| Supplements. vitamins A, B and E.
ABSCESS ANAL. Abscess with collection of pus on one or either side of the anus. May be associated with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or TB. Boil-like swelling.
Symptoms: bursting and throbbing pain, worse sitting down. Hot bath relieves. Alternatives. Teas: Holy Thistle, Marigold petals, dried flowering tops. Clivers, Nettles. Wormwood. Oat husk. Thyme. 1 heaped teaspoon to each cup boiling water infused for 10-
15 minutes. 1 cup 2-3 times daily. Decoctions: Echinacea. Goldenseal. Juniper berries. Wild Indigo. |
| Biotin, vitamins A, C, E. Two halibut liver oil capsules after breakfast. Vitamin B6 for menstrual acne. Betaine hydrochloride, Selenium, Zinc.
Note. Avoid foods and medicines containing iodine or bromine.
ACNE, VULGARIS. Inflammatory sebaceous skin disease with pustules, papules and cysts found frequently in adolescents at commencement of puberty when the sebaceous (grease) glands become more active. Blackheads are formed by blockage of follicles with sebum. A black pigment, melanin, concentrates on the top of the hair follicle forming a plug.
Lesions may appear on face, neck and chest. |
| Supplements. vitamins A, B-complex, B6, C, E. Chromium, Selenium, Zinc.
ACONITE. Monkshood. Wolfsbane. Aconitum napellus L. French: Aconit napel. German: Wolfswurz. Italian: Aconito napello. Spanish: Caro di Venere. Part used: dried roots. Action. Cardio-active; slows the heart via the vagus nerve. Antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal. Uses. Used in conventional medicine for many years as a heart relaxant, to lower blood pressure and relieve capillary engorgement, but internal use now discontinued in the UK. Facial and intercostal neuralgia. |
| Vitamin B-complex, Niacin, vitamins C, E. Dolomite. Evening Primrose oil capsules. Two Garlic capsules at night. Chiropractic. Osteopathy.
BACTERIA. A vast group of single-celled microscopic organisms living in the soil, in water, or in the human body as parasites and which are responsible for much human disease. They are of three types: bacilli (rod-shaped), cocci (spherical), and spirochete (curved coils). Bacteria can only be identified with the aid of a microscope.
One school of medical thought believes bacteria to be a by-product of disease and not a direct cause of infection. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 Additional vitamins, minerals, amino acids, food extracts (i.e. bovine cartilage), conditionally essential nutrients (i.e. fish, flax, and borage oil; Coenzyme Q-10), and botanicals (i.e. echinecea, golden seal, astragalus) can enhance the patient's recuperative powers. ImmunoPower is the most clinically-tested, cost-effective and convenient way to take nutritional supplements.
3) Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) There are many cancer patients who are so malnourished (weight loss of 10% below usual body weight within 1 month period and/or serum albumin below 2. |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
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 Most reactors are appalled at the foisting of aspartame preparations upon infants and children in the form of "delicious" medicine and vitamins.
Failure of Consumers to Receive Adequate Information from the
FDA and Industry
Consumer advocates have attempted to provide information when the public did not receive replies to legitimate queries concerning their reactions to aspartame products. One out of four aspartame reactors completing the survey questionnaire had written or called the FDA. Most failed to obtain a satisfactory reply. |
James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A.
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 More recent advances clearly show poor absorption of essential vitamins and minerals among untreated celiacs, along with many other signs and symptoms throughout the body. However, the persistent notion of malabsorption in celiac disease has been overgeneralized and overemphasized, suggesting a general failure to absorb nutrients as the sole or primary defect. This conception of celiac disease is probably a defensible understanding of very advanced cases, but it ignores the majority who are either of normal weight or sometimes obese. Carbohydrate absorption often continues fairly normally. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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 For example, the committee evaluated relevant literature on antioxidant micronutrients, including vitamins A, C,
E, folic acid, and selenium, and their suggested contributions to cancer prevention. Human diets that have a high content of fruits and vegetables are associated with a reduced risk of cancer, but the specific constituents responsible for this protective effect and their mechanisms of action are not known with certainty. The vitamin and mineral content of fruits and vegetables might be important factors in this relationship. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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 Given the multitude of other chemicals present in the diet, it is notable that epidemiological studies have found significant relationships between the occurrence of cancer and estimated intakes of such nutrients as fat, vitamins A and C, or protein (see Chapters 5, 6, and 9). This would seem to indicate either that these nutrients must play a role in the development of cancer or that they serve as indicators of other substances that do.
