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        <strong>Meat physiology, stress, and degenerative physiology&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>The US Department of
        Agriculture claims that the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act of the same year were
        passed because the food industry demanded them. Ordinary historians believe that Upton Sinclair's 1905 serial
        publication of his novel about the meat industry, The Jungle, caused the public and Theodore Roosevelt to
        pressure Congress to pass the laws. Sinclair's descriptions of the use of poisonous preservatives and deodorants
        to disguise the smell of rotten meat angered the public and the president enough to overcome the industry
        pressure that had kept the US Congress from regulating the commercial food supply long after European
        governments had begun regulating food production and sales.Before the government's intervention, it was common
        practice to soak all kinds of meat in water or chemical solutions to increase their weight. At present, the US
        Department of Agriculture, through the mass media and funding the training of food technologists and "meat
        scientists," now takes the position that it is natural for meat to leak water after it is packaged, and says it
        is perfectly legal for meat producers to soak the meat in water with chemicals until it has increased its weight
        by 8%. The chemicals, such as trisodium phosphate (in a solution strength as high as 12%), are chosen because
        they powerfully stimulate swelling and water retention. Considerable amounts of some chemicals, such as sodium
        citrate, are allowed to add to the weight of the meat. The use of ozone and hydrogen peroxide to deodorize meat
        causes instantaneous oxidative changes, including lipid peroxidation and protein carbonyl formation, as well as
        increasing water retention.Most supermarket meat is now packaged with thick diapers so the buyer won't notice
        that he is paying for a sizeable amount of pink water. The USDA has an internet site, and consumer hotlines, to
        inform angry consumers that they are mistaken if they believe that meat shouldn't leak. They explain that meat
        is now "bred" to contain less fat, and so it contains more water, and that it is simply the leanness of the meat
        that accounts for its poor flavor.Before the slaughtered animal is put into the soaking solution to gain a
        specific amount of weight, the animal has almost always been treated in ways that cause it to go to slaughter in
        a state of massive edema. Even before the meat is soaked, the animal has been treated to maximize its water
        retention.Muscle physiologists and endocrine physiologists know that fatigue, stress and excess estrogen can
        cause the tissues to swell hugely, increasing their weight and water content without increasing their protein
        content.As soon as cheap synthetic estrogens, such as DES, became available in the 1940s, their use in animals
        was promoted because it was clear that they caused massive water retention. Women who suffer from
        hyperestrogenism always have a problem with water retention, but they have never been known to suffer from
        over-developed skeletal muscles. In fact, in humans of both sexes, an excess of estrogen has been commonly
        associated with sarcopenia, muscular dystrophy, and atrophy of the skeletal muscles. Similar observations have
        been made in a variety of animals. Meat scientists are the only people I know of who have ever referred to
        estrogen as an anabolic steroid, in the sense of "building muscle."When it was publicized around 1970 that DES
        is powerfully carcinogenic, after it had been used for several decades in the meat industry, its use was
        outlawed, but its illegal use continued and was overlooked by the US government. The Swiss government has
        rejected meat from a large producer in Kansas because it contained DES. Other estrogens are openly used, and the
        US government continues to apply pressure to other countries to accept meat exports containing estrogens.There
        are many ways to increase the water content of meat, besides feeding estrogen to the animal and soaking the meat
        after slaughter. Everything that causes water retention and tissue swelling in the living animal, that is, every
        kind of stress, fatigue, poisoning, malnutrition and injury, will make the animal gain weight, without consuming
        expensive nutritious food. Crowding, fright, and other suffering increase water retention and accelerate the
        breakdown of fats and proteins.The water content of meat shouldn't be increased by any of those methods, not
        only because it is a form of stealing from the consumer, but because it makes the product toxic and
        unappetizing, and makes the production process a degrading experience.&nbsp;Any chemicals, such as estrogen or
        arsenic, that remain in the meat are of course harmful to the consumer, but the changes they produce in the
        animals' tissues are the main problem. When grains and soybeans are used for fattening animals, their
