Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| People who are malnourished or under some stress will have trouble with shots. So vitamins and minerals can be used prophylactically as well as therapeutically. Thank you, Archie.
As time passed I became more and more enthusiastic about megadoses of vitamin C and the B-complex as therapy. I shunned what I had been taught about the safety of antibiotics. (A rule we learned from the drug companies: Give a person with a cold some antibiotics so the secondary infection will not invade.)
Nutritional therapy was working. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
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 Vegetable
1 exchange equals:
'/2 cup cooked vegetables
1 cup raw vegetables
THE FRUIT EXCHANGE
Fruits, like vegetables, supply us with a variety of vitamins and minerals. For instance, citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C; apricots and bananas contain potassium. Many fruits and vegetables are high in fiber, a food constituent that is in short supply for those who eat a diet heavy in processed food. Fiber keeps the process of digestion working. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| He knew that the impoverished diet that these people were on could do nothing to support the immune system, so in the absence of the appropriate vitamins and minerals, the stress of the shots wiped them out.
On his own, he supplied each child in his district with some vitamin C. They received 100 mg. a day per month of age. A six-month-old received 600 mg.; the eight-month-old got 800 mg., and so forth. The one-year-old got 1,000 mg. a day, the two-year-old 2,000 mg. a day, and on until age five years and above, all of whom received 5,000 mg. per day. |
| That includes, along with the blood test and the ques-tionaire, the purchace of the Life Balances Home Health Kit, which includes twenty botdes of individual vitamins and minerals, six dropper botdes, and four bottles of electrolyte concentrate.
We need to make people more accountable for their own health. We must encourage doctors to be more accountable for the patients in their care.
If your scores on the vitamin smells are high (5 to 10), and you eat a lot, you will tend to get diarrhea. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 The anti-oxidant vitamins and minerals, magnesium, the branched chained amino acids, and zinc have all been shown to offer varying degrees of protection.
One should not assume that health food stores are safe havens from these excitotoxins. In fact, I have found that many products, including supplements as well as foods, contain one or more of these toxic compounds. For example, at least one product claiming to improve memory and boost brain power, contains large doses of glutamate and glutamine. |
| Such patients should be given extra doses of vitamin C, E, and the other antioxidant vitamins and minerals.
Chemical Hit Men
The excitotoxins do not kill all brain cells—they are very selective. They can totally destroy some brain cells and leave other cells adjacent to them completely unharmed.37 This selective killing is based on the presence of special receptors for glutamate on some neurons and not on others. That is, the cells that will be killed have been marked for death. We know that almost all excitotoxins act by attaching to the glutamate receptors on the membranes. |
| The most efficient free radical scavengers (neutralizers) are found naturally in the form of certain vitamins and minerals. Among the most important of these are vitamin C, E, and beta-carotene. The minerals selenium, zinc, and magnesium also play a part in reducing free radical damage. New, more powerful, free radical scavengers are being developed by the pharmaceutical companies. They may have a more powerful effect and be better localized in the neurons that need them than naturally occurring compounds.
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| It is for these reasons that the antioxidant vitamins and minerals should be taken in combination. Clinical studies, as well as experimental animal studies, confirm this observation.
Excitotoxins as free radical generators
It needs to be emphasized that all excitotoxins—glutamate, aspartate, and L-cysteine—stimulate large amounts of free radicals within exposed
23 Sato K, et al. Synergism of tocopherol and ascorbate on the survival of cultured brain neurons. Neuroreport 4: 1179-1182, 1993 neurons. |
| For example, we know that all cells contain three antioxidant enzymes—glutathione, catalase and superoxide dismustase—as well as a multitude of scavenging vitamins and minerals (Vitamins C, E, D, K, beta carotene, selenium, magnesium, and zinc). In
13 Connor WE and Neuringer M. Importance of dietary omega-3 fatty acids in retinal function and brain chemistry. Nutritional Modulation of Neural Function, Academic Press, 1988, pp 191-200 fact, even co-enzyme Q,0 acts as a powerful free radical scavenger and a regenerator of antioxidant vitamin C and E. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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 In addition to the foregoing listed vitamins and minerals, cabbage contains chlorine and sulphur, which help to cleanse the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines. Many years ago, cabbage was commonly used for headaches, colic, deafness, insomnia and ulcers.
