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Food Intolerance Bible Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes See book keywords and concepts

Biotics Research Colon Plus 3 capsules in between meals with a large glass of water, once or twice daily Colon Plus contains psyllium seed powder, mannitol, kelgin, apple pectin, peppermint leaf powder, vitamin C, anise, flax seed powder, bromelain, celery powder, Lactobacillus acidophilus (DDS-1), aloe vera powder, and prune powder. The ingredients for all of these items are shown on the website: www.thefoodintolerancebible.com You can obtain all of these supplements directly from suppliers' websites. See Appendix IV for more information.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Squeeze vitamin E oil or tea tree oil around the cuticle and under the nail once or twice a day. • Soak the feet in original Listerine or apply it daily to the affected nails. • Smear Vicks VapoRub around and under the nail every day. • Brew an infusion of Pau d'Arco for soaking the affected nails every day. • Stick your toe in a lemon overnight to soften the infected nail for removal. • If the nail needs to come off, ask your • Lamisil is the most effective prescription doctor about prescribing urea paste (40 pill for fighting nail fungus. percent).

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

European Union has disappeared. Other countries have already adopted either full or partial CODEX regulations concerning nutritional supplements. The results? In Germany, until 1996, one could freely purchase 500 mg vitamin-C tablets, the way you can here. Now the highest dosage available to Germans is 200 mg; anything higher is sold through pharmacists at extremely high prices and only with a prescription. All herbs are regulated as drugs and manufactured only by German pharmaceutical companies, available to consumers only by prescription.

Interestingly, other chemicals in the whole plant extract (which, initially, showed positive anti-tumor effects and very low toxicity) demonstrated positive effects on vitamin K and, conceivably, compensated for lapachol's negative effect. Once again, instead of pursuing research on a complex combination of at least twenty active chemicals in a whole plant extract (several of which had anti-tumor effects and other positive biological activities), research focused on a single, patentable chemical—and it didn't work as well.

The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles Bruce H. Lipton See book keywords and concepts

In the experiment, one group of yellow, obese, agouti mothers received methyl-group-rich supplements available in health food stores: folic acid, vitamin B12, betaine and choline. Methyl-rich supplements were chosen because a number of studies have shown that the methyl chemical group is involved with epigenetic modifications. When methyl groups attach to a gene's DNA, it changes the binding characteristics of regulatory chromosomal proteins. If the proteins bind too tightly to the gene, the protein sleeve cannot be removed and the gene cannot be read.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

In Norway, all vitamin and mineral supplements that exceed RDA levels are considered drugs. Many natural substances are available in Norway only through very costly prescriptions, if they're available at all. A black market for supplements has emerged in Norway as a result. Closer to home, in Canada, herbs with medicinal effects (any herb for which claims are made that it improves health) are now classified as drugs. The supplements tryptophan and L-carnitine were once available in Canadian health food stores for $14 per 100 capsules.

Its high vitamin C content has created a demand for camu-camu fruit in the natural products market. Some groups are now beginning to study cultivation methods for this important new rainforest resource, which is still harvested wild throughout the Amazon region. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin notes in his book, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, that "a forest stand of camu-camu is worth twice the amount to be gained from cutting down the forest and replacing it with cattle," and he believes that camu-camu cultivation holds real economic promise for local economies.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Vitamin C crystals, and 1 -2 tbs. activated Charcoal. Treat the cold stage with hot stimulant drinks, hot footbath, and cover the patient with sheets, blankets, towels, a coat, your own body for extra heat, or place in a warm bed. Stop paroxysms with 112 tsp. Laudanum. Take very high Fever Remedies; 10-15grains Quinine 1-2 times an hour; brandy and Cayenne to stimulate vital force. Homeopathic: Aconite(3x), Bryonia(3x), Gelsemium (3x), Belladonna(3x), Green Hellebore/Veratrum vir., and Iron Phosphate. Enteric Fever SEE Typhoid.

Folic acid to Folinic for Oxygenized blood transport, with vitamin B2; for active citrovorum factor, converted from Folic acid with B-l 2 and C; helps nerve Myelin sheaths; counters heart failure, angina, bruising in the hands and feet; (osteo)arthritis, bursitis, and osteoporosis; alcoholism; take 1000 mg. B-l 2 as you step into bed for dreaming in color; for fertility (take 30 meg. B-l 2 injections).

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

You can also eat foods that contain the depleted nutrient: • vitamin D: salmon, mackerel, sardines, eel, fortified milk Consult with your physician before making any changes to your diet or supplemental regimen. ETIDRONATE (e-ti-DROE-nate) Brand Name: Didronel About Etidronate Throughout your childhood, your bones were in a constant state of change, growing longer, wider, and more dense. And they don't stop changing once you become an adult. They are continually broken down and rebuilt in a process called remodeling.

