoglobin molecule are almost identical in shape. At their center hemoglobin has iron whereas chlorophyll has magnesium. This similarity was first suggested in > 1855 by Verdel. Consuming chlorophyll allows one to capture sunlight as energy according to one recent theory. Can insects do it?
A researcher in Ulm, Germany, Andrei Sommer, has written a research article about light, Burst of light speeds up healing by turbocharging our cells."The light causes mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses, to produce more ATP, a compound that provides the cells' energy."
The medical article is available for your review.
This is all taken in within the light of Dr. Grantham's discovery, that the fluid inside a cyst is filled with the same or a very similar chemical as the plant coleus, forskolin. We with PKD/PLD may have inherited DNA gone awry, but a plant liquid may hold the key to heal us.
