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Frequently Asked QuestionsPlease feel free to ask any question. We will answer, and insert your question in our FAQ. Consequently, this page is under construction permanently. 1: What is your position in the established system of cancer fight? 2: How do you see the success probability of your nutraceuticals? 3: Why did you choose the fresh red beet as the base ingredient in your nutraceuticals? 4: If your cures are whole foods, why do you advise not to overdose it? 5: How comes that your nutraceuticals are that strong? 6: Why is it that expensive? 7: I heard that red beets were used for detoxification and cancer prevention after Chernobyl. Is that true? 8: Why do you confuse us with those "beta" words all the time? What is behind that? 9: What does it mean if your nutraceuticals do NOT cause reddish urine and feces (beeturia)? 10: I found brownish stuff inside the cap. What is that? 11: If I juice red beets, my stuff behaves like a jelly. Why doesn't yours? 12: If you do not add preservatives or apply pasteurization or sterilization, how can you warrant the shelf life? 13: You claim health benefits related to cancer and deliver your nutraceuticals in plastic containers - can you explain? 14: Can I mix my cure portion with other fruit juices or food stuff? 15: Does the ingestion of fresh red beet foodstuff cause a reddish coloring of the skin? 16: Shall I have my serving before or after a meal? 17: Why do you advise only 12 cures per year? 18: What about Alexander Ferenczi's MD report of cancer curing with raw red beets? 19: If your nutraceuticals would be really that powerful anticancer agents, why don't you sell them as drugs? 20: May I cure cancer with your nutraceuticals? 21: Don't you expect to interfere with the multi-billion business of cancer research or health food and supplement market? 22: If it would be that cheap and easy to use red beet foodstuff in the fight against cancer, why wouldn't it be done long time ago already? 23: Under which conditions degrade betain and betalains? 24: You encourage everybody to juice the beetroots on their own. But if I ask for red beet juice in a juice bar, I never get a shot of pure red beet. What is that about? 25: I heard, that German hospitals give red beet juice as a support for the liver during a chemotherapy. What is that about? 26: Why do you press certified organic AND conventionally grown beetroots for your nutraceuticals? 27: Tell me about beetroot juicing! 28: What do you believe to be the cause of cancer? 29: Do you know about other alternative cancer cures? 1: What is your position in the established system of cancer fight? Established cancer societies and researchers promote among other measures a change in lifestyle and nutrition as the most important means in cancer prevention. The established cancer therapies are surgery, chemotherapy, irradiation, and newly, immunotherapy. Hyperthermia treatment is in discussion (see http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/hyperthermia). Furthermore, the Canadian Cancer Society mentions alternative and complementary cancer cures as a possibility to treat cancer, even if there is no sufficient research available yet. The only way to success is to support any promising approach. We believe it is necessary to promote easy ways to use whole foods as nutraceuticals and functional foods. 2: How do you see the success probability of your nutraceuticals? The early research literature mentions cancer cures with fresh red beet juice. They suggest success rates above 90% with some cancers, and around 80% with leukemia; however, the standard 5-years tests have not been conducted, mostly for financial reasons. But first let's compare with the success story of traditional cancer chemotherapy. The latest published success statistics of chemotherapy is from December 2004. It says, that just 2.1% of patients survived a chemotherapy for minimum 5 years, and only 1.1% with the most common cancers (colon, breast, lung, prostate). All promoted therapies are applied mostly combined, and show together a success rate of 55% in Canada, where about 24% of women and 29% of men die from cancer - obviously, the calculation methods for both figures are not coincident (24% + 29% = 53%). We hope that this changed since; however, there is no indication about that. One article from June 2007 indicates a 5% increase in a special case. We believe that our nutraceuticals will help to improve these figures. Moreover, a number of studies and even patents (one example) describing effects, based on research of red beetroot extract (E 162), suggest a significant decline of cancer risk (see question 20). Furthermore, there is indication of support during cancer treatment (increase of apoptotic and defective cells by 60% each in H69 tumor cell lines over 10 days against the control test). All of that happened without side effects. We have good reasons to believe that the use of our nutraceuticals and functional foods would produce similar and better results than established chemotherapies. In case of some heart and vascular diseases, studies suggest a decline of the risk up to 8% for red beetroot users. For details, please refer to the linked original reports on our pages "Experiences" and "Research". 3: Why did you choose the fresh organic red beet as the base ingredient in your nutraceuticals? There are three reasons:
