Michael Tierra
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 KITCHEN MEDICINES
HERBS AS SOURCES OF vitamins and minerals ost of us suffer from deficiencies in some vitamins and minerals.
1VJL These deficiencies are not resolved by taking expensive food supplements, most of which are rapidly eliminated through the urine and wasted. This is because the deficiency is due to imbalance and poor assimilation or rapid elimination of these important nutrients. (Persons with diets consisting primarily of fruits and vegetables will excessively eliminate minerals and vitamins from the system, despite the high intake accompanying these foods. |
Michael Castleman
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 A multivitamin/mineral supplement, or insurance formula, contains some combination of vitamins and minerals. They're economical and convenient. And they're better for you than single-nutrient supplements. "Few people understand that vitamins and minerals work synergisti-cally," explains clinical nutritionist Shari Lieberman, Ph.D. "Nature packages nutrients together in foods. They should be taken the same way in supplements. I always advise people to start with an insurance formula and to take additional supplements as necessary to prevent or treat specific conditions. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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 Sulfa-Mag Injection (Merit) Uro-Mag Capsules (Blaine)
ALCOHOLISM, vitamins and minerals DEFICIENCY SECONDARY TO_
Alcoholism may be treated with disulfiram or naltrexone hydrochloride. The following products may be recommended for relief of vitamins and minerals deficiency:
MULTIVITAMIN PRODUCTS ....... |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| You would need to eat huge quantities of fresh, organic produce to get the vitamins and minerals present in a few vitamin supplements. For example, you'd have to drink eight glasses of fresh-squeezed orange juice every day in order to get just 1,000 mg of vitamin C.
The Basic Plan
Here's the basic program: A high-potency multiple vitamin with minerals (minerals also enable your body to use the vitamins). Be sure to read the label. With many multivitamins you need to take up to 12 a day to get the amounts listed below. |
| As a general rule, prescription drugs cause imbalances in the body, ranging from depletion of vitamins and minerals, to constipation and lowered immune function. They can also cause more serious problems, including death. Prescription Alternatives gives you a tool for easily and immediately accessing information about how the drugs you are taking affect your body, the steps you can take to counteract these imbalances, and what alternative treatments are available.
There is no possible way we could cover every drug available, or every interaction or problem with every drug. |
Jack Challem
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 The Nutrition Reporter
Dozens of articles on vitamins and minerals. www.nutritionreporter.com
Consumerlab.com
Independent reports evaluating whether specific nutritional supplements contain what their labels say. Although Consumerlab.com performs fair and independent evaluations, it tests only a small percentage of the nutritional supplements on the market, and it identifies only those that pass (not those that fail) testing. www.consumerlab.com
Medline
The world's largest database of medical journal articles, providing free abstracts (summaries) of more than 8 million articles. www.ncbi. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| With chronic use of these medications, digestion is compromised and decreased absorption of some vitamins and minerals can result. Once the food finally makes its way into the intestines, it isn't broken down enough for it to be properly absorbed.
There are other factors that contribute to low secretion of stomach acid. Drinking icy cold liquids with meals can suppress it, and stomach acid levels decline with age. A large percentage of people over 50 make too little stomach acid for thorough digestion of food. |
Jack Challem
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| Many vitamins and minerals are needed for normal functioning of the immune system, and suboptimal levels of nutrients and deficiencies impair the normal programming of immunity.
Pottenger found that this trend could be reversed in the second generation, but that it took four generations of normal feeding to once again yield healthy nonallergic cats. That reversal was not possible by the third generation of cats eating a nutritionally deficient diet. Furthermore, the cats became incapable of reproducing by the fourth generation, the last. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
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 Vitamins and Minerals: Due to the processing of foods and the depletion of minerals in the soil, it is virtually impossible to obtain an optimal intake of vitamins and minerals from the diet alone. Supplementation is necessary if optimal health is the goal.
Vitamin-mineral supplementation has been demonstrated to improve the academic performance and behavior of school children. Although this is a simple statement, its implications are profound. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 The most healthful are walnuts and almonds because they derive fewer calories from fat than other nuts and they supply lots of vitamins and minerals. By comparison, Brazil nuts, pecans, and pistachios are high in fat. Cashews, macadamias, and pignoli (pine nuts) are even worse. Eat them only on occasion, and only in very small amounts.
Don't forget flaxseeds, which when ground up are a wonderful source of omega-3 essential fatty acids. And sesame seeds contain less common amino acids that help to round out and complete the proteins from other foods.
