Protease Inhibitors from Whole Grains and Nuts- Anti Viral and Anti Cancer

Effective Cures Can be Cheap

         Jasmine rice at left, and brown rice at right;  you must mix them as you cook them.  It is not so  easy eating brown rice.

This is again from the book "Food Pharmacy" by Jean Carper, Simon and Schuster, Australia, 1988. pp. 64 -70.

I have often wondered why in so many nutrition and diet publications, they always recommend whole grain and nuts.  It was suggested by our family MD to roast peanuts or boil medium and eat them regularly;  I wondered or why brown rice is now a craze among nutrtionists.

I just discovered from this book that grains and nuts contain protease inhibitors.

In order for the seeds and nuts to survive animals eating the fruits for food, in order to preserve the species and to grow the plants, they must not be digested in the digestive tracts of animals.  And the compound that lets out seeds unaffected is protease inhibitor. When we eat the seeds or nuts, the compound create strong defenses at the cellular and even molecular level to prevent cellular destruction and intrusion by:   cancer cells and virus.  With that it is easy to understand the mechanism of action and the logic why eating the whole grains and seeds are preferred.

How are protease inhibitors ingested by us?

If animals can get the protease inhibitor, how can our body get the substance?   By boiling, or by eating them as sprouts.

                                        Bean sprouts, carrots and tofu

Thus eating balut and one day old chick release the nutrients that protect the young from pests and bacteria.  These types of food make sense.

Investigator for anti cancer.

Dr. Walter Troll, a professor of environmental medicine made the remarkable discovery of protease inhibitor in l969.  He found pi for short to be effective in initial stages of conversion or normal cells to carcinogenic.  But is less effective when cancer has spread (metastasized).  But Dr An Kennedy of Harvard Public Health found the pi effective in reversing cancer damaged cells to normal.

Investigator for anti viral properties.

Pharmas have not yet discovered a safe anti viral agent.  (Hmm, the medicinal foods are pretty advanced!)  But investigators at John Hopkins Hospital (pioneered the open heart and heart surgery and other breakthroughs in medical science.) found pi to have suppressed growth of rotaviruses causing diarrhea and other GI disorders.  High concentration of soybeans obliterated said viruses.

Which food contains protease inhibitors.?

The so called seed foods contain protease inhibitors:

Nuts:  peanuts, walnuts, pecans,  cashews'

Grains:  rice, corn,  wheat, oats, sweet corn

Tubers:  yam, potatoes, ube, gabi, banana, taro

N.b. 50% of protein of raw tomatoes is protease inhibitor.