David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 All of the instinctive mechanisms that go into the hunter-gatherer's food choices and food-seeking behaviors are geared to the reality that he or she must eat pounds of a biodiverse array of foods that contain all of the beneficial chemicals, calories, fat, minerals, and vitamins necessary for survival. This diet is far more diverse than the "basic four food groups" I learned about in medical school, or even the more recently developed USDA food pyramid. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 These liquid crystals may possess some of the energetic properties of solid quartz, but unlike the naturally occurring minerals, many are of organic origin. There appears to be an entire subtle energetic network throughout the body that utilizes these biocrystalline structures. This crystalline network is involved with the assimilation and processing of the subtle energies of vibrational remedies. |
| High doses of vitamin C and B-complex, and a balanced multivitamin containing trace elements and minerals, may be of great assistance in strengthening the nervous system to prevent exaggerated stress responses.8
Speaking from personal experience, I would probably not have survived my medical residency had it not been for the effectiveness of the vitamins I took in a preventative fashion. In spite of long shifts lasting 36 hours with no sleep, I was awake and fairly alert as long as I kept up with my vitamin regimen. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| You will learn which vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements can help protect your DNA.
Putting all of this together in a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise and meditation will combine to reduce the damage to your DNA, which affects aging, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
As we spread our American lifestyle and foods around the world, we are creating an epidemic of obesity and cancer. |
| Someday, all of the vitamins, minerals, and other protective substances you need will, hopefully, be in the foods you eat. Until that day, the dietary supplements listed above are strongly supported by nutrition science. Beyond these few supplements, there are others you may wish to take and I will tell you about those. They are for the more nutrition savvy among you who would like to go beyond the basics. v Selenium, 50 to 200 micrograms per day in the form of selenomethionine. |
| Nuts Have Phytochemicals, minerals, and Good Fats
Some nuts are good sources of thiamin, niacin, phosphorus, zinc, and folate, and some are excellent sources of selenium, copper, magnesium, manganese, and vitamin E. Nuts are also rich in different plant compounds. Flavonoids, for instance, are found in all nuts. These antioxidants help reduce the formation of substances in the body that may contribute to cancer and cardiovascular disease. Relative to their size, nuts are also among the best plant sources for protein.
Nuts are generally high in fat. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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 Once ingested, minerals make their way to every cell in the body. Some are stored, on reserve to replace those we lose in our urine and sweat. If we don't replenish our mineral stores as rapidly as they are being depleted, we run the risk of developing diseases such as iron deficiency anemia or osteoporosis.
A Man's Nutritional Needs
The most widely used guidelines for vitamin and mineral consumption are the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). These figures reflect the amount of a nutrient judged to be adequate for the average healthy person. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 IMPROPER INTAKE AND ASSIMILATION OF NUTRIENTS
Nutrients, such as vitamins, enzymes, minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids, provide the raw materials for optimal cell, tissue, and system function. While Americans are overfed, we're undernourished—and it's killing us. Scientific research has disclosed the many links between what we eat—or don't eat——and how we age. These studies are lending increasing credibility to the important role that nutrition can play in warding off the so-called diseases of aging, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. |
Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner
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 Six to eleven servings are suggested for our metabolism and plenty of much-needed fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
Up one level, you find both the vegetable group and the fruit group, which were discussed at length in the section that preceded this one. We need five to seven servings from these groups combined.
Next is the milk, yogurt, and cheese group and the meat, poultry, dried beans, eggs, and nuts group. Both are good sources of protein. However, their abundance of fat, much of it the saturated kind, make them less of a mainstay than we need. Two to three servings of each are enough. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 Rush's allopaths opted for toxic minerals including lead, arsenic, antimony, and, above all, mercury. They celebrated mercury and its derivative calomel as "the Sampson of the materia medica" and pronounced it "a safe and nearly universal medicine."5 Doctors enlisted it for almost all maladies, even the most trifling of ailments.
