James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Further, if errors slip past your body's quality-control officers, vitamin D may help to ensure that the bad parts or defective cells are destroyed, as a last-ditch form of quality control.
The influence of diet on cancer risk is sometimes confusing. In general, you can lower your risk of gastrointestinal cancers if you eat fewer processed foods that are high in salt and saturated fat and low in fiber and if you increase your intake of fresh vegetables (particularly green, leafy vegetables) and fruits. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Supplements of vitamin B-3 increase NAD levels.
Atrial Fibrillation
In combination with folic acid, niacin has been shown to be therapeutic against atrial fibrillation, as seen among several patients in Dr Hoffer's care. The first case was a physician, age 70, who had been on nicotinic acid for many years, 3 to 6 g daily. On this dose, he developed lymphedema in the left leg. In an effort to deal with this problem, he discontinued his nicotinic acid. |
| Further evidence that vitamin B-3 deficiency is involved in cancer is provided in a report by K. Nakagawa that in animals there is a direct relationship between the activity of nicotinamide methyl transferase and the presence of cancer.26 The amount of N-methyl nicotinamide present was used as a measure of the activity of the enzyme. In other words, in animals with cancer, there appears to be an increased destruction of nicotinamide, making less of it available for the pyridine nucleotide cycle. This finding applied to most tumors, except Lewis lung carcinoma and melanoma B-16. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the dirty little secret of the nutritional supplements industry is that many of these companies are wholly or partially owned by pharmaceutical companies, so these vitamin manufacturers think they can standardize, process and manufacture vitamins in the same way they manufacture prescription drugs (which is an entirely unnatural process, by the way).
When companies manufacture prescription drugs, they really don't care what goes into them as long as the active ingredient is there. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| For this reason, the National Institutes of Health investigators have maintained that five daily servings of vegetables and fresh fruits are enough to provide about 200 mg of ascorbic acid and so allow blood levels of vitamin C to reach their optimums. However, recent studies have shown this belief to be in error. |
| Of the diseases and disorders that appear related to vitamin B-3 deficiency and dependency, only the schizophrenia and cholesterol relationships have been assessed using double blind studies. The rest are based on careful observations by orthomolecular physicians. A single successfully tested case does not establish a treatment, but it does suggest that there may be others who would benefit from the same protocol. In every new treatment, there has to be the first case. If a patient is treated and recovers, there are several possibilities. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is difficult to imagine how anyone from conventional medicine can show up at a health event and say, with a straight face, that they're doing everything they can to fight cancer when in reality they are willfully ignoring a prevention medicine that really works: vitamin D. It's simple, safe and virtually free, and it has no negative side effects, requires no patent royalties, and is available right now to everyone.
If there were ever a cancer prevention strategy to get behind, this is it! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wright's clinic, seizing patient records, computers, vitamin supplies, and various natural therapy products. The FDA illegally held on to confiscated items, including the computers needed to run his clinic, for three years.
But was Dr. Wright really so dangerous as to justify an armed raid? He's a graduate of Harvard and the University of Michigan Medical School. He's a book author, a prolific public speaker, and served as the nutrition editor of Prevention magazine for more than ten years. The purpose of the FDA raid was clearly not to arrest Dr. Wright, who was never charged. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here's the kicker: Without vitamin D in your small intestine, your body will not absorb calcium even if you take an excess of supplements. This is the single most important point, and I don't think I've ever been able to get this point across with enough emphasis. You must have vitamin D in your body in order to use calcium. So if you're out there taking coral calcium supplements or eating a lot of green leafy vegetables, but not getting sunlight or ultraviolet radiation on your skin, then you are probably not absorbing the calcium you are going to such great trouble to ingest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A deficiency in vitamin D directly promotes a numbers of serious diseases including diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, breast cancer, prostate cancer and even gum disease. For people who are already overfed and undernourished, taking a fat-blocking pill that will reduce the absorption of vitamin D seems like dietary insanity to me. It makes me wonder about the priorities of the FDA, too. Are they sure the benefits of this drug outweigh the risks?
Are nutritional deficiencies an acceptable side effect? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In nature, for example, vitamin C is not a single chemical, but rather a symphony of complementary phytonutrients that work in concert. Conventional medical researchers almost never test plant medicine using full-spectrum nutrients. Why? Because they don't understand the concept of nutritional synergy.
The bottom line? Only fools believe research about nutrition that comes from the American Medical Association or its journal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| For people who are already overfed and undernourished, taking a fat-blocking pill that will reduce the absorption of vitamin D seems like dietary insanity to me. It makes me wonder about the priorities of the FDA, too. Are they sure the benefits of this drug outweigh the risks?
Are nutritional deficiencies an acceptable side effect?
I question whether the FDA has seriously looked at the risks of further malnutrition of fat-soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| With guns drawn, they kicked in the doors to Ken Scott's business and conducted one of the most terror-driven "vitamin" raids in U.S. history.
For the next 11 hours, agents confiscated nearly everything they could find at Highland Laboratories. Ken Scott and his employees were threatened with violence if they tried to set foot in the office, and his daughter, who was located miles away, was illegally detained and held in "house arrest" for 12 hours.
The FDA, you see, would not tolerate Ken Scott mailing scientific literature or articles to his customers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Obviously, it's not the same as natural sunlight, because it's a limited spectrum of light, but it is a way to produce vitamin D. It's common sense that tanning beds are actually medical devices. If you put your skin under ultraviolet radiation, whether it's a tanning bed or sunlight, you skin is going to produce vitamin D. That makes a tanning bed a rather useful medical device (as long as it is used safely).
