Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Buy herbs and vitamin supplements only from reputable manufacturers. At the time of this writing, there are no federal regulations establishing purity criteria for dietary or herbal supplements. That means that you have no guarantee that you'll get what you're paying for. Investigations have found that some preparations of ginseng, for example, contain none of the product at all. Other times the dose may be more or less than listed. Your best bet is to buy from a company you trust. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 The Whole Body Needs Healthy Foods
Good physicians who treat fracture cases, especially doctors who are nutrition and health-minded make sure that every possible measure is taken to promote the finest nutrition possible to mend and build new bone cells.
The cells in our skin, including the hair-building cells, need continual healthy nourishment. This becomes more evident and compelling when we remember that skin is constantly being shed and replaced, and that hair grows continuously - day and night, year after year. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| And they got all this without the benefit of bread, milk, fortified cereals and vitamin supplements.
Going against the Grain
One of the most controversial areas in ancestral nutrition is the proper role of grains and dairy products—the "new foods" —in our diet.
Some proponents say that grains and dairy are foods our bodies weren't designed to eat and haven't "learned" to use effectively. "We're taught that grains and dairy are necessary for proper nutrition, but humanity did just fine without them for two million years," says Loren Cordain, Ph.D. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 His vitamin supplements include vitamins B and C, both of which have now been shown important in dementia prevention, as well as Siberian ginseng root bark. Up to the age of 94, he maintained a full schedule of board meetings and charitable functions, and his mind remained as clear as a bell until an unfortunate fall took his life.
The historical use of herbal medicines to treat dementia diseases like Alzheimer's varies according to the different traditions. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Intake of Vegetables, Fruits, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin C and vitamin supplements and Cancer Incidence Among the Elderly: A Prospective Study," British Journal of Cancer (1992 Oct) 66(4), October 1992, p. 673-679.
This double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the relationship between ascorbic acid and large bowel adenomas. 3 g/day of ascorbic acid reduced polyp area in the treatment group at nine months of follow-up and resulted in a trend toward the decrease in both area and number of rectal polyps midway through the trial.
—H.J. Bussey, et al. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 For prevention and health maintenance, if you alternate fresh juice on one day and a blended broth on another, you will enrich your diet immensely, and save money on vitamin supplements. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
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| The participants in this study who, on their own, had taken vitamin supplements, did better on difficult visual and spatial tests and on tests of abstract thinking.
As these studies make clear, supplementing your diet with essential vitamins and minerals is an absolute must if you are interested in slowing down the aging process and sustaining optimal function. Let's look at the individual nutrients that have been identified as having important roles in brain health. Table 4.1 on page 100, presents a listing of these nutrients as well as their recommended daily dosages. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.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. |
Dr. Vern Cherewatenko and Paul Perry
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 Fight oxidation with vitamin supplements.
7. Stay stress-free.
8. Monitor your progress daily.
9. Pursue a positive attitude.
Although this may seem like a lot to do, this advice must be followed to foil a disease like diabetes, even if you decide to use prescription medication.
Unlike the "old days," when people took medication and did litde else to fight chronic disease, more people are willing to be actively involved in treating their condition and preventing complications. |
Michael Janson, M.D.
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 A Change of Direction
I became interested in vitamin supplements and diet through the influence of a fascinating older Norwegian psychologist/musician/nutritionist named Kaare Bolgen, who convinced me that I hadn't learned everything in medical school. At the time, this was a shocking revelation. I also developed a healthy skepticism of many medical treatments. I was a hospital resident, training m pathology, and I saw first hand in the morgue the results of many dangerous lifestyle choices, as well as the overuse of some surgical heart treatments. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 To remain healthy, rely on whole foods (since many chemopreventive agents are destroyed by heat or food-processing techniques) in conjunction with vitamin supplements.
Vitamins and Nutrients
Many vitamins and other nutrients are also chemopreventive: beta-carotene, minerals such as zinc and calcium, fish oils such as omega-3 fats, and nondigestible fibers. Pharmaceutical companies are also developing synthetic drugs reputed to be chemopreventive, including retinoid derivatives and various compounds.
