David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Examples are Calendula and Hypericum, which are both excellent for this purpose when blended with vitamin E oil.
Gallbladder Surgery: An Example
What herbs might we use to support postoperative recovery after successful gallbladder removal surgery? Actual remedies and protocols for treating gallbladder disease are discussed in chapter 13, but here is an example of how we might apply the process just discussed to facilitate recovery from this common surgical procedure.
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Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
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 Taking more than 500 milligrams of vitamin C may not be beneficial, although there is little evidence that it is harmful, especially if you choose a mineral ascorbate form of the vitamin. Nutrient extracts such as grapeseed or pinebark should be standardized to at least 80 percent and taken in amounts of at least 50 milligrams per day. If you take a supplement that is standardized to a lower percent, you may get very little of the actual nutrient, possibly not enough to do any good.
Do try also to get most of your nutrients from the foods that you eat every day. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 By altering blood-clotting mechanisms, vitamin E exercises a significant effect on preventing dangerous thromboses in deep veins; supplemental magnesium seems quite helpful as a treatment for asthma and cardiovascular disease; and folic acid may help prevent cardiovascular disease as well as neural tube defects in fetuses.
It is particularly worth discussing the rationale for using antioxidants (vitamins A, C, and E, and the mineral selenium, among others) because they may well have a great deal to offer all of us. |
Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
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| Vitamin C is mostly found in fruits, which are also packed with carbohydrates. vitamin E is found in high-fat foods such as oils. Limiting carbohydrate and fat intake may also, unfortunately, limit your intake of these two nutrients.
If you consistently fail to consume the recommended amounts of foods from all food groups you may become deficient in important nutrients. Limiting the amounts of food that you eat in order to cause weight loss increases the chance that this may happen. |
Frantisek Stary
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 They must be clean and free of fungi and pests and as well as from the wild, may also be collected from shrubs cultivated on plantations for the fruit which is rich in vitamin C. The leaves contain flavonoids, catechol tannins, and traces of an essential oil. They also contain vitamins C and P and hitherto unspecified substances with bactericidal properties. The drug is used as a diuretic and to induce perspiration in the treatment of flu and diseases associated with chilling. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Although present in food, CoQ10 is not considered a vitamin, because the body is able to produce it from raw materials contained in food. Nevertheless, the body often cannot make enough for optimal function, and therefore CoQ10 supplements may be very helpful.
CoQI0 is highly concentrated in heart muscle cells, due to the high energy requirements of this type of cell. Congestive heart failure has been associated with low blood and tissue levels of CoQ10. The severity of heart failure correlates with the severity of CoQ10 deficiency. |
Frantisek Stary
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| Because the concentration of vitamin C in the berries of Sea Buckthorn averages as much as 1,400 mg the shrub began to be cultivated on plantations for its fruit. It also contains smaller quantities of vitamins A, B, E and P. The berries furthermore have a balanced proportion of organic acids and sugars, pectin and essential oil, giving the pulp a pleasant and rather unusual aroma. The fruits are gathered when they begin to ripen, when the berries turn orange and are not yet soft. Only the freshly pressed juice from the berries is used as such or made into syrups or preserves. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Nutritional deficiencies are one of the main causes of all disease. vitamin E specifically increases blood flow, circulation improves, and it helps oxygen get throughout the entire body.
Products to Stay Away From Fluoride
Toothpaste with fluoride is deadly. I categorically, 100 percent recommend that no one should be using toothpaste with fluoride in it. As always, I recommend that you stay away from any product manufactured by a large publicly traded corporation. Publicly traded corporations have only one goal, and that is to make money. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Initital results with a new vitamin P factor "the anthocyanosides" extracts of Vaccinium myrtillus. [in French]. La PresseMed 1964;72:397-400.
Tolan L, Barna V, Szigeti I, et al. [The use of bilberry powder in dyspepsia in infants]. Pediatria (Bucur) 1969;18:375-9.
Treviso A. Therapeutic value of the association of anthocyanin glucosides with glutamine and phosphorylserine in the treatment of learning disturbances at different ages. GazzMedltal 1979;138:217-32. United States Congress (USC). Public Law 103-417: Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994. |
| Concurrent ingestion of a daily multiple vitamin may also provide nutritional cofactors (e.g., zinc, B6, and magnesium) required for EFA metabolism (Brown, 1996).
