I ran across a highly interesting article then to double check that garlic contains sulfur, found another highly interesting article.
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Brimstone is the old name for sulphur now known as MSM, Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane, a natural form of organic sulphur found in the fluids of all living organisms. It is an organic pure and natural, stable, white crystalline powder without the unpleasant taste or smell. It is odorless and does not produce intestinal gases. Sulphur is essential to life and safe as water. It has many remarkable properties and there is evidence to suggest that it helps with other amino sugars to produce collagen for improved joint health and mobility.
Air and water pollution, over farming and polluted soil, artificial irrigation practices, deforestation all contributes to sulphur depleted soil. Minerals depleted from the soil means there is insufficient available for plant uptake and consequently less available in our diets.
UNFORTUNATELY, MSM is also easily lost during moderate food processing. Cooking, drying, smoking, pickling and long-term storage can deplete the MSM content of food.
1) Dehydration & Detoxification - Sulphur is responsible for the ionic exchange within the sodium-potassium pump in the cell. Sulphur is needed to maintain cell membrane permeability. This is important to ensure that nutrients are delivered into the cell and toxins and other waste products can exit. A lack of sulphur prevents the transport of free radicals, chemicals and foreign particles out of the cells, which if not excreted can lead to many allergic reactions such as Asthma, ear nose and throat infections, hay fever, headaches, fatigue and gastrointestinal problems.
2) Energy - Sulphur is a component of insulin, the very important hormone that regulates the uptake of glucose by cells for use as energy. A lack of sulphur can result in low insulin production or cell resistance to insulin, which in turn brings about excess blood sugar leading to diabetes. Sulphur is also needed for thiamine and biotin which arc needed for normal carbohydrate metabolism. Sulphur plays a part in tissue respiration, the process whereby oxygen is used to build new cells, a lack of sulphur can lead to replaced cells being dysfunctional and causing serious health related problems. Sulphur will help the immune system inhibit chemical carcinogens.
http://www.iamm.com/gi-index.htm
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If the geometry of insulin has been changed by mercury, the message that insulin has arrived to give glucose to the cell is not received. --- Because glycemic regulation is one of the body’s most central homeostatic mechanisms, mercury’s attack is most problematic, even at low concentrations, and indicates that it is playing a great role in the dramatic rise of diabetes.
Insulin has three sulfur-containing cross-linkages and the insulin receptor has a tyrosine-kinase-containing sulfur bond; these are the preferred targets for binding by both mercury and lead. Should mercury attach to one of these three sulfur bonds, it will interfere with the normal biological function of the insulin molecule. The average adult inhales thousands of trillions of mercury atoms a day from a mouthful of amalgams; fish provides trillions more, the air more, and in children, vaccines provide surges of trillions of mercury molecules per day in the form of ethyl-mercury, which is vastly more toxic than metallic mercury. Insulin molecules are directly assaulted as are insulin receptor sites.
We are all receiving, just through our air, water and food, about a microgram of mercury a day. Sounds like very little until you calculate that a microgram contains 3,000 trillion atoms each of which hold the potential to deactivate insulin and the receptor sites crucial to their function. Then you have to add the amount leaking from each of your dental amalgams, the mercury injected with your flu shot, and your proximity to a coal-fired plant or other mercury-contaminating source point like crematoriums and municipal incinerators.
http://drsircus.com/cancer/cancer-sulfur-garlic-glutathione/
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