Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 Nutritional Supplements That May Be Helpful
A clinical report describes the use of vitamin supplements in the treatment of vitiligo.2 Folic acid (p. 297) and/or vitamin B]2 (p. 337) and vitamin C (p. 341) levels were abnormally low in most of the fifteen people studied. Supplementation with large amounts of folic acid (1-10 mg per day), along with vitamin C (1 gram per day) and intramuscular vitamin Bu injections (1,000 meg every 2 weeks), produced marked repigmentation in eight people. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| If they are organically grown, biodynamic-ally grown, or wildcrafted, all the better.
The vitamin supplements listed below are all from nonsynthetic sources, either as whole-food or herb concentrates or derived from plants. The minerals are mostly naturally amino-acid chelated or in a colloidal form, which the body can easily assimilate and utilize.
@E Earthwise nutritional supplements
Allergy Resources 100 Percent Certified Organic Extra Virgin Flax Oil (Allergy Resources). Good source of essential fatty acids.
Aura I (Integrated Health Network). |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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| The use of vitamin supplements and the risk of cataract among U.S. male physicians. Am J Public Health 1994; 84: 788-92.
15. Robertson JMD, Donner AP, Trevithick JR. A possible role for vitamins C and E in cataract prevention. Am J Clin Nutr 1991; 53: 346S-51S.
16. Hankinson SE, Stampfer MJ, Seddon JM, et al. Nutrient intake and cataract extraction in women: a prospective study. BMJ 1992; 305: 335-39.
17. Jacques PR Taylor A, Hankinson SE, et al. Long-term vitamin C supplement use and prevalence of early age-related lens opacities. Am J Clin Nutr 1997; 66: 911-16.
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Bill Gottlieb
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 While you could get the nutrients you need from taking vitamin supplements, the advantage to getting them in fruits and vegetables is that you also
Food Sensitivity: How to Discover the "Healthy" Foods That Can Cause Disease
Orange juice, whole-wheat toast and some low-fat yogurt with a banana on top. Sounds like a healthy breakfast, right? Maybe not, according to David Edelberg, M.D., an internist and | medical director of the American Holistic Center/Chicago. |
| Because of this, it's hard to think of anyone in our society who couldn't benefit from taking vitamin supplements, especially those containing plenty of antioxidants," says Michael A. Klaper, M.D., a nutritional medicine speciahst in Pompano Beach, Florida, and director of the Institute of Nutritional Education and Research, an organization based in Manhattan Beach, California, that teaches doctors about nutrition and its relationship to disease.
"We live in a far different world than our parents did. The sunshine is more oxidizing because of the thinning ozone layer. |
| Many studies show that people who take antioxidant vitamin supplements are at much lower risk of developing age-related changes in the eyes."
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Yoga
You can strengthen eye muscles and improve vision with a series of simple yoga exercises, writes yoga teacher Rosalind Widdowson in her book The Joy of Yoga. She suggests doing the entire sequence of exercises described below once a day in the order listed.
She says that you can do all of these exercises sitting in a straight-back chair, with your feet resting comfortably on the floor.
Distancing. Put your left hand in your lap. |
| So if you exercise a lot, you should definitely take vitamin supplements rich in antioxidants." His recommendation: 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 400 international units (IU) of vitamin E in the natural alpha-tocopherol form and 15 milligrams (25,000 IU) of beta-carotene each day.
Others who may be in special need of vitamin and mineral supplements, according to Dr. |
| The funny thing is, people hear about studies that show vitamin C helps for this and beta-carotene protects against that, so they run to the store and buy a bottle of vitamin supplements, thinking it will help them," says Dr. Stern. "In reality, most of those studies are done with fruits and vegetables, so the benefit may be not only from that particular nutrient but from all of the other compounds in the food."
Among those compounds are other nutrients that also play key roles in boosting immunity, even though they don't get the publicity of the big-name anitoxidants. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 Olsen prescribed vitamin supplements specifically tailored to fibromyalgia. From her clinical experience, Dr. Olsen has found that fibromyalgia sufferers tend to have low levels of B vitamins and malic acid. The supplement formula she typically uses for this deficiency includes vitamin Bi (25 mg), vitamin Bb (75 mg), manganese (2.5 mg), and malic acid (300 mg). "In most cases, I notice a dramatic improvement within 48 hours of beginning the vitamin therapy," Dr. Olsen says. Anika took this formula two to eight times daily as needed. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 This means that you can increase the level of these antioxidants in your brain through your diet or by taking vitamin supplements. There is another system the brain uses to guard against free radicals. This involves three enzymes called catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase. The bad news is that the brain contains only small quantities of these protective enzymes. This leaves the brain quite vulnerable to free radicals produced by disease, toxins, and injury.
