Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the FDA battled vigorously against the DSHEA Act in 1994 that finally allowed nutritional supplement manufacturers to make qualified statements on their products, as long as such statements were followed with the quote, "This statement has not been endorsed by the FDA."
We should allow supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their products do when it is based on available clinical evidence. It shouldn't be illegal to speak the truth about the relationship between nutrition and chronic disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA and finally allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about the scientifically-validated health benefits of their products. See FDA tyranny and the censorship of cherry health facts to learn more.
Other health freedom efforts now underway include campaigns to ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising and end the monopoly on drug prices. Organizations such as the Life Extension Foundation and Commercial Alert are supporting grassroots efforts to end the FDA's reign of terror, while many of the FDA's own drug safety scientists like Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But it's also the same system that has created an environment in which natural health supplement manufacturers can flourish. A system in which computer companies like Dell can reinvent the way we get custom-built computers very quickly at remarkably low costs. It serves our consumption interests very well, overall. It spurs creativity and competitiveness, and it promotes innovation.
That's a pretty good economic system. In fact, it's the best created so far. |
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| We should allow supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their products do when it is based on available clinical evidence. It shouldn't be illegal to speak the truth about the relationship between nutrition and chronic disease.
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. |
| Let nutritional supplement makers tell the truth
Yet another excellent suggestion for transitioning to a healthy nation is to allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their supplements do for your health. This is something the FDA has disallowed for decades. They have never allowed manufacturers of nutritional supplements to make true statements about what those supplements can do for your health. |
Mike Adams
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 It is illegal for supplement manufacturers to make these basic statements of truth because the system of medicine that is in power today adamantly enforces censorship, oppression, and tyranny in order to maintain control and restrict information from the public.
My position is exactly the opposite. I believe in sharing information. I believe in freedom of speech and I believe that the information speaks for itself in terms of credibility. That's why I include additional resources throughout this book. It is my mission to share information that genuinely helps people. |
Mike Adams
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| This sort of activity by the FDA should be halted and investigated by the FBI so that nutritional supplement manufacturers can operate in a free environment, without having to watch their back to wonder if the next federally approved "inquisition" is on its way.
Overhaul our atrocious school lunch programs
We should also overhaul our school lunch programs. Currently, school lunches offer terrible nutrition to students. |
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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 Strict regulations restrict supplement manufacturers from advising people on what health conditions an herb or supplement may be used for and on the intake amounts appropriate for a particular condition, so consumers are often left guessing. The Natural Pharmacy was conceived to fill this gap and to give people a credible resource for science-based information about herbs and nutritional supplements, with specific information on what, when, and how much to take, in an easy-to-use format. |
| The Canadian Health Protection Branch requires supplement manufacturers to document that their products do not contain the enzyme thiaminase, found in crude horsetail, which destroys the B vitamin thiamine (page 597). Since alcohol, temperature, and alkalinity neutralize this potentially harmful enzyme, tinctures, fluid extracts, or preparations of the herb subjected to 100°C temperatures during manufacturing are preferred for medicinal use.7
HUPERZIA
Common names: Qian ceng ta, huperzine A Parts used and where grown
Huperzia is a type of moss that grows in China. |
| Sports supplement manufacturers recommend 1 to 10 grams per day of ribose, while heart disease patients and people with rare enzyme deficiencies have been given up to 60 grams per day.
Bromelain (page 481) has been reported in a preliminary study to relieve angina. In that study, 600 people with cancer (page 87) were receiving bromelain (400 to 1,000 mg per day). Fourteen of those individuals had been suffering from angina. In all 14 cases, the angina disappeared within 4 to 90 days after starting bromelain. |
| Sports supplement manufacturers recommend 1 to 10 grams per day of ribose.
Are there any side effects or interactions?
No known side effects have been reported from the use of ribose when consumed in amounts of less than 10 grams per day. Larger amounts may cause gastrointestinal distress such as diarrhea,5 and may lower glucose levels,6 although it is not known whether symptoms of hypoglycemia might result.
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What is it?
Royal jelly is a thick, milky substance produced by worker bees to feed the queen bee. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 It is completely irresponsible for the soy industry or isoflavone supplement manufacturers to promote (or even suggest) that their products are cancer preventing without any reference to individual case history, any real idea of what constitutes a safe dose, or any mention of the fact that soy may increase the risk of cancer. Those soy food or isoflavone manufacturers that proclaim the anti-cancer properties of their products are guilty of giving false hope to millions; but worse, they may be placing consumers at greater risk of contracting the same horrendous diseases they are trying to avoid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've often described this situation as nutritional supplement manufacturers not being allowed to tell the truth about their products. And even looking at your materials, at the end of every presentation: "This is not intended to diagnose or prevent any disease. This has not been evaluated by the FDA," and that's the current regulatory environment. I hope it evolves.
Amazon John: Yeah, we have to be very generic in what we say and at the same time, we are allowed to help people get access to publicly available documentation of studies and things on what individual herbs have done. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Yet another excellent strategy for slashing national health care costs is to allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their supplements do for your health. This is something the FDA has disallowed for decades. They have never allowed manufacturers of nutritional supplements to make true statements about what those supplements can do for your health. |
| This sort of activity by the FDA should be halted and investigated by the FBI so that nutritional supplement manufacturers can operate in a free environment, without having to watch their back to wonder if the next federally approved "inquisition" is on its way.
We should also overhaul our school lunch programs. Currently, school lunches offer terrible nutrition to students. We feed our students refined white flour, added sugars, dead foods, processed foods, hydrogenated oils, and then we send them back to class and wonder why they can't learn or pay attention. |
| We should allow supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their products do when it is based on available clinical evidence. It shouldn't be illegal to speak the truth about the relationship between nutrition and chronic disease.
