Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Some clinicians have objected to the use of vitamin supplements on the basis of real or imagined dangers transposed from completely different vitamins than the ones being advocated. For example, we frequently hear that vitamins in general can be dangerous.
When asked for scientific documentation, you'll usually receive stories of toxicity related to megadoses of vitamin A (especially in children), vitamin D excess (which is difficult to document except in serious extremes), liver failure with time-release niacin, or reports on the neurotoxicity of large doses of vitamin B6. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 WHAT'S ON THE SHELVES
Over-the-counter vitamin supplements come in various forms, combinations, and amounts. They are available in tablet, capsule, gel-capsule, powder, sublingual (under the tongue), lozenge, and liquid forms. They can also be administered by injection.
In most cases, it is a matter of personal preference as to how you take them; however, due to slight variations in how rapidly the supplements are absorbed and assimilated into the body, we will sometimes recommend one form over another. These recommendations are given throughout the book. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 DELAYING THE PAUSES
By jump-starting the brain into health through medication, hormonal and vitamin supplements, diet, and exercise, we can cause our body's hormonal levels to rise, delaying the aging process. While you can't stop a genetically programmed pause, such as menopause, by increasing your body's production of estrogen, you may be able to delay it a year or two, or possibly more, and you can certainly prevent it from occurring too early. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 I took vitamin supplements; I made my own yogurt, muesli, and whole wheat bread; nothing changed. I changed the brand of supplements and still nothing changed. I remember so clearly one morning in desperation I cried out to God and asked Him please to give me wisdom and show me where I was going wrong. Within days, I believe He did and the Natural Way is the result. Now for more than twenty years I have not had a doctor's bill because of ill health (neither has my family) and my weight has been stable at a level that is right for my bone structure and genetics. |
| Nothing made any difference and yet I had tried every medical and non-medical avenue open to me: cortisone creams, nasal sprays, homeopathic remedies, and vitamin supplements. I had no idea that these problems were related to my digestive tract.
It was only when we started combining our food correctly after reading the book Food Combining for Health that I experienced immediate relief. My nose stopped running instantly and my hands took about four days to stop itching and clear up. |
| Ninety to 96 percent of your hard-earned money is being urinated into the toilet and flushed away when you take vitamin supplements!
For years, the dairy industry has been telling us that milk, milk products, yogurt, and cheese will prevent osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), yet the countries that consume the most milk and milk products have the most osteoporosis cases and the countries that consume the least dairy have the least brittle bone disease.
One of the most powerful things about the Internet is that it makes it so easy to check out research. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| All vitamin supplements work best when taken in combination with food. Unless specified otherwise, oil-soluble vitamins should be taken before meals, and water-soluble ones should be taken after meals.
VITAMINS FROM A TO Z Vitamin A and the Carotenoids
Vitamin A prevents night blindness and other eye problems, as well as some skin disorders, such as acne. It enhances immunity, may help to heal gastrointestinal ulcers, and is needed for the maintenance and repair of epithelial tissue, of which the skin and mucous membranes are composed. |
Mike Adams
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 The fact that the phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables are potent anticancer agents helps explain why cancer studies involving vitamin supplements have had such lackluster results: The pills contain only a fraction of what the plants have to offer. Until researchers can identify and encapsulate all the myriad healing substances found in plants, it is far wiser to eat the whole foods themselves. This way, you will be getting all their known cancer-fighting nutrients - plus all those yet to be identified.
-Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| During severe attacks, use liquid vitamin supplements for better assimilation and put all vegetables and fruits through a blender. Eat steamed vegetables only. Baby foods are good until healing is complete. Earth's Best produces organically grown baby foods that are available in health food stores and some supermarkets. Add supplemental fiber to the baby food. As healing progresses, gradually add raw fruits and vegetables to the diet. Drink carrot juice, cabbage juice, and "green drinks." Or take chlorophyll liquid or liquid alfalfa in juice. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Overdoses resulting from the inappropriate or excessive use of vitamin supplements can be dangerous. Pigmented fruits (red and yellow) and green or yellow vegetables are the best natural sources of vitamin A. A 100 g portion of carrots supplies nearly three times the RDA.