External atopic dermatitis: Water-in-oil emulsion containing 20% evening primrose oil, twice daily is applied topically to affected area for at least four weeks (Gehring et al, 1999).
Duration of Administration
Internal
Evening primrose oil is a long-term therapy, and immediate results should not be expected. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
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 The combination of calcium and vitamin D is particularly effective for preventing bone loss in older individuals, which is one reason why the National Academy of Sciences in 1997 tripled the recommended intake of vitamin D for people over seventy to 600 I. U. per day.
% Hormones. While hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) remains controversial, many experts feel strongly that women at risk for osteoporosis should start taking hormones or other "antiresorptive" medications at the time of menopause, when bone loss can be rapid and severe. |
Marion Nestle
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 I say 'should' only because their rareness has prevented any single vitamin C researcher from encountering enough cases to conduct a meaningful study and publish it. However, the likelihood that both of these conditions could be completely cured, even in their advanced stages, is compelling. |
| He said, "Golden Rice is not supposed to provide 100% of the vitamin A-supply, but to . . . [be] complementing other dietary components." On this basis, he estimated that 50% of the standard for a child in India could be met by about 100 grams of Golden Rice per day (a quite reasonable 9 ounces, cooked), and that this amount could be reduced even further if his group could bioengineer the rice to contain higher levels of beta-carotene. |
Peter Pringle
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 To anyone living in poverty in, say, the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, or the Philippines, where there are the most severe shortages of vitamin A, the benefit, if true, was seen from a much different angle. However, poor people in these regions should be forgiven for seeing the moment of celebration in Freiburg's botanical gardens as a public relations stunt. Since the first gene-altered whole food had appeared on the market in 1994, not one product had come their way. Bioengineering of crops had passed them by. |
| Instead of trying to develop another new high-tech rice, they suggested a lower-tech solution—distribution of vitamin A pills to those in need.
Potrykus and Beyer, they asserted, were the tools of a life-science oligopoly taking over the world's food supply. If the new rice were ever produced, its only function would be to boost the profits of the agribusiness conglomerates who sold the seeds and owned the patents.
In each of these arguments there were grains of truth, but there were also distortions. |
David Bodanis
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 The food welling up from cracks in the skin is not our usual lunchtime fare, not ham and cheese or pastrami on rye—those are substances the bacteria here have to miss-but rather more suitable stuff; some salt water from the sweat pores, nitrogen compounds conveniently mixed in with it like a vitamin seltzer, and wherever there's a hair follicle some oily face grease will be plopping up too, grease just loaded with the amino acids bacteria need. |
| That perspiration is nutritious: sweat on your finger contains potassium, sodium, zinc, glucose, vitamin C, riboflavin, and over a dozen amino acids. In this landscape the salmonella reproduce-either splitting in half, or gushing into each other long strands of DNA-containing protoplasm through holes in their body.
Yet in that setting of propagation and eating, all is not without its dark side. The fingertips that inadvertently sweep up the salmonella while hurrying around the kitchen are such a satisfying terrain that lots of other minute one-celled organisms have ended up on it over time. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| The officers and directors of vitamin, mineral, herb, and homeopathic companies have financial motivations to sell their products just like the officers and directors of pharmaceutical companies. Remember, it's always all about the money. When there is a financial incentive involved it's impossible to trust the information. That's a major concept in this book, and it's vitally important that you understand that. You need to know that the information you are getting is probably tainted. |
Peter Pringle
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| Golden rice, the companies promised, was just the start of many more transgenic crop plants for the underprivileged—bananas with vaccines against tropical complaints, corn plants that produce pharmaceuticals more cheaply than factories, plants that would produce not only vitamin A but a veritable pharmacy of the basic nutrients needed for a healthy life.
For the inventors, golden rice offered a fast track to international fame (and possibly more research funds). Dr. Potrykus counted thirty TV broadcasts and three hundred newspaper articles devoted to golden rice in the first year. |
Marion Nestle
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| Largely as a result of such misleading suggestions, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine informs visitors to its Web site that no herbal or vitamin products can protect against bioterrorism, and the Federal Trade Commission sends warning letters to Web sites that make unsupportable claims that products such as oregano oil, coconut oil, or zinc mineral water protect against bioweapons. |
Peter Pringle
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| The lack of this vitamin causes the death of an estimated 1 million of Asia's poorest children each year from weakened immune systems. Another 350,000 go blind.