4: If your cures are whole foods, why do you advise not to overdose it? The bioactive compounds in our nutraceuticals have many effects, which do not necessarily complement each other. One could be tempted to ingest more than one could take. But we do not know about the individual health and physical conditions of our clients. However, there are restaurants around which serve salads based on sliced fresh red beets, and these portions are in the size of appetizers - in effect similar to our portions. I.e. we know users of our cures with inclination to diarrhea. During their cure time, they have to double the intake of Imodium. On others, the laxative effect is not that strong. According to our experience, the laxative effect is strongest on persons, who have no cancer in their families. For everybody, it helps defecation. I.e. we tried to lower our blood pressure - it works as shown in some research reports (see "Research" page). On the other side, there is a blog about the effect of red beet juice. One blogger suffering from low blood pressure tells the community, that he experienced a collapse after drinking of 5 fl oz of beetroot juice. I.e. we found research studies reporting intake of up to 6 grams of betain per day, and 1 to 2 grams of betanin. The researchers worked with extracts, and concentrated juice. That would translate to nearly 5 kg and 2.5 kg of fresh red beetroot, respectively. These medicinal effective amounts did not harm the patients in the specific cases (see following question), but we do not have a statistic confirmation about that. Therefore, we remember grandma's wisdom: Too much is unhealthy! 5: How comes that your nutraceuticals are that strong? Our nutraceuticals come with the natural enzymes needed to digest the bioactive compounds and to transmit them into the body on the best way nature can provide. The unique combination of them including their metabolic precursor chains are present in beetroot juice; and modern research reveals that all of these compounds have some heavy weight health benefits. Normally, when ingesting processed food or supplements, the stuff goes more or less unchanged through the mouth and the stomach down to the small intestine (except carbohydrates), where the body determines which enzyme the pancreas would have to produce in order to digest and transmit into the blood. If the body does not recognize what you delivered as a digestible food, it goes through the intestines (many supplements), or sometimes into the blood nearly unchanged (many drugs). Therefore, established cancer societies, oncologists, dietitians, nutritionists, and naturopathic doctors advise to eat whole food: It always comes with the digestive and/or metabolic enzymes needed. The bioactive compounds of our nutraceuticals start their way into the body already in the upper stomach, unspoiled by stomach's acidity. Only a little part will be excreted (normally below 2% of betanin and virtually no betain, allantoin, isothiocyanate, and folate). 6: Why is it that expensive? You pay mostly for Canadian or American (certified organic - see Question 26) produce, Canadian labor, Canadian cleanliness, and Canadian quality. The suppliers and manufacturers of the packaging materials are Canadian; the boxes are made from Canadian recycled material. You pay a fair price for a state-of-the-art nutraceutical. Today, nothing on the market could match that. Another thing: A shot of Red Beet Cure - Pure costs you $3.72 during the promotion. If you buy the half of our serving at the juice bar, blended with a lot of carrot juice, it is around $6. 7: I heard that red beets were used for detoxification and cancer prevention after the disaster of Chernobyl. Is that true? Yes, that is true. The Belorussians, Ukrainians, and Russians used the L. Ron Hubbard detoxification methods, which includes red beets; however, the results were not confirmed, since there existed no control group. The red beet is a traditional food in East Europe, and the doctors i.e. in Poland (south east Poland was affected by the disaster) advised to drink fresh red beet juice for cancer prevention. Radiation causes mostly thyroid cancer, but we have no indication about the effect of red beets on thyroid cancer, and we have no report about measurable results of these preventive steps; we just know that thyroid cancer increased by factor 40 in the population around Chernobyl and with the emergency teams after the disaster. 8: Why do you confuse us with those "beta" words all the time? What is behind that? Indeed, the "beta" words are confusing. In our case, all of them are derived from Beta Vulgaris (Latin for "common beet"). You will find the Beta names here. Beta carotene's "beta" stands for the Greek letter; correctly: β-carotene). The following explanations are quotations from several sources. Please contact us for more information. "Betalain(s)", "Betalaine(s)" (beta - la - eene, all "a" as in "hat") are a class of red and yellow indole-derived pigments found in plants of the Caryophyllales (goosefoot plants). Each betalain is a glycoside, and consists of a sugar and a colored portion. They are no anthocyans, or flavonoids, but antioxidants with strong radical scavenging features. Betalains are effective substances probably starting in the 10 mg per serving range. There are two categories of betalains:
"Betanin"(beta - neene), known as Beetroot Red, is a betalain, category betacyanin.