Epidemiological associations between cancer and nutrients are often based on the presence in the diet of certain foods. |
| Certain vitamins and most of the minerals are known to be toxic above certain levels. But these known adverse (pathologic) effects of vitamin and mineral overdoses have, like the deficiency diseases, a conspicuously direct relationship with the nutrients in question. That is, the effects of denying or restoring a nutrient to an experimental subject, whether animal or human, are usually observable within a short time—at most, months. The links between diet and metabolic, degenerative, and malignant diseases are considerably less obvious. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 B6 and B12), chemicals, and age.
Phytoestrogens include many diverse plant compounds, including resveratrol from grapes, curcumin from roots, and polyphenols from tea leaves. It is a very broad category that is further broken down into dozens of classifications such as flavonoids, flavones, and so forth. The anticancer effects of phytoestrogens are the subject of hundreds of scientific studies.
Soy Isoflavones
Soy contains phytoestrogens known as isoflavones. Daidzein, coumestrol, and genistein ate the most studied. |
| C and A do not. Vitamin C inhibits the growth of tumot cells but does not cause differentiation (Cameron et al. 1979; Prasad et al. 1979). These studies show that antioxidants do not produce similar effects on different types of cancer cells.
Depending on the type of therapy used, antioxidants may affect cancer cells in many different ways. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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| In laboratory experiments, vitamins, trace elements, nonnutritive food additives, and other organic constituents of foods (e.g., indoles, phenols, flavones, and isothiocyanates) have been tested for their ability to inhibit neoplasia (see Chapter 15).
The committee believes that there is sufficient epidemiological evidence to suggest that consumption of certain vegetables, especially carotene-rich (i.e., dark green and deep yellow) vegetables and cruciferous vegetables (e.g. |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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| Today we recognize 11 vitamins that are dietary essentials, and several more vitamin-like nutrients. For optimal health, we also need antioxidant nutrients and accessory factors such as carotenoids, bioflavonoids and lipoic acid. Foods contain thousands of beneficial compounds, and we should take advantage of those that will help us live better and longer.
There are three good reasons for having several antioxidant nutrients. Antioxidant nutrients work together synergistically. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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| The influence of vitamins of the B complex on the induction of epithelial tumors in mice. Cancer Res. 9:747-752.
Byar, D., and C. Blackard. 1977. Comparisons of placebo, pyridoxine, and topical thiotepa in preventing recurrence of stage I bladder cancer. Urology 10:556-561.
Cambien, F., P. Ducimetiere, and J. Richard. 1980. Total serum cholesterol and cancer mortality in a middle-aged population. Am. J. Epidemiol. 112:388-394.
Chu, E. W., and R. A. Malmgren. 1965. |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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| Therefore, it is important to preserve the body's defenses against damages by free radicals. Some vitamins, minerals, and natural compounds such as phenolics, flavonoids and carotenoids, have the ability to counteract free radical damage by scavenging or neutralizing the free radicals. These diversified groups of nutrients, micronutrients and food supplements belong to a category of biologically important substances known as "antioxidants."
Curcuminoids are natural phenolic compounds, with potent antioxidant properties. |
Earl Mindell
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 Dry Skin
Vitamin-E (dry form) oil seems to work wonders when applied to dry skin, as do oils rich in vitamins A and D. As a dietary supplement, I recommend 200-400 IU vitamin E daily and 10,000 IU vitamin A (take for 5 days and stop for 2). I also recommend an MVP (see section 172) and omega-3 fatty acids, 1-3 capsules three times a day. (See section 94 for the complete lowdown on omega-3 fatty acids. |
| Valerian, melatonin, choline, niacin, vitamins Bl, B6, B12, calcium, and magnesium; manganese, zinc, pantothenic acid, and inositol; kava kava, St. John's wort; phenylalanine and tyrosine.
CAUTION: If you are already on a medication, do not go off it suddenly to switch to a natural alternative. Work with an experienced, nutritionally oriented professional (see section 342) so you can adjust dosages properly while you wean yourself from drugs.
293. The Great Medicine Rip-Off
More than ever before, Americans are gulping down drugs. |
| And any laxative taken to excess can deplete large amounts of potassium as well as vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Diuretics, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, and antibiotics are also potassium thieves.
The following is a list of commonly prescribed drugs that can induce nutrient deficiencies and the nutrients they deplete. Look it over before you take your next medicine. |
| Megavitamin therapy: treatment of illness with massive amounts of vitamins.
