Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 When taking an increased dosage of an isolated B vitamin, be sure to supplement with B complex.
¦ When taking supplements, be sure to drink adequate amounts of liquid to mix with digestive juices and prevent side effects
Reprinted by permission from Jeffrey Bland to eat "complete protein" at any given meal. The body can utilize amino acids consumed at different meals to make proteins. That said, vegetarians who eat a poor diet or only a limited variety of foods should take an amino acid complex supplement.
L-tryptophan is considered the most important amino acid for sleeping problems. |
| The body's absorption of copper is blocked by a diet high in refined foods or high levels of zinc, iron, and vitamin C.49
Food sources: Beans, lentils, shellfish (especially oysters), liver, nuts, and leafy green vegetables. Supplements: There are various forms of supplemental copper, such as copper sulfate, copper gluconate, copper picolinate, and others.
Typical therapeutic dose: 2 to 5 mg daily.
Precautions: Copper toxicity is seen more often than is copper deficiency. Use only after a copper deficiency has been clearly established through hair or urine analysis. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The red and pink varieties also have vitamin A, beta-carotene, and the aforementioned cancer-fighting lycopene.
Don't take grapefruit juice with medicine. Why? It causes the medicine to stay in the bloodstream longer, which in some cases can boost the amount in your system to a dangerous high. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Taste disorders can be important clues to a vitamin A or B, (niacin) deficiency as well. Less commonly, they may signal diabetes, multiple sclerosis, liver disease, AIDS, or cancer.
Any loss of taste, even a partial one, can have serious repercussions.
People with diminished taste often oversalt and oversweeten their food, which can be dangerous if they suffer from hypertension or diabetes. For those of us who have a taste for the good life, life without the richness and variety of food may seem hardly worth living. Unfortunately, people who lose their sense of taste can become depressed. |
| It can be a reaction to such drugs as tetracycline, doxycycline, belladonna, and even quinine, or it may be a sign of a vitamin B2 deficiency. Light sensitivity can also be a dead giveaway that a person has been abusing alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines, or other drugs.
Sometimes photophobia signals some serious but treatable conditions—such as measles, hypertension, and Graves' disease (see Bulging Eyes, above)—as well as such potentially life-threatening diseases as meningitis, encephalitis, botulism, rabies, and mercury poisoning. |
| A smooth red tongue, however, can be a red flag for pernicious anemia, a fairly common and easily treatable vitamin B12 deficiency, or malabsorption syndrome, an intestinal disorder in which the body cannot adequately absorb nutrients.
If only a patch of your tongue is red or white and smooth, it may be a sign of median rhomboid glossitis (MRG). This bare spot looks much like a diamond or rhomboid, hence its name. It can be flat or raised and is devoid of both tongue hairs and taste buds. |
| Juvenal, ancient Roman poet ically as madarosis—can also be an early warning sign of hyperthyroidism (see Prematurely Gray Hair, above) or a tip-off that you're consuming too much vitamin A. And if it's just the hairs of your outer eyebrows that fall out, it may mean that you have Hashimoto's syndrome, a chronic form of hypothyroidism. (See Chapter 6.)
MOVIN'ON DOWN
LOSING CHEST AND BODY HAIR
To the ancient Greeks and Romans, a hairless chest on a man was the aesthetic ideal, possibly because it represented youth. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| They've also got magnesium and a tiny bit of vitamin C.
Beets got a bad rap from the low-carb folks
(with whom I'm sometimes allied) because they are high in sugar. That's true, but not significant unless you're really, really sugar sensitive. That said, they're on the "no-no" list of a lot of docs who specialize in diabetes, such as Dr. Richard Bernstein (author of The Diabetes Diet). For the rest of us, they make a terrific addition to the menu. They can be baked, boiled, steamed, or shredded raw and added to salads and slaws. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As usual, I strongly urge you to work with a naturopathic physician who can check your current levels of vitamin D and offer a health-enhancing strategy for getting more sunlight, enhancing your circulating levels of vitamin D and improving your health for the rest of your life.