Betanin and other betalains occur below 55 mg per serving in our nutraceuticals (except boost-types). "Betain(s), Betaine(s)" (beta - eene, "a" as in "hat") are neutral chemical compounds with a positively charged cationic functional group such as an ammonium ion or phosphonium ion. In biological systems, they are recognized as organic osmolytes, substances synthesized or taken up from the environment by cells for protection against osmotic stress, drought, high salinity or high temperature.
Unfortunately, in the alternative health literature occurs some confusion with the use of the words "betain" and "betanin". A popular report names betain, "the red dye stuff in beets", as the active substance in the fight against cancer. In fact, the "red dye stuff" is a betacyanin called betanin. For details, please refer to question 18. The standard reference data bases of the USDA and other sources have some information about betain contents. Officially, betain and isothiocyanates ARE recognized as bioactive compounds; betanin IS NOT, but handled as a red food dye stuff (E162). However, there exist several serious research reports showing betanin as bioactive compound. For details and links to the original reports, please refer to our "Experiences", "Research" and "Products" pages. 9: What does it mean if your nutraceuticals do NOT cause reddish urine and feces (beeturia)? That could indicate a complete digestion, or your urine and feces would have a certain acidity (below pH 3.2). That does not mean anything for sure in terms of diseases or malnutrition; however, we would advise to consult your own health care provider, and ask him to determine your body's acidity. High acidity (low pH) increases significantly your risk to attract cancer, and heart diseases. Modern research shows, that even people with complete lack of developing beeturia if the betalaines are ingested oral, will develop a beeturia if the betalaines are injected intravenous. However, it could mean that your body needs more supply than 70 ml of red beet juice per day. If you are sure about your health, we recommend switching to Red Beet Cure Boost. 10: I found brownish stuff inside the cap. What is that? These are degradation products of betacyans in a watery solution after contact with oxygen at certain temperatures and after the enzymatic reaction with oxidase and peroxidase. The reactions cease, if the oxygen inside the container is used. In order to avoid free oxygen in our vials, we fill the standard 60 ml vial with minimum 66 ml. Furthermore, we are preparing inert bottling and packaging, and we warrant low storing and process temperatures. However, the residues are edible and harmless, but it is not very likely that you would ingest them: they stick to the container or cap. 11: If I juice red beets, my stuff behaves like a jelly. Why doesn't yours? Red beets contain up to 1% dry substance of Low Methoxyl Protopectins (LMP), a water soluble dietary fiber. LMP's are gelling agents. Gelation will happen inevitably,
Since not everybody likes the sensation of drinking a jelly, very similar in consistence to egg white, we add some drops of horseradish juice, preventing the red beet juice from gelation. Pasteurized and fermented beetroot juices do not gel. Fermentation may reverse gelling. 12: If you do not add preservatives or apply pasteurization or sterilization, how can you warrant the shelf life? Betalaines are strong antioxidants, and they do not degrade easily in an undamaged healthy root. Antioxidants are some kind of preservatives. The same is to say about allantoin, and isothiocyanates. In the plant, these are growth regulators and protect the ripening process with antiseptic properties. In our in-house experiments, we found clean bottled fresh red beet juice seemingly without decrease in quality after three months in the refrigerator at 5 degrees centigrade; however, in such a time period occur some enzymatic reactions inevitably. 