Michael Friedman, ND
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 While the role of vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts in thyroid hormone metabolism requires further elucidation, current evidence supports a role for selenium in the hepatic 5'-deiodination enzyme.
INTRODUCTION
Peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormones is a critical component of the impact these hormones have on intracellular function. Primary hypothyroidism, which manifests as elevated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and low T4 levels, and secondary hypothyroidism, manifesting as a combination of low T4 levels and low TSH secondary to pituitary dysfunction, are both well defined. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Fortunately, many more people are now interested in preventing and treating disease with good diet, vitamins, minerals, and herbs, than were interested in the mid-1970s when we got started. Secondly, new information about diet, supplements, and hetbs is being published at an ever-greater rate. Our universities have decided to "take over from the health-food nuts," and they are discovering that much of what those "health-food nuts" had to say is true. Just as importantly, research is increasing on "folk remedies." We're finding that our ances-tots were frequently very good observers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Have no illusions: The evildoers who run medicine today are working diligently to create a system of medicine where vitamin companies are shut down, herbal doctors are imprisoned, naturopathic doctors are denied the right to practice medicine, and the truth about the healing powers of vitamins, minerals, herbs, supplements and even ordinary foods is routinely censored.
These devious miscreants want to create a world where you can choose any system of medicine you want, as long as it's their system. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 POLYPHENOLS AND HEALTH
The largest class of phytochemicals found in Nature
The molecules responsible for the bitter astringent properties associated with certain foods
Greatly varying polyphenol intake depending on diet: from zero to 1 gram per day substances essential to life
Water Amino acids: 9 Fatty acids: 2 Vitamins: 13 Minerals: 13 Phytochemicals (10,000)
This idea is very important when one attempts to explain the anti-cancer properties of fruits and vegetables. |
| In Europe and North America, legumes such as soybeans are all too readily hidden in our food pyramid guides under the heading "Meat and meat substitutes," a somewhat unjust categorization when we stop to consider how rich soybeans are in proteins, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibre. Soy is an outstanding food whose potential remains largely untapped and unexploited in our society. More's the pity; as we shall see in this
THE MAJOR FOOD S
Soybeans (ecfamame)
Edamame means "beans on the branch" in Japanese, and these beans are the snack of choice in Japan. |
| In summary, if a person's diet lacks vitamins, minerals, and anti-cancer compounds because he or she does not consume sufficient quantities of fruits and vegetables, the solution to the problem lies not in taking supplements, but in making profound, far-reaching changes to diet. There are no and there will be no miracle cures that are able to entirely repair the damage caused by a diet of poor quality; you cannot eat just anything and then get off by taking a pill!
The destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they feed themselves. |
| Until very recently, vitamins, minerals, and fibres were considered the only substances responsible for the beneficial effects of fruits and vegetables in the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer. However, results obtained in the last few years have cast these conclusions into
MACRONUTRIENTS doubt. It now seems more and more likely that the protection against cancer offered by fruits and vegetables is due mostly to their phytochemical content. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| However, the use of minerals, such as chromium, and herbs, such as jambul, along with a diet avoiding refined carbohydrates, should be recommended. There have been no studies that I know of that have actually studied the effects of herbal hypoglycemics during pregnancy. Historically, most of the hypoglycemic herbs have not been contraindicated in pregnancy. In my opinion, they are considered safe.
GENERAL INFECTIONS
Patients with undiagnosed high blood sugar may come into the office for the treatment of an infection. |
| Chief among these deficiencies appear to be minerals, including calcium, magnesium, potassium, chromium, vanadium, and zinc.68"74
Intake of sodium, either too high or two low, appears to impact negatively insulin sensitivity. Evidence presented by Donovan et al is suggestive of high sodium intake possibly exacerbating insulin resistance.75 At the other extreme, salt restriction also appears to increase insulin resistance for most individuals. |
John A. McDougall
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 As food moves through the small intestine, the nutrients (protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals) are absorbed through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. Left behind are nondi-gestible matter (dietary fiber), colon bacteria, and many dead cells that will soon become the stool. This material passes into the right side of the large intestine and is then moved to the left side by rhythmic contractions known as peristalsis. According to the well-known law of physics, the Law of Laplace, contractions at small diameters cause high pressures. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| Would this working hypothesis be right, an intracellular increase of alkali minerals like calcium, magnesium, sodium and/or potassium could be expected.
