Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Luckily for us, our heart muscle is one of the most responsive organs in the body for targeted nutritional supplementation. This fact makes practicing "metabolic cardiology" a must for me! In addition to vitamin B and the plethora of nutrients that can benefit the heart, I feel it's important to focus on the triad of cardio protective nutrients, because they have been so helpful across such a broad spectrum of cardiac conditions. |
| We have drugs to target these external forces that weaken the heart, but nutritional supplementation with our "triad" assists the energy-starved heart by supporting energy expenditure and boosting oxygen utilization. So, in addition to treating symptoms, physicians can offer CHF patients a nutritional solution that gets to the core of the problem. Patients not only may feel better, they may live longer, too. That's what I call a "total attack" on the problem! |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Specializing in nutritional medicine and psychiatry, she treats most illnesses from the perspective of diet change, nutritional supplementation, and natural hormones as needed.
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LENDON H. SMITH, M.D., a graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School, specialized in nutrition-based therapies since 1975. He passed away in 2001.
ALLAN N. SPREEN, M.D., is a general practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, with a specialization in nutrition-based medicine.
WALT STOLL, M.D., A.B.F.P. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| My core program includes targeted nutritional supplementation that combines coenzyme Qi0 (usually up to 360 mg daily) with supplemental potassium, and magnesium. Garlic (500?,000 mg), 2-3 grams of fish oil, and 1-2 grams of L-carnitine are often taken as well. When patients have followed this program along with weight reduction and exercise, I have consistently been able to reduce, or eliminate, their reliance on antihypertensive medications. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In my experience, it takes 30 days of intense nutritional supplementation to raise the antioxidant levels in your tissues.
By the way, just to make sure you're using common sense on this, I encourage you to read Dr. Michael Holick's book, "The UV Advantage," describing how to get sensible sun exposure without overdoing it. I'm certainly not saying that any amount of sun exposure is good for you. |
Mike Adams
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| With nutritional supplementation, and by avoiding all the foods that cause disease, you can prevent 90% of all chronic disease. This same approach can also reverse a large number of existing diseases, as long as those diseases haven't progressed to the point where they have caused permanent damage.
Conventional medicine is a system of disease-care, not healthcare, but disease-care that primarily treats patterns of symptoms resulting from nutritional imbalances. Conventional medicine dreams up names for those diseases and then develops drugs and surgical procedures to mask those symptoms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It all comes down to your dietary choices, nutritional supplementation, and your level of physical exercise. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Fortunately, we have seen a relatively high success rate by treating patients with dietary modification and nutritional supplementation. In my experience, at least half of patients with Crohn's disease improve and many become completely symptom-free. I had not been aware of the Gottschall diet until recently. However, in Dr. Wright's experience, the success rate with Crohn's disease is even higher when disaccharide intolerance is taken into consideration.
Summary of Recommendations for Crohn's Disease
• Diet: Avoid refined sugar. Work with food allergies. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Nutritional supplements that may be helpful
Because of the importance of strict dietary control, nutritional supplementation should be supervised by a specialist.
In a double-blind trial, regular use of branched-chain amino acids (page 479) (BCAAs) (i.e., valine, isoleucine, and leucine) by adolescents and young adults with PKU improved performance on some tests of mental functioning.35 Participants received either placebo, or 150 mg per 2.2 pounds of body weight each of valine and isoleucine, and 200 mg per 2.2 pounds of body of leucine, taken with meals and at bedtime. |
| In a preliminary trial, people with UC significantly improved on a sugar-free, low-allergen diet with additional nutritional supplementation that included a multivitamin-mineral (page 559) supplement (2—6 tablets per day); a fish oil (page 514) supplement (400 mg pet day); borage oil (page 475) (400 mg per day); flaxseed oil (page 517) (400 mg per day); and a probiotic formula containing Lactobacillus acidophilus
(page 575) and othet species of beneficial bacteria.41 Some participants received slight variations of this regimen. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 As you will read in this chapter's treatment section, there are natural ways to decrease the saturation of cholesterol in the bile via diet and nutritional supplementation.
Risk factors for gallstones include
Sex: Women are two to four times more likely than men to have gallstones. This, in part, may be due to the use of oral contraceptives and synthetic hormone replacement.
Race: Gallstones are more common in women of North American Indian ethnicity.
Obesity causes an increased secretion of cholesterol into bile. |
Mike Adams
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 Rather, the underlying imbalances must be corrected through dietary changes and nutritional supplementation with digestive enzymes and probiotics. Committing to the 3 principles of health discussed early in this chapter is the best option for addressing these painful symptoms. |
| I know someone who was recently pregnant who used good nutritional supplementation, combined with the consumption of iron, and experienced no morning sickness whatsoever. This is just an example of how many of the so-called symptoms of pregnancy that women experience today are actually the result of acute nutritional deficiencies due to the extremely high nutritional demands placed on the mother by the fetus.
Given that most women enter pregnancy in a state of chronic nutritional deficiency, it's no surprise that they actually become sick during the pregnancy. |
| Make sure you're doing this with the guidance of a naturopath or other qualified health practitioner, because it does involve things like exercise and nutritional supplementation. You should only pursue those under the supervision of a qualified health practitioner.
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Mike Adams
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 I can also tell you that the way to eliminate those cravings, or at least bring them back under control, is to engage in aggressive nutritional supplementation. In my experience and that of many others, sweet tooth cravings are primarily caused by nutritional deficiencies. A lack of certain minerals, including trace minerals, promotes these cravings.
When you do have cravings for carbohydrates, it's best to turn to foods and drinks that are sweetened with natural sweeteners. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can cure virtually every type of cancer with changes in diet and nutritional supplementation. You can reverse Alzheimer's disease. You can reverse osteoporosis. You can reverse depression. You can reverse and eliminate all of these chronic degenerative diseases by changing what you eat, how you exercise, your exposure to environmental toxins, your stress levels and by availing yourself of natural sunlight and fresh water and air.
