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Stopping the Clock: Longevity for the New Millenium Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman See book keywords and concepts

When you eat something, your digestive process breaks down the food into its component parts: carbohydrates (a combination of carbon and water found in every living thing), protein, vitamins, minerals, fat, and waste. All of the nutrients pass into your bloodstream, so that your blood can carry them to all of your different body tissues. Anything that can't be used right away is stored, partly as body fat (which is how you gain weight), partly as glycogen, a substance that can be converted into glucose, or blood sugar. Your body is always striving to keep your blood sugar at a constant level.

A study recently published in The Lancet reported that elderly people taking multivitamins with minerals had improved immune function and had 50 percent fewer sick days. CHROMIUM: THE MINERAL THAT BALANCES BLOOD SUGAR Perhaps the most compelling reason to take chromium supplements is this miracle mineral's effect on your blood sugar. Up to the age of 35, most people's bodies are relatively efficient at processing blood sugar.

The Miracle Minerals: Chromium, Selenium, and Magnesium Rats treated with chromium supplements lived an average of two and a half years, one-third longer than their normal life span. In humans, that would be the equivalent of extending life from age 75 to age 102. Selenium supplements can help protect you from cancer, heart disease, infectious viruses, and other signs of rapid aging. Without enough magnesium, you're running higher than necessary risks of heart failure, heart attack, chronic high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and unstable blood sugar.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

Earth's minerals, plants, animals, oceans, atmosphere—all are components of one large self-sustaining organism. Homeostasis of the oceans, climate, atmosphere, and planetary crust (the environment) is maintained by "active feedback processes operated automatically and unconsciously" by the resident biota (life). Lovelock christened this planetary regulator Gaia, after the ancient Greek concept of an Earth goddess. It was NASA's startling photographs in the late 1960s of our blue-white planet that initially birthed the Gaia Hypothesis in his thinking, says Lovelock.

According to Steiner, the kingdoms of plants, animals, minerals, and the starry cosmos are all constituents, in concentrated, micro-cosmic form, of the living, organic, independent human being. In other words, the cosmic, planetary, and natural environments all find their place within the living human and reciprocally the human organism is the condensed microcosmic expression of the cosmos. There is a core identity at the basis of the human, natural, planetary, and cosmic worlds—of all expressions of environment.

Here Feuer shows how the FDA systematically suppresses truthful information about vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional substances and actively suppresses new companies who seek to market these, espedally if they encroach upon the big-dollar diseases such as cancer or AIDS. "The entire orthodox medical establishment," says Feuer, "is threatened by alternative medicine." The conflict has little to do with science and "everything to do with economics.

The stress leads to hyperventilation, carbon dioxide depletion, a reduction in immunological first-line defense, blood pH imbalance, and a dangerous depletion of minerals and metals necessary for detoxification. With this biochemical systemic collapse and the failure to maintain immunological boundaries, the environment becomes inimical, and EI moves in. On the Processing Edge with the Dreambody Maybe immunological failure isn't a disaster of life. Maybe it means we need to be more open, less defended, less bounded. Immunity may be an existential mistake.

The repertory also includes remedies made from potentized minerals such as Natrum muriaticum (sodium chloride), Silicea (salica), and Argentum nitricum (nitrate of silver). Beyond the Measurable Chemical Limits of the Paradigm A homeopathic dilution of 12C (which is quite a low dose) technically no longer has any molecular trace of the original substance because at this point it exceeds what chemists regard as their equivalent of the speed of light, the boundaries of material presence: Avogadro's number.

The Divining Hand—The Art of Searching for Water, Oil, minerals, and Other Natural Resources or Anything Lost, Missing, or Badly Needed, New Age Press, Black Mountain, 1979. Blakeslee, Sandra, "Magnetic Crystals, Guides for Animals, Found in Humans," The New York Times, (May 12, 1992). Brodeur, Paul, "Department of Amplification," The New Yorker, (November 19, 1990). —"The Magnetic-Field Menace," Macworld, (July 1990). —Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1989). Brodsky, Caroll M.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

The soil in the pots was identical except that some of the minerals had been removed in one. As the two plants grew they were wrapped around each other. The plant in the deficient soil developed fungus and insect problems, while the plant in the fully mineralized soil grew healthily, with no insect problems or disease—even with the weakened and diseased plant wrapped around it. Weeds, too, appear to be Nature's way of correcting deficiencies. They help to create conditions that return missing elements back to the soil.

