Dr. Julian Whitaker See book keywords and concepts | These supplements should always be taken with vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), which is required in the synthesis of acetylcholine, and contained in most multivitamins.
Citicoline, one of the "smart" nutrients, also improves brain function by boosting choline and PC levels. Citicoline is discussed in Step 10.
SUMMING IT UP
As you can see, the fats you ingest have a profound influence on your brain. Although you can get these important brain fats through diet, I strongly suggest taking them in supplement form to ensure that you are getting adequate levels. | After four months, both groups showed improvements in quality of life, sense of well-being, mood, relationships, energy level, sexuality, and sleep, but the ginseng group experienced almost twice the benefit as those taking multivitamins alone.
Like its more famous cousin, Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) has also been used in Asia for over 4,000 years for its tonic properties. Its active ingredients, called eleutherosides, function similarly to the ginsenosides in Panax ginseng. Siberian ginseng has been demonstrated to increase resistance to stress, fatigue, and disease. | Michael Janson, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | How to take
Vitamin A is commonly available in 10,000- and 25,000-IU capsules and in multivitamins. The Basic Multiple formula contains 10,000 IU. When I recommend extra, I usually suggest one capsule of 25,000 IU. I then adjust the dose depending on the clinical situation.
Carotenes
Beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, lutein, lycopene, zeaxanthin, and other carotenes provide some of the color in green, yellow and orange fruits and vegetables. Carotenes are highly effective antioxidants, even in tissues where oxygen levels are low. | The amount of choline and inositol in multivitamins is not sufficient for therapeutic purposes.
Glucosamine Sulfate
Glucosamine sulfate is not really a vitamin, but it is the major amino sugar in the body. It is formed from glucose using the amino acid glutamine as the source of the amino group. Amino sugars are important components of connective tissue, including cartilage, the rubbery material in the joints that protects them from wear and tear. | John R. Smythies See book keywords and concepts | These vitamins are sold either as mixtures of multivitamins and essential minerals or individually. Among the "special" types of vitamins that fill these shelves are those labeled "antioxidants." These include such familiar vitamins as A, C, E, and beta-carotene. Less well-known antioxidants include melatonin, lycopene, zeaxanthin, and various flavonoids.
Newspapers, magazines, and talk shows are brimming with discussions of antioxidants. These accounts claim that antioxidants are effective in helping to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. | Robert Hass, M.S. See book keywords and concepts | No studies to date show that taking once-a-day multivitamins improves the survival of well-nourished people.
The problem with conventional multivitamin supplements is one of dosage. Clinical studies clearly show that doses much higher than the recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) established by the National Research Council's (NRC's) Food and Nutrition Board are required to prevent and forestall cancer and other diseases.
In 1993, scientists at the West Virginia University School of Medicine studied the benefits of megadose vitamins for bladder cancer. | Mark Bricklin See book keywords and concepts | Doctors recommend vitamin C and multivitamins, especially, for the prevention of winter illness. Along with vitamin C, several Russian doctors told me, they recommend vitamin P—which we call the bioflavonoids. The bioflavonoids, they're convinced, enhance the action of vitamin C, and strengthen capillaries.
At the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Therapy in Tbilisi, a large city, cardiologist Dr. | Prevention Magazine See book keywords and concepts | But if you don't read the label carefully, you could be taking some chances, since some multivitamins contain large amounts of vitamin A, which can increase the risk of birth defects, says Dr. Erickson.
In a study of 22,748 women, for example, researchers found that those getting more than 10,000 international units of vitamin A a day were almost five times more likely to have children with certain head birth defects than those getting less than the DV of 5,000 international units.
You don't have to worry about the vitamin A you get from foods, Dr. Erickson adds. | Mark Bricklin See book keywords and concepts | They also routinely recommend multivitamins and, where needed, megavitamins. Patients are also given vitamin C, at least 1,000 milligrams, and 30 milligrams of zinc daily.
Exercise Therapy
If there is one supreme natural therapy for chronic and degenerative disorders, it is exercise. And if there is one natural therapy that is more natural than any others, that too is exercise.
You don't need a degree in anthropology or physiology to realize that human beings were literally designed to be highly active organisms. | Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman See book keywords and concepts | However, chromium chloride, the inorganic form in which most multivitamins contain chromium, is not a particularly effective way to take your supplement.
Many anti-aging scientists generally recommend about 200 meg for adults and teenagers. Diabetics, however, should not alter their intake of chromium without consulting their physicians; the supplement might affect their need for insulin.
Within a few days or weeks, you may notice the supplement's effect on your blood sugar. Within a few weeks or months, you'll be getting the benefits of chromium on your cholesterol levels and triglycerides. | A study recently published in The Lancet reported that elderly people taking multivitamins with minerals had improved immune function and had 50 percent fewer sick days.
