Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Selenium—Yet another study linking lung-cancer risk to diet involve( more than 120,000 Dutch men and women aged fifty-five to sixty-nine Patients were tested for blood levels of various vitamins, minerals, anc carotenes. People with high levels of selenium, another importani antioxidant, were found to have a lower risk of lung cancer. Selenium is involved in the production of glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme that protects cells against oxidative damage.
Earl's Rx
Vitamin E: Up to two 400 1U capsules daily; dry form preferred because it is better absorbed.
Selenium: One 100 meg. |
John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  Besides this, the tea's polyphenols act in concert with the vitamins C and P present to help strengthen the blood vessel walls of the heart more.
Tea Removes Dental Plaque
During 1983-84 dental scientists at Washington University in St. Louis conducted a series of experiments proving that black tea definitely inhibits the growth of decay-causing bacteria common to plaque buildup on the teeth. This is probably due to the high natural fluoride content found in both teas. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
See book keywords and concepts |  These include fatty acids, vitamins, amino-acid-chelated minerals, and OPCs. It is important to the success of your program that you accept no substitutes for the specific products I recommend. I have been using and formulating dietary supplements for over thirty years. I have designed the supplement program to include only those items that are supported by research on their effectiveness in AD/HD and related disorders.
Mail Order
Several companies offer direct mail for staples, produce, and supplements. | | They are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Try to rotate the fruit you and your child eat to include as much variety as possible. Children love papayas, mangoes, pineapples, berries, melons, cherries, and kiwifruit. Often all they get are bananas, oranges, apples, and sometimes grapes.
Organically grown fruit is the best choice because it has not been gassed, sprayed, or fertilized with chemicals. You may occasionally notice small blemishes on the skin of organic fruit, but they aren't harmful. | | Daily Servings Guide
Vegetables provide most of the vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals we get in our diet. They are extremely important for brain and nervous system function.
AGE
NUMBER OF VEGETABLE SERVINGS Vi cup each, (size of a tennis ball or a single ice-cream scoop)
! -3 years
3
4-6 years
4
7-10 years
5
I 1 -14 years
6
Girls 15 through adult
6
Pregnant 2nd & 3rd trimesters
6
AGE
NUMBER OF VEGETABLE SERVINGS 14 cup each, (size of a tennis ball or a single ice-cream scoop)
Lactating
8
Teenage boys
Men 19 through adult
7 8
Does this sound like a lot? | | Fruits and vegetables contain phytochemicals—nutrients beyond vitamins and minerals—that have many health-promoting and disease-preventing benefits.
We can put science into practice by eating foods in season, when the phytochemical content is highest and can offer the best protection. Foods available in winter, for example, are rich in carotenoids and complex carbohydrates. These include winter squash, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, Swiss chard, spinach, and other dark greens. They provide antioxidant protection against infections that more commonly occur in winter. | | The FDA approval was conditional upon Procter & Gamble advising its customers to fortify all foods containing olestra with vitamins A, D, and E. However, no label warning is required to advise consumers of the antivitamin activity of olestra. Besides robbing the body of nutrients, olestra also interferes with metabolism of essential fatty acids and fat-soluble antioxidants such as beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, and you'll find out why these are important in later chapters. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  In the therapy section of this article there was not a single sentence about the ability of thymic extract combined with vitamins and minerals to arrest rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. This lack of information about thymic extract was not malicious. There is a nearly total lack of awareness about natural treatments in the conventional medical community.
To prove the efficacy of a therapy usually requires enormous expense (up to two hundred million dollars) to fund long term, double blind studies. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In recent years, there has been an explosion in information on how vitamins, minerals, herbs, hormones, amino acids, and other supplements can help prevent disease as well as maintain overall health and vigor. Recent findings include:
• Vitamin E is heart healthy. A study of more than eleven thousand men and women ages sixty-seven to one hundred five performed by the National Institute on Aging showed that those who took Vitamin E supplements were half as likely to die from heart disease as those taking no supplements at all.
• Calcium lowers blood pressure. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | We had a few lectures abut vitamins but very little information about nutrition. Because of lack of data about good nutrition and the woeful misinformation coming from supposed governmental authorities, many physicians still do not know what constitutes sound nutritional advice.
My mind set after finishing my residency training was that if there was no pharmaceutical drug to cure a disease, nothing helpful could be done. We doctors are often so pharmaceutically oriented that we are unaware that natural health solutions exist.
My choice to become a physician was a wonderful decision. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | This vitamin works with vitamins A, B2, B6, and niacin to maintain healthy skin and nails.