You'll never hear that from the federal government, and you won't hear that as a benefit program, because no one profits from it. No one profits when the U.S. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 Nutritional Supplementation
The final aspect of a healthy lifestyle is nutritional supplementation. For years I told my patients they could get everything their bodies needed from their diets. After researching the medical literature for the past eight years on the subject, however, I am convinced that every man, woman, and child needs to be taking nutritional supplements. Why? |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 This includes exercise, stress management, lifestyle modification, and appropriate use of nutritional supplementation. This heads towards the goal of being able to eat in a normal rhythm and pattern and to be satisfied on a moderate amount of food.
Even healthy people should be wary of a diet that is too low in fat or too low in carbohydrates as these diets can induce overeating by failing to produce proper feelings of being satisfied following a meal.
SUMMARY
The bottom line of any meal is that a person must feel satisfied or they keep eating. |
| We explain how nutritional supplementation can help individuals overcome issues with leptin resistance, insulin resistance, and adrenaline resistance. These are true solutions that open the doors of good health to many individuals who would otherwise struggle needlessly.
We discuss how leptin relates to cardiovascular function and how leptin problems are a prime cause of cardiovascular disease. |
Mike Adams
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| Other things that move you closer to the right include purchasing organic foods, eating more raw foods, and engaging in all-important nutritional supplementation through superfoods like chlorella and spirulina.
You have the power to determine your health outcome
So the choice is really up to you. Notice that this is the opposite of the message you have probably heard from the conventional medical establishment, which goes out of its way to disempower people and make them believe they have no control over their health outcome. |
KC Craichy
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 While the tesults are not beyond question, because the analytical techniques used 50 years ago are not the same as now, it puts a special emphasis on the quality of our food supply as well as the need for extra nutritional supplementation.
Empty Calorie Foods
On the negative flip side are empty calorie foods—foods that are full of sugar and trans fatty acids, which come under the general designation of "junk foods. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Pap smears, most cases of cervical dysplasia and its consequence, cervical cancer, could be avoided.
Natural medicine perspectives on cervical dysplasia are consistent with conventional medicine's understanding that the human papillomavirus causes virtually all cases and that this virus is sexually transmitted. Many cofactors serve as cocar-cinogens in the development of cervical dysplasia, including smoking, nutrient deficiencies, immune deficiency, and possibly oral contraceptives. Where natural medicine diverges in its approach is in advising patients what they can do about these cofactors. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| Conclusion
The research I have reviewed in this chapter and the previous one demonstrates that diet and nutritional supplementation can do a great deal of good for diabetics. However, diabetics wishing to go on a nutrition program should seek professional help, because the treatment can be quite complicated and may require adjustment of medications. In addition, as I pointed out in the previous chapter, some diabetics have weak kidneys and must proceed with extreme caution. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Give yourself a couple of weeks following high-density nutritional supplementation first (and use whole food-based supplements, not the cheap chemical multivitamins sold at retail).
One of the best products you can get to assist with this is called astaxanthin. Astaxanthin will greatly boost the antioxidant count in your tissues, protect you from sunlight, and function as an internal sunscreen. |
Mike Adams
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| First, you have to engage in nutritional supplementation if you're going to get outstanding nutrition. It simply isn't possible without turning to nutritional supplements. If you're going to take nutritional supplements, you basically have three forms: powders, pills and foods. All three forms should be and can be part of your diet. The key to getting optimal nutrition in these superfood supplements is to find superfoods that are very high in nutrient density but low in bulky fiber or carbohydrates. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I engaged in heavy nutritional supplementation and remineralization (both the macro minerals like calcium and magnesium, plus trace minerals). Over time, I lost 50 pounds of body fat and have kept it off for years. My "before" pictures are so embarrassing that I still refuse to post them publicly, but believe me, I was borderline obese and diabetic.
If you're interested in using hoodia as part of a serious weight loss program, then I recommend going with one of the companies mentioned above. There may be others who offer honest products that I'm simply not aware of. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Russell Blaylock explains, "With nutritional supplementation, the elderly can avoid flu vaccination altogether. In my own clinical experience, supplementation dramatically reduces the incidence of ALL viral infection. And should that person become infected with a particularly virulent strain, the severity of the illness is dramatically reduced. This protection also includes such diseases as smallpox and anthrax."
So, there you have it from a doctor who has the courage to stand up and tell the truth, and the brains to be an independent thinker. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can see what the clear symptoms are, and you can approach this with the herbal remedies or with additional nutritional supplementation. We get a 95 percent success rate in all the animals that try that. You're going to have 5 percent of animals that are going to need medication for the lifetime, either insulin for diabetes or a steroid for an autoimmune problem.
Let me talk briefly about the diabetes. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| Thus, individuals with CHF might benefit from a comprehensive program of nutritional supplementation.
The male hormone testosterone has also been studied in Europe as a potential treatment for heart disease. Testosterone deficiency appears to be relatively common in heart patients, and treatment with this hormone is said to improve various heart and blood-vessel disorders." Measuring free testosterone in the blood is more reliable than measuring total testosterone, because the former is the more biologically active form of the hormone. |
| Consequently, we recommend a broad-spectrum approach to nutritional supplementation, rather than merely picking a few of our favorite nutrients. The importance of a comprehensive approach is illustrated by a double-blind study in which a very low-dose (but relatively complete) vitamin-and-mineral supplement reduced the incidence of infections in elderly people by more than 50%.15
Role of Thyroid Hormone
The thyroid gland plays an important role in immune function. For example, white blood cells from hypothyroid individuals have an impaired capacity to kill bacteria. |
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