13: You claim health benefits related to cancer and deliver your nutraceuticals in plastic containers - can you explain? Yes. Not every kind of plastic is a donor of carcinogens. We use PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) vials and seals, and PA (Polyamide) caps and cups. Donors of carcinogens are very probably Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), and Polystyrene (PS). Both we do not use in any part of our packaging. PET is according to serious research literature regarded as neutral; however, a 2003 Italian research found that there is an increase of DEHP (Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, a plasticiser) in PET-packed foodstuff. The European Union has confirmed that DEHP poses no risk to human health. The summary of a comprehensive European risk assessment, involving nearly 15 years of extensive scientific evaluation by EU regulators, was published in the EU Official Journal on February 7, 2008 (Commission Communication C/2008 34/1 and Commission Recommendation L 33/8). Furthermore, antimony trioxide (Sb2O3) is a catalyst that is often used in the production of PET. It remains in the material and can thus in principle migrate out into our nutraceuticals. Although antimony trioxide is of low toxicity and NOT recognized as a carcinogen, its presence is still of concern in any food. The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health investigated the amount of antimony migration, comparing waters bottled in PET and glass: the antimony concentrations of the water in PET bottles was higher, but still well below the allowed maximal concentrations (report available in German and French only). The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health concluded that small amounts of antimony migrate from the PET into bottled water, but that the health risk of the resulting low concentrations is negligible (1% of the "tolerable daily intake" determined by the WHO). A later (2006) but more widely publicized study by a group of geochemists at the University of Heidelberg, Germany headed by William Shotyk found similar amounts of antimony in water in PET bottles (foregoing paragraphs with quotations from Wikipedia - PET). We negotiate currently with our supplier to buy his PET from a manufacturer who does not use antimony trioxide. Today, we are still of very limited influence, and we cannot predict the results. Later we will consider the use of biodegradable vials, caps and seals anyway. 14: Can I mix my cure portion with other fruit juices or food stuff? Yes, unlimited. In our opinion, red beetroot juice develops a beautiful taste if you add one volume of cranberry juice to nine volumes of fresh beetroot juice. Cranberry juice is very acidic, which dissolves the earthy taste compound geosmin. Popular is blending with carrot juice in juice bars, which is very healthy (bioactive compound: beta carotene) as well; however, many people do not like the earthy and sweetish taste. In case of doubt about your blending plans, please consult with your own health care provider. Please feel free to report your doubts to info@betterbe.ca; we want to serve you better as well, and your input will help us to do so. 15: Does the ingestion of fresh red beet foodstuff cause a reddish coloring of the skin? No. Betalaines do not pile up in any part of your body. All unused betalaines are filtered out in the kidneys or go through the colon. If you want to color your skin, you would have to use our nutraceuticals as ointments. Russian women did so in the old times. That idea is not bad at all, if you suffer from acne, blemishes, or even skin cancer. 16: Shall I have my serving before or after a meal? There is no rule. Our nutraceuticals contain fresh horseradish juice (significant amounts of isothiocyanate), which works on some people similar as an appetizer. However, if you take it
17: Why do you advise only 12 cures per year? Certainly, you can take more. However, a healthy person will enjoy very probably all benefits with 12 cures per year already. 18: What about Alexander Ferenczi's MD report of cancer curing with raw red beets? The alternative health literature mentions repeatedly the curing of cancer patients in the "cachexic" stage with raw red beets and raw red beet juice hereby utilizing the red dye stuff betain. These articles are supposedly based on reports of Dr. Alexander Ferenczi, MD in the 1950'ies, at the Hungarian Csoma District hospital. It is said, that these reports were partly re-published in the Australian International Clinical Nutrition Review, in July 1986 (see http://www.keelynet.com/biology/beets.txt).
