| Vitamin E has also been the source of recent controversy. Figuring out what is salient and solid research is not easy—which is why it's so important to work with a health-care professional who stays completely up to date on the latest data on food and supplements as medicine.
ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS. There are two families of essential fatty acids, or EFAs: omega-3 and omega-6. High consumption of omega-6 can increase inflammation; in contrast, omega-3 fatty acids have strong anti-inflammatory properties. Omega-3 is most readily available through the consumption of fish and shellfish. |
| His papers on how vitamin D helps to prevent autoimmune disease are as likely to appear in Nutrition in
Clinical Practice as his papers on T-cell activity in Crohn's disease have been in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He now serves as a fellow at Dr. Andrew Weil's program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona.
"The idea that we should rely solely on drug therapies to help autoimmune-disease patients is antiquated," Mullin posits as we enter his Hopkins office, where photos of his nieces and nephews sit on the windowsill and complementary health tomes line bookshelves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'll learn why 29 states are suing drug companies for fraud, how the FDA ordered the burning of recipe books to protect the profits of chemical companies, why the FDA conducted armed raids on vitamin companies, health food stores and even a church, and how the mainstream media operates as a willing co-conspirator by promoting dangerous drugs while accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in Big Pharma ad money every year. |
Michael Pollan
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 I kept changing the language to talk about 'foods that contain vitamin C and 'foods that contain carotenes.' Because how do you know it's not one of the other things in the carrots or the broccoli? There are hundreds of carotenes. But the biochemists had their answer: 'You can't do a trial on broccoli.' "
So the nutrients won out over the foods. The panel's resort to scientific reductionism had the considerable virtue of being both politically expedient (in the case of meat and dairy) and, to these scientific heirs of Justus von Liebig, intellectually sympathetic. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 There is growing evidence that vitamin D plays a central role in rebalancing T-cell activity, which is why it is proving to be such an important adjunct to the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as MS and Crohn's disease. One provocative investigation looked at forty-two thousand people to determine why those born in the month of May have a 13 percent increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (while being born in November carries a 19 percent decreased risk). |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Causes of a high MCV include liver disease, alcohol abuse, hypothyroidism, reticulocytosis, marrow aplasia, vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency, and myelofibrosis. Causes of a low MCV include lead poisoning, chronic kidney failure, hemoglobinopathy, and certain anemias.
Monocytes: A type of white blood cell involved in the immune response to foreign substances, monocytes are often increased in response to chronic infection, inflammatory bowel disease, leukemia, and certain cancers. They may be decreased in people who have anemia or are taking corticosteroids. |
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 Navigating Natural Food Stores
As a general rule, natural food stores, such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, vitamin Cottage, and the many independent natural food stores, offer more wholesome foods than you'll find in a typical supermarket; however, some so-called natural foods are little more than knockoffs of supermarket products. They may sound and look more healthy, but they can pack plenty of calories, carbs, and sugars.
The natural food and health food industry has long been wedded to whole grains, such as whole-wheat bread. |
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 A little sun is healthy for babies anyway. vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and normal cell division.)
Don't feed your babies sugary or salty processed foods, or they'll grow up craving those things. Avoid anything with high-fructose corn syrup (like sodas), and don't feed them sweets made with refined sugar. The first few months of a baby's life are crucial for imprinting taste expectations, so use that time to expose them to fruits, vegetables and other natural food sources rather than refined, processed ingredients. |
Jack Challem
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| In contrast, more conventional drug therapies tend to mask, but not correct, signs of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.) Following this approach, we treat patients appropriately, neither overtreating nor undertreating them.
Follow-up testing tracks changes in nutrient levels. These changes usually correlate with a reduction in physical symptoms and fewer laboratory markers of disease. After doing follow-up tests, we adjust patients' supplement programs to their changing needs.
Testing for nutrient levels is not as uncommon as you might think. |
Michael Pollan
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| One hypothesis is that the antioxidants in fresh produce—compounds like beta-carotene, lyco-pene, vitamin E, and so on—are the X factor. It makes good theoretical sense: These molecules (which plants produce to protect themselves from the highly reactive forms of oxygen they produce during photosynthesis) soak up the free radicals in our bodies, which can damage DNA and initiate cancers. At least that's how it seems to work in a test tube. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 By using natural preservatives such as vitamin E and grapefruit seed extract, they avoid the addition of chemical preservatives. The following are the top ten synthetic cosmetic ingredients to avoid. Aubrey Hampton calls them the "10 most wanted"; I recommend visiting the site at www.aubrey-organics.com for more information.