Thus, tanning beds can actually treat -- yes, treat -- osteoporosis, depression and even various cancers. You can quote me on that. |
| The only way to overdose on vitamin D is to do it through supplementation or the mass consumption of substances like fish oils. Given the fact that people don't eat very much fish oil, it's very difficult to overdose unless you're actually chugging processed fish oil by the cupful. Cod liver oil is probably the best source of vitamin D, which is why I consider cod liver oil to be a superfood crucial for those people living in Northern climates who don't have access to natural sunlight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Vitamin A supplements. In other words, it might not even be one additional person out of 100, or even out of 1000.
And yet, it is curious that when conventional medical researchers report the results of mortality risks for their prescription drugs, they always use absolute risk. They say things like, "Well, this drug only increased the risk by one percent." But what they are not saying is that it may be a 200% relative increase in mortality risk, depending on the baseline absolute mortality numbers. So if only 0. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And by doing so, we think that it locally produces this 125-dihydroxy vitamin D, which then regulates cell growth. It's a cell growth modulator. And I spell all this out in my book "The UV advantage" at www.UVadvantage. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 D deficiency, yet neither the medical establishment nor the cancer industry currently expresses any interest in urging women to get more vitamin D through sunlight exposure or nutritional supplementation. Recent research has shown that vitamin D halts 77 percent of all cancers from becoming full-blown tumors, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and leukemia. The vast majority of women in the United States remain chronically vitamin D deficient, putting their bodies in a state of accelerated tumor growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As a graduate student my PhD project was actually the isolation and identification of the active form of vitamin D, and my roommate and I, over the next two years, were the first to chemically synthesize it. And what was really neat about that experience was that we actually gave this to patients when I was in medical school -- and patients that had bone diseases associated with kidney failure, that were wheelchair bound, that had severe bone pain started walking again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I keep a secret stash on my own vitamin shelf. And Amazon John has seen my vitamin shelf in person, and he will confirm it is, indeed, an entire cabinet of nutritional supplements. What I did, actually, is I bought seven large CD storage towers, then modified them to hold vitamin bottles and herbal tincture bottles. I personally own more nutritional supplements than you see at many vitamin shops... odd, but true. Some people collect lift tickets, I collect nutritional supplements. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Then if you have any kind of kidney disease, you need either activated vitamin D or one its analogs in order to be able to maintain healthy bones.
Adams: In the testing then that you mentioned, was this active form being given through injection?
Dr. Holick: You could either take it orally or by injections.
Adams: Interesting. So you mentioned the positive impact on people who had trouble walking, who had osteoporosis, and various bone diseases. What other effects did you observe?
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Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| B-3. Prior to this young man's first schizophrenic episode and subsequent hospitalization at age 18, there had been no obvious warning signs detected by his parents, except that there was a history of mental illness in his family, validating the hereditary aspect of this disease. His grandmother on his father's side was diagnosed with manic depression, while his aunt on his mother's side was institutionalized with schizophrenia and she died at an early age. Beyond this, neither the medical community nor the educational system had recognized any of his subtle, early pre-episode signals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It contains krebs cycle nutrients, high-end forms of all the major minerals, expensive forms of B vitamins (their vitamin B-12 is methylcobalamin, not the toxic cyanocobalamin found in cheap products) and powerful anti-cancer herbal ingredients like turmeric and quercetin.
It has none of the usual junk found in multi-vitamins for kids (no artificial colors, no sugars, no chemical sweeteners, etc.), but it's loaded with plant extracts and even tastes great thanks to the xylitol and stevia in the formula. See the ingredients yourself at: http://www.integratedhealth.com/hpdspec/kids. |
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| Adams: And it is widespread, wherever I go and talk to people, to groups, I inevitably mention sunlight and vitamin D, and I have not run into a single person yet that is aware of the health benefits of ultraviolet radiation. Not a single one.
Dr. Holick: I'm not at all surprised. Like I said, the problem was that over the past 20 years ago the dermatologists have basically been in control of the media regarding the role of sunlight in health. And all they've looked at is the negative effect. |
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| Be sure to print out the vitamin D myths, facts and statistics page summarizing the key points of this interview.
Adams: Today we're speaking with Dr Michael Holick, Thank you for joining us today Dr Holick.
Dr. Holick: Oh, it's my pleasure.
Adams: For those who may not be familiar with your work and your website, can you give a brief introduction of what you cover and how you got into it?
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Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 It makes no sense to take a B complex vitamin or calcium supplements if your body cannot process those vitamins or compounds properly. Combining the nutrient with the functional quantum information to improve how your body uses that nutrient may enhance the efficacy of vitamins and supplements.
Plans also include a home device for imprinting your environment with supportive and restorative information. Imagine being able to add Source energy to your workspace, bedroom, or den, or better yet, to a hospital room or nursery. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So we've been talking today with Dr Michael Holick, author of "The UV Advantage," who as you can see here, is an authority on vitamin D, the best-informed person I've ever spoken with on this subject. And I want to thank you very much for your time today, Dr Holick.
Dr. Holick: My pleasure, and - enjoy the sun! |
| And as a result they even put them at a higher risk of developing vitamin D deficiency.
Adams: They might as well put on a suit of armor!
Dr. Holick: That's exactly right. And it's so unfortunate. And it's probably not atypical of the kind of American psyche -- that very seldom do they practice moderation, they always like the extremes. And so this is a very unfortunate extreme, to suggest that people should never be exposed to direct sunlight. In my opinion, it's really bad advice. |
| Holick: Exactly, but would be more potent than the activated vitamin D.
Adams: Do you have a practice where people can visit you long distance? I mean, they can come visit you?
Dr. Holick: Yeah, I have a lot of people from around the globe that will make an appointment and see me. And I'm certainly happy to do that.
Adams: What city are you located in?
Dr. Holick: In Boston. In the University Medical Center. |
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