| For those with chronically low blood pressure, a common feature of celiac disease, caution is also appropriate when supplementing with vitamin B3. Some individuals choose to begin with very small doses.
Vitamin A Supplementation
Vitamin A deficiency is commonly associated with recurring infections, especially in children. Vitamin A deficiency is also the leading cause of blindness in children worldwide. The ability to safely take vaccinations also appears to be closely linked to vitamin A status. Deficiency of zinc and this vitamin may also play a key role in food allergies. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 By choosing foods high in tryptophane, and supplementing your diet with 5-HTP, you can treat depression without prescription drugs. Side effects are practically non-existent—occasional nausea or digestive dysfunction.
The Top Ten Foods High in Tryptophane
1. ALFALFA SPROUTS
2. BEETS
3. BROCCOLI
4. CARROTS
5. CAULIFLOWER
6. CELERY
7. ENOiVE
8. SPINACH
9. TOFU AND SOYBEAN PRODUCTS
10. WATERCRESS
PHENYLALANINE AND TYROSINE: THE OTHER ANTIDEPRESSANT AMINO ACIDS
Previously I mentioned three amino acids. |
David Brownstein
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 Antibiotics can deplete Lactobacillus in the GI tract, resulting in an overgrowth of harmful bacteria and yeast. supplementing with Lactobacillus Acidophilus helps to prevent this overgrowth and also helps to keep the immune system functioning at an optimal level.
There is no safer or more effective treatment than the judicious use of antibiotics in the treatment of many chronic illnesses. With appropriate evaluation and testing, this therapy should be offered to all patients who suffer from a chronic illness such as arthritis. |
Gale Maleskey
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 Over time, supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids can dramatically reduce asthmatic wheezing. Some doctors recommend a daily dose of 1,000 to 3,000 milligrams of fish-oil concentrate or two teaspoons of cod-liver oil. If you want to use flaxseed oil, one tablespoon a day is reasonable, but it may not be as effective as fish oil, doctors say.
Breathe Easier with Bioflavonoids
The best food for helping asthma? Eat more fruits and vegetables, says Dr. Pizzorno. That's because of the special "ingredients" found only in those types of foods. All of them contain bioflavonoids. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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 Here are some guidelines for selecting and using supplements. Any supplementing at levels in excess of the RDAs should be done only in consultation with a physician.
Choose a good multivitamin. A safe and beneficial supplement would be a once-a-day type multivitamin with minerals, says Grabowski. Such a supplement should contain a mixture of all or most of the essential vitamins and minerals and contain close to 100 percent of the RDAs for each.
Be wary of single-nutrient supplements. |
Gale Maleskey
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| New research shows that supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids may alleviate symptoms of disorders such as schizophrenia.
Easy Does It
Although eating more omega-3-rich fish is beneficial to our health, many experts advise against taking fish-oil supplements.
"I know of no compelling reason to supplement," says Gary J. Nelson, Ph.D., research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Western i Human Nutrition Research Center in San Francisco. "If you eat a good variety of foods, you should be getting plenty of fatty acids in your diet. |
| Since chromium may affect blood glucose and insulin levels, people with diabetes or hypoglycemia should consult their doctors before supplementing their diets with brewer's yeast.
Brewer's yeast has also been used to treat eczema, nervousness, fatigue, and constipation. Interestingly, some pet owners believe that brewer's yeast somehow helps their four-legged friends repel fleas and ticks, although there is no scientific evidence that it works.
In general, brewer's yeast has the strong taste of yeasty bread or sweet bread dough. |
| If you're supplementing with brewer's yeast simply because of its chromium content, though, you might want to take a chromium supplement instead, suggests Dr. Anderson. "With brewer's yeast, you don't know what you're getting, because the nutritional quality varies from batch to batch and supplier to supplier," he cautions.
Dr. Brett, however, has had success with prescribing brewer's yeast to her patients who have a personal or family history of diabetes or hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). |
| She adds, however, that people who are deficient in zinc often have taste and smell problems, and in those cases, supplementing with zinc is an excellent remedy to the problem.
Taste for Heavy Metal
Not having enough zinc can make smelling and tasting things like a festive holiday meal a real challenge. Here's why: The cells in your tastebuds and nose that help you to smell depend on zinc. In fact, cells in the salivary glands make a zinc-dependent protein called gustin that is secreted into your saliva. |
Carl C. Pfeiffer
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 We find that supplementing manganese and zinc helps speed up the excretion of excess copper.
