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INSTANT CURE OF THE COMMON COLD CURE INSTANT THE COMMON COLD Too much lactose in the diet promotes mucic acid formation, leading to mucus congestion which can cause a range of health problems starting with the common cold. A simple technique using an inexpensive item from your kitchen cupboard can help clear this congestion. The Lactose Link here is an intimate connection between lactose, as in milk products, and the common cold. Earlier biochemists must have known something that modern biochemists have forgotten and the medica profession has never known when they named oxidised galactose “mucic acid". I found this out 30 years ago while researching health problems related to lactose. Lactose, or milk-sugar, consists of one molecule each of glucose and galactose linked together. Glucose, of course, is our main muscle fuel. Babies need galactose as an important building block of the brain, the centra nervous system and several proteins. In later life, very little galactose is needed and this can be easily synthesised from other sugars. Therefore, most of the ingested galactose is converted to glucose in the liver and used as body fuel. However, the amount that can be converted is rather limited, even ina healthy liver. This conversion is a slow and complex process requiring four differen enzymes. One of these enzymes is sometimes missing at birth, giving rise to a condition known as galactosaemia. In this case, continued milk-feeding eads to a build-up of galactose in the baby and causes cataracts, cirrhosis o! he liver and spleen, and mental retardation. If the liver is not healthy or fully functional, it is even less able to convert galactose. This fact has sometimes been used as a clinical liver-function est. If galactose is injected into someone with a defective liver, most of the galactose will be unused and will show up later in the urine. Unfortunately, under normal conditions, only part of the galactose is expelled with the urine. If there is a deficiency of protective antioxidants, hen the rest is mainly oxidised to galactaric acid, commonly known as mucic acid. Mucic acid is dangerous to health because it is insoluble. The body cannot let it build up in vital areas and block organ functions or blood circulation. Therefore, it forms the mucic acid into a sticky suspension in water, called mucus. Thus mucic acid is a main component of pathogenic (disease-producing) mucus. This is very different from endogenous mucus, which the body secretes to protect the surface of its mucous membranes or produces in response to the irritation caused by microbes and inflammations. Mucus can also be produced due to high fat levels in the lymph fluid and may be noticed as a "lump" in the throat. But none of these has the acid-irritating properties of mucic acid. The really important difference between mucic acid and endogenous mucus is that endogenous mucus is produced on the outside of the mucous membranes to protect them from damaging environmental influences, while mucic acid is dissolved in the lymphatic fluid; it accumulates on the inside of the mucous membranes and wants to get out. Website: NEXUS ¢ 35 by Walter Last © 2011 www.health-science-spirit.com AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com