Restoring Your Nutritional Balance To compensate for the nutrient loss caused by this drug, speak to your physician about taking 500-1,000 meg biotin, 400 IU vitamin D, 1,200 mg calcium, and 250—1,000 mg carnitine per day. And ask your physician to consider the potential effects of sodium depletion. Taking folic acid may increase the risk of seizures in some people, so discuss the use of this nutrient with your physician.

Food Intolerance Bible Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes See book keywords and concepts

To make things worse, zinc is required to release vitamin A from your liver - so if you're not getting enough of both, you could be compromising your intestinal health. Digestive Tract Infections Unwanted, unfriendly bacteria such as Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Citrobacter freundii, Proteus species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as the more famous yet less common Salmonella and E. coli, can all disrupt normal intestinal ecology and alter intestinal permeability.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

These are only a few of the factors and events associated with this vitamin D network. With the right food and environment, these events and reactions cooperate in an integrated manner to produce health benefits. In contrast, when the wrong food is consumed, its adverse effects are mediated by not one, but many, of the reactions within this network. Also, many factors in such foods, even beyond the protein and calcium, participate in causing the problem. And, finally, it often is not one disease but many that are likely to occur.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Alfalfa is another isoflavone- and vitamin K-rich food that can be included in the diet. However, while numerous clinical studies have demonstrated that calcium supplementation can help prevent bone loss, the data are inconclusive in regard to any link between a high dietary calcium intake from milk and prevention of osteoporosis and bone fractures. When reviewing the data from the Nurses' Health Study, a study involving 77,761 women, researchers found no evidence that higher intake of milk actually reduced fracture incidence.

A practical method of increasing the vitamin D level in milk is developed. 1932: The first plastic-coated paper milk cartons are introduced commercially. 1933: Fluid milk is included in army rations. 1938: The first farm bulk tanks for milk begin to replace milk cans. 1946: The vacuum pasteurization method is perfected. 1948: Ultra-high-temperature pasteurization is introduced. 1964: The plastic milk container is introduced commercially. 1974: Nutritional labeling of fluid milk products begins. 1975: Metric measurement equivalent is introduced.

The same group of researchers also discovered that cherries' anthocyanidins possess antioxidant activity superior to vitamin E at equal levels. In addition to their anthocyanidins, Montmorency tart cherries have been found to contain significant quantities of melatonin, a hormone produced in the pineal gland at the base of the brain that influences the sleep process and is also a very powerful antioxidant.

Sweet cherries are a good source of vitamin C and copper. HEALTH BENEFITS Cherries, like berries, are rich sources of flavonoids, specifically anthocyanidins and proan-thocyanidins, the flavonoid molecules that give this fruit its deep red-blue color. In general, the darker the cherry, whether sweet or sour, the better it is for you because it contains a higher concentration of flavonoids. These flavonoids exert a number of beneficial effects.

There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program Gabriel Cousens See book keywords and concepts

C and demonstrated significant decreases of glycosylated hemoglobin of 18 percent and glycosylated albumin of 33 percent over a three-month period.40 Jain, et al. found a significant reduction in glycosylated hemoglobin as well as a lowering of triglycerides in thirty-five Type-1 diabetics supplemented with 100 IU d-alpha tocopherol for three months.41 The use of these incredible antioxidants will be discussed at greater length in Chapter 4. Fasting Blood Sugar: Under 85 Glycosylation and oxidative stress are major reasons for why keeping an FBS of 85 and below is so important.

The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell Luca Turin See book keywords and concepts

This happens: the vitamin biotin is a key that fits snugly into a protein lock called avidin, found in egg white. The fit between biotin and avidin is so perfect, all the magnets line up so nicely, that on average at room temperature the biotin key will fall off the avidin lock once every nineteen years. This would make it useless as a messenger, or for that matter as a taste or smell molecule. Imagine biotin was a sweet molecule and the sweet receptor on your tongue was avidin. One sip of the stuff, and you would get a sweet taste night and day until your retirement. <^»-> Who turns the key?

He also maintained side-interests in a host of problems, among them smell, the mechanism of general anaesthesia and, most famously, vitamin C. Aniseed Lemon Cedar Garlic Rancid Camphoraccous Pungent Ethereal Floral Pepperminty Musky Putrid Almond Aromatic 106 95 53 71 77 69 49 30 27 12 7 7 7 6 primaries.* The chief merit of this approach, in retrospect, seems to have been the lack of alternatives. The descriptors were in themselves, as Amoore freely admitted, highly arbitrary. Part of the problem was the database.

