| Calcium Iron
Magnesium vitamin D
Hormone
Replacement
Therapy Estrace Estratab Menest Premarin and others
Women using estrogen replacement therapy may need more of these vitamins. Both folic acid and B6 levels may be low, and too little vitamin B6 could be responsible for depression. Ask your doctor about a supplement such as 1.5 to 5 mg vitamin B6 and 0.4 to 1.0 mg folic acid. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 Some of our newest research focuses on homocysteine, an amino acid circulating in the blood that is a sensitive indicator of mild vitamins B6, B,2, and folic acid deficiency. Elevated homocysteine levels indicate a person is suffering from such a deficiency. In recent surveys, up to 15 percent of the elderly had elevated homocysteine levels, which went back to normal when the mild deficiencies were corrected. Here's the revealing part: With the deficiencies gone, some subjects showed improvement in mental or neurological function. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 For example, vitamin C is needed for the proper healing of wounds and broken bones; vitamin A helps the body resist infection. Some vitamins are so important that without them certain diseases or conditions could develop. For example, a deficiency of vitamin D may cause rickets, and a deficiency of vitamin B12 could tesult in a form of anemia. vocal cords Two folds of tissue located in the larynx that vibrate when air passes over them, producing the sound waves associated with talking and singing. vulva (vuL-vuh) The external organs of the female reproductive system. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
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 We know that many vitamins and minerals—including B6 and folic acid—are present in lower quantities in the elderly than in younger people. The level of digestive enzymes, necessary for proper protein and methionine breakdown, also decline with age.
In addition to these considerations, there is evidence associating abnormalities or low levels of sulfur-bearing amino acids in patients with a variety of disorders. Such evidence appeared in an issue on sulfur (August 1997) in The Moss Nutrition Report, a nationally circulated newsletter written by Jeffrey Moss, D.D.S. |
John Lauritsen
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 These included such treatments as Peptide T, mushrooms, ozone, vitamins and micronutrients, aloe vera/fatty acids, ascorbate, compound Q, thymic hormones, passive immune therapy, viscum album, herbs, typhoid vaccine, and oral acemannan.
Unfortunately, the turnout of several hundred was not enough to pay expenses, and Badgley was forced to cancel the Sunday session. One might question whether there were a sound scientific basis for some of the alternate treatments, but the same point could be made more strongly with regard to some of the treatments featured in the main conference. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 It contained megadoses of vitamins E and D. I was alarmed. I could see the utility of the E, since I had just begun to hear of the use of vitamin E to slow aging. But the huge doses of D concerned me. "How long have you been taking this?" I asked. "For many years," she said. Then, apparently noticing my serious tone, she added, "Well, I don't take it all the time." I was puzzled. Still in medical school, all I knew was prescribed doses. "So when do you take it?" I asked. "I take it when I need it," she answered, as though that shouldn't need explaining. "And for how long? |
| Usually there's a wall of vitamins and minerals—sometimes an entire storeful! For the consumer, it can be overwhelming. A few simple guidelines might serve to make the subject more manageable. These are practical measures that will tide you over until your diet falls into place and is strong enough to sustain you by itself.
The first point is that more supplements are needed in the city than in the country. More accurately, more nutrients are needed for a hectic, chaotic life than for one that's quieter. |
| Wheat, for example, already much poorer in vitamins and minerals than it was a half-century ago, is milled, removing much of what might have remained in nutritional value. Meanwhile, as the nutrients have disappeared from our foods, entire industries have arisen to fill the vacuum. |
| What has struck me is that the vitamin bottles on the shelves of health-food stores and pharmacies have proliferated as the presence of vitamins and minerals in our food has dwindled. Mineral depletion of the soil has come about through poor soil management. The use of chemical fertilizers as a substitute for composted organic matter has left soils vulnerable to erosion and to the loss of minerals. Plants grown on those soils are not as healthy and vibrant nor as rich in nutritional value. |
| A few short decades ago, the person who insisted that vitamins or exercise kept his arthritis at bay was dismissed as a health nut. Now doctors are beginning to prescribe more green vegetables or a course of supplements to reduce risk. But the change is awkward. A medical system that focuses on reductionistic pinpointing of cellular pathology, and whose thinking is trapped in military metaphors of war on disease, is ill equipped to plumb the depths of the habit-ridden person and reach a resolution of the issues that push him toward self-destructive behavior. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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 A vast public already knows much about the drugs (legal and otherwise), the vitamins, the nutrients, the brain machines and the computer games that allow access to neurosomatic states. This public of HEAD explorers will grow in the next decade, just as the information explosion in the relevant sciences will unleash newer and better technology to unchain us from the bondage of imprinting and open the gates to metapro-gramming (selective re-imprinting). |
Ralph W. Moss PhD
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 Noni also contains 21 other vitamins and minerals, but in minuscule amounts. As the company itself makes clear, noni is "not a significant source" for any other nutrient. And since the product that was analyzed also contained blueberry and grape juice concentrates, as well as natural flavors, it is impossible to tell how much of the value of the final product is due to noni and how much to these well-known ingredients.
