| Therefore, it's important to supplement your diet with a good multivitamin, multimineral complex. Fresh fruits and vegetables provide the most vitamins and minerals, plus fiber and enzymes in proper balance: phytonutrients, working together (syner-gistically) to enhance each other's healing qualities. Try to cultivate a taste for them.
2. Whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes are also necessary in a balanced diet. They provide fiber to keep your body's digestive tract regulated. These are better sources for your proteins than meat, yet still supply all of your amino acid requirements. |
Michael Tierra, L.Ac, O.M.D.
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 Supplements, such as vitamins and minerals, may overload and imbalance the body with nutrients and substances that it does not need. Chinese herbs can help the body regain strength and balance. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 Spring-water-based sparkling waters such as Perrier (available in most supermarkets) offer the benefit of additional healthful minerals. To make a low-calorie fruit drink, use about 10-20% pure juice and the rest water, along with several drops of stevia. A glass of this kind of beverage 1 hour before meals can actually assist in weight reduction by decreasing hunger. For those people who aren't on a no-sugar diet, about 20% fruit juice of any kind mixed with stevia works well. You should experiment to find the flavors you like best. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Supplying more than nine grams of fiber per serving, these are nature's best source of fiber, as well as excellent sources of protein, B vitamins, and minerals. Beans put domesticated meat to shame, lowering blood cholesterol, strengthening bones, i ne giycemic muex rarms ioous according to now quicwy ana aramaucany mey raise blood sugar levels, with 100 being the highest score. Some high-fiber foods receive a high ranking, but that doesn't mean they're off limits. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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 This false message resulted in passage of the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994, which created a protected new category for the estimated 20,000 vitamins, herbs, minerals, and anything else that had been sold as a supplement before October 1994.
Despite very real dangers, the FDA is allowed to halt production of a product not when the manufacturer fails to show that it is safe and effective, but only after the FDA itself proves the product to be dangerous to people's health. |
| Homeopathic remedies are made from plants, minerals, animal products, or chemicals diluted many times, usually in water, sometimes in alcohol. Between each subsequent dilution the compound is shaken vigorously, perhaps 100 times. A l-in-100 dilution, for example, means that one drop of a plant extract is placed in ninety-nine drops of water or alcohol. After vigorous, lengthy shaking, one drop of the new solution is mixed with another ninety-nine drops of water, and the mixture is again shaken vigorously. This procedure may continue twenty, thirty, or more times. |
Leo Galland
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 I prescribed supplements of these minerals, along with a multivitamin.
Within a month, Bert experienced a 90 percent reduction in the frequency of his attacks of palpitation and lightheadedness and he was able to resume his favorite sports. Two months later, I repeated the intestinal permeability test. It had improved considerably but was still highly abnormal. Only in July of 1995, nine months after he was cured of giardiasis, did his intestinal permeability return to normal. |
| By eating meals and snacks of high nutritional density and avoiding junk, you not only increase your consumption of vitamins, minerals, and bioflavonoids, but also decrease your exposure to the antinutrients with which junk food is loaded. As the term implies, antinutrients actually interfere with the body's healthful functioning. Aside from alcohoi, the most important antinutrients in the U.S. diet are salt (specifically, sodium) and rrans-fatty acids, which are produced by the partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 Harnessing the Therapeutic Essence of Minerals: A Primer on Cell Salts
Also known as Schuessler salts, after the German physician who developed them, cell salts are gentle, completely harmless, and quite effective in a wide range of acute and chronic problems. They are also one of the simplest, safest ways to begin to experiment with natural medicine. You can learn the basic principles of their use in a few minutes; in fact, by the time you finish reading the next few pages, you should know enough to get started. |
| Ayurvedic physicians combine minerals with herbs and seal the mixture in clay containers, which are buried in a smoldering fire, and left to bake for months. When unearthed, the pot is broken open and more herbs are added, and it is sealed again and returned to a fresh fire. This process is repeated hundreds of times. The resulting bhasma is highly regarded as a "purified" medicinal; even when made from a toxic ingredient such as mercury, it is both harmless and very beneficial. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Although all these tissues and fluids have their optimal enzymatic functioning in the alkaline part of their range, they will shift to less optimal acid range if they need to release alkaline minerals to keep the blood from becoming too acidic. For example, if the system becomes too acidic, the blood will take alkaline-forming elements from the digestive enzyme systems of the small intestine. |