These findings do not justify any conclusion, since none of its sources quotes the original reports in wording, or in a reliable translation. Stephen Nottingham gives references to A. Ferenczi and S. Ferenczi, which are not very accurate:
Some of Nottingham statements referring to Ferenczi and his work assume that at the time of Ferenczi the nature of betalaines was already known (which is not true, betanin was called in his time a "N-containing anthocyan"), some of his statements were outdated already at the time of writing, many are speculative and illogical. Nottingham does not mention the details in the remaining part of the Ferenczi-story (Publishing of a book re-published 1996 after Ferenczi's death, and many references and serious followers in the international scientific community, with new research as late as 1986); however, Nottingham's e-Book is a respectable source of information about red beets still, and more reliable than many other well-meaning texts in the web. For all the reasons mentioned above, we provide for some of the originals and translations. Please refer to "Experiences". 19: If your nutraceuticals would be really that powerful anticancer agents, why don't you sell them as drugs? Our nutraceuticals will never become drugs, because they are pre-portioned whole foods with bioactive compounds. Furthermore, we cannot warrant the occurrence of these compounds in accepted tolerances, and the different variations of red beets produce betalains, betain, folate, and allantoin in different relations to each other. We are dealing with pure nature, and nature does not know a standard. 20: May I cure cancer with your nutraceuticals? According to some serious scientists, there is a hope; minimum as a supplemental or even as a substitution therapy. But everybody who experimented with red beets ran out of funding earlier or later, and was finally forgotten. Serious research into the topic restarted in the early 2000's, but there is no sufficient research concerning the medicinal impacts of red beets on cancerous humans; instead, some researchers try to reinvent betanin in bioreactors, maybe in order to produce a patentable process as a substitution for a patentable drug. Certainly, red beets are food, and you are free to do what you want, but our nutraceuticals do not qualify as cancer related drugs; they do not even qualify as supplements. Beetroots were used as medicine since ancient times. But please keep in mind - nearly all foods have medicinal properties: It depends how much you take, and how you prepare them. Maybe the most famous of those foods are mushrooms, or rhubarb, or even raw potatoes - and nearly all spices. Remember Paracelsus (1493–1541): “All substances are poisons: there are none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.” Anyway, there is sufficient research done to try an educated guess about the recovery rate by use of our nutraceuticals for cancer prevention, and cancer treatment. Explicitly and again: With this part of our answer we leave the sure grounds of established knowledge, and make an excurse in to clinical experience and the fields of speculative hope:
To give all this guessing a base, there supposed to be done further research. In case you would wish to use our nutraceuticals as a treatment by increasing the dosage, we do strongly advise to do that only after studying the original papers, AND consultation with your own health care provider. In case of his/her consent to advise (NOT DESCRIBE) our nutraceuticals, we ask you to contact our management directly. We will offer substantial rebates, if we receive in turn a written health report concerning the effects of our nutraceuticals. As a vital condition to obtain these rebates, your health care provider must declare in writing his/her consent to publish this report without naming you, but with his name, address, and registration. 21: Don't you expect to interfere with the multi-billion business of cancer research or on the health food and supplement market? We are no competition. Our nutraceuticals are no drugs, or supplements. We do provide for pre-portioned whole foods, for the convenience of use. We try to support a healthy lifestyle. About the effectiveness of chemotherapeutical means in prevention and treatment, see question 2: We don't know how the establishment would think about that. 22: If it would be that cheap and easy to use red beet foodstuff in the fight against cancer, why wouldn't it be done long time ago already? First of all, red beet related food stuff claiming anti cancer properties is on the market for a long time - we are just the first ones to offer fresh and unprocessed foods pre-portioned. However, the red beet juices in the health food stores are not very convincing, being fermented, pasteurized, and/or with added lactic acid. To us, they look and taste like dead