Although beta-carotene is present in the leaves of the rice plant and the husk of the grain, which is removed during milling, the pigment had never found its way into the rice grain. Potrykus and Beyer had spent six years coaxing reluctant rice plants to complete the complex chemical reaction that had not occurred naturally in more than ten thousand years of human cultivation. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| C able to prevent scurvy); and, if taken in large amounts, as an emetic (an agent used to induce vomiting). A horseradish poultice applied to the skin was used to ease sciatica, gout, and facial neuralgias, while an infusion of sliced horseradish in milk served as a cosmetic to clarify and bring color to the skin or, combined with vinegar, to remove freckles. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| In America, pharmaceutical giants are buying vitamin, mineral, herbal, and homeopathic companies. Currently there are two products being marketed on television. The ads look eerily similar to drug ads. The packaging of the products makes them appear to be drugs. But in this instance, they are not drugs at all. They are natural products being manufactured and sold by the pharmaceutical industry at outrageous prices, because it's the pharmaceutical industry, these ads are allowed to run. |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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Among the spice principles tested, curcumin showed the highest ability to prevent lipid peroxidation. Curcumin, in this study, was found to be eight times more powerful than vitamin E.
The biological effects of curcuminoids to counteract free radicals, have been assessed in animal models with chemically induced inflammation and swelling. |
Marion Nestle
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| We (and other mammals) have enzymes that convert beta-carotene to vitamin A in our bodies.19
The technical challenges involved in moving genes from one organism to another—daffodils and bacteria to rice, for example—are daunting, even to experts. Scientists must find the genes for the missing enzymes, reproduce them, and make them function. The "make function" part is particularly challenging. Genes do not work independently. They have to be regulated, which means in this case that the rice needs to be "told" when, where, and for how long the genes for making beta-carotene should do so. |
Peter Pringle
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| Under the right conditions, beta-carotene can be converted in the human body to vitamin A, which is missing in the diet of millions of poor people, causing blindness and defective immune systems. The new rice turned yellow, like a daffodil, and was instantly dubbed "golden rice."
This book enters the debate over genetic agriculture at the point when those two German scientists created golden rice, a "miracle" crop by any standard. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Theit enthusiasm is backed by new studies showing pasture-raised beef like theirs has more "good" omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and less saturated fat than feedlot fed.10 Others, though, say beef is beef is beef. It still contains fat and cholesterol—along with carcinogenic substances created when meat is cooked—that scientists link to cancet and heart disease. The only diets that have shown to substantially reduce cholesterol are vegetarian. |
| In India, Navdanya is promoting the sharing of seeds of foods rich in vitamin A. And in Kenya, Karangathe and the Green Belt Movement are introducing gunnysack gardens, so leafy greens again grow within arms' reach of villagers' cooking pots.
Seeing Abundance
Breaking free from the scarcity ttap, many are seeing abundance where thirty years ago we saw scarcity; resources where before we saw waste.
Official UN tallies of food that is actually available tell us we have only 2,000 calories a day for every person on rhe planet—sufficient, but only barely, for us all to survive. |
Marion Nestle
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| The metabolic steps through which plants make beta-carotene from precursor molecules, and animals convert beta-carotene to vitamin A. An enzyme carries out each step. Rice bran contains information for the complete set of enzymes to make beta-carotene, but some enzymes are inactive in the endosperm. To create Golden Rice, scientists obtain genes (DNA) for the missing enzymes from other plants and bacteria and insert them into the DNA of rice (see tables 12 and 16, pages 158 and 280). and nutrients in the grain when it begins to grow into a plant (see figure 13). |
Paul Pitchford
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 Bell peppers improve the appetite and resolve stagnant food in cancer cases where digestion is very poor; they also reduce swellings, promote circulation, and are rich in vitamin C.
These last three nightshades—tomato, eggplant, and bell pepper—are too cooling and weakening for those with loose stools (deficient spleen-pancreas qi or deficient digestive fire).
Brassica-genus vegetables—cabbage, turnip, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, brus-sels sprouts—have been recommended in general by the National Cancer Institute for cancer prevention. |
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