Metabolize: to undergo change by physical and chemical processes.
Mucopolysaccharide: thick gelatinous material that is found many places in the body; it glues cells together and lubricates joints.
MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acid.
Nitrites: used as fixatives in cured meats; can combine with natural stomach and food chemicals to cause dangerous cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines. |
| The Difference Between Micronutrients and Macronutrients
Micronutrients, like vitamins and minerals, do not themselves provide energy. The macronutrients—carbohydrates, fat, and protein—do that, but only when there are sufficient micronutrients to release them.
*See section 72
With nutrients, less is often the same as more.
The amount of micronutrients and macronutrients you need for proper health is vastly different—but each is important. (See section 72 for The Protein-Ammo Acid Connection.)
8. How Nutrients Get to Work
The body simplifies nutrients in order to utilize them. |
James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A.
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| To date, the published research that shows the most promise for remineralizing bones in celiac patients—beyond simply following a strict gluten-free diet—clearly favors magnesium and zinc, as well as vitamins D and K supplementation.
Regular Thyroid Testing
Laboratory testing for thyroid function is usually limited to blood tests that look closely at the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free T4. Under usual circumstances, this is perfectly appropriate. |
| Some essential vitamins are abundantly available in animal products, such as vitamin B12, yet they are not found in other food sources, including gluten cereals. We humans are members of a very select animal group. Guinea pigs and humans are the only mammals that cannot synthesize their own vitamin C. Hence we are also the only animals at risk of developing scurvy. Cereal grains contain very little of this health-promoting vitamin. By displacing fruits and vegetables, the consumption of cereals reduces our vitamin C intake. |
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| For many years, fiber was regarded as a collection of inert substances in foods, even though it was known to be present in relatively large amounts, compared to vitamins and minerals. These substances were even regarded as a nuisance factor that might interfere with the absorption of minerals in unrefined diets. |
Michael Lerner
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 The French have a deep concern with the terrain—with the vitality of the inner field of the body—a belief that "skews consumption away from antibiotics, which fit the English and American concept of disease as invader, toward tonics, vitamins, and 'modifiers of the terrain'. . . It favors treatments such as rest and stays at France's spas as ways to build up the terrain. ... It makes the French leaders in fields that concentrate on shoring up the terrain, such as immunotherapy for cancer. |
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| The Minor Components
Minor components of food include the micronutrients (minerals and vitamins), the enzymes that all organisms produce and use as essential catalysts for their own life processes, and the DNA and RNAs that determine the nature of all constituents. In addition, plants and animals, and therefore foods derived from both, contain an almost unlimited variety of largely non-nutrient organic compounds often termed natural products or secondary metabolites. In this report, natural products or secondary metabolites are categorized as constitutive naturally occurring chemicals. |
| A cursory look at the foods in which caffeic acid is present reveals many that are high in fiber, vitamins A, E, C, beta-carotene, and numerous other protective compounds that might significantly affect the fate of caffeic acid in the body.
On the basis of studies in animals, IARC (1993) concludes that caffeic acid is possibly carcinogenic to humans and has classified it as a Group 2B carcinogen. |
Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
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 Quinoa also supplies substantial amounts of iron, calcium, and vitamins B and E. The grain has little vitamin A, but the edible leaf has it in abundance. In short, the quinoa plant can satisfy all of a person's basic nutritional needs.
Quinoa has the telltale properties of a long-cultivated plant, including an inability, under normal circumstances, to survive in the wild. Its seeds mature all at once and do not shatter, traits that make the grain easy to harvest and that native planters probably promoted by the selection and preservation of seed down through the centuries. |
| They contain an array of carbohydrates, proteins, oils, vitamins, and minerals as useful in sustaining animal life as they are in fueling the growth of their own seedlings, and their consumption (directly and in the form of livestock fattened on grain) has furnished the dietary foundation for the great civilizations of both the Old World and the New.
Maize is extraordinary, even among cereals, not only for its productivity (a single ear of modern maize yields approximately a thousand large grains) but also for its advanced degree of domestication. |
Michael Lerner
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| He postulates that in the 40% of the population whose defenses are not sufficiently strong to ward off cancer, it is important to strengthen the immune system as a preventive measure through a diet containing large amounts of carotene, selenium, vitamins C and D2, magnesium, and molybdenum. In cases of existing cancer, these substances can be utilized along with others, such as bromelain—an enzyme obtained from pineapple—to combat the cancer. |
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