As a result, the brain depends on vitamin E and C for its protection. |
Annemarie Colbin
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 Oils and fats, essential or nonessential, are partial foods; and vitamin supplements, regardless of their sources, are so, too.
Nature—our nature—abhors an imbalance. If we consume small amounts of partial foods (white flour or sugar), we can counterbalance them with small amounts of other partial foods (wheat germ or meat). But the higher the amounts of these foods in our daily diet, the wider the swing of the pendulum: The more unbalanced substances we have to compensate for, the stronger will be our feeling of uncenteredness. |
| And you may remember the case mentioned earlier of the young woman who had tiny painful pimples all over her chin, like a beard, which disappeared as soon as she stopped taking her twenty daily vitamin supplements.
The severe, purplish acne that develops on cheeks or chin seems to be related also to the intake of artificial sweeteners, especially in the form of soda pop, in addition to ice cream and peanut butter. At least I've seen it disappear when those foods were removed from the diet. |
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
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 I give patients dietary guidelines and make vitamin supplements available from my office, but I think it's more important to get people to love themselves and listen to their bodies. If people don't care about themselves, they won't follow my advice to exercise, eat right, and not smoke. Information on sensible nutrition is available from many sources, and I urge people to seek it out and become expert. Many patients have lost contact with their physical selves, just as people sitting in a room with a clock grow so used to its ticking that they no longer hear it. |
Richard Leviton
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 When at last Newsweek abandons fustian for details, it excoriates a "self-appointed therapist-herbalist" for charging an $80 fee; it chastises a nonagenarian healer because he once had his medical license revoked for two months; it provisionally exempts vitamin supplements, acupuncture, and macrobiotics from the Grand Inquisitor's pyre only because they are "basically harmless. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| Pangamic Acid is an example of why not to depend upon vitamin supplements as the only way to obtain your needed nutrients. Man can only put in a pill what he is allowed to by government restrictions and by what knowledge he has. Some vitamins are still undiscovered. Nature has these nutrients in the herbs and plants she provides for us. Supplements should be just that—a supplement, not a diet. |
Nicola Reavley
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 This association was particularly striking in the subgroup of21,809 women who did not consume vitamin supplements.24
Similar results have been seen in men. Harvard School of Public Health researchers have assessed the links between diet and heart disease in 39,910 US male health professionals aged between 40 to 75 years of age. Participants responded to a questionnaire in 1986 and were then followed up for four years, during which time there were 667 cases of coronary disease. The results showed a lower risk of disease among men with higher intakes of vitamin E. |
| However, statistics also show that those with higher nutrient intakes are more likely to take vitamin supplements. This means that, in many cases, supplements are taken most often by those who need them least.
The most popular supplements are multivitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, B complex, calcium and magnesium. Recent media coverage of the benefits of herbs such as Echinacea, St John's wort and Ginkgo means that these are also very popular. |
| Sometimes vitamin supplements contain other compounds which may enhance the effectiveness of the vitamin, although this is a much debated issue. For example, natural vitamin C contains compounds known as bioflavonoids which, although they may or may not enhance absorption, possibly have anticancer properties of their own. Yeast grown on chromium and selenium-rich media form organic compounds which may be better absorbed by the body than inorganic salts.
Chelated minerals
Some minerals in supplements are combined with other compounds to make organic forms. |
| Excess riboflavin excreted in the urine causes it to become bright yellow in color, which many people notice when they take B vitamin supplements.