stuff in transparent glass bottles with unlimited shelf life. However, that does not mean that they would be useless; and many people offer holy oaths that this stuff would help. We just do not know. But try it, and compare. Second, it is not cheap. The cancer related costs in Canada will reach $10 billion per year soon. If Health Canada would apply our nutraceuticals to every adult Canadian as recommended here, it would cost about $2.5 billion per year. That is a lot of money, even if we estimate optimistically an 80% decline in cancer risk. But this topic needs more research. Third, some hints you may find in the answer to question 18. Fourth, nobody except the health conscious Canadians, many Canadian farmers, the cancer and leukemia patients, and people like us would benefit from our nutraceuticals. And, if Health Canada would do the job, it could be that every Canadian taxpayer would benefit. 23: Under which conditions degrade betain and betalains? The betain in question (N,N,N-Trimethylglycine, an amino acid) is a very stable compound, surviving even the rude industrial sugar extraction processes from sugar beets. It has a very long shelf life, is known as molasses, and practically, it does not degrade at all if properly stored. Betain is available as supplement in the health food market, both, as clean Betain, and Betain HCl. In food stuff, the highest concentrations of betain you will find in certified organic molasses (about 1 gram per table spoon molasses). Betain as a methyldonor, together with the minerals and micronutrients, makes molasses effective supporters in fight against cardiovascular diseases. Betalains where researched as "N-containing anthocyans" mainly in the 1960'ies; later, as they were used first time as red food dye stuff (especially betanin, E 162), and again, as the FDA dismissed some synthetic red food dye stuffs. A new research boom started in the early 2000's. Betanin is very stable in crystalline form, and does not lose the cancer fighting characteristics. Degradation of betalains occurs i.e. in some enzymatic reactions of fresh beetroot juice. That limits the shelf life of our nutraceuticals. Furthermore, degradation occurs, if you apply
We can not quantify the degradation products. They are edible and harmless, and sometimes even red, but we know virtually nothing about their medicinal effects. Furthermore, there could be more processes causing degradation. Among them we suspect and/or know about cleaning processes, dehydration, sterilization by irradiation or microwaves, and fermentation. We do not apply any of the processes mentioned above. Unfortunately, these facts prohibit many traditional, modern, and high-tech preservation techniques. 24: You encourage everybody to juice the beetroots on their own. But if I ask for red beet juice in a juice bar, I never get a shot of pure red beet. What is that about? In a juice bar, the educated bartender will always blend a little shot of red beet juice with a bigger shot of carrot juice. Fresh red beet juice alone would be good for ingestion after it rested in a cool place for three hours. During this time, the enzymes start to work in the juice. Ingested immediately after juicing, red beet juice might cause nausea. The carrot juice takes this effect away, and adds other benefits to the drink; most prominent considerable amounts of beta carotene, which is virtually not available in red beet juice. However, three hours of waiting time for a shot or a shot which causes nausea would not be an advantage for the juice bar's business. 25: I heard, that German hospitals give red beet juice as a support for the liver during a chemotherapy. Why don't you mention that on your Research or Experiences pages? We heard that, too. But we found no third party report from a German trusted information source about application and effect on humans. Anyway, there are several research papers about the positive effects of red beet juice as support in chemotherapies, and more specifically i.e. with doxorubicin. Furthermore: "All our observations, including those escaping quantification, suggest that appropriate dietary intervention may considerably augment cancer chemotherapy and improve patients' quality of life." See as well here. 26: Why do you press certified organic AND conventionally grown beetroots for your nutraceuticals? Organic grown foodstuff has its advantages and disadvantages. Its use could be a two-edged sword in our case. According to the certified organic label requirements, the grower may use any natural or organic fertilizer. That includes unprocessed manure, and human feces, including e-coli and other harmful germs in it. These fertilizers are fine with grain, probably, because the ear does not have a direct contact with the soil. But since the beetroot grows minimum with its half IN the soil, that could impose a danger on