TOXINS: THE 10 MOST WANTED LIST
Methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl paraben:
These villains help extend the shelf life of products and prevent microbial growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 See my documented history of armed FDA raids against alternative doctors and vitamin companies in my book Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them.
It's all so hilarious that it makes you wonder how the so-called "quack" police can continue to peddle their pro-drug propaganda with a straight face. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 You never really know how much of a vitamin or supplement you are getting. Even if you could figure it out, there are many chemicals within our food supply, coupled with toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis, that can prevent the absorption of the essential nutrients we need.
What makes one supplement manufacturer or product better than another? How can you trust what is listed on the label is actually in the product? Dietary supplements are required to list all ingredients on the label including the name and quantity of each ingredient. But is that enough? |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 There are no known adverse effects of such a diet when mineral and vitamin contents are adequate.
"Children and adolescents require major attention to develop early habits of optimal nutrition. Schools should assume a significant leadership role in achieving this goal.
"Speculation about the degree of public compliance must not influence the accuracy of the recommendations."7
Indisputably, in recommending that Americans convert to plant-based nutrition, we would be asking Americans to undertake profound taste transitions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Aside from blatant conflicts of interest, the FDA has been caught red handed burying negative drug study trials, colluding with drug companies to approve known dangerous drugs, whitewashing scientific data to appease Big Pharma, censoring its own drug safety scientists, conducting armed raids on vitamin shops in order to intimidate natural health industry proponents, and far worse. See my new book, Natural Health Solutions, to read the full story on the FDA.
In my perfect world, the top FDA criminals get arrested, charged and convicted of their crimes against humanity. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Unfortunately, there's no one brand or pill that combines the recommended amount of every vitamin, mineral, and nutrient, but some are close and you can use a liquid or pill form. So you'll have to do a little digging yourself, but we want to make it as easy as possible. So here we've listed our recommendations of pills and supplements that will make your body and mind stronger, healthier, and younger. All of these should be in divided doses. We'd love you to get them from diet, but many have imperfect diets—so consider these recommendations as an insurance policy for an imperfect diet. |
Jack Challem
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| High levels of hsCRP can be reduced by losing weight, exercising, improving your glucose tolerance, eating more vegetables, using turmeric as a spice in your foods, taking vitamin E supplements, and reducing your consumption of sugary foods and refined carbs.
In this chapter, you've learned how to assess your likelihood of becoming prediabetic and overweight. By combining the quizzes and the information from medical tests, you and your physician will have a pretty clear grasp of your health. |
Mike Adams
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| This is why, if you want vitamin E in your diet and you want to get it from a natural source, one of the best things to do is buy wheat germ. Wheat germ is, in a sense, a superfood. That's what makes it such an outstanding choice for sprinkling on cereals or oatmeal or wherever you choose to use it in your diet.
The seed's energy pack
So far then, we have removed the bran, which is the high fiber outer protective shell and we've removed the germ. I should mention, also, that the germ is very high in minerals and vitamins. So the only thing that we're left with now is the endosperm. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 HCI facilitates the absorption of folic acid, vitamin B12, vitamins A and E, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, non-heme iron and some forms of calcium, magnesium, and zinc.
Your body makes about 2 liters of gastric juices a day. In turn, the parietal cells produce HCI acid. HCI is produced in minimal amounts when you are not eating, at about 10 percent of maximal rate. The pH on an empty stomach should normally be about 1.8-2.0.
HOW DOES A LOW LEVEL OF STOMACH ACID AFFECT ME?
Low levels of stomach acid can lead to maldigestion of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. |
Michael Pollan
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| Got it now. vitamin A? Sure, no problem). But of course margarine, being the product not of nature but of human ingenuity, could never be any smarter than the nutritionists dictating its recipe, and the nutritionists turned out to be not nearly as smart as they thought. The food scientists' ingenious method for making healthy vegetable oil solid at room temperature—by blasting it with hydrogen— turned out to produce unhealthy trans fats, fats that we now know are more dangerous than the saturated fats they were designed to replace. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 This study concluded that combining vitamin C and E in patients with affective disorders and tardive dyskinesia resulted in a reduction in symptoms with no adverse effects.
