| But nutrients—those chemical compounds and minerals in foods that scientists have identified as important to our health—gleamed with the promise of scientific certainty. Eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer, avoid chronic diseases, and lose weight.
Nutrients themselves had been around as a concept and a set of words since early in the nineteenth century. That was when William Prout, an English doctor and chemist, identified the three principal constituents of food—protein, fat, and carbohydrates—that would come to be known as macronutri-ents. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 MAGNESIUM
Magnesium depletion is commonly associated with both insulin-dependent (IDDM) and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), and is one of the most important minerals to replace. Between 25 percent and 38 percent of diabetics have been found to have decreased serum levels of magnesium (hypomagnesemia),141 and supplementation may prevent some of the complications of diabetes such as retinopathy and heart disease.142 One cause of the depletion may be increased urinary loss of magnesium as a result of the increased excretion of glucose that accompanies poorly controlled diabetes. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Poor digestion and overconsumption of refined, processed, and highly acid-forming foods, such as sugar, chocolate, meat, cheese, coffee, soda, and so forth, deplete the body of minerals and vitamins. Adults usually have thirty-two teeth. Each tooth corresponds to a vertebra of the spine, and each vertebra is connected to a major organ or gland. If any of the four canines are decaying, for example, it indicates the presence of gallstones in the liver and gallbladder. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Treatment of Mood Lability and Explosive Rage with minerals and Vitamins: Two Case Studies in Children. Kaplan BJ; Crawford SG. Journal of 'Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 2002 Fall, 12(3):205-219.
Two nonmedicated boys with mood lability and explosive rage demonstrated reduced symptoms while taking a micronutrient supplement. When the nutrient was stopped temporarily, the symptoms returned. Both boys were followed and determined to be stable on the medication for more than two years.
Laboratory-measured Aggressive Behavior of Women: Acute Tryptophan Depletion and Augmentation. |
| I also give my depressed patients a basic multivitamin with minerals. Many depressed people are magnesium-deficient, so I've been using a relatively large amount of magnesium in my practice. I've also incorporated a fair amount of potassium for chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Many of them have potassium problems that are not necessarily picked up by a standard blood test. I check cellular potassium levels rather than the regular blood tests. I use some homeopathic cortisone with certain people with autoimmune disease."
Taurine and cysteine also may be used. |
| Rather than having to rely strictly on 'willpower,' it is possible for individuals to break addictive cycles by achieving metabolic balance, through avoiding the offending foods and supporting the body with a balanced nutritional program of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Often, the cravings will then simply go away. It's quite remarkable: With a good vitamin and mineral product, you can often put a stop to the food allergy and its accompanying symptoms."
Dr. Cass often orders a plasma amino acid analysis, a blood test to determine which amino acids are low. |
| Popper commented, "Psychiatrists do not normally think of vitamins or minerals as modifiers of the effects of psychiatric medications, but the early anecdotal evidence with this nutrient supplement suggests that there may be strong micronutrient-medication interactions. This mineral-vitamin supplement seems to generally potentiate the clinical properties of psychiatric drugs."
Other nutritional remedies that have been shown to be beneficial in treating mood disorders include omega-3 fatty acids, phenylalanine, triiodothyronine, 1-cysteine, folic acid, inositol, vitamin B12, and vitamin C. |
| I use nutritional substances or substances that are natural to the body, either food substances or accessory food factors—such as vitamins or minerals or amino acids—as the treatment of choice for a person's mental disorder. Sometimes the vitamins may be megadoses because a person may be what we call vitamin-dependent on a particular nutrient. For example, some children who are hyperactive or having learning disorders will respond to one vitamin, for instance vitamin Bl (thiamine), and actually might get worse if you give them large doses of vitamin B6. |
| Combine that with binge-purge activity, where a person is losing a lot of the calories and nutrients in the purge cycle, or with anorexia, where they don't consume enough calories to sustain a balanced level of minerals and vitamins . .. you begin to understand this problem."
The zinc connection also may help explain the predominance of eating disorders in females as opposed to males. "We finally realized that zinc is highly concentrated in the male prostate, providing a mineral essential for sperm development," Dr. Schauss says. |
Michael Pollan
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 In addition to these higher levels of minerals, organically grown crops have also been found to contain more phyto-chemicals—the various secondary compounds (including ca-rotenoids and polyphenols) that plants produce in order to defend themselves from pests and diseases, many of which turn out to have important antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and other beneficial effects in humans. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Adding a few grains of uncooked basmati rice to 1 gallon of distilled water gives it minerals and vitamins (or else use the sea salt option), and exposing the water to direct sunlight or placing a clear quartz crystal in the water for an hour helps to restore its vitality. The only machine I know of that produces healthy, energized distilled water is the "Crystal Clear electron water/air machine?" developed by John Ellis (johnellis.com). Its water even eliminates the smell in waste lagoons and septic systems (it kills only harmful bacteria). |
| Adding a pinch of salt to drinking water generates alkaline properties and provides you with important minerals and trace elements.