There is supporting information in the study of F.N. Pitts on "The Biochemistry of Anxiety," where he proposed "that anxiety symptoms may have a common determining biochemical and mechanism involving the complexing of ionized calcium at the surface of excitable membranes by lactate ion produced intracellularly,"9 See Figure 2. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 These foods are rich in protein, soluble fiber, and minerals and have wonderfully low GIs.
Next, fill another quarter of your plate with a starchy food such as brown rice, a yam, or pasta. Starch is an unglamorous word, but it really means complex carbohydrate—the healthy, clean-burning fuel that powers your body.
Finally, fill the remaining half of your plate with vegetables. Ideally, choose two different varieties—say, a green vegetable like broccoli and an orange vegetable like carrots. These foods are your nutrition powerhouses. Add fruit for dessert, and you will be set. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| The Healing Power of minerals, Rocklin, CA: Prima, 1997.
4. Budd M. Why Am I So Tired? New York, NY: Thorsons, 2000.
5. Colburn T, Dumanoski D, MyersJ. Our Stolen Future. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996.
6. Ditkoff B and Lo Gerfo P. The Thyroid Guide. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.
7. Grieve MA. Modern Herbal. Vol. 2. New York, NY: Dover Reprint, 1971:578.
8. Greenspan FS and Strewler FJ. Basic and Clinical Endocrinology. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College, 1997.
9. HamburgerJ. The Thyroid Gland. Southfield, MI: J. Hamburger, 1991.
10. National Women's Health Report. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You just need what we all need: Less stress, more exercise, better nutrition (especially the minerals), more time with nature and loving, supporting relationships. It isn't complicated.
But if reality sounds too challenging, I'm sure there's a psychiatrist willing to medicate you instead. You can always choose to let the chemicals run your thoughts and emotions, sleep-walking through life like the rest of the zombies who have surrendered their free will to psychiatric medicine.
Psychiatrists are promising mental paradise, but delivering mental prison. Don't become enslaved by chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have a genetic blueprint to consume low-glycemic foods, high-fiber foods, foods with natural minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients. This compatibility is in your genes. Unprocessed, uncooked foods right out of nature are what you are designed to consume. So it only makes sense that, as you move closer to that diet -- known as the raw foods vegan diet -- you will attain a state of perfect harmony with yourself. It only makes sense that any deviation from that -- processed foods, factory foods, foods with a long shelf life, etc. -- will take you away from a state of perfect health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But then you have economically challenged families that are not going to be able to afford the vitamin D, or vitamin B, or minerals and so on. They’re going to be eating food that's made without these vitamins because it's cheaper.
At such a point, you'll have a big company, the futuristic Monsanto if you will, saying, "If you want to be healthy, you've got to pay up." The upshot of all this is that big business is going to be telling humanity that it doesn't have the right to be healthy unless it pays for it.
This situation will stand as a heinous violation of human rights and nature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That cement is plaque made from cholesterol, minerals such as calcium and fiber. That's what it is -- a patch. It's a response to a condition in the arterial wall. Again, doctors deal with symptoms, not the cause. If you get rid of the pumps in the arterial walls, plaque goes away, and cholesterol is not the problem.
Things that could damage the arterial walls include acidic body levels. If your diet is basically acidic, your blood won't change much. If it changes more than a couple of points, you die. All the soft tissue -- the muscle tissues -- can go very acidic. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 In a study of 260 elderly people aged sixty-five to ninety years, it was reported that: "A diet with less fat, saturated fat and cholesterol, and more carbohydrate, fiber, vitamins (especially folate, vitamins C and E and beta-carotenes) and minerals (iron and zinc) may be advisable not only to improve the general health of the elderly but also to improve cognitive function."66 This conclusion advocates plant-based foods and condemns animal-based foods for optimal brain function. |
| On the opposite side of the spectrum, there are highly processed, highly refined carbohydrates that have been stripped of their fiber, vitamins and minerals. Typical simple carbohydrates are found in foods like white bread, processed snack items including crackers and chips made with white flour, sweets including pastries and candy bars and sugar-laden soft drinks. These highly refined carbohydrates originate from grains or sugar plants, like sugar cane or the sugar beet. |
| It is a component of food, much like sugar, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals. This cholesterol is found only in animal-based food and is the one we find on food labels. How much dietary cholesterol you consume is not something your doctor can know when he or she checks your cholesterol levels. The doctor can't measure dietary cholesterol any more than he or she can measure how many hot dogs and chicken breasts you've been eating. Instead, the doctor measures the amount of cholesterol present in your blood. This second type of cholesterol, blood cholesterol, is made in the liver. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| Table III provides the breakdown of the abnormal GTTs according to the five criteria of Dr Nittler and the mineral imbalances and the presence of toxic minerals in each category.