Preparation: Cabbage, red or white, should be eaten raw for best results.
The fresh juice drink is best for most effective value. The outer leaves have an abundant supply of calcium and should not be discarded. In addition, when cabbage is cut, slawed or shredded, much of the Vitamin C content is lost due to exposure to the air. |
| Calories: 35
Reported health benefits: This delicious, exotic tropical fruit contains so many vitamins and minerals that it should be a great help in maintaining good health for those lucky people able to obtain it.
Preparation: It may be eaten raw or cut and sliced into portions for a fruit and/or vegetable salad.
Botanical information: The fruit of an evergreen tree, Ceratonia siliqua, indigenous in the Mediterranean region.
Nutritive values: Carob is an excellent, well-balanced food, rich in Vitamins A and B-complex. |
| You will enjoy the delicious taste of the natural sugars and benefit from all the vitamins and minerals. When it is to be cooked, place the stripped corn into boiling water for two to three minutes and then chew thoroughly to insure proper digestion of this starchy food. The corn can also be roasted in an open fire, leaving the corn in its jacket. However you decide to prepare this wonderful vegetable, it is very important that it be as fresh as possible. The older the corn, the greater the depreciation of Vitamins C, A, and Bj, in that order. |
| If you have a home freezer you will have the opportunity to purchase vegetables in large quantities from local farmers, and by quick freezing, not only will you be able to enjoy your favorite vegetables year round, but you will also benefit from the preserved vitamins and minerals.
A favorite of everyone's is corn chowder. This is easily prepared by taking one-quarter pound of fat salt pork, cut into small pieces and dried out. Add one onion (sliced) and cook until tender. Add three cups diced boiled potatoes, two cups boiling water, one cup cooked corn and four cups hot milk. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| Many reported that they felt better if they took certain vitamins and minerals. I discovered that hyperactive children improve with a diet change and with the addition of calcium and magnesium. I found that nutritional approaches to the control of conditions was a valid concept and that the use of prescription drugs is not always essential to health. I began to use drugs as the last thing on the therapeutic list. Nutritional therapy was useful, but it did not work for everyone, and when it did, its benefits were short-lived. |
David Brownstein
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 Many patients with these chronic disorders do not respond well to therapies that many other patients respond to such as thyroid hormone replacement, vitamins and minerals, etc. One theory of why these individuals are not responding appropriately to these treatments is that perhaps the blood flow to various tissues has been compromised due to the hypercoagulable state. This hypercoagulable state would prevent the flow of thyroid hormone, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients into the cells where it is needed. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
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| An entire head of iceberg lettuce provides only minor amounts of vitamins and minerals. Green and orange vegetables pack the biggest nutritional punch, with purple (beets and eggplant) and red (tomatoes) following. Dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach or kale, are rich in folic acid; winter squash is high in beta-carotene. Pale-colored vegetables (like cucumbers and zucchini and other summer squashes, mushrooms, iceberg lettuce) tend to be full of water and not too much else. |
Leo Galland
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 It is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals.
4. Nuts and seeds, fresh and raw, especially walnuts, almonds, sesame, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds. Peanuts are not really nuts; they are legumes, in the same family as beans. I do not advise my patients to consume peanuts or peanut butter, because of their potential for contamination by toxic molds (see page 183).
5. Fish are an excellent source of protein, B-vitamins, and minerals, and fatty cold-water fish are an excellent source of omega-three EFAs. |
| In treating Catherine, I did not rely on flax oil alone; I added a multivitamin and mineral supplement, because the way in which the body utilizes EFAs is in turn regulated by the availability of vitamins and minerals that govern EFA metabolism. The important vitamins for EFA metabolism are E, C, A, and B5 (niacin), and the important minerals are selenium, zinc, and manganese. |
Stephanie Beling
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 It took decades more before they identified and isolated the vitamins and minerals that were deficient. In fact, it wasn't until 1948 that all thirteen vitamins considered essential to human health were isolated.