The copper controversy
One of the earliest studies implicating high copper in schizophrenia was carried out in 1941 by Dr. Heilmeyer and colleagues. They reported findings of elevated serum copper levels in twenty-three of thirty-seven schizophrenics. In subsequent studies, the same authors found similar serum copper elevation in some manic depressives and epileptics, and also in some cases of alcohol intoxication, infectious disease, and cancer. |
| This finding needs to be confirmed, since we have many patients who have only a trace of lithium in their hair and may therefore benefit from supplementing lithium.
We have used lithium in schizophrenic and other patients for fifteen years. We know that lithium has no effect on hallucinations, but it does allow the nonhallucinatory patient to reduce the effective antipsychotic drug dose. The side effects of large doses of Prolixin are therefore diminshed. The patient is also better able to tolerate hallucinations while on lithium therapy.
Lithium is specific, according to Dr. |
| That having been said, everybody can benefit from supplementing a healthy diet. The five key factors to consider are as follows:
1. Everybody needs enough B6 for nightly dream recall.
2. Everybody needs a source of organic chromium such as is contained in brewer's yeast or chromium GTF tablets.
3. Everybody needs calcium and magnesium such as are contained in dolomite tablets.
4. Everybody needs an optimal dose of vitamin C, which we estimate at approximately 2,000 mg per day for an adult.
5. Everybody needs a dietary zinc supplement daily of about 15 mg. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 The oils naturally found in fish are also healthy fats; if you like fish, eat two to three servings per week, and if you don't, you can consider supplementing your diet with flaxseed oil capsules. Flaxseed oil is an excellent way to help your body regulate its production of hormones while reducing LDL cholesterol at the same time.
Avoid saturated fats, and minimize your use of polyunsaturated oils. The trans-fatty acids that are found in hydrogenated vegetable oil products (such as margarine and many commercial baked goods) should be avoided as well. |
| I strongly recommend that you consult with your physician before supplementing with melatonin.
DMAE
Another interesting compound to consider is DMAE (dimethylami-noethanol). This substance is found in anchovies and sardines, among other foods. A precursor of choline, DMAE increases levels of acetylcholine in the brain. Acetylcholine is needed for learning and memory. DMAE can be taken as a supplement of as little as 100 mg daily and has been found to improve mood, memory, learning, sleep, and energy. I strongly recommend that before taking DMAE, you consult your physician. |
| These two neurotransmitters are directly dependent upon dietary tyrosine. supplementing tyrosine should increase these active neurogenic transmitters in the body. Please note that tyrosine should not be taken in the presence of antipsychotic medications (usually prescribed by physicians) or in the presence of malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
4. Ginkgo biloba, 40 mg three times daily.
5. Saint-John's-wort, 300 mg three times daily. Saint-John's-wort is an herbal remedy for depression. Hypericin, the active ingredient, causes an inhibition of serotonin re-uptake. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Today nutritional supplementing seems both urgent and obligatory. Dr. Yoshihide
Hagiwara, a Japanese Pharmacologists andphysician, developed one of the most powerful whole food concentrates I know, Barleygreen. Barley is a vegetable with outstanding nutritional value that contains chlorophyll, enzymes, minerals, amino acids, vitamins and phytochemicals galore which, on top of providing nutrition, promote detoxification. But, in my opinion, the genius of Dr. Hagiwara's product is what he does to the soil where the barley is planted. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 There are so many other reasons to take vitamin E, however, that those of us interested in health and longevity will already be supplementing it. Recommendation: Take 600 IU vitamin E daily. Begin with a 100 IU dose and check your blood pressure. Some people will suffer an elevation of blood pressure on supplemental vitamin E. If your pressure remains at or below an average of 140/90 on 4 or 5 readings, you may increase to 200 IU. Check again. If your pressure is still normal, increase to 400 IU, and so on, to 600 IU. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Finally, people with diabetes are particularly prone to have poor circulation in their extremities. supplementing with ginkgo is certainly beneficial.
°^ Depression
Ginkgo is an effective natural antidepressant when the depression is related to poor blood flow to the brain. When blood flow improves, more oxygen and nutrients naturally reach the brain cells as well as extremities.
Ginkgo also improves the activity of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemical messengers. |
Gary Null
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 Within twelve months of supplementing your diet faithfully with this natural food, you should be rewarded with regularity at last. You can take it safely as you need it—up to four teaspoons a day, always accompanied by fluids. When you reach this stage, you can reduce your intake by half, if that is sufficient.
This may sound like impossible folk medicine; but it is much safer and more effective than most of the products your druggist can offer you. But it is also wise to have a complete physical to rule out any serious organic disease or a food allergy. |
| Here's an idea: throughout the year, follow a simple regimen of supplementing your diet with D by taking fish liver oil or a capsule. As winter comes on, increase your intake. That way you will actually be strengthening your bones against cold weather discomfort.