Strange Fruit?
Noni juice appears to be non-toxic. All of the animal and cell-line experiments I have seen so far have found no evidence of toxicity. |
John Lauritsen
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| It is a particularly rich source of natural Beta Carotene and chlorophyll, as well as many other vitamins and minerals. For two days, each time I passed the Sun booth I popped a few more little green pills, and didn't feel any the worse for it.
In fact, whether from the "pond scum" or from being exposed to the California health ethos, I felt great, and found myself eagerly waking up early in the morning to do calisthenics before going out to eat a huge California breakfast. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| Many times if a nursing baby has a cold, the mother can take the infection fighting combination and vitamins and the baby will get them through the milk.
—Powdered Vitamin C stirred in water or juice has been used.
How to give a baby an enema
—Lay baby on his back on towel in tub. Carefully insert lubricated tube into rectum, a litde way past anus muscle. Let water (very slowly and without pressure) enter colon—Baby will expel when he feels the need. Repeat as needed until 1 pint has been used. |
John Lauritsen
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| Some alternate nutritionists have recommended that "PWAs" take enormous "megadoses" of some vitamins, in particular, vitamin C. They have recommended daily doses of 30, 40, or 50 grams of vitamin C per day. At such doses, vitamin C is no longer a food supplement, but a drug. I think this is not a good idea. For one thing, these recommendations reflect the erroneous notion that a virus is the cause of "AIDS", and that vitamin C will attack the virus. For another, such megadoses violate the most important principle of recovery for a "PWA", the principle of balance. |
| Megadoses of one vitamin can deplete other vitamins, thus artificially creating malnutrition. The best guide is still: "Nothing in excess".
Yoghurt and kefir have much nutritional value, and contain friendly bacteria that act against the yeast syndrome. They are easy to make at home, using starter that can be purchased in a health food store.
Garlic has been believed, by many different peoples over many centuries, to have healing powers. To take garlic raw, peel the skin off a clove, cut into several pieces, and then gulp down with a lot of water. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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Check yellow pages of phone book for store near you. Offers Duofone Sensor Alert, which will keep track of conditions at home while you're not there. In event of trouble, system will dial preprogrammed telephone numbers with voice-synthesized alert message. System monitors indoor temperature, electrical outages, burglar or smoke alarm signals. |
| Wurtman believes that wavelengths of light are like vitamins. He has maintained for years that most of us do not receive enough of the right kind of light for optimal health. Wurtman believes we are all unwitting subjects of a long-term experiment on the effects of artificial lighting on health. "This casual attitude
The Winter Blahs
Have you ever noticed how "blah" you feel after spending the entire day inside? That feeling isn't just psychological. It has its roots in the physiology of the human body. |
| In his book Light, Radiation, and You (Devin-Adair, 1985), Ott expresses the belief that most artificial light lacks essential wavelengths in the same way that refined flour lacks certain vitamins and minerals. He claims that certain cells in the body can't function without those parts of the spectrum and that most indoor lighting promotes illness. Ott suspects malillumination causes disorders ranging from lack of vitality to lowered resistance to disease, and hyperactivity. He believes it can also lead to aggressive behavior, heart disease, and cancer. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| See Dandelion) vitamins 8c Minerals: Natural Multiple Vit. & Min. Supplement B Complex, B12, E, C aids iron assimilation, Calcium, Natural Chelated iron Supplement.
Diet: Real Food Diet, Green Drink or Chlorophyll, Bee Pollen, Beets and Beet juice, Black Cherries, Molasses, Bananas, Apricots, Wheat Grass, Barley Green, Spirulina. |
Jean Carper
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 One problem: such rinsing also washes away some of the vitamins and minerals.