Treatment for Tardive Dyskinesia: A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Crossover Study. Shamir E; Barak Y; et al. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001 November, 58(11):1049-1052.
In this double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 22 patients with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia received 10 mg/d of melatonin for six weeks. The results were favorable when compared with a control group. |
| Fifteen patients with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia received either vitamin B6 or placebo for four weeks. Dosages were 100 mg of B6 per day, increasing by 100 mg per week to 400 mg daily by the fourth week. Significant improvements were noted in various movement scores with no adverse effects.
Melatonin Treatment for Tardive Dyskinesia. Shamir E; et al. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001, 58:1049-1052. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, vitamin B-12 is present as methylcobalamin (the good form) rather than cyanocobalamin (the cheap form). Coenzyme Q10 is also present at 25mg per serving, and LivingFuel Rx Super Greens even delivers grape seed, skin and stem extracts containing resveratrol (which are outstanding for heart health).
The extra enzymes and probiotics enhance the digestibility and bioavailability of the nutrients found in LivingFuel Rx Super Greens.
LivingFuel Rx Super Greens is suitable for vegetarians or people with gluten sensitivities. It contains no animal products and no wheat. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| Those over 50 should take 1,000 IU (International Units of vitamin D3) a day.
5. Omega-3 fatty acids. You can fulfill your daily requirement by consuming one tablespoon of flaxseed meal each day—perhaps sprinkling it over cereal. Be sure to refrigerate ground flaxseed.
6. Cholesterol-lowering drugs. These must be taken under a physician's supervision. My own preference is one of the statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, which should be started when you begin the nutrition program. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Now, the flip beverages, or too much protein, and no weight-bearing exercises and no vitamin D), or you're taking prescription drugs such as steroids that cause you to lose calcium, you will end up with a negative calcium balance in your bone account. Nevertheless, you need to take calcium. Inadequate calcium intake sets off a chain of events to ensure normal calcium levels in blood, since normal calcium levels in
You can lose 5 to 7 inches in height following a series of vertebral fractures. |
| YOU Tip: Fortify Yourself with D. vitamin D decreases the risk of cancer, perhaps because it's toxic to cancer cells. The other theory is that D bolsters the ability of the guard dog p53 gene to spot cancerous cells and kill them. Most Americans don't get enough D because we're indoors most of the time, and when we're outdoors, we're wearing sunscreen. We recommend getting 800IU a day if you're younger than sixty and 1,000 IU if you're over sixty. You can do it through supplements or food (though you probably won't get more than 300 or so lUs through food alone, so supplementation is smart). |
Hyla Cass
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 Nutrients depleted: Potassium, SAMe, and vitamin B6. Needed supplements:
?Antioxidants: High levels of antioxidants are also useful in treating PD, which may be due to excessive exposure to toxins such as pesticides in susceptible individuals. Talk with your doctor about this.
?CoQ10: 360-1,200 mg daily. No specific research has been done to show that Parkinson's drugs deplete CoQj0. We do know, however, that CoQ10 is low in PD patients. A study found that CoQ10 supplements slowed down the disease in patients with early-stage PD. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sunlight accelerates wound healing quite dramatically, probably by producing vitamin D in the skin. Patients who are exposed to sunlight heal far faster than those who are not.
Phototherapy can also help wounds heal quickly. Various phototherapy devices use infrared LED lights to bathe the wound in healing light. The cellular DNA responds by speeding up the repair process.
Avoid junk food during the healing process, especially processed fats such as hydrogenated oils and homogenized milk fats. They interfere with healthy cell wall construction. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Since vitamin D is, in fact, a fat-soluble hormone, it is stored in fat tissue, leaving less available in the bloodstream.
INSULIN SENSITIZERS
The more sensitive or receptive your cells are to insulin, the better you can control your blood glucose levels and in turn reduce your risk of developing diabetic complications. The following supplements have been shown to increase insulin sensitivity.
Barley Extract
Barley extract contains beta-glucan, a naturally derived fiber that has a sticky, glutinous consistency. |
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