Get enough dairy on a daily basis. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 Nutritionally, however, these foods are inferior to rice and wheat, containing fewer vitamins and minerals per volume. Such foods could hardly be the secret of the islander's good health.
The only other food eaten universally throughout the area is the coconut. Could coconut be the miracle food that has made these people some of the healthiest on earth? Research over the past several decades indicates that this may be so. Coconuts have been used as a staple part of the diets of most all Polynesian, Melanesian, and many Asian peoples in this area for centuries. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 During the process, over 80 percent of the vitamin E, niacin, riboflavin, manganese, magnesium, vitamin Bg, and fiber are lost, as is over half the calcium, iron, thiamin, potassium, and most other vitamins and minerals. Little wonder law mandates that riboflavin, thiamin, niacin and a few other nutrients be added back in. But despite being "enriched," white bread has few of its original healthful properties and all or more of the calories. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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 Beliefs on Which It Is Based
It is the opinion of megadose advocates that most people require vitamins and minerals in much greater amounts than they receive through their diets, and in dosages often far greater than their RDAs. They believe that, when it comes to vitamins and minerals, if some is good, more must be better. Typically these beliefs are not substantiated; often they are voiced by purveyors of food supplements who also promote a myriad of over-the-counter remedies for a wide range of ailments and deficiencies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As far as vitamins and minerals go, the two best defenders against viral infections are vitamin C and zinc. In the world of herbs, echinacea and astragalus have earned a strong reputation as virus fighters. A wide assortment of foods also help boost immune system function: foods like garlic, ginger and onions. In fact, surviving the next pandemic need not depend on vaccines at all. Healthy individuals can survive the pendemic merely by dramatically boosting immune system function and supplementing with anti-viral herbs as well as powerful antioxidants like astaxanthin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It contains fiber, vitamins and minerals, and lots of carbohydrates. The carbohydrates are the fuel. But the carbohydrates are bound up in the fiber of the apple so that it takes your body a fair amount of time and effort to release those carbohydrates and convert them into fuel. So you could call the apple a medium-burning carbohydrate, or in medical terms, it has a lower glycemic index than straight sugar. |
Andrew Chevallier
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 Vitamins & Minerals
All plants contain trace amounts of vitamins and minerals, and many have special medicinal properties as well. Some plants have such high levels of vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients that they are considered "natural food supplements." Watercress (Nasturtium officinale, p. 237) is an example. It contains vitamins A, b,, b,, C, and E, as well as iodine, iron, and phosphorus. It also has antibiotic constituents that make it especially useful. Other herbs that are rich in vitamins and minerals are listed below. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Undernutrition
A lack of vitamins and minerals may deplete levels of nutrients essential for optimal mitochondrial function.
Stress
Practicing stress reduction techniques on a regular basis can help your mitochondria stay healthy.
Lack of exercise
Probably the best way to keep your mitochondria healthy is to engage in regular aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise prompts our bodies to manufacture new, young, and healthy mitochondria. We recommend thirty minutes of aerobic exercise four days per week. |
| You will gain the benefit of the B vitamins, vitamin E, and the other vitamins and minerals found within the whole foods.
TESTING THE FIVE FORCES OF ILLNESS
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in commercial laboratories offering specialized testing in various aspects of the five forces. This testing can be helpful in identifying which of these forces are present, and to what degree. There are many tests that you can take; below is just a sample of what is available.
Many of these tests can be ordered from the same commercial labs used by your doctor's office or local hospital. |
| Another problem that arises from relying on food alone for vitamins and minerals is that sometimes the foods rich in a specific nutrient are not necessarily the best conveyors of these nutrients.
Strangely enough, calcium-rich foods can actually impair your absorption of calcium. Dairy products, certainly high in calcium, are also high in protein, which has a calcium-depleting effect by increasing calcium loss in the urine. The largest distinctive component of protein is nitrogen, and when our bodies process nitrogen, it gets excreted in the urine, pulling calcium with it. |
| If our diet is deficient in these vitamins and minerals, the critical enzymes won't perform their catalyst function properly.
If your diet is deficient in chromium, for example, you may become resistant to insulin, since chromium is a necessary cofactor for enzymes that help insulin to function.
Or take the thyroid: Your thyroid gland produces two different thyroid hormones, called T4 and T3. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 The physical demands of training may use up so many vitamins and minerals that the body has insufficient means to maintain hormonal production.
