| Vitamin G description
Vitamin C is an important biological antioxidant and has been a popular nutritional supplement for decades. Vitamin C is often used to prevent or ameliorate a wide variety of infections and to enhance the effectiveness of the immune system. It is popular as a promoter of connective-tissue health in conditions such as minor trauma and capillary fragility. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Consult a qualified health professional trained in the intricacies of nutritional biochemistry to help you assess your needs and develop an effective, individualized dietary and nutritional supplement program. The tests described below can be used to analyze your nutrient status, pinpoint specific deficiencies, and determine the dosages of supplements that will best suit your needs.
Many mainstream physicians assess nutritional status using blood tests. |
Marshall Editions
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 Muscle relaxation with magnesium aspartate as a nutritional supplement usually helps to relieve muscle spasms, as does valerian root. Medication usually consists of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to help back pain and decrease swelling. Narcotic analgesics can be used in appropriate individuals for 48 hours prior to using NSAIDs. Skeletal muscle relaxants such as cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril®) may be helpful for severe spasm. Local and epidural injections sometimes alleviate chronic back pain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember: I earn nothing from these products, and I take no money from nutritional supplement companies. (That's one advantage to getting your health news at NewsTarget.com, by the way -- you get the straight story on the best health products out there, not just the ones that we sell or get a commission on, because we don't sell any nutritional products, and we earn no money on their sales.)
These four companies join my list of highly-recommended nutritional supplement companies like Ola Loa, Ruth's Hemp Foods, Nutiva, Jay Robb, the Amazon Herb Co., and so on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why is it illegal for nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their products? Broccoli, garlic, onions and sprouts all have powerful anti-cancer effects, as do dozens of rainforest herbs (Cat's Claw, for example), Chinese herbs and Western herbs. But the FDA threatens and censors any company that dares to mention cancer prevention on its supplement products. Why is the FDA enforcing a policy of nutritional ignorance with U.S. consumers? Why does the federal government want people to remain ignorant of methods for preventing or treating cancer? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Coupon codes found in our daily email newsletter
Part of our agreement with these nutritional supplement companies is that we will not post the coupon codes on the web. In order to make sure these coupon codes are used only by NewsTarget readers, we are distributing them via email only. Starting today, these coupon codes will be included in our outbound emails, below each day's news headlines.
We're starting with three coupon codes from companies I highly recommend. One coupon code is for a little-known chocolate company that makes the highest content cacao bar I've found yet! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Health freedom author and nutritional supplement formulator Byron Richards has spearheaded much of the commentary on this bill, and support for defeating the bill has come from many camps in the health freedom movement, including the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org), raw foods pioneer Dr. Gabriel Cousens (www.TreeofLife.nu), John Hammel's International Advocate for Health Freedom (www.nocodexgenocide.com), the National Health Federation (www.TheNFH.com) and many others. Even Freedom to Fascism producer Aaron Russo (www.freedomtofascism. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The quantity of a nutritional supplement that cures an illness indicates the patient's degree of deficiency. It is, therefore, not a megadose of the vitamin, but rather a megadeficiency of the nutrient that we are dealing with. Orthomolecular practitioners know that with therapeutic nutrition, you don't take the amount that you believe ought to work; rather, you take the amount that gets results. The first rule of building a brick wall is that you have got to have enough bricks. A sick body has exaggeratedly high needs for many vitamins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is a bill that has some good points (such as banning advertising on new drugs until they're on the market for two years) but also contains some extremely dangerous provisions that have been exposed by Byron Richard, an author and nutritional supplement formulator who has been working to protect health freedom for decades.
We republished Byron Richards' most recent article which specifically points out that this FDA Evilization Act of 2007 could allow the FDA to get into the business of licensing and selling drugs and medical devices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Other FDA raids
1991, San Leandro, Calif.: A nutritional supplement company, NutriCology, is raided by 12 FDA agents. All FDA injunctions were eventually thrown out of court.
1991, Texas: The anti-cancer clinic of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, a brilliant researcher from Poland, is raided by the FDA and the Texas Department of Health. Just before the raids, the National Cancer Institute had announced they would evaluate the pioneering work of Dr. Burzynski, which involved cancer treatment using antineoplastons. With the help of health freedom champions like Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Today's nutritional supplement could prove to be tomorrow's arsenic. Statistics maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers make this point and are scary. The number of poisonings from herbs, vitamins, and other dietary supplements increased nine-fold from 1983 to 2005. Of the 125,600 incidents reported that year, 27 ended in death. Even more worrisome is an FDA consultant's estimate that for every serious adverse event that is reported, 99 other serious events are not.
How can you be cautious? You can speak with your doctor. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Through a massive campaign of censorship, intimidation and thuggish tactics, the FDA has managed to scare virtually all nutritional supplement manufacturers into self-censorship. So nobody tells the truth about what their products can do. You can't even claim that vitamin C cures scurvy or that vitamin D cures rickets.
(Just so you don't think I'm inventing all this information, read my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, which documents over a dozen FDA raids on vitamin shops, medical clinics and even a church! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Free speech should only be protected for drug companies, not nutritional supplement companies.
The 300+ synthetic chemicals now found in the blood of nearly everyone are completely harmless and have no negative health effects.
