Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 With such a diet, vitamin supplements are a must. Diets such as these are usually less than 2,000 calories per day and so lead to weight loss—a side benefit. On the other hand, your body can't get all of the vital nutrients it needs from fruits and vegetables alone, so this diet can be dangerous; that's the reason vitamin supplements are critical. As you can see, this is a very strict diet that you may decide is not terribly practical even to consider. The bottom line is that these diets can help, but they are very demanding and in this regard not terribly practical. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Consult pages 51 -52 in Chapter 3 for more on homocysteine and how to lower it with B vitamin supplements. torn number) at rest, it needs to be brought down. Diabetics and those with kidney disease are recommended to maintain their blood pressure below 130/80. If you don't do so, you are putting yourself at risk for heart disease and stroke.
In recent years, those with systolic blood pressure between 120 and 139 or diastolic pressure between 80 and 89 have been told that they are "prehypertensive. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Jonathan Wright uses cinnamon extract as a component in vitamin supplements he designed for modulating blood sugar.
According to Broadhurst, one of the best parts of the whole cinnamon story is that you can get the best results with the cheapest stuff. In fact, she told me that you're better off getting the really cheap stuff from the supermarket instead of any of the esoteric and expensive oil extracts, which may have some components that could be toxic if taken internally. Cinnamon powder has already had much of the essential oils removed during processing, so it's a nonissue. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Needless to say, I believe there is great value in learning more about this major killer, especially when you realize that you can correct it simply by taking B vitamin supplements.
What Is Homocysteine?
The history of homocysteine research is a fascinating one, beginning with the career of Dr. Kilmer McCully. A promising pathologist and researcher who graduated from Harvard Medical School in the mid-1960s, Dr. McCully enjoyed studies that involved the connection of biochemistry with disease. |
| Liz and her friend were aware of my negative attitude toward vitamin supplements, so Liz knew she would need my blessing before trying them. When she asked, even I was surprised at my response: "Honey, you can try anything you want. We doctors certainly are not doing you any good."
Presuppositions Put to the Test
To be honest, I knew next to nothing about nutrition or nutritional supplementation. In medical school I had not received any significant instruction on the subject. I was not alone. |
| Her friend brought a collection of vitamin supplements to our house the next day—heavy on the antioxidants: nutrients like vitamin E, vitamin C, and beta-carotene that protect the body against the harmful effects of oxidation. Liz eagerly swallowed them and downed two health drinks as well. To my amazement, within three days she obviously felt better. I was happy for her but confused. As subsequent days passed, Liz gained more energy and strength and even stayed up later in the evenings. |
| Let me show you the same medical evidence that made me believe that vitamin supplements can protect and improve health.
Please do read or at least scan the entire book. I know the temptation is to jump ahead to the specific chapter that discusses your health problem. But it is important that you become aware of the foundational information on how your body functions and what it needs to protect itself and become or stay healthy.
One final request: Since it's your health and life that are at stake, I encourage you to hear me out and withhold judgment. |
| After a period of time ranging from three to six months, without exception each patient reported improvement after taking the vitamin supplements. Not everyone had as dramatic a health rebound as my wife, but all were encouraged and had fresh hope.
One of these women's cases was particularly severe. She had sought answers at the Mayo Clinic and two different pain clinics, but because there really is no effective medical treatment for fibromyalgia, she found no consistent relief. A year earlier pain had so beaten her down that she had attempted suicide. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The compounds in the vitamin supplements include methyl donors—molecules that form the methyl groups that become these genetic stop signs.
Thin and brown weren't the only benefits the mice gained through methylation. The agouti gene in mice is linked to higher rates of diabetes and cancer. The mice with the switched-off agouti genes had significantly lower rates of cancer and diabetes than their parents.
Of course, we've long understood the basic idea that good nutrition in an expectant mother is important for infant health. |
Jack Challem
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 For years I had taken various vitamin supplements, but I paid little attention to what I was eating. By the mid-1990s, I was in denial of having a cluster of prediabetic symptoms (insulin resistance, belly fat, increasing blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol and triglycerides). My intraocular eye pressure, a risk factor for glaucoma, was also elevated at 21 and 22 mgHg.