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. |
C. P. Khare
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 In America, Sabinsa Corporation imported Malabar tamarind from India and marketed the extracted HCA to natural food and food supplement manufacturers under the trademarked name Citrin.
CitriMax, a trademark of Interhealth Co, is a popular over-the-counter Garcinia-product in the US.
CitriMax was tested on 50 overweight people. At the end of the 2-month test period, the group (25 persons) taking the Malabar tamarind-derived HCA (with chromium added) lost an average of 11.1 pounds per person. In the placebo group (25 persons), the weight loss was only 4.2 pounds. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Phenylalanine
The amino acid phenylalanine is the precursor to tyrosine and has been used in numerous studies to successfully treat depression. Many supplement manufacturers will combine tyrosine and phenylalanine, but vitamin B6 should be added to this combination for better utilization.
This amino acid should be avoided by people who have PKU (phenylketonuria), a genetic defect in the body's ability to process and use phenylalanine. This defect can cause severe retardation. If it is caught early enough, retardation can be avoided with a phenylalanine-free diet. |
| Instead, they tried to call Cholestin a drug and ban supplement manufacturers from selling it at all. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 The efficiency of caprylic acid is reportedly so favorable that many supplement manufacturers put it in their products used to fight systemic and vaginal yeast infections. John P. Trowbridge, M.D., President of the American College of Advancement of Medicine and author of the book The Yeast Syndrome, highly recommends caprylic acid as an aid to fight systemic Candida infections.
William Crook, M.D., the author of The Yeast Connection and recognized authority on yeast infections, also recommends it. |
C. P. Khare
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| Some supplement manufacturers promote Alfalfa tablets for asthma and hay fever, but it has been proved in a study that Alfalfa contains neither bronchodilators nor antihistamines.
Caution
Alfalfa seeds should be consumed only in medicinal quantity. They contain toxic amino acid canavaine, which may cause blood disorders.
Meliaceae
Melia azedarach Linn. Habitat
Wild in sub-Himalayan tract at 700-1000 m, cultivated and naturalized throughout India.
Classical and common names
Ayurvedic: Mahaanimba, Ramyaka, Dreka. Unani: Bakaayan. English: Persian Lilac. |
Paul Pitchford
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 Because it is unpatentable, costs very little, is often self-administered, and can theoretically take the place of many other medications, hydrogen peroxide has few backers among the national medical associations, the drug industries, or even the vitamin and supplement manufacturers. Also, many Americans have come to associate medicine for severe illnesses with high cost, and so hydrogen peroxide therapy does not even begin to enter their concept of appropriate treatment. |
| Since supplements containing only synthetic nutrients have neither the integrity nor value of whole food, some supplement manufacturers now create a base for vitamins and other nutrients out of such highly nutritional substances as wheat grass, herbs, yeast, and spirulina. By having an abundance of whole-food nutrients in the presence of synthetic ones, they hope that a synergetic effect will occur and that all the cofactors necessary for efficient metabolism will be present. Taking supplements at mealtime will offer some of these same benefits. |
Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
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 Beginning in 1999, food supplement manufacturers are required to label bottles with a "Supplements Facts" panel, similar to the "Nutrition Facts" label on packages of foods. The label must clearly state the quantity and type of dietary ingredients present in the bottle. This new labeling system makes it easier to compare products for active ingredients.
Nature's Plus makes a supplement called Ultra Juice, which is made by extracting juice from whole foods and combining it with vitamins and minerals and 2,000 milligrams of a phytochemical cocktail in pill form. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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 At present, carnosine supplements are not widely available; however, dietary supplement manufacturers may begin to formulate products containing carnosine in the near future because of its many suspected health benefits. At present, only one product marketed in the United States (MaxiLIFE Phytonutrient Cocktail, manufactured by Twin Laboratories) contains a clinically useful dose of carnosine.
CHROMIUM PICOLINATE
Chromium picolinate is a form of the mineral chromium that has been reported to increase the sensitivity of tissues to insulin. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| This means supplement manufacturers do not have to prove that products are safe or that they have medical benefits; they also need not follow the stringent manufacturing practices for pharmaceuticals, which ensure purity and consistency of drugs. This hole in the regulatory net is a gap the FDA acknowledges needs to be filled.
Vitamins, Minerals, and Unrecognized Nutrients. Two major issues arise when discussing vitamin and mineral supplements. First, because most nutrients can be derived from foods, many experts question the necessity of an individual taking supplements. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Some experts have suggested that the relative safety and potential benefits of ephedra-containing dietary supplements should be viewed within the broader public health context of the prevalence of obesity in America. In December 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D. estimated that 300,000 Americans die each year from illnesses caused or exacerbated by obesity (Anon., 2001b). Satcher said that 62% of Americans are either overweight or obese, compared to 48% in 1980 (Anon., 2001a). |
Linda B. White, M.D.
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 Herbal supplement manufacturers tend to be very careful and conservative in making dosage recommendations. It's wise to follow label instructions, especially at first, unless they are contradicted by your health practitioner or another information source that you trust. One thing product labels won't tell you, though, is that most herbal supplements are formulated for the needs of a 150-pound man. If you're much heavier or lighter than that, consider adjusting your dose accordingly.
For example, divide your weight by 150; multiply the result by the dosage on the product label. |
| Most herb and supplement manufacturers are very concerned about quality, but more and more mass merchandisers are jumping into the sale of herbal products. There are good and bad buys available everywhere. Use the information in this book to read labels knowledgeably and become a good herbal shopper.
As a society, the United States is beginning to focus more on wellness than illness. This shift is partly a result of the changing health-care industry and the emergence of managed-care organizations. But more important, it's because people want to live well as they age. |
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