| You know what vitamin B12, B-complex, and vitamin C are," I started, "and you know lithium and selenium are minerals ..."
"Yes. But I thought lithium was for manic-depressive people. I sure was feeling depressed, but that's not the same."
"Every mineral or vitamin has dozens—even hundreds—of uses and purposes. Lithium has been found to inhibit reproduction of some viruses, including the herpes viruses. Can't say it's directly responsible for pain relief this quickly, but it's making a start on stopping this outbreak, anyway. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'll notice that these are not isolated chemicals, nor are these vitamins or minerals. This is not chondroitin sulfate, or glucosamine, or MSM, or any of the other more common nutritional supplements you might typically take for joint health. Rather, these affect inflammation and joint pain through a different mechanism. They help inhibit the inflammatory response in the human body by fundamentally balancing the body's systems. They're not treating symptoms; they're balancing the body. Both rosemary and turmeric are well known for their tonic effects. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you consume spirulina, you are absorbing those minerals into your own body, so it's a great way to get mineral supplements without taking them as isolated dosages.
And, of course, there's the effect of the active phycocyanin nutrient in spirulina that has been experimentally shown in Japan to shrink and eliminate breast cancer tumors in mice. I think if they could patent spirulina or the phycocyanin chemical, turn it into a drug and microscopically inject it into tumors, they would have a cure for breast cancer right there. It's that potent. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 This sweetener contains a number of minerals. Some people find it a tasty way to cope with constipation. Another old-fashioned home remedy for constipation is drinking lemon juice in a cup of hot water first thing in the morning. Afterward, rinse your mouth with plain water, to protect your teeth.
3. Simmer 2 tablespoons of flaxseed in 3 quarts of water for 15 minutes. Cool, strain, and add 2 ounces of the liquid to orange juice every day. An alternative is to use freshly ground flaxseed on cereal or other foods.
4. Chew sugar-free gum. Experiment to find the appropriate dose. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It depends on what the concentrations of different minerals are in a region. You can imagine that for Europe, which is a much more highly industrialized area, the sea water's a little bit different. The closest continent to us is Antarctica, and that's why our product is very, very clean. This is as white as it is, coming straight out of the solar drying ponds. It is amazing.
Mike: Do you distribute through the retail channel?
Heine: It's retail and food service, meaning restaurants, retail and natural-specialty stores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But now, suddenly, they learn about superfoods, or they learn that their side effects were actually caused by their prescription drugs, or they learn about the power of sunlight or physical exercise or oxygen therapy or basic nutrition, including minerals like magnesium and zinc, and then they are empowered, they are hopeful, they are positive and they start to get well. That's how exciting this information really can be, and that's why people love to share it with others. So, this 85. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 B12. It's also an excellent source of heme iron and zinc.
6. Olive oil: Olive oil contains primarily monounsaturated fat and is a staple in the diet of individuals living in the Mediterranean region who demonstrate very low rates of chronic disease. When olive oil is the predominant source of lipids, fat intakes greater than 40 percent of total energy are compatible with good health and are associated with no adverse effects.
7. Water: Water is second to oxygen in maintaining life. Even minimal changes in body water can impair performance.
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Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| Maximize your minerals: calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Get them from your diet if you can. You may need a magnesium supplement (300 to 500 milligrams daily) if you are taking a diuretic.
• Beware of the beta-blocker blues. Do not let your medicine cause fatigue, depression, or forgetfulness. Discuss the latest findings about beta-blockers for hypertension with your physician. Do not stop taking a beta-blocker suddenly! Check with your physician before stopping any medication.
• Diuretics are the first choice for most blood pressure regimens. Chlorthalidone is at the top of our list. |
| This hormone, which is produced by a gland in the neck right next to the thyroid, governs the body's utilization of minerals such as calcium. Like most of the human endocrine glands, it operates on a feedback system and shuts down when it senses there is enough calcium in circulation. If it senses too little, it stimulates bone breakdown to liberate calcium.
If the hormone stimulates bone breakdown, how can it help treat osteoporosis? |
| Maximize your minerals (magnesium!)