It may be worth mentioning that food should taste delicious, but not salty, in and of itself. Pitta and Kapha body types require less salt than does the Vata body type.3 (To purchase untreated and unrefined sea salt, see Suppliers List in the Appendix.)
Important Functions of Real Salt in the Body
?Stabilizes irregular heartbeat and regulates blood pressure?in conjunction with water
? |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Failure to eat enough antacid-producing fruits and vegetables high in potassium, magnesium, and calcium means that you end up borrowing from your body's vault of minerals and protein in your bones, muscles, and joints.
Here's how it works: everything you eat is metabolized in the liver, where your body extracts energy and nutrition and produces waste products that are eliminated as urine. Waste is acidic, neutral, or alkaline (antacid), depending on the type of nutrient. Protein leads to acid waste, and vegetables and fruits lead to alkaline or antacid waste. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The situation is different with regard to the gallbladder, where up to about 20 percent of all stones can be made up entirely of minerals, predominantly calcium salts and bile pigments. Whereas diagnostic tests can easily detect these hardened, relatively large stones in the gallbladder, they tend to miss the softer, noncalcified stones in the liver. Only when excessive amounts of cholesterol-based stones (85-95 percent cholesterol), or other clumps of fat, block the bile ducts of the liver may an ultrasound test reveal what is generally referred to as "fatty liver. |
David Steinman
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 But in the last fifty years, many of the most popular vitamin and mineral formulas are derived from almost wholly synthetically created nutrients more likely to have been fashioned from petrochemical starter materials and inorganic minerals in a laboratory than harvested from the Earth." On the other hand, he said, New Chapter takes its wisdom from Nature. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Sugar has highly acid-forming properties and leaches out these minerals from the bones and teeth.
A hard protrusion at the ball of the foot. This condition shows progressive hardening of the organs located in the middle of the body, including the liver, stomach, pancreas, and spleen. It points to the accumulation of numerous gallstones in the liver and gallbladder.
A yellow color of the feet indicates the accumulation of many gallstones in the liver and gallbladder. If the color of any part of the feet is green, then spleen and lymph functions are severely disrupted. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Eat more fruits and vegetables (vitamins and minerals, antioxidants).
•Lower sodium intake.
•Restrict your daily calories.
•Enjoy alcohol in moderation.
Protecting Young Minds
?Promote breast-feeding in your family.
?Support the right of women to breast-feed in public.
?Ensure that all children are able to eat nutritious diets in their formative years.
Exercise
?Elevate your heart rate fifteen to thirty minutes a day, three times a week.
•Pick activities you enjoy.
?Protect your brain when exercising. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For example, I encouraged her to try nutritional supplements like coenzyme Qio, magnesium, L-carnitine, and multiple antioxidants and minerals to complement her current medications in strengthening the heart's pumping action. But I also had to caution Fran. Some of the supplements that she wanted to try could have serious interactions with the medications she was taking.
I'd like to pause a moment to caution you, the reader, about the dangers of taking supplements. |
| Theoretically, as long as we are completely healthy and eat diets high in vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, and as long as we are not exposed to an overabundance of environmental toxins that stimulate free-radical formation, there is no need for coenzyme Qiq supplementation. But how many of us meet all these criteria?
As I said earlier, the body's manufacture of coenzyme Qiq is complex. While it takes place in virtually every cell in the body, especially the liver, coenzyme Qiq synthesis requires multiple vitamins, cofactors, and amino acids. |
| Population studies have linked problems like high blood pressure, hypertensive heart disease, and even coronary artery disease with "soft water;" water containing low quantities of minerals like magnesium. People ingesting "hard water," with its high concentrations of magnesium, were evidently protected from cardiovascular disease and even insulin resistance as well.
I'll never forget receiving a letter from a ninety-four-year-old subscriber of the Sinatra Health Report, and how I was touched as I deciphered his shaky handwriting. The gist of his observations are worth sharing here. |
| I hear her sigh and moan as she scrubs and chisels the whitish deposits left behind by standing water, but as a nurse and my research editor, she now believes in the power of minerals like magnesium. And, after working as a critical-care unit nurse for years, Jan knows that cardiologists just love it! Why?