Made of crushed ground minerals, this soft, unscented litter completely absorbs and captures urine in easy-to-remove balls. By completely removing all waste daily, you eliminate the source of the odor. All The Best. Nature's Miracle Cat Litter Treatment (Pets & People). Guaranteed to eliminate urine odors and at least double litter life or your money back. Ecco Bella. Safer Pet Odor Eliminator (Safer). Clean, fresh scent. Wysong Litter Lite (Wysong Corporation). Natural, biodegradable litter-box filler. Wysong Corporation. Zampet Dry Herb Deodorizer (Zampet Manufacturing).

Salve, shampoo, and ear wash made from herbs, minerals, and oils. For dogs, cats, and birds. Noah's Park. PetGuard Shampoo with Conditioner (PetGuard). For skin irritations and coat care. Vetcair CoatCair (Protech). Environmentally safe, all-natural formula that cleans and conditions pet's coat. Works by naturally biodegrading the molecules of offending substances. Widupet (DCM Industries). Wood-bristle brush with wooden handle. InterNatural. Kitty Litter_ Most kitty litters contain very strong deodorants and are generally poured into plastic pans.

The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs Mark Blumenthal See book keywords and concepts

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), USP began the development of monographs defining identity and purity standards for many of the best-selling herbs in the U.S. market. From 1995 to 2002, USP has published 86 standards monographs on 25 herbs (Blumenthal, 2003). The recognition of the biological activity of herbs and medicinal plants is as old as medicine and pharmacy where many herbs have been used as medicines (so-called "crude drugs") and, in more recent times, as the sources of widely accepted pharmaceutical drugs.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Vitamins or minerals, such as the B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, selenium, and magnesium, are assembly-line workers in the manufacture of neurotransmitters; some aid neurotransmitter activity, as in the case of iron, and some protect neurotransmitters What You Eat Affects How You Feel Illustration 1.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

These chemicals almost without exception perform their mission at the cost of destroying valuable vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, stripping food products of their natural life-giving qualities.22 Dr. Chauncey Lake, past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warned in 1963 "that general use of new chemicals in large quantities has created a new hazard— subclinical poisoning—so insidious that physicians cannot connect the poison with the ailment."23 Dr.

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Others include vitamins K, D, A, and the minerals, magnesium, chromium, zinc, and selenium. The Common Link One of the age old quests of science has been to find the unifying principle that will explain all phenomena. For physics, this is represented by the unified field theory which was supposed to explain all forces in nature. Thus far, no such unifying principle has been found for biology and medicine. But we are moving closer. One of the most interesting discoveries is the central role calcium channels play in disease, injury, and aging.

The Longevity Code: Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter Life Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner See book keywords and concepts

I recommend a multivitamin with minerals that meets FDA standards (look for "USP" on the label). Make sure it contains B vitamins, (at least 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance and a minimum of 0.4 mg (400 meg) of folic acid. Women with heavy menstrual bleeding should take iron. If you are a man or a postmenopausal woman, select a multivitamin that does not ontain iron. If you're eating right, your body does not require the extra iron, and the common side effects of iron supplementation, constipation and bloating, are simply not worth it.

Over the years we've also tried to locate a "cure" for aging in various foods, drinks, minerals, lotions, potions, injections, and incantations. Thus far no magical elixir has been discovered, although biologists, sociologists, and other scientists have accumulated an impressive—and still expanding—body of knowledge. We now know a lot about how people age and what might slow, what kills us prematurely and how to prevent or avoid those killers, which substances and behaviors undermine health and which promote it.

Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork Lendon H. Smith, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Change minerals and supplements depending on type of stone. MEMORY LOSS Allopathic control: "Write things down." Natural control: Take B6, lecithin, pantothenic acid, niacin, C, glutamine, phenylalanine, GH3, and choline. Change diet: eat small amounts frequently, no sugar, no junk food. Herbs: Rosemary, Euphrasia rostokoviana, Salvia officinalis, Ginkgo. MENIERE'S SYNDROME (Tinnitus) Allopathic control: Tranquilizers.

Fats also are important for the proper absorption of minerals, and fatty acids and their products are crucial ingredients of all membranes, like the cell walls. If you don't get enough essential fatty acids, the mucous membrane of the intestinal tract becomes more permeable and undigested foods and toxins may enter the bloodstream (the leaky gut). Lipids account for 70 percent of the materials used to construct the brain. The word "essential" is used because people must have them to survive.