The nature of biological studies carries a certain disadvantage. It is - if not impossible - very hard to produce the conditions under which one can observe influence of an isolated factor. |
Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman
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 While minerals and their proper balance are vitally important to homeostatic processes, there are many complex physiological systems that depend as well on thousands of bio-chemicals, not simply twelve inorganic minerals.
Although the cell salt theory may not be accurate, potentized cell salts certainly have effects on organisms. All cell salts are used by classical homeopaths for the specific physical and psychological symptoms that they create in provmgs. Most users of cell salts, however, prescribe them on very limited physical symptoms. Also, since many cell salt users take
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Steven V. Joyal
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 You may think this statement, voiced in the U.S. Senate, is contemporary, yet it was made in 1936. The passage of time hasn't made the fact any less true; indeed, since then, the quality of crops has grown worse. According to figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the period 1963 to 1992, the vitamin and mineral content of fruits and vegetables declined dramatically: for example, calcium declined by 30 percent, iron by 32 percent, and magnesium by 21 percent in selected crops.
America is a fast-food nation. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 It is worth noting that moving eatth ot stone ot minerals is one of the few tasks that is absolutely cheapet than it was fifty yeats ago—such are the efficiencies of modern machinery. Thus an open-cast ot drift mine must by its very nature be much cheaper to work than a deep mine. This is why no European deep-mined coal can compete on the wotld matket, now ot in the futute. It is an example of straight physical facts, rathet than the vote at the ballot box, dictating political and economic tesults.
38. A steamship used to be divided into three clases of accommodation. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Garlic contains a fair amount of minerals and vitamins, including vitamin C (14 mg). Notes Garlic has numerous medicinal uses - it is strongly antibiotic and has proven lipid-lowering activity.
Allium schoenoprasum chive • chives
Chive plants Chive flowers
Description The plant is a perennial grass-like tuft with long, thin, tubular (hollow) leaves, white fleshy stem bases and attractive purple flower clusters. It tends to go dormant in the dry or cold season, leaving only the narrow bulbs to grow out again in spring. |
| Nutritional value Low in calories but rich in sulphur, other minerals and vitamin A. Notes Leeks should not be confused with Welsh onion (see A. fistulosum).
Allium cepa onion • bulb onion
Description The common onion is a biennial with hollow leaves, a fleshy bulb formed by overlapping leaf bases and small white flowers borne in round clusters. Onion bulbs vary considerably in shape, colour and flavour. The closely related shallot (A. cepa var. ascalonicum) differs in forming clusters of bulbs. It was formerly thought to be a distinct species, A. ascalonicum). The potato onion (A. cepa var. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| One reason is that the cultivated fruit in an American supermarket is far different from the wild fruit of the primate's diet, having a slightly higher protein content and a higher content of certain essential vitamins and minerals. Cultivated fruit tends to be higher in sugars and, while very tasty to humans, it is not nearly as nutritious. In fact, it raises blood sugar levels much more quickly than its wild counterparts do. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And given all the companies we've covered, from Cyanotech, the Amazon Herb Company, Wellness Resources, the Life Extension Foundation, Integrated Health, Good Cause Wellness, Eidonic minerals, Nutiva, Ruth's Hemp Foods, Ola Loa, Nordic Naturals and countless others, we've never solicited a single company for any money or any cut of their sales. Not once.
Any journalist can verify this fact by calling all the companies we've publicized and asking them this question. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| These items offer little in terms of protein, vitamins, or minerals. What they do have is lots of "empty calories" in the form of sugar and fat. They fill you up so you don't have room for the good stuff—the foods that give your body a fighting chance to prevent cancer and other diseases.
Here are guidelines for making healthier eating choices:
• Read labels carefully. If sugar, fat, or salt is one of the first three ingredients listed, it is probably not a good option. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Iron (mg)
20
2
Magnesium (mg)
548
51
Calcium (mg)
545
252
* Equal parts of tomatoes, spinach, lima beans, peas, potatoes ** Equal parts of beef, pork, chicken, whole milk
As you can see, plant foods have dramatically more antioxidants, fiber and minerals than animal foods. In fact, animal foods are almost completely devoid of several of these nutrients. Animal foods, on the other hand, have much more cholesterol and fat. They also have slightly more protein than plant foods, along with more B12 and vitamin D, although the vitamin D is largely due to artificial fortification in milk. |
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