CHROMIUM: THE MINERAL THAT BALANCES BLOOD SUGAR
Perhaps the most compelling reason to take chromium supplements is this miracle mineral's effect on your blood sugar. Up to the age of 35, most people's bodies are relatively efficient at processing blood sugar. | Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts | Kelp is implicated in acne because of its iodide content, and iodide irritates the pores' lining as it is excreted through the skin. multivitamins and iodized salt can also cause problems for the acne-prone.18
Another example: My eldest daughter, when she was nineteen months old, suffered smoke inhalation due to a fire and was given steroids and other medication to combat the fluid accumulation in her lungs. When she was taken off the medications, she discharged those substances via a red pimply rash from her waist all the way down to her toes. | Lendon H. Smith, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | LB research shows that the balanced body chemistry necessary to fight disease or restore health is not produced by so-called one-a-day or multivitamins. They may even increase levels of elements that the body may have in excess already. Balance cannot be obtained when one adds 100 percent of the ingredients. The more one adds of all the ingredients, the more unbalanced the body becomes. The excessively ingested ones rise to toxic levels, and just because they may be water soluble does not mean they will wash out in the urine or stool. | Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts | Cooking in iron pots or skillets and the common fortification of bread, rice, pasta products, and multivitamins with iron are further sources of exposure. Iron fortification is largely unnecessary as iron deficiency is uncommon in the U.S., except in menstruating women.
Excessive intake of alcohol: Regular, heavy consumption of alcohol, including beer, is associated with an elevated cancer risk.51 According to Charles B. Simone, M. | Patients with elevated histamine levels must also avoid multivitamins that contain histamine-elevat-ing agents such as niacin and folic acid. "Unfortunately," adds Dr.Walsh, "these people may also have to stay away from many kinds of nutritious foods, like green leafy vegetables, or they will get worse." In each case, Dr. Walsh recommends individual nutritional counseling.
Dr. Walsh, along with the late Dr. Pfeiffer, has also treated children effectively with nutritional therapy, noting improvements in learning disability, hyperactivity, and attention deficit disorders. | Supplements of magnesium, calcium, iron, potassium, and multivitamins are needed to counteract the decreased food intake and decreased absorption from the small intestine.
"One of the best ways to prevent colitis and Crohn's disease is a high-fiber diet," says Dr. Donovan, "but once active colitis is present you cannot use fiber since it is too harsh. As healing occurs, you can use soluble fibers." He suggests a liquid diet in the active phase, consisting of juices from cabbage and green leafy vegetables, because the chlorophyll has healing properties. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books See book keywords and concepts | Castelli recommends giving multivitamins to any children who are on a macrobiotic diet.
As for adults, "you won't make it as an interior lineman on this diet," says Dr. Castelli, "but if you eat the right amount of greens, the right variety of beans and vegetables and some fish, you can get everything you need. I would still recommend that children, pregnant women and people just starting macrobiotics supplement the B vitamins, especially B12 and folic acid, because they can be difficult to get."
The bottom line, says Dr. | Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner See book keywords and concepts | And that's where multivitamins come in. They are our nutritional insurance policies, providing reasonable compensation for the flaws in our daily diets. They are not a substitute for eating, however. You can't starve yourself and expect a multivitamin, or even a whole handful of them, to give you everything you could obtain from a day's worth of food.
I recommend a multivitamin with minerals that meets FDA standards (look for "USP" on the label). Make sure it contains B vitamins, (at least 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance and a minimum of 0.4 mg (400 meg) of folic acid. | Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Anyone eating a very-high-fiber diet should consider taking supplemental multivitamins and minerals.
Meat eaters should have no more than 6 ounces daily of the leanest cuts of beef and pork, and should trim away all visible fat. Eat your poultry skinless. There should be lots of fish in your diet too, fresh where possible and, if frozen, without sauce. Choose canned fish packed in water, not in oil. You want lots of foods rich in vitamins, and that means the dark green, leafy variety and cruciferous vegetables—broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and cabbage. | Jonathan Goodman ND See book keywords and concepts | Sixteen patients with newly diagnosed MS were given advice on following a healthful diet, and they were also told to take 900 milligrams of fish oil supplements along with multivitamins. The patients were followed for 2 years, at which point the researchers concluded that their symptoms had improved significantly.
Once again, the research is too preliminary to make firm conclusions, but it seems to me that anyone who has recendy been diagnosed with MS should consider omega-3 fatty acid supplements to be a safe course of action. | Paul Pitchford See book keywords and concepts | The minerals in "multivitamins" are usually insufficient for this purpose.