Vitamin A (Retinol)
Chemical structures of vitamin A (retinol) and provitamin A (fi-carotene)
Vitamin D
Calciferol or vitamin D is found only in animal foods but its absorption may be impaired in people with a diet very high in phytate. |
Jack Challem
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 In a separate study, Scottish and Brazilian researchers found that women who took vitamin supplements had about a 40 percent lower risk of delivering children with either a cleft lip or a cleft palate.
As a general rule, if you are of childbearing age, take a moderately high-potency multivitamin supplement with 400 meg of folic acid. If you have already given birth to a child with a cleft lip or a cleft palate and plan to become pregnant again, take a multivitamin supplement and increase your total folic acid intake to 1,000 to 2,000 meg day. |
| Providing vitamin-rich foods (and, later, vitamin supplements) corrected the symptoms of these deficiency diseases. However, nearly all researchers and physicians at the time made an incorrect assumption: they believed that the symptoms were the early signs of vitamin deficiencies. In truth, the deficiency diseases were actually the most serious and advanced symptoms of vitamin deficiencies, representing a near-total breakdown of normal gene function and biochemistry before death.
In 1939, which might seem like an eternity ago, Dr. |
Paula Begoun
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 If you started taking special vitamin supplements for your hair, it would take months for the effect, if any, to show up. Hair has to grow to be affected by a new addition to your diet. So the promise of instant hair health with a vitamin supplement is sheer nonsense. This includes taking gelatin capsules or consuming gelatin with the hope of making your hair stronger.
Additionally, there are no definitive studies indicating that taking any vitamin changes the texture or appearance of the hair. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 I say in my book do not take "vitamin supplements." The reason I say that is because almost all vitamin supplements sold are sold by companies who, just like the drug companies, are only in it for the money. They are selling you vitamins and minerals that are nothing more than dirt and do little, if any, good. They are usually synthetic man-made vitamins that are not in their natural form. I have talked to the presidents of major vitamin and mineral manufacturing companies and these people, unfortunately, are just as greedy and ruthless as the presidents of the pharmaceutical companies. |
Paula Begoun
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| This is not the same compound as the vitamin D in commercial vitamin supplements.) Calcipotriene is sold in the United States as a topical, odorless, nonstaining ointment and cream under the prescription brand name Dovonex. Other topical agents such as retinoids in the form of tazarotene (Tazorac) have also had success.
More serious systemic medications for severe psoriasis include methotrexate, which blocks a specific enzyme the cell needs to live. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 In a rather astounding recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it stated, "It appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements."337 The surprising aspect of this article is that this is mainstream medicine telling the world that even basic vitamins and antioxidants can prevent serious disease.
Leptin-resistance issues are clear; one either has them or they do not. If someone has leptin resistance-issues, they age faster, and their health deteriorates quicker than necessary. Something can be done and should be done while there is time. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Multiple vitamin supplements plus vitamins E, D, and K are typically prescribed. Phenobarbital or cholestyramine is prescribed for jaundice.
Q Only one-fourth of people who develop this disorder actually go on to develop cirrhosis of the liver. The remaining three-fourths never develop serious liver disease beyond the newborn period.
Q For nutritional recommendations, see cardiovascular disease, page 299.
ATAXIA
People with ataxia experience a failure of muscle control in their arms and legs, resulting in a lack of balance and coordination or a disturbance of gait. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 As for taking vitamin supplements to help with cravings and associated nutrient deficiencies, although some advocate this approach, I do not. Isolated nutrients are unnatural and can lead to chemical imbalances and other problems. Finally, the general care of your body and mind are critical as well when trying to elude the clutches of cravings and addictions of any kind. Exercise, stress reduction and quality, supportive relationships can all help in this regard.
A helpful tip for overcoming your desire for certain foods in the psychological department is to stop thinking about them. |
Jack Challem
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| But the risks associated with the MTHFR gene can be offset with good dietary habits (such as eating sufficient leafy green vegetables) or for as little as two cents a day in vitamin supplements, adding up to about seven dollars a year. If insurers are at all shrewd, they will recognize that disease prevention through genetic testing, diet modification, and vitamin supplementation is far more cost-effective than is later treatment with drugs, surgery, and hospitalization. |
| Looking back, I now realize that nutrient deficiencies likely interfered with the genes involved in healing the cyst, a situation that the vitamin supplements corrected.