Magnesium is one mineral that's useful across the board for multiple cardiac conditions that we treat on a daily basis:
?angina ?cerebrovascular accidents (stroke)
?arrhythmias & sudden death ?congestive heart failure
?atrial fibrillation ?heart attack
?arteriosclerotic heart disease ? |
| I believe that everyone should be on a solid core program consisting of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, flavonoids, carot-enoids, B vitamin complex, and mixed tocopherols. In addition, we should take at least 1 gram of fish oil a day regardless of our health. A multivitamin/mineral complex with 1 gram of fish oil is a must for all of us.
In anyone with a history of coronary calcification, coronary artery disease or in those with stents or bypass, I would also strongly recommend vitamin K2. |
| A deficiency in any of the required amino acids, vitamins, and other minerals impairs the endogenous formation of coenzyme Qi0 in the body. Without coenzyme Q10, our bodies cannot survive. As coenzyme Qi0 levels in the cells falls, so does our general health. Clearly, this is a vital nutrient. But what is coenzyme Qiq, and why is it so important and crucial for survival?
Coenzyme Qiq is a fat-soluble compound. It functions as a coenzyme in the energy-producing metabolic pathways of every cell in the body, and it has a powerful antioxidant activity. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Protein for Good Bones
The most important minerals are calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, but without the protein matrix that's the infrastructure of bone, there would be nothing to mineralize. This underscores the importance of getting the right levels of protein every day of the week.
Dr. Katherine Tucker of Tufts University in Boston compared diets and bone density of Framingham study adults who were sixty-nine to ninety-seven, and she found that the more animal protein people ate, the higher the bone density. Other researchers reached similar conclusions when they studied younger women. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The following are some of the symptoms that may occur as a result of colon dysfunction: Lower back pain Neck and shoulder pain Pain in the lower and upper arms
Skin problems
Brain fog (difficulty concentrating) Fatigue or sluggishness Colds and flu Constipation or diarrhea Flatulence/gas or bloating Crohn's disease Ulcerative colitis
Colitis/irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Diverticulitis/diverticulosis Leaky gut syndrome
Pain in the lower part of the stomach (especially on the left side)
The large intestine absorbs minerals and water. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Julie Ingwersen, a reporter for Reuters wire service, quotes Stephen Payne, a spokesman for the Pet Food Institute, as saying, "The meat and bone meal produced in the United States remains an excellent source of protein and minerals for pets."31
Unfortunately, labels on pet food give no indication of the source for the meat and bone meal. Based on my past experience with most commercial pet food companies, I am not willing to blindly trust the well-being of my animal companions to a spokesperson from the pet food industry. |
| Documented animal experimentation by some pet food companies include surgery, intentionally breaking bones, starvation, forced obesity, deprivation of key nutrients and minerals, induced kidney failure, intentional wounding, and surgical removal of parts of kidneys, livers, intestines, and stomachs. Animals are also killed in order to examine the bodies after an experiment.
Animal experimentation can cause untold pain and suffering. Yet, according ro the pet food companies, all of this experi-menration is in the name of science to improve the health of our animal companions. |
Tom Bohager
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 Yet they will improve health, longevity, and well-being in ways that are superior to supplemental vitamins, minerals, and herbs.
HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP
This book will help you appreciate the importance of enzymes and how vital they are in supporting optimal health. Once you truly understand this connection, you will have a potent tool to help you maintain your health and overcome common health issues.
In part 1, I will explain the vital contribution enzymes make to our overall health, vitality, and longevity. |
| An enzyme blend formulated to promote the absorption of the ingredients (the minerals, herbs, and greens) þMarshmallow root and papaya leaf extract, to help soothe the common symptoms that are associated with high acidity þA delivery system that bypasses the acid stomach and goes straight to the small intestine
In addition to a supplement designed to bring the pH back in balance, in order to maintain optimum pH balance, it is important to ensure proper digestion and assimilation of the foods you eat. One of the best ways to stay balanced is to take plant-based enzymes with every meal. |
| Vitamins, minerals, and supplementation with animal enzymes from glandular sources (even actual pancreas tissue) may help prevent complications. Enzyme therapy can improve the body's ability to digest and absorb glucose, improve circulation, maintain normal absorption of fats, and balance the body's pH levels. important note: Under no circumstances should an individual with diabetes be suddenly taken off of insulin or diabetic drugs. Any nutritional supplementation should be administered only under the close guidance and recommendation of the primary physician. |
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