Individuals with a history of kidney stones should consult their physician before taking calcium supplements. If the diet is not improved while supplements are taken, noticeable changes may take place only very gradually over several years.8 The dietary and herbal remedies suggested in this chapter should initiate marked improvement within a few months.
5. | Grace Ross Lewis See book keywords and concepts | VITASCORBOL aspartame_
Products and Uses: Artificial sweetener in beverages (carbonated and dry base), breath mints, cereals, chewable multivitamins, chewing gum, coffee (instant dry base), frozen stick confections, dairy product topping, fruit flavored drinks and ades, fruit juice based drinks, puddings, and tea. As a flavor enhancer, sugar substitute (approximately 71% of market).
Precautions: FDA approves use at moderate levels. Made from two amino acids. It is equal to sucrose in calories, but it is 200 times sweeter. Therefore, the amount needed to sweeten food is negligible. | Dr. Gary Null See book keywords and concepts | A study of the influence of antioxidants and trace elements on diabetics found that a mixture of multivitamins including trace elements provided significant protection for diabetics against the damaging effects of free radicals.
V. Holecek et al., "Vyznam Podavani Multivitaminove Smesi a Stopovych Prvk-u u Diabetu" [Administration of Multivitamin Combinations and Trace Elements in Diabetes], Cas Lek Cesk 134, no. 3 (February 1, 1995): 80-83.
It has been shown that a legume-rich, high-carbohydrate diet leads to an across-the-board improvement in all measures of diabetic control.
H. C. R. | Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra See book keywords and concepts | A study recently published in The Lancet reported that elderly people taking multivitamins with minerals had improved immune function and had 50 percent fewer sick days. fact Increased intakes of antioxidant vitamins (beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E) could potentially prevent or postpone 50 to 70 percent of cataracts. | Incidentally, riboflavin is responsible for the bright yellow urine you may have noticed after ingestion of multivitamins.
Vitamin B-3 (Niacin)
Niacin is an important vitamin for blood circulation, energy production, and functioning of the nervous system. In large doses, it is helpful in lowering cholesterol. I already told you something about my personal experience with niacin. I took niacin in powdered form, and immediately developed a "niacin flush"—tingling of the skin accompanied by a hot flash. | Carl C. Pfeiffer See book keywords and concepts | Folic acid (as found in multivitamins and children's vitamins) makes allergy symptoms worse.
Teenagers
Body growth and the hormone surge at puberty make the greatest demands of the lifetime on minerals, vitamins, and amino acids. These demands are not met by junk foods or by standard vitamins and minerals, which are high in copper, and low in zinc and manganese, and devoid of selenium and molybdenum. Teenagers may need Ziman Fortified or Vicon Plus, plus selenium and molybdenum. | Judicious use of anticonvulsant drugs
But you should avoid folic acid and multivitamins that contain folic acid, because these can raise histamine levels.
Histadelic patients constitute about 20 percent of schizophrenics. This estimate is based on the many patients who were treated over the twenty-one years from 1966 to 1987 at the Brain Bio Center. The histadelic person is often the problem patient at psychiatric clinics and hospitals.
Our first contact with histadelia occurred in a biochemical and psychiatric study of out-patient schizophrenics. | Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts | Take daily multivitamins that contain 25 to 100 milligrams of thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, and B6 as well as 50 to 100 micrograms of B12.
BLACK COHOSH: For Hormonal Balance
This herb attaches to estrogen receptor sites in the body, helping to correct hormone imbalances and reducing many of the symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes and night sweats, says Crawford.
She recommends using high-quality products such as standardized tinctures or tablets. If you want to make a tea, which is also helpful, buy some dried root at a health food store. | Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Nowadays, many antioxidant nutrients are offered in a variety of multivitamins. These work to some extent but are usually synthetic vitamins, and thus they lack a wholeness and integrity that is only found in whole foods and whole-food supplements. These wheat sprouts are genetically selected and grown in a way that produces a high concentration of antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutases, methionine reductases, glutathione peroxidases, and catalases.
The two main enzyme companies that produce these wheat sprout antioxidants are Bioguard and Biotech. According to Dr. | Gale Maleskey See book keywords and concepts | Vitamin K is found in some multivitamins and in single supplements. If it's in a multivitamin, you'll find it listed on the label.
Large intakes of vitamin E—on the order of 2,200 international units (IU) a day—can reduce the absorption of vitamin K in the intestines, according to Dr. Suttie. "People who eat normal amounts of vitamin K-rich foods, however, can safely take 400 IU of vitamin E every day for long periods of time," he says. |
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