our clients, if the beetroot is not properly cleaned or disinfected before processing. We just remind you on contaminated lettuces during the first months of 2008. Handling of certified organic beetroots is not trivial either, because many of the common washing and disinfecting processes degrade the bioactive compounds in the beetroot; and peeling would remove some of the health benefits. These facts decrease the number of resources we are buying from; or, alternatively, would make our cleaning processes very expensive. Another reason is, that red beets are nitrate collectors. Intake of dietary nitrates adds to the health benefits. The nitrate changed to nitrite in human saliva causes the lowering of blood pressure. On the other hand, too much of nitrite could work carcinogenic. And last not least, organic produce of Canadian origin is not available all year around in sufficient qualities. In order to make our nutraceuticals available between March and July, we buy fresh beetroots from international sources. Fresh beetroot from domestic sources could be possibly available, too, but that would require a much more cost intensive storage process, than commonly applied in Canada today. All these facts mean to us that we cannot buy just any red beet, no matter if organic or not. The Ontario grower provides us with his reports about fertilization, and since we know about industrial fertilizers, we have a fairly good knowledge about the resulting dietary nitrates in the beetroot skin. But we wouldn't know for sure about the effects of organic fertilizers, or worse, germ contaminations. For all these reasons, we are very careful today, and will negotiate in order to buy and setup our own farming and storing operation. We plan controlled growing of beetroots as soon as possible. 27: Tell me about beetroot juicing! Beets are nitrate collectors, and producers of betalains, betain and allantoin. These bioactive compounds are present in highest densities in the skin. Dietary nitrates are very helpful to lower the blood pressure, and betalaines and allantoin are antioxidants and radical scavengers. Therefore, you should clean, but not peel the beetroot thoroughly with i.e. Chlorox, and leave the root branch as long as possible. There are the highest concentrations of enzymes. Cut the foliage 1 cm above the beetroot body. Avoid damages of the skin as much as you can. Don't juice the foliage if you have an inclination to kidney stones (high contents of oxalic acid). After cleaning, you should cut the beetroot in cubes which would pass through the chute of your juicer or press. The use of centrifugal juicers will deliver a juice with less of the water soluble contents. Juicers bring out about 55% of the feed as juices. A good press can reach 75% by weight. With a juicer you will create way more mess in the kitchen. For these reasons, a press is better, but more expensive, too. After juicing, you should detail your juice in portions which would allow to take the amount according to your individual need. Store the portions before ingesting for minimum three hours in the refrigerator in order to allow some enzymatic reactions which will prevent you from nausea. Keep the juice as cold as you can without freezing. Now your juice will not change very much for about 6 weeks, if you keep it very cold, but not freezing. Then follows a time with higher probability of gelling (see question 11). After that, the enzymatic reactions and starting fermentation will change your living juice to a very good food with some medicinal characteristics, because of its decreasing contents of active enzymes and degraded bioactive compounds. Some information more you will find on our page "Handling and Processing". 28: What do you believe to be the cause of cancer? Our opinion is not important, but since you ask: The former working hypothesis' about cancer prevention and cancer treatment did not bear the expected fruits, so we do believe in a paradigm, which is publicly discussed since 1998: "This new cancer prevention paradigm demands that we limit exposure to avoidable environmental and occupational carcinogens, in combination with additional important risk factors like diet and lifestyle." Clapp, R.W. et al. In many cases, cancer seems to be related to a certain weakness of the immune system. 29: Do you know about other alternative cancer cures? During the last 100 years of cancer research were opened and given up on many promising ways to cure cancer without any hard evidence of uselessness, or dangerous side effects, on humans. These initiatives died mostly because of lack of funding for research in non-patentable drugs. Some hints you may find on our Documents and Experiences pages. We believe that this will change if somebody influential could make money with red beet preparations.
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