| Since juices are high in minerals, vitamins, and enzymes which help with the rejuvenating process of the body, the juices are assimilated direcdy into the body without stimulating digestive enzymes. The alkalinizing properties of the juices help to neutralize the acid condition from which many people suffer, as well as the toxins being released by the body. The alkaline component of the juices helps to reestablish the alkaline reserve needed for rebuilding health in the body. Also, most people have more energy for meditation on juice than on water. The famous Max Bircher-Benner, M.D. |
| Also relevant are emotional stresses on the pregnant mother, and a variety of physical stresses on the mother such as insufficient vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids ([EFAs] like the long-chain omega-3 fatty acid, and docosa-hexaenoic acid [DHA], which is absolutely critical for normal brain-tissue
1 development). The input of certain amino acids in a synergistic way can significantly improve neurotransmitter levels and positively affect the healing of this syndrome. Each neurotransmitter has a specific function and is affected by a variety of foods and drugs. |
| The point is that in their natural living forms, food, juices, herbs, and minerals are living energies that affect us on every level of our being in very specific ways.
Effects of Overeating or Eating Acid Foods in Excess
/^\ vereating in general, especially of excess protein, and eating
V_ylate in the evening are two sure ways to make the mind and body go numb. The body-mind life force becomes drained because it has to divert essential energy to support the overstrained digestive system and compensate for low cellular oxygen from blood sludging and high fats. |
| Rocine was among the first Western doctors to understand that particular foods have particular minerals that our bodies need more of when we have certain diseases. For example, if one had hypothyroid from an iodine deficiency, eating foods that are high in iodine, such as kelp, supplies the iodine needed to help correct the condition. Rocine also clarified that there are personality types that can be traced to the dominance of calcium, silicon, or sulphur in a person's system. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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| Each is a combination of two basic minerals. If you understand the essence of the individual elements, you can see how they might combine to produce a joint effect. Natrum (sodium) is the extracellular ion, and it attracts water. (Remember how salt in the shaker gets wet on humid days? |
| As with sugar, eating the refined substance, the table salt, might be "fooling" the body—so the original clever biochemical mechanism, the use of sodium chloride as the marker for a concentrated source of minerals, would miscarry. Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, author of the book Mental and Elemental Nutrients, had a clever solution to the trace-mineral shortage. Living in New Jersey, near the coast, he went regularly to the beach and collected seawater, which he brought home and boiled down until the sodium chloride crystallized. |
| In the same way that eating the purified energy of sugar is "cheating" because you don't do the digestive work of opening the whole-food package and assimilating its vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber, so eating oils is a similar shortcut, in this case a sort of theft.
And like money you didn't earn, money you wrangle from others, fats corrupt. Saturated fats clog arteries and tissues. The unsaturated oils produce free radicals, which damage cells and tissues and lead to premature aging and predispose us to malignancies. Here our cultural icons are telling. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 The result is a deficiency of calories, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and minerals. Children with such impaired digestion are small, poorly developed, and suffer from a variety of symptoms ranging from mental abnormalities to anemia unless the missing nutrients are adequately replaced. Such malabsorption is usually the result of an intestinal infection or, as you will see below, a genetic abnormality. Whatever the cause, it can usually be treated successfully, sometimes by diet alone. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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 Other free radical scavengers include the minerals selenium, zinc, and chromium.
Some supplements also have direct positive influence on cognitive function. Vitamin C, for example, has a calming effect.
Magnesium also produces a calming effect; its deficiency is sometimes implicated in anxiety. Furthermore, people with so-called Type A personalities are prone to accelerated magnesium depletion. In one study, Type A people in a stressful situation excreted almost 100 percent more magnesium than a control group of Type B people. |
Stephanie Beling
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 Fruits are also rich in minerals. Bananas and oranges have high potassium content, while berries supply lots of iron. In addition, most fruits supply boron, a mineral vitally important to bone strength. Above aU, fruits are treasure-houses of vitamins, particularly of Vitamin C.The citrus fruits, berries, melons, tropical fruits, and the yellows and oranges—apricots, peaches, nectarines, mangoes—are particularly good Vitamin C sources.