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• Beware of the beta-blocker blues
• Avoid licorice and drugs that raise blood pressure
• Ask your MD about chlorthalidone
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• Have an ACE up your sleeve
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High blood pressure is a very big deal. According to the American Heart Association, it affects up to 65 million Americans (nearly one in three adults). The majority (more than 70 percent) are not controlling it adequately. For the most part, the experts are still trying to figure out what causes this common condition and why it becomes so widespread as people age. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm talking about omega-3 oils, quality proteins from plants, insoluble fibers and major minerals like magnesium, which is deficient in most people today. Such a superfood is now available. It's the "super chia" I'm talking about here.
This super chia isn't black like chia, however. Its seeds are white. What does that mean to you as a consumer? It means that you can put it in a coffee grinder and grind it up into fine white flour. |
| Then you can take that white flour-like substance – which is really loaded with omega-3 oils and complete proteins and minerals that are missing from wheat-derived flour – and you can put it into breads and pasta and use it as a replacement for flour in your kitchen.
Replace harmful baking products with super chia
You can mix this superfood into many recipes, and since it's white, you won't notice any color difference, and no one in your family will notice any color difference. So if you bake your own bread, but your children will only eat white bread, guess what? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So, if you go into these more sluggish states and have body pain, or if you feel a little fuzzy in the memory or even being present, certainly your body could not be getting enough minerals. If you're just eating a salad a day, or just eating certain greens that don't have enough of what one needs, this is what I'm talking about when I say we need to be responsible with this and proactive.
First of all, look at what your cravings are. There are certain things that would qualify as not necessarily so healthy, so if you're craving chocolate cake, what's that all about? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Popular sports water products are just water, artificial colors, salt and a few low-grade minerals. These are rip-off products, if you ask me.
But there are also quality, genuine bottled water products on the market that I believe are worth every penny. Those would be the ones from natural mineral springs, like Evian or Aquarius water out of Oregon. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You're bringing in chlorophyll; you are bringing that transcending connection between the heavens and the earth – the rain, the soil, stars, the sun and the minerals. You're bringing that entire fantastic interplay into your body; you're ingesting that all the time. That's a language; that's a code; that's a sophisticated biofeedback mechanism that our bodies ingest and that our bodies read, we could say, in some ways. Sure, you can read that for amino acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wolfe: I think the first thing with nutrition is that we have to make sure that we are actually nourished, that we have a complete assortment of minerals and vitamins and nutrients from our food, so that we are not deficient in anything. That's really a great place to start. Just begin by adding certain foods into your diet in order to have a complete and wholesome diet. If we are depleted in magnesium, or depleted in chromium, or depleted in vitamin C, we're putting a tremendous burden on our body. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| Side effects: Diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, gas
Downside: Prolonged or excessive use may upset the balance of fluids and minerals in the body or result in laxative dependence. Cost: Approximately $1.40 to $2 per dose; one dose per day
The doctors' big gun in prescription products is Zelnorm (tegaserod). It was developed for people who have irritable bowel syndrome with constipation as the predominant symptom. It has also been approved for chronic constipation in adults under the age of 65. Your doctor will be able to evaluate if this last resort is appropriate for you. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you choose these as your food sources, you are fortifying your body with the vitamins, minerals, healthy oils, fiber and other nutrients it needs to boost its immune system function and fight off the flu.
To see articles and recommendations on superfoods, visit: http://www.WebSeed.com/Superfoods.html.
Virtually every food that is popular in American culture is immunosuppressive, by the way. That's right – practically everything you've been told could be a part of a healthy, balanced diet is, in fact, a food that causes disease and suppresses immune system function. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is only 250 milligrams in the mega daily, which is enough to make the other minerals work, but you need 1,000 to 4,000 milligrams a day, depending on the size of the animal. It would be a very large capsule if we tried to put that much vitamin C in. Again, not every animal needs the same level of vitamin C. They need the same basic levels of nutrients, the whole profile of the nutrients, but some ingredients, like vitamin E and vitamin C, need to be adjusted according to the animal's needs. We have those, too, to augment the mega pet daily. We have 150 different supplements. |
| This has higher levels of minerals in therapeutic levels of all the nutrients needed in a good combination. A lot of people will go out and buy a supplement with just vitamin A in it, for instance. Vitamin A needs zinc in order to work well. What happens is people start buying three, four or five supplement bottles trying to put together a good profile of nutrients for their pet. We have all that in the mega pet daily. So, all we recommend adding to the mega pet daily is vitamin C. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Newman: We have used the propionated minerals in our food, but we've also had to augment them, if you will, with the iodines in those. We use the propionates as much as we can. We also have to use an iron oxide to bring them up to where AFCO wants them.