I knew that great minds like Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of vitamin C and archetypal maverick, had searched all his life for experimental tests of protein semiconduction and never found a proper one. The solution presented itself to me immediately: since mercury drops (a) were coated with a layer of protein and (b) refused to coalesce, why not put two of these drops in contact with each other in a tube, stick some wires behind them and see whether current flowed? Initial attempts were a bit frustrating.

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

You can also eat foods that contain the depleted nutrients: • vitamin K: kale, broccoli, parsley, Swiss chard, spinach • Bifidobacterium bifidum: Jerusalem artichokes, asparagus, garlic, and onions may stimulate the growth or activity of this probiotic • Lactobacillus acidophilus: yogurt containing live lactobacillus cultures, kefir, acidophilus milk Consult with your physician before making any changes to your diet or supplemental regimen.

You can also eat foods that contain the depleted nutrient: • vitamin K: kale, broccoli, parsley, Swiss chard, spinach Consult with your physician before making any changes to your diet or supplemental regimen. HALOPERIDOL (hal-oh-PER-i-dole) Brand Names: Haldol, Haldol Decanoate, Peridol, Novo-Peridol About Haloperidol Tourette's syndrome is a baffling disease. For unknown reasons, a person may begin to display muscular tics. But not just simple tics that vanish with time, like tightening a cheek muscle.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

These included pangamic acid, which was touted as a previously undiscovered vitamin with virtually unlimited powers, various bee concoctions and other supplement products including garlic and zinc.2 At the same time in the scientific community, more and more health information, specifically nutrition information, was being generated at a furious pace. In 1976, Senator George McGovern had convened a committee that drafted dietary goals recommending decreased consumption of fatty animal foods and increased consumption of fruits and vegetables because of their effects on heart disease.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Said to have an unknown vitamin Y(outh) that prevents decay, Brain cell food, for mental depression, senility, mental fatigue, and memory, rejuvenation forthe nerves, for improved energy and appearance; the Pituitary, spurs the (ductless) endocrine glands, increases metabolic rate; counters body decay, improves the blood, for fevers, piles, scrofula, and stomach problems; builds body energy; lessens cholesterol; a sexual stimulant; increases sperm count; fertility; for physical weakness, weak lower backand knees; for longevity (with Ginseng, Gotu Kola, and Sarsaparilla).

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

Norway and Japan)26 who consume lots of vitamin D-rich fish have less MS than people living inland. However, in these fish-eating communities with lower rates of disease, much less cow's milk is consumed. Consuming cow's milk has been shown to associate with MS26 and Type 1 diabetes27 independent of fish intake. In another reaction associated with this network, increased intakes of animal protein also enhance the production of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1, first introduced in chapter eight) and this enhances cancer cell growth.

Control operates at several places in this network, but, as I already said, it is the conversion of storage vitamin D into the supercharged 1,25 D in the kidneys that is especially critical. In considerable measure, this control is exercised by another complex network of reactions involving a "manager"-type hormone produced by the parathyroid gland located in our neck (Chart C.3). When, for example, we need more 1,25 D, parathyroid hormone induces the kidney enzyme activity to produce more 1,25 D. When there is enough 1,25 D, parathyroid hormone slows down the kidney enzyme activity.

We disdain saturated fats, butter or carbohydrates, and then embrace vitamin E, calcium supplements, aspirin or zinc and focus our energy and effort on extremely specific food components, as if this will unlock the secrets of health. All too often, fancy outweighs fact. Perhaps you remember the protein diet fad that gripped the country in the late 1970s. The promise was that you could lose weight by replacing real food with a protein shake. In a very short while, almost sixty women died from the diet. More recently millions have adopted high-protein, high-fat diets based on books such as Dr.

A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis Sydney Walker III, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

I once diagnosed a young girl whose seizures, behavior problems, bone pain, and dry and kinky hair were caused by excessive intake of vitamin A. Overdoses of vitamin D can also cause "mental" symptoms such as fatigue, despondency, and even psychosis. Conversely, a poor diet low in vitamins or minerals can cause severe behavioral disorders; iron deficiency, for instance, can cause irritability, fatigue, and symptoms labeled as "conduct disorder" or "hyperactivity." • Does the patient eat unusual foods, eat too much or too little, or have unusual reactions to any foods?

The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes Jay Joseph See book keywords and concepts

Chapter 4 engages in a bit of historical speculation by predicting the results of twin and adoption studies of pellagra, an early 20cl1 century disease ultimately discovered to be caused by a vitamin deficiency linked to malnutrition. My analysis suggests that the results from twin and adoption studies, often cited in 1. Bentall, 2003, p. 143. support of genetic influences on psychiatric disorders, can be explained on the basis of environmental factors, in addition to methodological flaws and biases.

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