To all this must now be added the evidence that current research is yielding about the phytochemical power in the red, yellow, and orange fruits. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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| Hahnemann, his assistants, and followers conducted many provings, ingesting plants, minerals, and other substances and carefully recording the symptoms each substance produced. When future patients displayed similar symptoms, they were treated with extremely diluted doses of that substance. This approach became the first law of homeopathy: the Law of Similars, or "like cures like."
Eventually, volumes of descriptions were collected by Hahnemann and his volunteers. These volumes, called the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, have been used ever since as the basis for homeopathic remedies. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| Eating meals rich in calcium and other minerals is also important. In addition, drinking water and even rinsing out the mouth from time to time can reduce the amount of bacteria and food particles that can create problems.
Oddly enough, chewing gum can actually help prevent cavities. The reason is that the sugar in the gum quickly dissolves and is swallowed with the saliva. After that, as you continue to chew, saliva continues to be produced. This "bathing" of the teeth in saliva appears to help rebuild the teeth somewhat and also fight cavities. |
| But now they are learning that even modest shortages of key vitamins and minerals, even though they don't immediately cause problems, can undermine the body's weapons against disease over the long haul.
Such shortages of key nutrients are common among older people, who often lack the money and motivation (and perhaps the teeth) to maintain a balanced diet. In factl, surveys show that 30 to 50 percent of the elderly have diets significantly poor in one or more nutrients. |
| But while some or all of these minerals have been recommended to get rid of "tired blood" or cure other ills, in the excessive amounts sometimes recommended they can be detrimental to health.173174
Just two milligrams of selenium a day is toxic and excess iron can cause liver damage and reduce the body's supply of copper, manganese, and zinc. So don't be tempted to take iron, copper, or selenium supplements unless your doctor recommends that you do so.
Colloidal Silver
Alternate medicine can be fraught with dangers and confusion. |
Larry Dossey
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 The examination of a few odd radioactive minerals altered history forever; Gregor Mendel's solitary wonderment at how pea plants with albino petals could produce offspring with purple ones—in effect, a spontaneous remission of white flowers—led to the feats of genetic prestidigitation that now astound our age.
If anomalies in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms can so profoundly change our world how much more so exceptions in the human realm?33
Muriel Bourne-Mullen, a seventy-one-year-old geriatric nurse, ran into the brick wall of Era I medicine with her miracle cure. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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| On a regular basis, he took a number of brain nutrients: vitamins, minerals herbs, Ginkgo biloba, lecithin, and the brain-cell nutrient DMAE. Also, he told me that he tried his best to moderate his exposure to stressors, and that he didn't have any overtly negative habits, such as drinking too much alcohol. He was already taking the pharmaceutical hormone replacement substance DHEA.
It was very apparent that he was investing a significant amount of time and energy in being mentally fit. But somehow the various pieces of his "puzzle" of brain regeneration just weren't fitting together. |
Donald Ryan
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 Another method, fission-track dating, can be used to determine the age of certain types of minerals, volcanic glass such as obsidian, and human-manufactured glass.
As the uranium decays, it divides in half (fission), creating a sort of small explosion which leaves a mark or track in the glass. Since we know the rate of decay of the uranium isotope, the date can be calculated by counting the tracks. The method is most frequently used on materials several thousand to over a billion years old, but has also been applied to more recent materials. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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| Thus I consolidated the brain longevity program into just four major areas: (1) nutritional therapy (including dietary therapy; supplementation with vitamins, minerals, and trace elements; and use of natural medicinal tonics); (2) stress management
(including meditation and removal of lifestyle stressors); (3) exercise therapy (including aerobic exercise, mental exercise, and mind/body exercises), and (4) pharmacology (including administration of various cognitive-enhancement medications, and hormone-replacement therapy). |
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