In 1997,1 went to the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International, where Hugh Riordan, M.D., oversaw the most comprehensive medical and nutritional workup I had ever experienced. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| The mice in the experimental group mated as well, but the expectant mothers in this group got slightly better prenatal care— in addition to their normal diet, they were given vitamin supplements. In fact, they were given a combination of compounds that is a variation on the prenatal vitamins given to pregnant women today—vitamin B12, folic acid, betaine, and choline.
The results rocked the genetic world. Fat yellow female mice that had mated with fat yellow male mice had thin brown babies. That seemed to throw everything the scientific community understood about heredity up in the air. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Two new studies question the conventional wisdom that folic acid and B vitamin supplements cut cardiovascular risk. Healthcare practitioners have often prescribed these supplements in an attempt to reduce blood levels of homocysteine, a protein that has been linked to heart attack and stroke. However, the new research suggests that lowering homocysteine by supplementation has no effect on preventing heart attacks—and that these supplements may even trigger a slight rise in heart attack risk.
B vitamins do not prevent heart disease. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 This broad vitamin and mineral intake can be found in a variety of proprietary vitamin supplements, so should be easy for you to take. It doesn't quite cover everything an asthmatic requires, though, so we recommend that in addition you should take extra Vitamin A and Vitamin D, preferably in the natural and concentrated form of a cod liver oil capsule, along with 2000-2500 mg of Vitamin C using ascorbate acid or rosehip juice (see advice above on building up the dose slowly). |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 For instance, Deepak Vivekananthan, Mark Penn, Shelly Sapp, Amy Hsu, and Eric Topol from the Cleveland Clinic wrote in 2003 that "the use of vitamin supplements containing beta-carotenes and vitamin A, beta-carotene's biologically active metabolite, should be actively discouraged because this family of agents is associated with a small but significant excess of all cause mortality and cardiovascular death [i.e. death from any cause or death from heart disease]. We recommend that clinical trials of beta-carotene should be discontinued because of its risks ... |
| Prevention of neural-tube birth defects is accomplished with 400 meg of folic acid daily, obtained from food and/or vitamin supplements. Foods high in folate include leafy vegetables like lettuce and spinach as well as asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, and lentils. Folate is routinely added to a variety of food products because it has been shown to reduce the number of birth defects related to neural-tube defects when given to pregnant mothers. |
| Feskanitch and colleagues followed 72,337 nurses from 1980 to 1998 and showed that women in the top 20% of vitamin A intake (through diet and vitamin supplements such as multivitamins) had a 48% increase in hip fracture compared with women in the bottom 20% of vitamin A intake.2
I don't want to leave you with the impression that vitamins and supplements are always dangerous, because they are not. Nor do I want to leave you with the impression that vitamin and nutrient supplementation of the food supply is always a bad thing. However, if you are a resident of the U.S. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 Cancer-Busting Vitamins
Something is amiss in the controversy surrounding vitamin supplements. Some say vitamin supplements are completely unnecessary, while many vitamin guzzlers swear by them. If you followed the Cancer-Busting Regimen and lived in an ideal world then you would not need vitamin supplements. Unfortunately, in today's world no one lives pollution-free, and many of us are relying on a Western diet low in cancer-curbing agents. When in doubt, take vitamin supplements.
After all, vitamins are essential nutrients. Without them disease and premature death can occur. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Please refer to those pages to discover in more detail why B vitamin supplements are a good idea for anyone using medicines that deplete those vitamins.
The other depletions of concern here are the minerals calcium, zinc, and iron, and vitamin D. |
Jack Challem
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| We all hear about how better nutrition, more exercise, and vitamin supplements could save the United States (and other nations) billions of dollars in health-care costs. So why doesn't the health-care system focus on prevention? The reason is really very simple. If we were to save, let's say, $10 billion in health-care costs, someone else would lose $10 billion in revenues. Junk-food companies, drug makers, surgical instrument companies, hospitals, and physicians would probably be the biggest losers. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Essentially, one or more of the compounds in the vitamin supplements fed to the expectant mothers reached down into the mouse embryos and nicked the agouti gene into the "off" position. When the baby mice were born, their DNA still contained the agouti gene, but it wasn't expressed—chemicals had attached to the gene and suppressed its instructions.