On top of that, I've also completed a new book on prostate cancer entitled, "How to Prevent and Reverse Prostate Cancer," which spells out the real solutions to this disease in plain English, without the medical jargon. You'll find that at the Truth Publishing website. |
Ron Garner
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 When possible, expose your skin to sunshine for brief periods each day. vitamin D, manufactured by the action of sun on the skin, is needed for health. Avoid tanning lotions because they clog pores; instead, you can use hemp oil. It thoroughly penetrates the skin and contains a natural spf of 15.
Get involved in exercise such as walking, swimming, skipping, using an electrically tuned mini-trampoline, aerobics, strength training, stretching, and so forth.
Have times for breathing deeply, including diaphragm breathing, to increase oxygen absorption and reduce stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, very few people get adequate sunlight, so we could create mechanisms by which our skin produces more vitamin D with less exposure to natural sunlight. We could also engineer the body to produce vitamin C, which is produced by other animals like dogs and cats, but is not produced in the human body.
These are just a few small examples of the many ways in which genetic engineering can help alter our health outcome by changing our hardware and software. Yet, I think there are many other important applications of genetic engineering. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Anaemia is treated with extra iron and vitamin Bl2. Selenium is sometimes suggested also, but only in minimal doses on a short-term basis.
Apple cider vinegar, nature's own drug-free anti-inflammatory, is rich in potassium, phosphorus and calcium, with lesser amounts of iron, chlorine, sodium, magnesium, sulphur, silicon and other trace minerals. This natural storehouse of good nutrients also contains amino acids, pectin and beta-carotene. |
Jack Challem
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 This product provides R-lipoic acid (the more biologically active form of the antioxidant) combined with the B vitamin biotin. Both nutrients enhance insulin function and glucose utilization. The product may be of particular benefit to people with prediabetes and diabetes. Follow the label directions for use. (See ordering information in the appendix.)
Chromium. This essential mineral is needed for the normal functioning of insulin, and studies have found that it can lower blood sugar levels. |
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| Chemical reactions involving vitamin B6 convert phenylalanine to PEA. The body can also convert PEA to tyrosine, the building block of dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Aspartame, used as a sweetener in soft drinks, is very similar to phenylalanine and may produce edgy feelings.
Other Types of Neurotransmitters and Neurotransmitter-like Substances
Nitric oxide
What it does. Nitric oxide is one of the most versatile neurotransmitters in the brain and in cell-to-cell communication throughout the body. |
| L-arginine is the sole precursor to nitric oxide; however, the conversion of L-arginine to nitric oxide requires an enzyme, nitric oxide synthase, that depends on vitamin C.
N-Acetylcysteine
What it does. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is the standard treatment in hospitals for acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdose and is one of the most effective ways to dissolve mucus in the lungs. It is also a precursor to glutathione, the principal antioxidant made by the body, and helps to protect us from toxic chemicals. |
John A. McDougall
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 Since plants, plentiful in vitamin C (ascorbic acid), have always been a reliable part of our diet, we have lost the ability to synthesize (make our own) ascorbic acid. Thus this substance is a necessary nutrient—vitamin—for humans. Because ascorbic acid has not been reliably available to primarily meat-eating animals, they have retained the ability to manufacture their own ascorbic acid from the basic raw materials found in their meat diet. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Rothman and colleagues reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1995 that taking high doses of vitamin A during pregnancy was associated with an increase in birth defects, primarily deformations of nervous tissue and the heart. The risk of birth defects was increased 2.6-fold in women who took supplements that when combined with food intake provided less than double the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). In other words, if women took any supplements, they increased the risk of birth defects. |
| So spend your vitamin money on something else, like a vacation. Rest and relaxation will do more for you than a bottle of letters. |
| BISPHOSPHONATES
Osteoporosis is commonly treated with bisphosphonates, estrogenlike medications, and supplementation with calcium and vitamin D, with the goal of treatment being the prevention of fractures. The bisphosphonates include risedronate (Actonel), alendronate sodium (Fosamax), etidronate (Didronel), tiludronate (Skelid), pamidronate (Aredia), and zoledronate (Zomeda). Again, they act by getting between the bone cells (osteocytes) and the cells that break down bone (osteoclasts). |
| Accutane belongs to the class of compounds called retinoids, which includes the active form of vitamin A. Originally approved as a second-line treatment for cystic and nodular acne, Accutane inhibits sebaceous-gland secretions. Since its approval for the indication of cystic acne by the FDA in 1982, Accutane, manufactured by the Swiss-based company Roche, has been prescribed for 2 million patients in the U.S. and more than 8 million patients worldwide. |
| Rare side effects include a metallic taste in the mouth and reductions in vitamin B12. Glucovance is a combination of glyburide and metformin.