The FDA is incapable of making mistakes, and therefore, drug companies should be granted full immunity against consumer lawsuits surrounding the injuries and deaths caused by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. It is impossible for an FDA-approved drug to cause the death of anyone, because the FDA is infallible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why I would choose to write about a nutritional supplement company that was selling a counterfeit product and using a lot of unscrupulous marketing tactics? Let me clarify here: I am not a defender of all nutritional supplements and everything natural health just because it's a supplement or just because it's a vitamin. Simultaneously, I am not a critic of everything from the pharmaceutical industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They could have gone the pharmaceutical route and tried to get drug approval for some of these substances, but they've gone more the nutritional supplement route.
This is good news for you as a consumer, because now you can acquire these items at a fraction of the price they might have cost as pharmaceuticals. It's really the same exact substance. Whether it's sold as a drug or as a nutritional supplement, it's still astaxanthin, and you're still getting a tremendous health benefit from taking it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, there are many hucksters and con artists in the nutritional supplement industry, just as there are in the pharmaceutical industry. So, my position has never been that all nutritional supplements are good and that all pharmaceuticals are bad. It's just that if you're looking for what's truly healthy you're only going to find them from the natural world and never from the world of manufactured, synthesized drugs. |
| And, I think it is a great conflict of interest for anyone to both write about a nutritional supplement and sell that same nutritional supplement. It doesn't mean that they're wrong. It just means that their information must be taken in context.
I encourage you and other readers to live day-to-day with that kind of skepticism. We should all be skeptics of people who are trying to sell us products, especially if it's drugs or herbs or vitamins, because anything can have an element of hype or exaggeration to it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Have you ever heard of the nutritional supplement called grape seed extract? Guess where it comes from? ... Grape seeds, of course. It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And my good friend, biochemist and nutritional supplement expert Parris Kidd, writes: "The findings from .... clinical trial(s) are unequivocal: dietary supplementation with PS can alleviate, ameliorate, and sometimes reverse age-related decline of memory, learning, concentration, word skills, and mood."
But there's a controversy.
Nearly all of the good studies on phosphatidylserine used PS from the brains of cows. For obvious reasons—like concerns with viruses like mad cow disease—no one is using or selling PS from bovine sources anymore. |
Hyla Cass
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 Neither can any nutritional supplement, for that matter—they are "supplements," not food replacements. Here are the basics to keep in mind:
Choosing Supplements
As you navigate the vast supplement marketplace, you may find yourself wondering: Can I just buy the cheapest version of a nutrient or herb? Will I get what I pay for if I buy the pricier version? Why don't supplement bottles tell me what they're for—or any other information I can use to make a choice?
In terms of cost and quality, it really is "buyer beware. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Although more than a hundred of animal and dozens of epidemiological studies have linked high selenium status and cancer risk, this is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled cancer prevention study with humans that directly supports the thesis that a nutritional supplement of selenium, as a single agent, can reduce the risk of cancer," said Gerald F. Combs Jr., a nutritional biochemist and Cornell University professor of nutritional sciences. |
| Questionable Safety Concerns
You used to be able to buy L-tryptophan as a separate nutritional supplement, but the Food and Drug Administration—in what I still believe to be an incredible act of bureaucratic stupidity— took it off the market around 1990 after an outbreak of eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS), which was linked to the use of tryptophan.
EMS is a dangerous and potentially deadly blood disease that is usually associated with parasitic infections or severe allergy. |
| What did a mere intern think he could do with some nutritional supplement no one had ever heard of? And besides, what could an intern know that a resident or attending physician didn't?
Well, quite a lot actually.
Berkson, who is not only an M.D. but just happens to have a Ph.D. in microbiology with an advanced specialty in mushroom toxology, knew a bit about liver disease. Risking censure and loss of his internship, he called an old colleague, Fred Bartter at the National Institutes of Health, who arranged to fly in some alpha lipoic acid. He administered it to the dying couple. |
Bill Sardi
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 This was the first controlled cancer prevention trial to test whether a nutritional supplement could reduce the risk for cancer.
That was 1996. Nearly a decade later, health authorities stand in disbelief. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health said there was nothing wrong with the study, but "It's almost too good to be true."
Even six years later, when the results of the resumed study (the study was stopped temporarily to report the wonderful news, then continued on) were published, the data held true. |
Mike Adams
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| Stop the persecutions
Another thing we should do is halt the persecution of nutritional supplement companies by conventional medicine and the FDA. The FDA continues to attack and even persecute companies that manufacture and promote nutritional supplements.
There are countless examples of this, but one of the most recent is a company called Lane Labs that was selling a product called MGN-3 which contained medicinal mushrooms well known to boost immune system function and overcome cancer in humans. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 That is not to say that the nutritional supplement industry is blameless. Too many dietary supplements—claiming to treat everything from heart health to weight loss to male sexual enhancement—have hit the market with major media campaigns, plenty of claims, and a host of promises, with little, if any, science behind them. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In one fascinating study, investigators at the Cleveland Clinic found that a nutritional supplement enriched with both fish oil and antioxidants reduced reliance on traditional therapies for people with ulcerative colitis, and that patients taking this oral supplement were less likely to need steroid therapy. Other research shows that higher dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids is associated with a lowered risk of autoimmunity in children who are at genetic risk of type 1 diabetes.
VITAMIN D. |
Ray D. Strand
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 You want to provide all the necessary
Table 1 Basic nutritional supplement Recommendations
ANTIOXIDANTS VITAMIN A
CAROTENOIDS
VITAMIN C
VITAMIN E
The more and varied your antioxidants, the better.
I do not recommend the use of straight vitamin A because of its potential toxicity, instead supplement with a mixture of mixed carotenoids. Garotenoids become vitamin A in the body as the body has need and they have no toxicity problems.
It is important to have a mixture of carotenoids rather than taking only beta-carotene. |
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