Mike: So, when pets eat this food, they not only get the nutrition they need, in terms of macronutrients, but they get a multivitamin and a multi-mineral diet.
Newman: Yes, but it only reaches AFCO's level. In my consideration, AFCO's levels are much too low.
Mike: Hence the supplement line.
Newman: Yes, we have supplements. |
| Propionated minerals are those that are attached to amino acids, so that it is easier to digest and assimilate them. It is very expensive, and you have to make a food that is going to sell on the market. You can't make a food that is too much more expensive.
I wanted to make an organic bag of dog food back in 1997, a four or five pound bag that would cost $25. Nobody would buy it. It could be the best food on the market, but no one would buy it. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 This is bad news, and this, in large measure, is why carbohydrates as a whole have gotten such a bad rap; the vast majority of carbohydrates consumed in America are found in junk food or grains so refined that they have to be supplemented with vitamins and minerals. On this point, the popular diet authors and I agree. For example, you could eat a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet by exclusively eating the following foods: pasta made from refined flour, baked potato chips, soda, sugary cereals and low-fat candy bars. Eating this way is a bad idea. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Chia is loaded with omega-3 oils, high-quality proteins, fibers and lots of minerals, but this new superfood (which I'll just call "super chia" for convenience) takes it to a higher level.
Super chia is a consistently produced crop with higher nutrient density than chia, and it is grown by a company in Canada. The company does its growing in Peru – which has the right climate and the right soils for plants like this – and it is now selling this super chia to food companies throughout the world that are starting to integrate it into their foods. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Active Ionic minerals www.teravite.com (800) 776-5438
Natural Cellular Defense www.therawfoodworld.com (866) 729-3438
Universal Supplements www.universalsupplements.com (805) 646-5936
A. Clean out the toxins that have accumulated in your b<
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International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy www.i-act.org (210) 366-2888
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2. Do a complete colon cleanse.
For the best colon cleanse instructions, go to www.naturalcures.com.
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Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Similarly, the endocrine system in our body absolutely needs all nutrients, including vitamins, amino acids, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, minerals and all trace elements. Supplying all of these nutrients to our body is critical for good health.
Greens match all of these purposes better than any other food! Once again, when blended, the nutrients from greens are absorbed more efficiently and provide many times more nutrients than other foods and even traditionally made salads. In other words, by drinking green smoothies we support our homeostatic balance in the most optimal way. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Further studies are required investigating the effect of high-protein diets on CVD risk factors. Studies are needed with both plant and animal protein sources to determine whether their effects on CVD risk and risk factors differ. This information will be important for future dietary guidance about protein.
V. ALCOHOL
There is accumulating evidence demonstrating that moderate alcohol consumption reduces CHD risk, and the pattern of drinking has important implications for various CVD risk factors [188-190], clinical outcomes [191-194], and mortality [195-197]. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are none of the original antigens left from where it came, whether it is corn or beets. Then you mix it with a calcium source or magnesium source and you make calcium ascorbate or magnesium ascorbate, and we are always blending the two. Usually, I do not want to use just calcium, which many people do. We will have calcium ascorbate and magnesium ascorbate in virtually all our formulas containing vitamin C, and perhaps some zinc ascorbate or potassium ascorbate.
You want it to be buffered so you are not acidifying the body, especially if you take huge amounts of it. |
David Wolfe
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 The soil microbes, earthworms and plant roots are directly nourished by an abundance of soil minerals,
The research is in with soil expert and raw-foodist Don Weaver. Don Weaver has demonstrated conclusively in the book, The Survival Of Civilization, which he co-authored with John Hamaker, that plants and trees depend far more on the soil and its mineral content than they depend on climate to produce high quality leaves and fruits.
Insects always infest trees and other plants (as pathogens invade people) that are weakened by malnutrition and no longer have resistance to their natural enemies. |
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