        characteristic fatty acids are present in the meat, and are harmful to the consumer, but their complex
        degradation products, such as isoprene, acrolein, and isoprostanes, remain, along with the complex changes they
        induce in every aspect of the tissue. The reactive products of oxidative fat degradation stimulate, among other
        things, the adaptive/defensive production of polyamines, small molecules derived from amino acids. The
        polyamines, in turn, can be oxidized, producing highly toxic aldehydes, including acrolein (Sakata, et al.,
        2003). These molecules stimulate cell multiplication, and alter, at least temporarily, the way the cell's genes
        function.An excess of water stimulates cell division, and an important mechanism in producing that effect is the
        increased production of polyamines by the enzyme ornithine decarboxylase. This enzyme is activated by an excess
        of water (hypotonicity), by estrogen, and by stress.Besides stimulating cell division and modifying the cell's
        state of differentiation (including developmental imprinting), the polyamines also contribute to nerve cell
        excitation and excitotoxicity. Estrogen and excess water can contribute to nerve cell excitation, for example
        producing convulsive seizures. The polyamines are increased during seizures, and they can affect the stability
        of the nerve cells, for example contributing to cocaine's seizure-sensitizing action. Although they tend to
        block free radicals, they accelerate nerve injury (Yatin, et al., 2001), and can contribute to breakdown of the
        blood-brain barrier (Wengenack, et al., 2000, Koenig, et al., 1989).The polyamines are increased in cancers, and
        therapies to block their formation are able to stop the growth of various cancers, including prostate, bowel,
        and breast cancer. Metabolites of the polyamines in the urine appear to be useful as indicators of cancer and
        other diseases. (In pancreatic cancer, Yamaguchi, et al., 2004; in cervical cancer, Lee, et al., 2003; in adult
        respiratory stress syndrome, Heffner, et al., 1995.)&nbsp; The quantity of polyamines in the urine of cancer
        patients has been reported to be 20 times higher than normal (Jiang, 1990). Polyamines in the red blood cells
        appear to indicate prognosis in prostate cancer (Cipolla, et al., 1990).The prostaglandins in semen have been
        suspected to have a role in producing cervical cancer (Fernandez, et al., 1995).In protein catabolism, one fate
        of the protein's nitrogen is to be converted to the polyamines, rather than to urea. In plants, at least, these
        small molecules help cells to balance osmotic stresses.Adding water to meat, or stressing the animals before
        slaughter, will increase the meat's content of the polyamines, but the longer the meat is stored, the greater
        will be the production of reactive oxygen products and polyamines.&nbsp;The deliberate "aging" of meat is
        something that the meat scientists often write about, but it has a peculiar history, and is practiced mainly in
        the English speaking cultures. When a supermarket in Mexico City began selling U.S.-style meat for the American
        colony, I got some T-bone steaks and cooked them for some of my Mexican friends. The meat wasn't water-logged
        (it was 1962, and the beef had been grown in Mexico), but it had been aged for the American customers, and
        though my friends ate the steaks for the sake of politeness, I could see that they found it difficult.&nbsp;In
        Mexico, even in the present century, butcher shops often don't have refrigeration, and they don't need it
        because they sell the meat immediately. The fresh meat tastes fresh. Traditionally, liver is sold only on the
        day of slaughter, because its high enzyme content causes it to degrade much faster than the muscle meats. When
        it is fresh, it lacks the characteristic bad taste of liver in the US.&nbsp;Both the liver and the muscles
        contain a significant amount of glycogen when they are fresh, if the animal was healthy. At first, the lack of
        oxygen causes the glycogen to be metabolized into lactic acid, and some fatty acids are liberated from their
        bound form, producing slight changes in the taste of the meat. But when the glycogen has been depleted, the
        anaerobic metabolism accelerates the breakdown of proteins and amino acids.In the absence of oxygen, no carbon
        dioxide is produced, and the result is that the normal disposition of ammonia from amino acids as urea is
        blocked, and the polyamines are formed instead. The chemical names of two of the main poly-amines are suggestive
        of the flavors that they impart to the aging meat: Cadaverine and putrescine. After two or three weeks of aging,
        there has been extensive breakdown of proteins and fats, with the production of very complex new mixtures of
        chemicals.Mexicans, despite their low average income, have a very high per capita consumption of meat, as do
        several other Latin American countries. Argentina has a per capita meat consumption of nearly a pound a day.