The known side effects and limited efficacy of these drugs led to a search for more-effective drugs with fewer side effects. Although the new-generation diabetes drugs were introduced with great fanfare, in some cases their side-effect profile turned out to be troubling and in some cases even more deadly than the older drugs. |
| Most vitamin D is generated internally after exposure to the sun.) If someone in your family is elderly and doesn't get out much or is confined, wheel him or her outdoors for some sun exposure.
Physical activity and exercise play a dramatic role in the prevention of fractures. Studies have shown that the process of aging itself is ten times more important in terms of fracture risk than bone mineral density. The most critical thing to do to prevent fractures is to keep active. Loss of muscle strength is part of aging, but we can profoundly delay this effect through active exercise. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Particularly high in calcium, iodine, zinc, potassium, magnesium and selenium, seaweed is also very rich in vitamin C?an additional bonus for someone with asthma. Seaweed stimulates the immune system and in the past folk medicine used it to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Seaweed has also been shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and to maintain balanced thyroid activity.
Sourced from the sea bed, seaweed has added minerals not usually associated with 'earthly produce.
Japanese cuisine uses seaweed extensively, but Western cooking is not as adventurous. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Individuals who carried the gene in vitamin C-sparse areas were able to patch up their leaky blood vessels, enabling them to live long enough to reproduce. Once these individuals had replaced themselves, their genes couldn't care less if they die of a heart attack.
My advice? Get your Lp(a) level measured with a simple blood test. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 As an organ, your skin is active metabolically; for instance it is instrumental in vitamin D absorption. It is also a major sensory organ, linking you to the environment, and so bioenergetically it has a strong connection to Earth's Big Field.
Your skin also responds almost instantaneously to conscious and unconscious emotions, changing color (blushing) and texture (goose bumps) according to your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, so it is part of the nervous system information network. |
| It also suggests, contrary to popular opinion, that vitamin or mineral supplements may not be effective sources of these elements, for ingesting them bypasses the important cavities (lungs especially) that are bioenergetically important in how the body uses them.
In TCM, yuan qi, or the life-source energy, collects primarily in the brain, lungs, and kidneys—all of which are made of millions of microtubules. TCM identifies the heart as the master organ—the "emperor" of the body and the "ruler" of the five major organ networks. |
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 The link between vitamin A deficiency and the severity of respiratory disease is very well established," agrees Susan Cunningham-Rundles, Ph.D., associate professor of immunology at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City and editor of Nutrient Modulation of the Immune Response.
Such deficiencies are common in poorer countries, where foods high in
JC/ating right can help keep your immune system running strong. Besides a diet based mainly on whole grains, fruits and vegetables, here's what the experts recommend.
Juice up your iron. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Carter also advised Paula to quit smoking, take a B-complex vitamin, and take red cayenne pepper capsules to strengthen her nervous system and possibly stimulate her circulation.
Several weeks later, Paula returned for a second NES scan, which revealed a host of body-field distortions, including Polarity, Nervous System Driver, Stomach Driver, Muscle Driver, Kidney Driver, Bone Driver, and Energetic Integrator 10 (Circulation/Pericardium Meridian). Although a NES protocol customarily does not include more than four or five Infoceuticals, Carter had Paula take all seven Infoceuticals. |
| He already had changed his diet, eating only raw foods, but he now tried Gerson's vitamin and mineral therapy and used homeopathy for seven months. Each seemed to help a bit, but none restored his health. Of all the systems he had read about, the one that made the most sense to him was detoxification. His descent into illness had started in Australia with a fever; obviously something foreign had entered his body. That something had initiated the process of losing his health, and maybe by removing it the process could be reversed. |
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