SULFUR IN OUR LIFE
SULFUR IN OUR LIFE
Now in my opinion, the next seven paragraphs are the second most important information one needs to remember from what you learn on this website.
Sulfur is the fifth most abundant mineral in the human body accounting for 0.3% of its weight, the fifth most common element by mass on earth, the tenth most abundant element in the known universe, and the seventh most abundant element in all living organisms.
Sulfur is found in two different forms: inorganic and organic sulfur. Inorganic sulfur compounds do not contain carbon atoms, while organic sulfur compounds are bound to carbon atoms. See here:
Organic sulfur is one of the core chemical elements needed for biochemical functioning and is an elemental macronutrient for all living organisms. In Dr. Jacob’s book and on this website, when you see sulfur it means the organic form of sulfur.
Sulfur is a major ingredient of important amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Proteins are the primary constituents of enzymes, hormones, antibodies, and countless biochemical activities continually going on in the body. Proteins also provide the structural raw material of the musculoskeletal system, hair, teeth, blood, brain, skin, and the other organs of the body. If you do not get enough protein, you suffer all over. In children, a sulfur deficiency retards growth. In adults, it shows up as chronic fatigue, mental depression, weakness, poor resistance to infection, and slow healing from wounds or diseases.
Molecules of protein are comprised of twenty-four amino acids, and because of the many ways these amino acids can combine to form a protein, there are endless numbers of different proteins. Among the amino acids is a group known as the sulfur amino acids, which means that these compounds contain sulfur. Foremost among them are methionine and cysteine. Taurine, not a part of the protein amino acids also contains sulfur.
Sulfur, an element of the important collagen protein is present with every one of an average 37.2 trillion cells in the human body. Just our skin sheds 30,000 to 40,000 cells a minute. This means our body not only needs sulfur for its good structure and good functioning, but also needs a lot of sulfur to replace all the cells of our body that die every day.
In our bodies, sulfur forms part of virtually all tissues, especially those highest in protein, such as red blood cells, the brain, cartilage, muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, and hair. It is an integral part of what makes us and what makes our body hold together.
The unrecognized importance of sulfur in the human body has been reported in thousands of medical and biology studies by scientists of various disciplines over the centuries.
It is estimated that one quarter of the pharmaceutical products presently used contain sulfur. Among the most famous of them are the antibiotics penicillin and cephalosporin. And for people who do not know, from the nineteen forties until the nineteen sixties, penicillin used to be extracted from pregnant mare's urine that has a high concentration of MSM. Because of the quantities of penicillin used since the nineteen sixties, it is now all manufactured by chemical processes.
The lack of sulfur in our diet influences our health and affects the pain that comes with trauma and our body’s aging process. As you will read, it is well ascertained by many medical studies.
A world-renowned expert on nutritional medicine and pharmacology, in his book Mental and Elemental Nutrients (Keats publishing), Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D., in 1976, described sulfur as "the forgotten essential element". He looked back to the nineteenth century where elemental sulfur was used to treat many disorders because no better remedies were available. "If these uses are reviewed with the thought that sulfur deficiency may perhaps occur in man as well as in animals, then some of the old uses of sulfur make good sense," he wrote.
Still, the study of the importance of sulfur as a nutritional supplement has never been made so that the U.S. Academy of Sciences Food and Nutrition Board would establish a recommended daily amount for good health.
Therefore, this is the reason in many instances on this website I mention the “unrecognized importance of sulfur” in our life.
Our produce marketing and eating habits have changed the way humans eat most of the high sulfur containing foods, so our diet became sulfur deficient. We eat the root or the flower of many plants, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and cauliflower, just to name a few. However, the higher amount of sulfur and other nutrients is in the leafy part of these foods that we now mostly fully discard. Extremely few people today eat green or red chard and when they do, most people cook them. The leafy part of many vegetables deteriorates faster so it is not market conducive for the time it takes to our vegetable from harvesting to time of use. Plus, we cook most of our vegetables and all the sulfur rich ones that we cook give this pungent smell in the air. Guess what, this is the sulfur that just got out of your food.
In older countries where people farm and harvest their own food, they still eat the sulfur nutrient rich leafy part of their vegetables in salads, not cooked. Do you follow me?
But most importantly, as I mentioned on my welcome page, the USDA reports that the nutrients and minerals depletion in our soil due to the industrialization in our farming practices went from 450 PPM in 1910 to 40 PPM a hundred years later, in 2010. This means that there is extraordinarily little sulfur in the food we eat, and it is the major reason we need MSM as sulfur nutritional supplement. And this, even if sulfur is used in many fertilizers.
All of this points to a high correlation of the increase of all kinds of cancers in the last century been related to the lack of sulfur or MSM created by our change in diet. As reported in many published peer reviewed medical and biological studies that show that MSM changes cancer cells into normal cells in many cancers, as you will see in (CANCER) and these studies have only started in the last twenty some years after Dr. Jacob's writings about his MSM observed clinical research results. See MY NOTE and map below.
Also, some of these in-vitro studies have shown that on animals that were already on an MSM sulfur nutritional supplement, the radioactive cancer cells implanted to the animals took longer to appear and disappeared faster; showing that an MSM sulfur dietary supplement may prevent cancers.
In the last century, our farming habits, our lack of sulfur rich food due to our cooking, our produce market habits, the added chemicals in our food through industrial farming and packaging, and in the air we breathe, may all be responsible for the increase of cancers in the world’s most developed countries.
MY NOTE: This theory is corroborated by the prevalence of cancer around the world as reported in the following research and map.
Commentaries from the research authors:
The prevalence of cancer around the world is represented on the following map.
The map shows that we tend to see a higher prevalence of cancer in higher-income countries.
Prevalence of cancer ranges from approximately 5.5 percent of the population in the US down to around 0.4 percent in the countries shown in light yellow. This is nearly fourteen times higher.
More people than ever before die from cancer.
From 1990 to 2017, the death rate from cancer increased by 17% and the population increased by 32%. Which means we are making a little progress in fighting cancers.
Globally the share of people with cancer reached 1.3% in 2017.
I believe it is related to the lack of sulfur in people’s diet and the countries where people eat more prepared and junk food. It does not seem to be related to the air quality.
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