This process of genetic suppression is called DNA methylation. Methylation occurs when a compound called a methyl group binds to a gene and changes the way that gene expresses itself, without actually changing the DNA. |
Bill Sardi
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 A study involving patients with non-small cell lung cancer also shows that survival is improved among users of vitamin supplements.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recently, I was being illegally frisked and searched by TSA authorities at an airport when they noticed I had all sorts of vitamin supplements in my luggage. They said, "What are those?" I said, "Well, I'm a nutritionist and these are all my vitamin supplements." All of a sudden, I was surrounded by three or four TSA employees who started asking me what supplement they should be taking, because they're looking for a good multivitamin, but they don't know what to take. I told them, "Hey, the only thing you need is this Alive supplement by Nature's Way. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Other products, such as bottled water, infant formulas, and even vitamin supplements, now contain fluoride! In 2002, nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population was supplied water via public water systems, and around 67 percent of that number received fluoridated water. This occurred in spite of the fact, "No statistically significant differences were found in the decay rates of permanent teeth or the percentages of decay-free children in the fluoridated, non-fluoridated, and partially fluoridated areas."76
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) typically label sodium fluoride as "... |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| On the other hand, your body can't get all of the vital nutrients it needs from fruits and vegetables alone, so this diet can be dangerous; that's the reason vitamin supplements are critical. As you can see, this is a very strict diet that you may decide is not terribly practical even to consider. The bottom line is that these diets can help, but they are very demanding and in this regard not terribly practical. But if you are interested in trying one of these, I would recommend that you do so in close consultation with a nutritionist. |
Andreas Moritz
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 These factors include overstimulation, dehydration, fatigue, overeating, consuming highly processed foods, gallstones, blood pressure disturbance, digestive disorders (especially constipation), prescription or narcotic drugs and vitamin supplements. (See more on these subjects in later chapters.)
When the kidneys are not able to separate the necessary amounts of urine from the blood, part of the urine keeps circulating around the body, thereby depositing urinary waste products in the blood vessels, joints, tissues and organs. |
| Artificial sweeteners will reverse the recovery even if everything else is followed (see Aspartame and Other Sweet Killer Drugs in Chapter 14/ Most vitamin supplements don't work for diabetics and may end up in the toilet, but not without first harming the kidneys (see chapter 14). Furthermore, avoid all manufactured beverages and fruit juices. Eat fruits whole, and separate from meals (see chapter 6).
While recovering, try to monitor blood sugar manually. For some time, you may want to use glycemic tables to help you in this regard. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Thiamin is not toxic in food or in the amounts found in most vitamin supplements.
Cooking can reduce thiamin in two ways. Thiamin is destroyed by heat. Also, thiamin is easily leached out of food by water, as seen in Figure 1 -4. To minimize the loss of thiamin and other water-soluble vitamins during cooking, food can be steamed or made into stews and soups.
Thiamin is destroyed by heat and leached out by cooking water
Figure 1-4 Thiamin can be lost in cooking. |
| Folic acid is the form normally used in vitamin supplements and in fortifying food. Folic acid is readily converted to folate in the body. Folic acid is rarely found in food or in the human body. On the other hand, folates are found in food in many naturally-occurring forms. Folates are the metabolically active forms in the human body.
FOLATE ENZYMES
The primary coenzyme form of folate is TetraHydroFolate (THF). THF is needed to transfer one-carbon units. These one-carbon units contain a single carbon atom, which may be added to a compound being biosynthesized. |
Marshall Editions
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 Be sure to take extra B vitamin supplements if you are taking these medications.
Proton pump inhibitors: This class of drugs helps by reducing the secretion of acid in the stomach. They are stronger than antacids and acid blockers and are usually reserved for severe diseases.
Surgery: If the reflux becomes very severe and the esophagus is damaged, then surgery may be required, some of which may be done through new endoscopic procedures.
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Herbs: The herbs below are available from Chinese herbalists or online. |
Bill Sardi
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| It's easy for most Americans to get enough through diet alone, said Tufts University nutrition professor Robert Russell, who chaired the Institute of Medicine panel.
But vitamin supplements - even a regular multivitamin that contains three times the RDA - can push people over safe levels, the report cautioned. Of most concern are megadoses sold in health food stores, often measured in confusing "international units." Know that 10,000 international units is the same as 3,000 micrograms, a dangerous amount, Russell warned. |
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