        There is a lot of theorizing about the role of meat in causing cancer, for example comparing Japan's low
        mortality from prostate cancer, and their low meat consumption, with the high prostate cancer mortality in the
        US, which has a higher meat consumption. But Argentina and Mexico's prostate cancer mortality ranks very
        favorably with Japan's.&nbsp;If meat consumption in the US contributes to the very high cancer rate, it clearly
        isn't the quantity of meat consumed, but rather the quality of the meat.The polar explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson
        was interested in the health effects of a diet based on meat, because of his observation that fresh meat
        prevented scurvy much more effectively than the fruits and vegetables carried by other polar explorers. He
        commented on the importance of culture and learning in shaping food preferences:"In midwinter it occurred to me
        to philosophize that in our own and foreign lands taste for a mild cheese is somewhat plebeian; it is at least a
        semi-truth that connoisseurs like their cheeses progressively stronger. The grading applies to meats, as in
        England where it is common among nobility and gentry to like game and pheasant so high that the average
        Midwestern American or even Englishman of a lower class, would call them rotten.&nbsp;"I knew of course that,
        while it is good form to eat decayed milk products and decayed game, it is very bad form to eat decayed fish. I
        knew also that the view of our populace that there are likely to be "ptomaines" in decaying fish and in the
        plebeian meats; but it struck me as an improbable extension of the class-consciousness that ptomaines would
        avoid the gentleman's food and attack that of a commoner.&nbsp;"These thoughts led to a summarizing query; If it
        is almost a mark of social distinction to be able to eat strong cheeses with a straight face and smelly birds
        with relish, why is it necessarily a low taste to be fond of decaying fish? On that basis of philosophy, though
        with several qualms, I tried the rotten fish one day, and if memory serves, liked it better than my first taste
        of Camembert. During the next weeks I became fond of rotten fish."Since Stefansson's observations nearly a
        century ago, most Americans have become accustomed to the taste of half-spoiled meat, as part of the process of
        adapting to an industrial-commercial food system. Tests done by food technologists have found that most
        Americans prefer the taste of synthetic strawberry flavor in ice cream to the taste of ice cream made with real
        strawberries. If it took Stefansson only a few weeks to become fond of rotten fish, it isn't surprising that the
        public would, over a period of many decades, learn to enjoy a diet of stale foods and imitation
        foods.&nbsp;Polyamines are increased in stressed and stored vegetables, as in aged meats. This defensive
        reaction retards tissue aging, and researchers are testing the application of polyamines to fruits to retard
        their ripening. A plastic surgeon, Vladimir Filatov, discovered that tissue stored in the cold stimulated the
        healing process when used for tissue reconstruction, such as corneal transplants. He found that stressed plant
        tissues developed the same tissue stimulants. Another pioneer of tissue transplantation, L.V. Polezhaev, saw
        that degenerating tissue produced factors that seem to activate stem cells.Although the diffusion of these
        stimulating factors from stressed tissues normally functions to accelerate healing and tissue regeneration,
        under less optimal conditions they are undoubtedly important factors in tissue degeneration and tumor formation.
        For example, the bystander effect (contributing to delayed radiation damage, and producing a field of
        precancerous changes around a cancer), in which substances diffusing from injured tissues damage surrounding
        cells, involves disturbances in polyamine metabolism.The direct, optimal effects of the polyamines are
        protective, but when excessive, prolonged, or without maintained cellular energy, they become harmful.The
        expression of genes involves their physical arrangement and accessibility to enzymes and substrates. The
        negatively charged nucleic acids are associated with positively charge proteins, the histones. The very small
        positively charged polyamines can powerfully modify the interactions between histones and DNA. In recent years
        people have begun to speak of the "histone code," as a kind of expansion of the idea of the "genetic code." But
        the polyamines, produced in response to stress, might be thought of as a complex expansion of the "histone
        code."The addition of small molecules, methyl and acetyl groups, to the large molecules can regulate the
        expression of genes, and these patterns can be passed on transgenerationally, or modified by stress. Barbara
        McClintock's "controlling factors" were mobile genes that caused the genome to be restructured under the
        influence of stress. Her discoveries were the same as those made by Trofim Lysenko decades earlier, and like his
        observations, McClintock's were angrily rejected until the 1980s, when the genetic engineering industry needed
        some scientific background and natural precedent for their unnatural intervention in the genome.The brain is
        extremely different from a malignant tumor, and the derangements produced by stress, by high cortisol and
        estrogen and an excess of water, are different in the two types of organ (considering the tumor as an ad hoc
        organ), but the polyamines have central roles in the degenerating brain and in the divergent disorganization of
        tumors. Their importance in stress physiology is coming to be recognized, along with the meaning of "epigenetic