Older people are especially hard hit by bone disease. Statistics tell us that bone structure begins to weaken as we pass the age of thirty-five. In fact, the total bone mass decreases as much as io percent in women and 5 percent in men for every decade past that age. |
| If you should observe any of these deficiency symptoms in yourself or in someone you love, see a doctor and follow his instructions for supplementing your diet. The result may be a significant improvement in your health!
Some doctors believe that children who have been nursed and weaned may not be getting all of the vitamin D they need. The 15 to 40 I.U. per liter of mother's milk is not nearly enough to satisfy the child's requirements, especially when you consider the RDA for infants is 400 I.U. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 B-complex group produced a significant decrease in symptoms.
• Bioflavonoids: Supplements of this member of the vitamin C complex appear to actually inhibit excessive estrogen synthesis (Kellis et al. 1984).
® SUMMARY
The need to modulate the relative levels of the primary female hormones is of critical importance throughout life. Proper hormone replacement therapy not only alleviates menopausal symptoms, but also helps prevent common disorders such as PMS, endometriosis, several types of cancer, sexual dysfunction, fibroid tumors, osteoporosis, and possibly Alzheimer's disease. |
| CoQiq during chemotherapy or radiation therapy; these sections should be carefully studied before dosing.
Food sources of CoQiq include mackerel, salmon, and sardines along with beef, peanuts, and spinach.
Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)—is a trace fatty acid that inhibits tumor formation and metastasis, suppresses arachidonic acid, and encourages apoptosis
Researchers at the Roswell Patk Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY) showed that CLA, derived mainly from dairy products, reduced the incidence of bteast cancet (Ip 1999). |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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| Areas of the brain where the seizure activity begins often test low in this amino acid in medical research studies. supplementing taurine may decrease seizure frequency and may allow you to reduce the doses of medication needed to control your seizures. Recommendation: Begin with 250 mg taurine per day. After 2 weeks, increase to 500 mg, then 750 mg, and finally 1000 mg (if needed), remaining at the new dose for at least 2 weeks before progressing. Stop at the dose level at which you begin to experience fewer seizures. Do not advance beyond 1000 mg. |
| Phytates (binders in green leafy vegetables and grains) can reduce your ability to absorb copper from foods.
• supplementing vitamin C in high doses can decrease your absorption of copper from food if you take your vitamin C with meals. Your best bet is to take your vitamin C by itself.
• Zinc in its ionic form can compete with copper to be absorbed through the ion channel in your cells. If you supplement minerals in chelated form, deficiencies caused by competition for entry into the body will not occur. |
| Therefore, if you take a dose of folic acid greater than 1 to 2 mg per day, you must be certain that you do not have a deficiency in vitamin B12 by having your physician check its level in your blood or by supplementing with B12, preferably in shot form to preclude any chance of your not absorbing it.
• Phenytoin (Dilantin), used for seizure control, competes with folic acid for absorption into the body. Each tries to prevent your intestine from properly absorbing the other. |
Gary Null
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| The FDA prohibits the marketing of iodine is large supplements; but kelp tablets—many per day—may be useful in supplementing your diet if necessary. For supplements as treatment for a specific condition, see your physician.
Iron: Vital and Dangerous
What Is Iron?
The dictionary defines iron as "a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, used in making tools," etc. How does this simple definition apply to the iron that is so often touted as vital to preventing fatigue and "poor blood" in our bodies? |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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| Paradoxically, although alcohol abuse often leads to a deficiency of vitamin A and to the development of symptoms from its lack, supplemental vitamin A may sometimes worsen the liver damage brought on by chronic alcohol abuse; therefore, I urge you to take care in supplementing this vitamin at a level above 5,000 IU to 10,000 IU per day if your physician has told you that your blood chemistry profile shows any indication of liver damage. |
Gary Null
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| They might interfere with your digestion. Try supplementing for magnesium with your between-meal snacks, or before bedtime, instead. However, if you want to include a magnesium supplement at mealtime for the sake of convenience, there are two that would be better than others under those conditions: magnesium chloride (the chloride is acid and gives some equilibrium to the magnesium's alkalinity),152 and magnesium oxide, which has a lesser degree of alkalinity than some of the other magnesium supplements.
ARE YOU MAGNESIUM DEFICIENT? |
Earl Mindell
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 Unless you suspect a serious deficiency, a little liver goes a long way in the way of supplementing your pet's diet. (It should not make up more than 25 percent of the cat's usual meal—and should not be given more than 3 or 4 times a week.)
The way dogs process vitamin A allows them to tolerate higher doses than humans (only 30 percent of excess accumulates in the liver, the rest is excreted through the kidneys), nonetheless, toxic levels are deemed the same as for humans and an oversupply can cause serious problems. |
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