BEST BEANS
V2 cup cooked
Soluble fiber grams
Black-eyed peas
3.7
Peas, canned
2.7
Kidney beans
2.5
Pinto beans
2.3
Navy beans
2.3
Lentils
1.7
Split peas
1.7
DR. ANDERSON'S CHOLESTEROL-FIGHTING BEAN RECIPES*
HEARTY BEAN BAKE
V\ cup finely chopped onion
1 medium garlic clove, minced
1 can (16 oz) beans in tomato sauce
1 cup cooked kidney beans
V2 cup cooked baby lima beans
V4 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon prepared mustard Dash pepper
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a one-quart casserole dish. |
John Lauritsen
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| At the worst, some alternative health counselors have touted a full array of vitamins, supplements, and so on, in addition to AZT. One book, which presumed to offer an alternative approach to treating "AIDS", recommended taking warm baths to offset the toxicity of AZT; the author had neither the intelligence nor the courage to warn against taking AZT in the first place.
If a "PWA" has earned his diagnosis primarily through drug abuse, then all the holistic remedies in the world will not help him if he continues to inject, inhale, smoke, and swallow drugs. |
John Robbins
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 His treatment program, based on a natural foods diet, extensive use of vitamins and other supplements, Chinese herbs, exercise, stress reduction, and the cultivation of a positive attitude, produced "a stability rate of 90 percent, meaning that these patients either improved or did not further decline in their diagnosis. The survival rate during that same period was
98 percent. There were only 3 deaths out of 134 HIV-positive patients, including 30 who had full-blown AIDS symptoms."41
These numbers are staggering in a medical system that considers HIV to be a death sentence. |
Richard Leviton
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 Here Feuer shows how the FDA systematically suppresses truthful information about vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional substances and actively suppresses new companies who seek to market these, espedally if they encroach upon the big-dollar diseases such as cancer or AIDS. "The entire orthodox medical establishment," says Feuer, "is threatened by alternative medicine."
The conflict has little to do with science and "everything to do with economics. |
| Most popular among the disciplines consulted are herbs and vitamins, relaxation techniques, massage, chiropractic, and macrobiotics. Interest in acupuncture is soaring in California, with 4,500 licensed practitioners, or one-half of the nation's total, at work in this state. Of those who tried alternative medicine, 54% said they were "very satisfied" and 80% said they would do it again; 51% said they were "likely to try" alternative treatments soon. More women (46%) than men (37%) made those office visits, yet 51% of both sexes said they were favorably considering making an appointment. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 C and A, up to 10 ppm xan-thones; and choline (Bruneton, 1999; ESCOP, 1996; Leung and Foster, 1996; Newall et al, 1996; Upton, 1997; Wichtl and Bisset, 1994).
Pharmacological Actions Standardized Preparations Human
The primary action of SJW is antidepressant (Phillipp et al, 1999; Lenoir et al, 1999; Leakmann et al, 1998a, 1998b; Wheatley, 1997; Linde et al, 1996). Some references refer to relaxant effects in relation to the Commission E approval for anxiety and nervous unrest, but this may only be in the context of the overall antidepressant activity (Schulz et al. |
| The authors of this review concluded that future trials should rectify design flaws so that a reasonable conclusion can be made about the effect of ginseng on physical performance. Another paper suggests that increasing dosage levels to be consistent with those used historically in TCM and in recent pharmacological experiments in animals would produce more positive outcomes in clinical trials measuring the ergonomic and other activities of ginseng (Dharmananda, 2002). |
| The authors of this review concluded that future trials should rectify design flaws so that a reasonable conclusion can be made about the effect of ginseng on physical performance. Another paper suggests that increasing dosage levels to be consistent with those used historically in TCM and in recent pharmacological experiments in animals would produce more positive outcomes in clinical trials measuring the ergonomics and other activities of ginseng.
Ginseng, Asian
Panax ginseng ca. meyer (syn. P. schinseng T. nees) [Tam. |
John Robbins
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| A number of bacteria, including Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidus, manufacture B vitamins, play crucial roles in digestion, and help protect against the invasion of parasites. Unfortunately, antibiotics kill off the good bacteria as well as the bad. By altering the balance of internal flora, they can compromise the immune system, often setting the stage for bladder infections and other problems.
While antibiotics kill bacteria, they do not kill yeasts. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
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 They will try to pass laws saying that only medical doctors can prescribe herbs and vitamins because they are the only ones qualified to do so. They will scare us into thinking that if we take the wrong dose of an herb, we will hurt ourselves, so we would be best to leave this sort of dangerous herbal medicine to the doctors. They will have us believe that we have no common sense to figure out how to use the plants that grow in our own backyards that have been used safely for thousands of years all over the world. |
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