A recent Swiss study involved forty-four patients with thin, brittle nails. Out of thirty-five people who took 300 meg. biotin supplements daily, 63 percent showed clinical improvement in their nails, with increased thickness of the nails and less splitting.
Although no side effects from this high dose have been reported, I recommend that biotin be taken for three months, stopped for one month, and then continued. I believe that this system will prevent blood levels of biotin from becoming too high. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  V Is for vitamins and Other Supplements
Since very few of us get all of the nutrients we need from even a carefully planned diet, I suggest taking a daily multivitamin/mineral formula. Odds are that you're running a little low on one or more of the nutrients supplied by a good supplement.
For years, holistic and nutrition-minded physicians have said that taking a multivitamin should be as automatic as brushing your teeth. Mainstream medicine used to challenge this advice, saying that supplements do little more than create expensive urine. | | I have my first glass of water in the morning, with my vitamins and minerals, before I drink my habitual cup of coffee. Then I sip water throughout the day. I also get fluids in the form of juices, soups, and teas. Do the same, and you might feel better—more energetic and alive.
CHAPTER 4
I OUT BACK IN MY GARDEN OF
Youth, I'm growing 253 species of herbs. I hope to break 300 soon.
Because I'm an avid gardener, and because gardening provides an abundance of health benefits, I always encourage those who can grow their own herbs to do so. | | Processing removes fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial phytochemicals from foods, replacing them with sugar, salt, preservatives, artificial flavors, and often extra fat. In effect, processing means removing the preventive medicines and replacing them with free radicals, which are nothing more than slow-acting poisons. That's why I prefer fresh whole foods—whole grains, whole fruits, whole veggies, whole beans, whole spices, and whole herbs—over processed foods. | | Plant foods supply an array of vitamins, minerals, and phytochem-icals—many of which are antioxidants. The antioxidant nutrients safeguard plants against the very oxygen that they produce. In us humans, these nutrients prevent and even reverse oxidative damage by neutralizing free radicals.
Among the known antioxidants are vitamin C, vitamin E, and the mineral selenium; the carotenoids, including beta-carotene; the antho-cyanidins, pigments that give plums, grapes, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, and other dark fruits their color; and coenzyme Q10. | | A gentle stimulant, cineole can still boost energy, improve physical performance, and prevent infrauds: the vitamins, minerals, and herbs being touted by people like yours truly. They announced that supplements did little more than create expensive urine (because the body excretes any amount of nutrient that it doesn't need). They insisted that there were no such things as immune system stimulants. And they scoffed at the very notion of "brain foods. | | The supplements that I'd recommend for cancer prevention are the antioxidants: vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and the mineral selenium. You might also consider the newly popular grape seed extract, which is generously endowed with polyphenols, resveratrol, and anthocyano-sides—all antioxidant compounds.
Use Herbs
Of course, what would my cancer prevention program be without herbs? Mother Nature has generously endowed a number of her herbal medicines with cancer-fighting properties. Here are some of my favorites. garlic {allium sativum}. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
See book keywords and concepts | | Other factors that can block these enzymes are environmental stress, alcohol or prescription drug use, viral infections, natural aging, and deficiencies of vitamins and minerals.
Although we can synthesize LCPs from our diet, we have evolved over the centuries with diets so rich in these, we have little need to manufacture our own. In September 1998, Michael Crawford, an eminent researcher from England, presented evidence confirming this fact at a conference on fatty acids sponsored by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  BEE POLLEN • A popular compound among naturalists, it contains 19 amino acids, up to 35 percent protein, 12 vitamins, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, sodium, potassium, chlorine, and sulfur. It is claimed that it increases stamina. Those who are allergic to bee stings may also be allergic to bee pollen. It is used in "organic" cosmetics.
BEER • Used to rinse hair on the theory that it gives a feeling of increased body and manageability. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
See book keywords and concepts | | Spinach greens, asparagus, broccoli and peas lose 50 % of their vitamins before they ever get to market. However, industrial toxins like aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, nickel, and mercury will remain in us long after we are buried.
"Fresh" produce have the inconvenience of time restriction; processed, they have very long shelf lives and are much more profitable. In addition to toxic fertilizers and pesticides, these life extended vegetables, fruits and their derivatives have other chemicals that further undermine our bodies. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  DIGESTIVE ACTIONS
Ginger has long been praised in the management of digestive conditions. It is classically described as a 'stimulating carminative', both aiding digestive function as well as tonifing the gastrointestinal system.7 Like many other spices, it has traditionally been used to enhance digestion by those who believed it increased salivary flow and gastric acid secretion.8
GASTROPROTECTIVE ACTION
Historical wisdom suggests that spices promote and/or irritate gastric ulcers.9 However, several animal studies have demonstrated that ginger has potential gastroprotective properties. | | A, Bl, B6, B12, C, E, K).