These are the amino acids, the minerals, and the vitamins. Remember the chemical rule: The greater the concentration, the more rapid the reaction. Because of individual biochemistry, some people cannot manufacture enough of NTs to keep them from anxiety, depression, or psychosis. NT PRECURSORS Genetic tendencies do not have to appear unless the lifestyle and the diet are faulty. If any of the regulatory factors are deficient in tne diet, or it a person has a genetic dependency on any ot mem, the individual elements smell good and should be taken.

The Longevity Code: Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter Life Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner See book keywords and concepts

Take a multivitamin with minerals and vitamin B/2.This is important for anyone with a dementia amplifier. A simple blood test at your doctor's office can determine if you're deficient. • If you have high blood pressure, treat it. • If your cholesterol is sky high, treat it. • If you drink too much alcohol, cut back. • Protect yourself from injuries. Kickboxing with contact does put you at risk, for instance. So do headers in soccer. Wearing a helmet when in-line skating, skiing, or riding a bike or motorcycle is wise.

Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork Lendon H. Smith, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Natural control: Diet change, increasing vitamins A, C, and B-complex; minerals zinc, calcium, magnesium, selenium, and manganese; and garlic, fiber, methionine, cysteine, glutathione, algin from sea plants like kelp; chelation. HYPOCHONDRIASIS Allopathic control: Reassurance, tonics. Natural control: Homeopathy, bach flowers, counseling. HYPOGLYCEMIA Allopathic control: Deny there is such a condition. Natural control: Five small meals a day, little sugar, no coffee, homeopathy.

Life Balances program: The chem screen shows generalized nutritional problems and deficiencies—they need: protein and correction of alkalinity, as well as multiple minerals and vitamins. Alopecia Here follows the brief story of two women who have suffered from alopecia totalis. CASEtihLA.B. L.A.B. began the program in January 1990. Female, forty-four years, 122 pounds, 5 feet, 8 inches. Advertising business. Divorced. College and post-graduate education. At age twenty-three she began to have patchy baldness. By 1986 (age forty) had alopecia totalis (scalp, armpits, pubic—total).

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

C), other vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and fiber. Dark green leafy vegetables are particularly rich sources of beta carotene and the B vitamin folic acid. (One serving is equivalent to 1 cup cooked, 2 cups raw, or the amount listed.) Consume daily a minimum of one (preferably at least two) servings of the beta carotene-rich vegetables marked with an *.

The Feeling Good Diet is mineral-rich and should supply optimal amounts of all minerals as long as you consume at least 2,000 calories a day. An exception to this rule is iron, which might require a supplement of 10 to 18 milligrams when intake of nutritious foods falls below 2,500 calories. There is little or no evidence that people already optimally nourished will benefit from additional amounts of minetals. Blues-Free Basics If food is at the root of your blues, then the Feeling Good Diet in chapter 12 should be the cure.

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

This series of reactions needed to break down glucose also depends on an adequate supply of vitamins, minerals and trace elements being present. These act as co-factors and co-enzymes (helpers) that help spur the reactions along. These vital supplements should be supplied by the diet because when deficient, serious disease can occur. Far too many physicians, because of a neglect of nutritional courses in medical training, do not appreciate the critical nature of these nutrients in human health. ATP (Tret's Cycle. elecfYtms , NAD " MAD Free radicals \ s FAD jr F« 1 | cyrochrome.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

One study found that organic foods contained more calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and other minerals than conventional produce. But other studies have found only minimal differences in nutritional quality between organic and conventional produce, concluding that "... seasonal variations in the weather have a greater influence on plant production than the source and amount of compost applied." A better way to maximize the vitamin and minetal content of your produce—conventional or organic—is to buy vine-ripened, very fresh produce, or grow your own.

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Among the most important of these are vitamin C, E, and beta-carotene. The minerals selenium, zinc, and magnesium also play a part in reducing free radical damage. New, more powerful, free radical scavengers are being developed by the pharmaceutical companies. They may have a more powerful effect and be better localized in the neurons that need them than naturally occurring compounds. 3. There is a suggestion that persons who take regular doses of aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs get Alzheimer's disease far less than those who do not.

The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss See book keywords and concepts

Activities in this area may be routinely assigned to the same people at all times—most frequently, the mother selects and cooks the food, the men and children eat the meals she prepares—but each family member must still have a personal knowledge of the fundamentals of nutrition, and of how vitamins, minerals, proteins, fat, calories, etc., are used in the body. To ignore this aspect of health simply because sex roles assign the responsibility for it to someone else is to retreat into a state of infantile dependency. Here is a self-assessment survey of nutritional awareness. 1.

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