Phytochemicals, which only came under the microscope in the late twentieth century, play a very different role in nutrition. In fact, phytochemicals are non-nutritives. As the name makes clear, they offer no nutrition per se, but they are spark plugs for various actions and behaviors within the body's nutritional system. |
| The 1920s and thirties were breakthrough years for understanding the micro nutrients, as the basic vitamins and minerals were discovered, identified, and isolated.
One of the bizarre side effects of all these nutritional advances, however, was corresponding progress in the technologies of food preservation. The advances here were so dramatic that scientists were able to go beyond preserving foods to actually create new foods altogether—wholly artificial or "junk" foods, touted as another important time-saver for a democracy on the move. |
| Of the other five basic nutrients, the carbohydrates, protein, and fat are macro nutrients, while vitamins and minerals are micronutri-ents.The former are called macronutrients because they are essential in large amounts; micronutrients are essential in minute amounts. Both are needed for an organism's proper growth and metabolism. Macronutrients are the "stuff" of the body—its building blocks and energy. Micronutrients trigger the mechanisms that replenish the building blocks and ignite the energy.
Carbohydrates, often colloquially called "carbs," are the body's primary source of energy. |
| The sparkplugs of the transformation—and thus of nutrition—are the micronutrients, the vitamins and minerals. They are essential components of enzymes that light the fuses under the macronutrients, changing the food we eat into heat and energy, and aiding the body in defending itself against harmful substances.
Vitamins do much more than prevent disease. They provide the only source of certain co-enzymes necessary for metabolism, the biochemical processes that support life. |
| Refer to the "Nutrient-Rich Foods" chart to ensure you get adequate vitamins and minerals in your PowerFoods diet. |
David Brownstein
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| Step 2: Improve The Diet
The second step in a detoxification program is eating healthy foods, which provide vitamins and minerals that aid the body in the detoxification process. I refer the reader to Chapter 6, which provides information on how to properly balance the diet with adequate amounts of protein, fat and carbohydrates.
In order to detoxify your body, it is necessary to reduce or, better yet, eliminate refined sugar from the diet. Refined sugar contains no nutrients and when eaten in excess will lead to obesity and liver dysfunction. |
| Jodi now takes a multiple vitamin mineral product and eats more whole foods that are a rich source of vitamins and minerals. She has continued to maintain good health for the past two years.
Zinc
The serum levels of zinc are positively correlated with the levels of the active thyroid hormone, T3, especially in the aging population.24 In zinc deficient rats, lowered conversion of T4 to T3 has been observed. " My experience has clearly shown a decrease in the conversion of T4 into T3 in zinc deficient individuals.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is an important antioxidant for the body. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 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. |
David Brownstein
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| Fresh fruits and vegetables provide many vitamins and minerals that help the thyroid and other hormonal glands function normally.5
Recommendations
Eliminate refined sugar and processed food that contains refined sugar such as table sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup and dextrose. Use natural sweeteners such as maple syrup, raw honey, black strap molasses, date sugar and others.
2. Eliminate Trans-Fatty Acids
Fat is a much-maligned macronutrient. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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| 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. |
David Brownstein
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| It should provide adequate vitamins and minerals that the body can use to make energy and perform its vital functions. When we eat food that is devitalized (i.e., refined products), our body must attempt to use its own store of nutrients to break down the food. Devitalized food provides the body with no nutrients to help the process of digestion. Constantly eating devitalized food will result in deficiencies of vitamins, minerals and other essential products and will inevitably lead to hormonal and immune system abnormalities. |
David Brownstein
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 Maintaining adequate levels of vitamins and minerals in the body is essential to overcoming chronic illness and achieving good health. Those suffering with a chronic illness, such as arthritis, will need a proper nutritional evaluation. This evaluation should include the following tests:
1. Hair analysis for mineral content, including calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, chromium and selenium levels
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