        development," in which the influence of the environment becomes central, rather than just a place in which the
        "genotype" is allowed to passively express its "genetic potential." Every developmental decision involves an
        evaluation of resources and their optimal marshaling for adaptation. The polyamines are part of the cytoplasm's
        equipment for controlling the genome. The ratio between the different types of polyamine governs the nature of
        their regulation of cellular functions.The old idea, "one is what one eats," has evolved far beyond ideas of
        simple nutritional adequacy or deprivation, and it's now commonly accepted that many things in foods have fairly
        direct effects on our brain transmitters and hormones, such as serotonin, dopamine, adrenalin, endorphins,
        prostaglandins, and other chemicals that affect our behavior and physiology.In 1957 James McConnell discovered
        that when flatworms were fed other flatworms that had been trained, their performance was improved by 50%,
        compared with normal flatworms. Later, similar experiments were done with rats and fish, showing that tissue
        extracts from trained animals modified the behavior of the untrained animals so that it approximated that of the
        trained animals. Georges Ungar, who did many experiments with higher animals, demonstrated changes in brain RNA
        associated with learning, and he and McConnell believed that proteins and peptides were likely to be the type of
        substance that transmitted the learning.A dogmatic belief that "memory molecules" would be unable to penetrate
        the "blood-brain barrier" allowed most biologists to dismiss their work. Ungar's death, and the hostility of
        most biologists to their work, have caused their ideas to be nearly forgotten for the last 30 years. Negatively
        charged molecules such as ordinary proteins tend to be repelled by negative charges on the wall of capillaries,
        but positively charged molecules spontaneously associate with cellular proteins, and easily penetrate the
        barrier. Highly positively charged molecules tend to concentrate in the brain (Jonkman, et al., 1983), and
        people are currently attempting to use the principle to deliver antibodies (which are normally excluded from the
        brain) therapeutically to the brain by combining them with small positively charged molecules (Herve, et al.,
        2001). This affinity of the brain for positively charged molecules is gradually being recognized as an important
        factor in the toxicity of ammonia and guanidine derivatives. As mentioned earlier, even endogenous polyamines
        can be involved in disruption of the blood-brain barrier.So, apart from the question of exactly what molecules
        were responsible for the learning transfer produced by McConnell and Ungar, there should be no doubt that
        polyamines derived from food can enter tissues, especially the brain. People who eat meat from stressed animals
        are substantially replicating the experiments of McConnell and Ungar, except that people normally eat a variety
        of foods, and each type of food will have had slightly different experiences in its last days of life. But the
        deliberate aging of meat is subjecting it to a standardized stress--two or three weeks of cold storage. Because
        of the great generality of genetic processes, it wouldn't be surprising if cold storage of vegetables turned out
        to produce polyamine patterns similar to those of cold storage meats. Air pollution and other stressful growing
        conditions cause vegetables to have very high levels of polyamines.Prolonged exposure to certain patterns of
        polyamines might produce particular syndromes, but the mere fact of increasing the total quantity of polyamines
        in our diet is likely to increase the incidence of stress-related diseases. Experiments with cells in culture
        show that added polyamines can produce a variety of extremely harmful changes, but so far, there has been almost
        no investigation of their specific regulatory functions, of their "code."Besides rejecting stale foods produced
        under stressful conditions, there are probably some specific ways that we can protect ourselves from polyamine
        poisoning.When the organism is functioning efficiently, its respiration is producing an abundance of carbon
        dioxide, which protectively modifies many systems and structures. Adequate carbon dioxide protects against
        fatigue, cellular and vascular leakiness, edema and swelling.Increasing carbon dioxide will tend to direct
        ammonia into urea synthesis, and away from the formation of polyamines. Bicarbonate protects against many of the
        toxic effects of ammonia, and since carbon dioxide spontaneously reacts with amino groups, it probably helps to
        inactivate exogenous polyamines. This could account for some of the protective effects of carbon dioxide (or
        high altitude), for example its anti-seizure, anticancer, and antistress effects.Other things that protect
        against excessive polyamines are procaine and other local anesthetics (Yuspa, et al., 1980), magnesium, niacin,
        vitamin A, aspirin, and, in some circumstances, caffeine. Since endotoxin stimulates the formation of
        polyamines, a diet that doesn't irritate the intestine is important. Tryptophan and methionine contribute to the
        formation of polyamines, so gelatin, which lacks those amino acids and is soothing to the intestine, should be a
        regular part of the diet.Because the polyamines intensity the neurotoxic and carcinogenic effects of estrogen
        and of polyunsaturated fats, those three types of substance should be considered as a functional unit in making
        food choices. (Grass-fed organic beef fresh from a local farm would be a reasonable choice.) Unfortunately, the
        meat industry has maximized all of those dangers, just for the increased weight of their
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