PHOSPHATES AND POLYPHOSPHATES—found in many food products, such as soft drinks, processed meats, and cheese—can interfere with the absorption of nutrients.
CIGARETTES contribute to hormonal problems by increasing the need for vitamins and minerals to detoxify the poisons in tobacco smoke. This reduces the amount of nutrients available for hormone production.
STRESS is a major contributor to hormonal imbalance. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| Below is a brief guide to vitamins and minerals and essential fatty acids.
Vitamins
Everyone should take a good multivitamin every day. And you must pay attention to whichever vitamins you take. It still surprises us when we read supplement labels and find ingredients such as hydrogenated fats, artificial colorings and flavorings, inert substances, and other unwanted and unnecessary additions. Vitamins and supplements are supposed to be healthful. Why would they contain unhealthful additives?
The truth is that vitamin manufacturers often care more about the bottom line than your health. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| Of course you can't just gulp down lots of supplements and hope to have a stronger immune system, because some vitamins and minerals can do more harm than good if taken in large quantities. The idea that if a little is good a lot more is better is almost always wrong when it comes to any medication or supplement. Therefore, if you choose to take supplements, be sure to keep the amounts you take within bounds.
In theory you might be able to create a diet that gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need without supplements. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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| It still has about 5 grams of fiber and lots of vitamins and minerals, so as far as breakfast cereals go it's rather healthy But eating this stuff by the handful—and especially the bowlful—will give you a big wallop of unwanted calories.
There is a way you can have your cake (or cereal) and eat it too. Here's how: Have a smaller serving than that recommended on the box—say, xfi cup instead of the recommended 3/4 cup. Then fill your cereal bowl with low-CD fruit—say, xfi cup strawberries (CD 0.3) and add x/i cup low-fat soymilk (CD 0.3) or skim or 1% milk (both CD 0.4 |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has no live food enzymes, there are no whole foods in here, there are no high-density superfood sources, there are no vegetables from the sea, there are no health-supporting herbs, and even the vitamins and minerals that it does offer are not in their optimum form for maximum bioavailability.
Interestingly, Ensure is a product that typifies what's for sale at places like Walgreen's and Wal-Mart. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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| Although congee is often made with white rice, we've made ours with brown and added spinach for extra vitamins and minerals. Try it as a light but filling breakfast—or lunch or dinner.
11/2 cups cooked brown rice 1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce
3 cups chopped spinach
Bring 3 cups water to a boil and add the rice. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes on high heat. Reduce heat to low and cook another 2 minutes. Stir in the spinach and cook for 1 minute, or until the spinach is tender. Add the soy sauce and stir.
NUTRITION FACTS: 1 SERVING; Caloric Density 0. |
| The list doesn't stop here: High blood pressure; gastrointestinal complications such as gastritis, ulcers, and liver disease; and a depletion of certain vitamins and minerals are all caused by alcohol consumption.93 Of course, excessive alcohol can have detrimental social and psychological consequences as well.
WHAT IS A DRINK?
Fourteen grams of alcohol is considered one drink. This is often taken to mean one 5-ounce (150-ml) glass of wine at 11 percent alcohol, one 12-ounce beer at 4 percent alcohol, or one 1.5-ounce shot of hard liquor at 40 percent alcohol. |
| KEY FINDING #3
Macronutrient Balance Is Key to Healthy Weight Management and Loss
Food essentially contains two kinds of nutrients: macronutrients, which provide energy, and micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, that help the body use the energy. Carbohydrates, protein, fats, and alcohol are the main macronutrients. We'll disregard alcohol, for now, as we're concentrating on food. Water can also be considered a macronutrient because it's essential to processing the energy. |
Patrick Holford
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 Why feeling just "all right" is not all right
To date the evidence is that most people are being shortchanged on health, owing to inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals. Since the 1980s, proper scientific studies using multinutrient supplements have shown that they boost immunity, increase IQ, reduce birth defects, improve childhood development, reduce colds, stop PMS, improve bone density, balance moods, reduce aggression, increase energy, reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease, and basically promote a long and healthy life. |
| These vitamins and minerals are vital for health and the evidence is that we need more, not less, for optimal health. B12, for example, is often low in older people and helps lower homocysteine thereby reducing risk for heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. Yet if you give older people with raised homocysteine levels 10 meg of B12, which is about twice the RDA, it neither corrects their deficiency nor lowers homocysteine. Only levels of 50 meg (that's over eight times the RDA) bring them back to optimal health. |
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