Perhaps the quintessential prototype of allopathic therapeutics was the infamous treatment of George Washington, the aging founding father of the United States. |
| The widespread medical use of toxic minerals and chemicals dates back to at least 1500 in Europe. When the scourge of syphilis ravaged the continent, the only practitioners having any apparent measure of success were the surgeons. They had adopted the use of mercury from Arab physicians who were enthralled with alchemy, the mystical marriage of chemistry and philosophy. Alchemy began captivating Europe in the thirteenth century, and for three centuries it would preoccupy those seeking to unlock nature's great mysteries. |
| Although they still relied heavily on plants as well, the minerals brought irrefutably bold results, and the early adopters energetically used them to induce the vomiting, purging, and intense diuretic expulsion that they believed were curative. Patients, awed by the raw power of the new remedies, eagerly sought them out.
By 1600 clever tinkerers transmuted mercury into its modified form of calomel and applied it with abandon. |
| I did start straightaway on a course of antioxidants [vitamins, minerals, and other natural substances believed to have anticancer activity and other health benefits] and things like that.
"Visiting the libraries and looking at things on breast cancer medically as well as on alternatives was so confusing, because every time I found something, I would go back to the doctors, and they either didn't know what I was talking about or didn't have an answer for it. I gradually lost respect for them, but I did gain a knowledge that they actually didn't know a hell of a lot about. |
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., and Jo Robinson
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 The items in the lower half of the column are foods that can be added to any meal because they are rich in antioxidants and minerals and contribute to a balanced ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. (The only restriction, of course, is that your caloric intake should not exceed your energy output; along with balancing all the nutrients in your diet, you must also balance the energy equation.) Salads should be eaten daily, and fruits at least two or three times a day. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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 Major Constituents
Alliin, alliinase (depending on preparation, breakdown products include allicin and other thiosulfinates, diallyl sulfide and other allyl sulfides, ajoene, vinyl dithiins, S-allyl-cysteine, S-allyl-mercaptocysteine, and many other sulfur-containing compounds); amino acids; glycosides; vitamins; minerals; trace elements, including selenium and germanium
Safety
Garlic has a long history of safe use as a food. Garlic supplements have an excellent safety record and are well tolerated by most people. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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| In a six-month study, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids were all supplemented. Among the observed clinical benefits were an improvement in general well-being and a significant decrease in the P24 antigen.55
Other nutrients commonly supplemented in HIV-positive and AIDS cases are vitamins A (beta carotene), B complex, and E. In one study, AIDS patients given 60 mg of beta carotene for four weeks showed increased levels of CD4 cells. |
William Duffy
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 Refined sugar lacks natural minerals (which are, however, in the sugar beet or cane). Our parasympathetic nervous system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. (Normal brain function is rarely thought of as being as biologic as digestion.) The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. |
C. P. Khare
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 C 17.0 mg/100 g; carotene 1926 mcg/100 g and energy 73 kcal.
All these constituents make the herb a potent tonic with a wide coverage for children; for male a good adjuvant with sex tonics and for females a natural galactagogue.
The plant is used in folk medicine for postnatal complaints. The leaves are used in soup for indigestion and biliousness.
Use in Western herbal
Alternanthera Forsk is basically native to the subtropical regions of Australia and South America.
Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb. |
Rex Adams
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 Garlic contains certain minerals of proven value in carbohydrate metabolism. It is not the only food which contains them, but it may be a very rich source, in view of the fact that it has helped control diabetes in actual, documented cases. Discuss it with your doctor.
Possible Effect Of Garlic On Diabetes
Garlic is rich in potassium (529 mg. in 100 grams). In diabetes, excess acidity (acidosis) can rob the body of so much potassium that unconsciousness or diabetic coma can result. |
| Possible Effects Of Other minerals In Garlic
Garlic contains zinc—which is found in concentrated form in the liver, spleen, and pancreas. Zinc is a component of the insulin that
'In low blood sugar, the body produces too much insulin. When sugar or starch are eaten, too much insulin—secreted by the pancreas—removes them so quickly from the blood for fat storage that blood sugar level becomes extremely low, and low energy, fatigue, and headache results. |
| Apparently, to be healthy, we need the minerals sea water contains. Of course, not all sea water is good to drink. The kind sold in health food stores is germ free. In one miraculous case—
Kenneth D., 92, was senile and completely crippled with arthritis. He had to be lifted out of bed and could not feed or dress himself. On a doctor's advice, he was given one reaspoonful of concentrated sea water per day. Suddenly he began to perk up. He got out of bed one day, hobbled into the kitchen, and began fixing breakfast! |
| Garlic revitalizes the bloodstream—it increases circulation, detoxifies the bloodstream, and brings within itself and other tonic foods (the foods with which it is normally eaten) more of the oxygen, iron, calcium, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and a host of other elements that living tissues need to nourish and revitalize the body. Bodies starve for this life-giving substance called garlic food.