It was not until the mid-1990s, however, that I started to see a clear connection between nutrition and genes. Bernard Rimland, an autism researcher, happened to tell me about a physician who had used large dosages of vitamins and other supplements to treat children with Down syndrome, a disorder caused by an irreversible genetic defect that leads to physical abnormalities and mental retardation. |
| I mulled over a simple question: if vitamin supplements could undo a significant amount of the genetic damage done by Down syndrome, why couldn't vitamins and dietary changes improve other types of genetic defects or damage? It turned out that other people were thinking along the same lines. Researchers around the world were discovering that vitamins, such as vitamin E and the B vitamin folic acid, could reduce much of the cumulative genetic damage that occurs during the aging process and in many diseases.
Shortly afterward, I had an opportunity to experiment on myself. |
| However, Barbara's physician had read recent medical journal reports showing that moderately high doses of some vitamin supplements could reduce the symptoms of sicklecell anemia. He recommended that she take these supplements, including 800 IU of natural vitamin E, 4,000 mg of vitamin C, 1,000 meg of folic acid, 500 meg of vitamin B12, and 4,000 mg of garlic supplements.
After several weeks Barbara's painful episodes began to decline. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Because the doctors adjusted for other mortality factors, the findings of this study suggest that cancer patients should take vitamin supplements (Jatoi etal. 1998).
2. A more specific study looked at a group of transitional cell bladder cancer patients. One group was given BCG (tuberculosis vaccine) immune-augmentation therapy plus the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamins. The second BCG-treated group received the RDA plus 40,000 IU of vitamin A, 2000 mg of vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin E, 100 mg of vitamin B6, and 90 mg of zinc. |
| Comprehensive Treatment
Proper oral hygiene is required for the relief of gingivitis. vitamin supplements, coenzyme Qiq, and green tea can also alleviate the symptoms.
The standard dose of Life Extension Mix (3 tablets 3 times a day) can improve the health of your gums. Life Extension Mix provides more than 2500 mg of vitamin C. Also, coenzyme Qiq in oil-filled capsules should be taken in daily doses of 100-200 mg. Green tea beverages provide direct bacteria-killing, plaque-inhibiting effects for the gums. |
Jack Challem
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 Frus-tratingly, all of the vitamin supplements I had been taking for years didn't seem to help. And then it dawned on me. That scientific meeting in France was about a well-known herbal antioxidant made from French maritime pine bark (called Pycnogenol), and the scientific literature showed it to have powerful anti-inflammatory effects. I started taking it, and within days the pain went away. To rule out the power of suggestion, I stopped taking the supplement for a few days, and the pain returned. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| To achieve this, mineral and vitamin supplements, blood transfusions, vasopressors, histamine antagonists, and glucocorticoster-oids may be administered.
Preventing and Treating Anemia Caused by HIV Antiviral Drugs
Infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is commonly associated with hematologic abnormalities (anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia). A 1998 study by the National Center for HIV stated that "the 1-year incidence of anemia was 36.9% for persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)" (Sullivan et al. 1998). |
| Some in mainstream medicine have attacked the use of vitamin supplements as being potentially harmful, despite published scientific evidence indicating that cancer patients who supplement benefit. The criticism about cancet patients taking supplements is not limited to conventional oncologists. There have also been debates among Life Extension advisers as to what supplements are best for cancer patients to take.
Unlike heart disease, cancer is a very complicated disorder. |
Patrick Holford
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 Check out your diet
Many people would like to believe that as long as they take their vitamin supplements they can keep eating all the "bad" foods that they love. But you cannot rely on diet, supplements, or exercise alone to keep you healthy. All three are essential.
DIET CHECK QUESTIONNAIRE
Score 1 point for each yes answer. Maximum score is 20.
] Do you add sugar to food or drink almost every day?
] Do you eat foods with added sugars almost every day?
] Do you use salt in your food?
] Do you drink more than one cup of coffee most days? |
Jack Challem
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| Physicians also can be as gullible as the rest of us, swayed by the limitations of their own training, pharmaceutical company advertising, and misleading articles that question the value of diet and vitamin supplements.
Nutritionally oriented physicians have suggested that the best way to talk about nutritional therapies with a skeptical doc is to be firm but non-confrontational. Physicians don't have a lot of time to keep up with their specialty, let alone delve into another one, such as nutrition. |
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