Healthful Benefits of Fiber
Fiber inhibits intestinal tumors. |
| When in doubt, take vitamin supplements.
After all, vitamins are essential nutrients. Without them disease and premature death can occur. Using vitamins is a major anticancer defense.
How Do Vitamins Protect?
Enzymes are highly specialized proteins that accelerate chemical reactions taking place in the body. Without these speeded-up chemical reactions, life as we humans know it would be impossible. Most enzymes require cofactors to work efficientiy, such as water-soluble vitamins and minerals. The human body can make proteins, but vitamin cofactors must be obtained from the diet. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Sources of Exposure: Vitamin D is found in vitamin supplements and vitamin D3 is a component of certain rodenticides.
People at risk of toxic exposure include people taking vitamin D to prevent or treat osteoporosis and food faddists taking large daily doses of fat-soluble vitamin preparations.
Route of Exposure: Ingestion.
Symptoms of Exposure: Excessively high doses of vitamin D may cause muscle weakness, apathy, headache, loss of appetite, smell distortion, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and bone pain. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| Before vitamin supplements and meal-replacement shakes. Before breakfast cereals—and even before bread—human beings got by.
For hundreds of thousands of years before the first crops were planted, our early ancestors fed themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering vegetables, seeds, nuts and fruits.
That this diet sustained our species for more than a million years is a matter of historical record. That it's still a viable way to eat—a way to get the fuel our bodies were designed to use—is a nutritional philosophy propounded by scientists like S. Boyd Eaton, M.D. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Biotin is incorporated in some multiple vitamin supplements and, more frequently, in Vitamin B Complex concentrates.
Vitamin B12
Unless one is on a purely vegetarian diet, intake of Vitamin B12 is likely to be adequate, since it is supplied by such protein foods as meat, poultry, eggs, fish, cheese, and brewer's yeast, with very rich supplies in such seafoods as shrimp, oysters, and clams. Our interest in Vitamin B12 stems from its action in the body in synthesis of other factors which are lipotropes, and thereby affect liver function. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Many years earlier, this same message appeared in the November 1981 issue of a Life Extension Foundation publication entitled Anti-Aging News, pp. 85-86.)
Conventional medical journals have published hundreds of new studies in recent years that unequivocally link elevated homocysteine to greater risk of heart attack and stroke. As a result of these findings, some cardiologists suggest that coronary artery disease patients take a multivitamin supplement to lower their homocysteine levels. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 You can avoid much of the risk from free radicals by careful cooking habits and careful handling of oils, and by taking vitamin supplements. While most studies show clear benefits from taking various antioxidant supplements, one or two studies have seemed to cast doubt on this practice. However, there have been complicating factors in these studies, and the results are not all they appear to be. See chapter 16 for a closer look at this controversy. |
| This may reflect the fact that women with a higher health consciousness may take vitamin supplements or vitamin-rich foods, but it may also be related to the antioxidant properties of vitamin C. There is also strong evidence that the other primary antioxidants, the carotenoids and vitamin E, also support cardiovascular health (see chapter 16 for more on this).
Vitamin B6 is especially important for cardiovascular health because it's involved in metabolic pathways that actually remove cholesterol buildup. |
| To back up the chelation therapy, we also modified Josef's diet and gave him a regimen of vitamin supplements. Interestingly, his cholesterol had never been that high, averaging around 185, but he did have a very low level of HDL, which had been overlooked as a potential cause of problems. His cholesterol was originally about 185, but his HDL was only about 24 —a ratio of almost 8:1. We got his cholesterol down to about 165 and his HDL up to about 38, for a 4:1 ratio. He's also lighter. Though he wasn't really heavy to begin with, he's now shed 12 to 15 pounds —a spry fellow, full of energy. |
| We can test for homocysteine in blood serum and urine, and the good news is that high levels can be brought down by vitamin supplements, especially vitamin B6, vitamin B12, choline, betaine, and folic acid. The recommended daily supplements for people with high homocysteine levels are:
Folic acid: 5 milligrams per day
Vitamin B6: 100 milligrams per day
Vitamin B12: 1000 micrograms (1 milligram) per day
Betaine: 500 milligrams per day
Phophatidylcholine (PC): 1000 milligrams per day
The test for homocysteine is easily performed but not commonly available. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 This would not have happened through diet and vitamin supplements alone, as she had been diligent in those areas. She did not see any concrete improvement until she began the intravenous vitamin protocol.