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| He thought of decreasing sexual activitiy, on the theory that he was losing vital hormones and minerals, or having more sex, to reduce excess male hormones—leaving more female hair-growing hormones in his body. All failed. By the time he was past 50, he was completely bald.
Miraculous New Hair Growth!
Then he began reading about nutrition. |
| Possible Effect Of minerals In Garlic On Osteoarthritis
Garlic contains traces of manganese—a mineral needed by humans in microscopic amounts. Manganese is one of four elements (the others are choline, biotin, and a fourth unidentified one) which fights porosis, a deformity of the leg bone, which is characterized by progressive twisting of the bone and slipping of the tendons. A lack of copper, another trace mineral in garlic, may cause osteoporosis. When copper was given to lab animals in the form of liver, the disorder was completely prevented. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| Tomato juice or mixed vegetable juices like V-8 can be beneficial because they're rich in sodium and minerals lost through diarrhea.
• Avoid solid foods, even if you feel hungry, for the first day.
• Take clear soups, broths, and bouillon.
• Avoid caffeine; it can irritate the bowel.
• Avoid carbonated drinks because they can affect bowel contractions and worsen diarrhea. Instead, stick with herb teas such as chamomile or mint to help settle your stomach.
• Avoid "diet" foods—candy and gum—that are sweetened with sorbitol or mannitol; these artificial sweeteners can act as laxatives. |
| Gallstones can be formed from substances other than cholesterol, but in the United States about 80 percent of them are composed primarily of cholesterol (about 20 percent are formed from minerals, particularly calcium salts).
The stones themselves may not be the problem. In fact, many people without symptoms are surprised to learn from an ultrasound sonogram or x-ray that they have gallstones. By age forty nearly 20 percent of the population has gallstones. The problems begin when the stones begin to move from the gallbladder into one of the small bile ducts leading to the liver. |
| While occasional consumption of these minerals probably won't do any harm, regular consumption could. Magnesium can cause diarrhea. Occasionally a patient who complains of heartburn and diarrhea will realize, after a consultation, that he is simply taking too much antacid or the wrong kind of antacid.
It's the aluminum in antacids that I think poses the more serious problem because of the possible link between aluminum and Alzheimer's disease. Autopsies on patients who suffered from Alzheimer's disease have shown much higher than normal concentrations of aluminum in their brains. |
| I mention them together because they work together in the body and because low levels of both these minerals have been found to be associated with high blood pressure. We know that there's a relationship between calcium and blood pressure, though there is some controversy about exactly what the relationship is. It may be calcium's interaction with magnesium and particularly sodium that affects the pressure. In any case, some studies have shown definite benefits for some patients who take calcium and magnesium, and no change in others. |
| Many of my patients tell me that their doctors have suggested one or more vitamins and/or minerals for their various conditions. For example, many ophthalmologists now routinely recommend zinc to prevent macular degeneration. Many neurologists recommend vitamins C and E for Parkinson's disease. Little by little these natural approaches are becoming mainstream.
But there is still a great deal of resistance to changing the way doctors treat disease. |
| Again, I have never found chelated minerals to be better absorbed.
As to storing vitamins, you should keep them in a cool, dark place. You shouldn't refrigerate them, as the moisture in a refrigerator could damage them. Supplements should be kept in the opaque containers that they come in as they are thus best protected from sunlight. You shouldn't buy huge quantities of vitamins as they will lose potency over a period of time. Some brands of supplements have expiration dates on them; others don't. If in doubt, I suggest you discard any supplements not used within six months of opening. |
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