Deficiency
Severe riboflavin deficiency is rare and often occurs with other B vitamin deficiencies. Symptoms include red, swollen, cracked lips, mouth and tongue; aversion to bright light; loss of appetite; weakness; fatigue; depression; anemia; loss of vision; burning and itching of the eyes; and dermatitis. Decreased sensitivity to touch, temperature, vibration and position may occur in the hands and feet. |
| A trial of the effects of vitamin supplements containing folate supplements on the incidence of neural tube defects involving over 4700 women was carried out in Hungary. In the women who did not receive folic acid there were six babies born with neural tube defects. In the group receiving the supplements, there were none.22
Cardiovascular disease
Folic acid supplements may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by reducing homocysteine levels. |
| According to researchers from the University of Washington, antioxidant vitamin supplements may help relieve the symptoms of asthma. The researchers measured the amount of breath expelled by the lungs in 17 asthma sufferers. The subjects took peak flow lung function tests while running on a treadmill and breathing in high levels of polluted air. In those asthmatics whose diets were supplemented with daily doses of400 IU of vitamin E and 500 mg of vitamin C, an 18 per cent increase in peak flow capacity was seen. |
Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon
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 INSTRUCTIONS
These drugs are to be taken before meals and washed down with plenty of fluids. vitamin supplements may be advisable. If used, the supplements should be taken at least one hour before or six hours after the cholesterol medicine.
INTERACTIO
It is entirely possible a person could have irregular heartbeats and high cholesterol, and so need both these medicines. Unfortunately, Colestid and Questran bind not only to bile acids, but also to other drugs. They can reduce the absorption of digoxin by 20 to 40 percent, leading to lowered digoxin levels. |
| In fact, some people are afraid to discuss vitamin supplements with their physician because they worry that he or she will be scornful or dismissive. Sometimes this concern is justified. Many medical schools do not give nutrition an important place in the curriculum; some do not teach it at all. As a consequence, the doctor may not know much more than the patient about vitamins, minerals, and their potential impact on health.
Treating nutritional supplements casually or keeping them a secret from the physician could be a mistake, however. |
| See page 103 for a more complete discussion.
B vitamin supplements and Anticonvulsants
As we mentioned, the epilepsy medicine Dilantin (phenytoin) can lower folic acid and vitamin Bg levels in the body. If it were severe enough, this interaction could lead to blood abnormalities; it is possible that it might contribute to high homocysteine levels as well. Correcting the vitamin deficit requires medical supervision, however, because high levels of either folic acid or vitamin Bg might interfere with the efficacy of the medication and result in seizures. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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| Attempts to lower homocysteine by simply changing the diet rather than using vitamin supplements have not been successful.27
While several trials have consistently shown that B^, B12, and folic acid lower homocysteine, the amounts used vary from study to study. Many nutritionally oriented doctors recommend 50 mg of vitamin B6, 100-300 meg of vitamin B]2, and 500-800 meg of folic acid. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
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 He was also seeing an acupuncturist for the pain, taking a full range of vitamin supplements, receiving deep tissue massages on his back, and regularly applying cold packs to the affected area.
Despite all his efforts, Liss says he was not getting significant relief for his pain.
"The pain had taken over and become the focus of my life," he says. "It would often wake me up in the middle of the night. It would be there when I awoke in the morning. It would be there when I worked on clients. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Don't try to "save" a few dollars by getting a cheaper version of prenatal vitamins. Many vitamin supplements do not have the bases or yeasts necessary to process the B vitamins in your body.
Get mild exercise in the open air and sunlight, especially walking. This stimulates the soles of the feet, this is where the term labor comes from. All stages of labor are caused by uterine contractions. Like your heart and stomach, the uterus is an "involuntary muscle." Relaxing or contracting it is not under your conscious control. |
Gary Null
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 Pregnant or lactating women—pregnant women often have reduced levels of a number of vitamins, even though their caloric intake is usually greater than normal, and therefore, they are getting more foods with more vitamins in them. vitamin supplements are often prescribed. Iron, as a mineral supplement, is almost always prescribed as well. » Women on oral contraceptives—studies indicate that birth control pills cause shortages of a number of water-soluble vitamins, including thiamin, riboflavin, B6 B12, folic acid, and vitamin C. |
| It is important to remember that megadoses as well as vitamin supplements also cannot and should not replace a healthful regular regimen of exercise. Some research does indicate that megadoses of specific vitamins or nutrients can aid in certain specific conditions.
It is possible, for example, that depression can be relieved by taking tryptophan (one of the eight essential amino acids) in elevated doses. However, more than one gram daily, should not be exceeded. |
| Alcoholics require a full range of vitamin supplements because drinking results in poor absorption of all vitamins from foods. Heavy smokers need more vitamin C to repair cells damaged by the toxins in cigarette smoke and tars.
The Megadose Controversy_
Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize winner, engaged in an ongoing controversy in the media and the scientific press, and with other medical and biochemical researchers, about the possible values of megadoses of vitamin C to help fight the common cold and for use in a number of other health situations. |
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