This nurse is not alone. There are hundreds of people just like her who eliminated viruses, bacteria, and diseases completely from their systems, solely by following the program I have developed for you.
This taught me that, in many cases, proper diet alone was not enough, nor was exercise or stress management. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 Most of us get far more iron than our bodies need, partly because it
THE DANGERS OF OIL AND IRON is in vitamin supplements, but also because the meat-based diets most of us were raised on contain enormous amounts of a highly absorbable form of iron. The excess iron that accumulates in our bodies simply waits, ready to cause damage. It is easy to check how much iron is stored in your body and, if it is excessive, to get rid of it. Here is what you do:
1. Check your iron status with these blood tests. |
Richard Lucas
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 Because of the restricted diet, the medics considered it important to administer vitamin supplements such as A, D, and the B vitamins, but were certain that lecithin was the agent responsible for the therapeutic effects on the condition of psoriasis.
Of the 235 patients, 155 were considered adequately treated, and the rest either refused to cooperate or abandoned the program before definite conclusions could be reached. Of those who followed the regime, only 37 experienced no improvement. Twenty-three became well and remained well after one year of treatment and three years of observation. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 Since B12 can't be produced by the body itself, you have to ingest it in your diet or in vitamin supplements. But without adequate TH levels, your body can't absorb this essential vitamin, no matter how much you ingest.
THYROID AND VITAMIN C
Vitamin C is also a key supplement that can facilitate the production of TH, and vitamin C deficiencies can cause gross disorders in TH production. Guinea pigs, like people, don't manufacture vitamin C in their own bodies. |
| And treatment with thyroid and vitamin supplements had in effect reversed the aging process.
HOW YOUR BODY MAKES THE THYROID HORMONE
In order to be sure you're getting all the thyroid hormone (TH) your body needs, it's helpful to understand how your body makes it. The whole process begins with the hypothalamus, the body's "thermostat" which regulates many hormonal activities. When the hypothalamus determines that blood levels of TH have fallen too low, it sets a chain of activity in motion by discharging thyroid releasing hormone (TRH). |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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| Diabetics can benefit greatly from vitamin supplements. I recommend taking a multivitamin twice each day, as well as the following:
• Vitamin C (2,000 mg), which makes collagen and keeps capillaries strong.
• The B vitamins, including niacin, zinc, and other minerals, which are important for sugar metabolism.
• Vitamin E and essential fatty acids (EFAs), which are important for cell membrane stability.
• Alpha-lipoic acid, which protects nerves, decreases insulin resistance, and can reverse neuropathy. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| I bring this up because it is necessary to give you several cautions which do not arise from characteristics of vitamin supplements, but from the quirks of the biochemistries of some of those who may take them.
1. The recommendations in this book are intended for "normal" women. (I said they could be cured, remember?) They are not intended for self-treatment of disease. If you have cystic mastitis or uterine fibroid tumors or endometriosis, you are not average, and the diet and supplements should not be used without your physician's knowledge. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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| Unlike Ornish, I also add nutrient and vitamin supplements to the prescription because of the abundant evidence that nutrients like antioxidants, magnesium, and essential fatty acids can play a role in preventing or reversing heart disease.
There are many nuances to the issue of diet and nutrients, and we've got to accept that this is a complex area with no simple, ideological answers. Dean Ornish contends, for example, that the best diet is one that is high in complex carbohydrates, devoid of oil, devoid of animal protein, because that is what will lower the cholesterol. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| That, in fact, is one of the reasons for the use of the vitamin supplements, not only to meet needs increased by prior deficiency, but as a kind of diet insurance which compensates for losses in cooking and processing and for differences in tolerance for good foods.
You needn't think, then, that you're going to escape the nutritionist by announcing that whole-wheat bread makes you break out in cupcakes, for there is a recipe for a type of white bread which gives you whole-grain values, and is very often tolerated by those who can't adapt to the roughage of whole grains. |
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