EFFECTS ON CHOLESTEROL
Several studies have demonstrated that the addition of alfalfa meal to cholesterol-containing diets prevented hypercholesterolemia in rats;910 and prevented hypercholesterolemia, decreased hypertriglyceridemia and prevented atherosclerosis in rabbits and monkeys. | | B12, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, and biotin). Panax quinquefolius4
þ triterpenoid glycosides (saponins) ? ginsenosides (also called panaxosides), including: Rbj, Rb2, Rb3, Rc, Rd, Re, Rg1; Rg2, Ro, which produce 20-S-protopanaxadiol and 20-S-protopanaxatriol in alkaline conditions.
Note: There are both qualitative and quantitative differences in the ginsenoside content of various species and varieties, allowing easy verification of the identity and quality of commercial ginseng products by high performance liquid chromotography. | | A, Bl, B6, B12, C, E, K).
EFFECTS ON CHOLESTEROL
Several studies have demonstrated that the addition of alfalfa meal to cholesterol-containing diets prevented hypercholesterolemia in rats;910 and prevented hypercholesterolemia, decreased hypertriglyceridemia and prevented atherosclerosis in rabbits and monkeys. | | Bl, B2, B6, choline, folic acid, C, alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene.
þ:? essential amino acids: lysine, threonine, valine, methionine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine.
þ inorganic: calcium, sodium, chlorine, manganese, magnesium, zinc, copper, chromium, potassium sorbate.
þ aloinosides: including barbaloin (aloins A and B) emodin, aloe-emodin (trace amounts only). Aloes
þ aloinosides: including barbaloin (aloins A and B), aloe-emodin, emodin, chrysophanol.
þ chromone derivatives: aloeresin A, B, C. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | The needed vitamins include:
Vitamin A - 5,000 units, Beta-carotene - 15,000 units,
Vitamin C - several hundred to 2,000mg.,
Citrus Bioflavinoids - lOOmgs.,
Vitamin D3 Cholecalciferol - 400 IU,
Vitamin E-4001U,
Vitamin Bl (Thiamine) - 50mg.,
Folic Acid - 400 meg.,
Biotin - 300mcg.,
Betaine HCL - lOOmg., and
Pantothenic Acid - lOOmg.
Mineral supplements are also important, particularly when we know the soil has been seriously depleted from lack of trace mineral replacement. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | CHOLINE BITARTRATE • A dietary supplement included in the B complex vitamins and found in the form of a thick syrupy liquid in most animal tissue. It is necessary to nerve function and fat metabolism and can be manufactured in the body but not at a sufficient rate to meet health requirements. Dietary choline protects against poor growth, fatty liver, and renal damage in many animals. Choline deficiency has not been demonstrated in man but the National Academy of Sciences lists 500 to 900 milligrams per day as sufficient for the average man. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Although ancient physicians did not know that vitamins existed, they sensed that food contained substances that had therapeutic value. For example, more than two thousand years ago, folk healers prescribed calves' liver to treat night blindness. What these healers did not know is that liver is an excellent source of vitamin A, which is essential for good vision. The word vitamin was first used in 1912 by a Polish scientist, Casimir Funk, who discovered that the hull of a polished rice grain contained an organic substance that could prevent beri beri. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | It has astringent, nutrient, styptic, and diuretic properties aind is high in vitamins A and C.
AMBER OIL, RECTIFIED • A perfume ingredient distilled from amber, a fossil resin of vegetable origins, and purified. The oil is pale yellow to yellowish brown and volatile, with a penetrating odor and acrid taste. No known toxicity. AMBERGRIS • Concretion from the intestinal tract of the sperm whale found in tropical seas. About 80 percent cholesterol, it is a gray to black, waxy mass and is used for fixing delicate odors in perfumery. It is also used in a flavoring for food and beverages. | | It contains tannins, flavonoids, nicotinic acids, vitamins B and K, iron, and essential oils. Mentioned in medical literature as early as 63 B.C., it has been used in American folk medicine as an astringent (see) and an analgesic, as well as to stop bleeding and to treat inflammations. It is also used in ointments and boluses to shrink hemorrhoids, as a tonic, and to treat abscesses in gout. AGROPYRON REPENS • Couch Grass Root Extract (see). AHA • Abbreviation for Alpha Hydroxy Acids (see).
AHNFELTIA CONC1NNA • Derived from Ahnfeltia concinna. Used in skin conditioners. |
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