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 Avoid isolated vitamins and minerals
I also recommend that you move away from isolated vitamins and minerals. So forget about those cheap, low-cost bottles of vitamin C, vitamin E or those B vitamins you might find at the wholesale clubs, pharmacies or grocery stores. These are typically not going to do you very much good, because your body doesn't need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. If you want vitamin C, go with whole-food concentrates. |
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 REPPED: A new study published in the August 13, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that vitamins E and C, when taken together, result in a significant reduction in the risk of strokes (31 percent) and heart attacks (22 percent). The study followed 8,171 women who were instructed to take relatively small amounts of these vitamins for more than nine years (600 IU of vitamin E, 500mg of vitamin C and 50mg of beta carotene were taken every other day -- a very small dose according to most modern nutritionists). |
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 It is curious that no researcher from the world of conventional medicine will ever test the natural, full-spectrum vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals that appear in nature. You know why? Because they would discover a universe of natural medicine that makes patented prescription drugs obsolete.
A second way to fake a vitamin meta-data study is to simply cherry-pick the results you want to include in your meta-data analysis. This is a routine trick used by dishonest researchers who have an agenda of discrediting nutritional supplements. |
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 It is important to note that the ability of the body to burn nutrients for energy may be limited by deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals.
Much of the modern diet is made from refined grains such as white flour. White flour is commonly found in breads and noodles. White flour is routinely enriched with certain nutrients. Other nutrients are reduced in the refining of the grains, and they are not added back in the enrichment process. Enrichment of white flour normally consists of adding thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, and iron to the refined grains. |
| Vitamin B12 is the most complex of the vitamins. The crystals are a striking dark red in color.
Cobalamin Coenzyme forms are: Methylcobalamin Deoxyadenosyl cobalamin
Vitamin B,2 supplements are usually in the form of cyanocobalamin, which is easily converted into the two active forms used in the body.
ROLES OF VITAMIN B12
One function of vitamin B]2 is to convert homocysteine to methionine. One of the active forms of cobalamin, methylcobalamin, converts homocysteine using an enzyme that also requires folate. |
| If we are deficient in any one of these vitamins or minerals, we may not be able to efficiently burn nutrients for energy. The inability to burn carbohydrates leads to more stored fat. The inability to burn fat can contribute to excess body fat.
Appendix C: Antioxidants
Antioxidants neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules with unpaired electrons that steal electrons from stable molecules. The stable molecules can then become free radicals, causing a chain reaction of damage. |
| Bioflavonoids are not vitamins and are not essential for life. Bioflavonoids are excellent antioxidants found in many plant foods. As potent antioxidants, they protect us from arterial damage and cancer formation. Parsley and elderberry have the highest content of bioflavonoids.
COENZYME Q10
Coenzyme Q10 is not a vitamin, but plays many necessary biological roles in the body. It can be synthesized in the body and so it cannot be considered a vitamin. It is a powerful fat-soluble antioxidant found in virtually all cell membranes. Coenzyme Q10 is needed for mitochondrial energy production. |
| Appendix E: Alcoholism
Alcoholics have special needs for vitamins and minerals. Alcoholics often get smaller amounts of nutrients because they consume less food. Many alcoholic beverages can be seen as "empty calories" because they supply energy without the nutrients needed to burn that energy.
Alcoholics may be more sensitive to excesses of certain nutrients. People with a history of liver disease or alcoholism may be more susceptible to the adverse effects of excessive niacin intake. |
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 Synthetic vitamins
Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements).
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| So they quote the results that include people who never even took the vitamins. "See?" they say. "The benefits aren't there." Of course they aren't! It's like taking a room full of a hundred hungry children, handing fifty of them a large sandwich, then declaring that sandwiches don't work as food because half the room is still hungry.
That these figures would even be quoted as something resembling "scientific medicine" is laughable. |
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| Some, such as choline, may one day be called vitamins. While not essential for life, some of these substances may enhance health and disease resistance. Many of these "wanna B's" can be found in nutritional supplements.
CHOLINE
Choline is an essential nutrient that may not, strictly speaking, be a vitamin. Choline is synthesized in the body, but enough is not always made to meet needs. In order to make choline, the body needs sufficient methionine, vitamin B12, and folic acid. Consequently, choline is sometimes needed in the diet. |
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| REPPED: The latest round in conventional medicine's ongoing attempts to discredit (and ultimately outlaw) nutritional supplements is found in a highly questionable study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which claims that vitamins actually increase the risk of death.
The study claims to have analyzed a collection of previous studies on Vitamin A, beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and selenium, concluding that most of the nutrients are actually dangerous to human health. |
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| The defenders of pharmaceuticals have become so desperate to discredit antioxidants and nutrition in general that they have now resorted to quoting study results from people who didn't even take the vitamins! I'm not sure if this strategy is brilliant or idiotic: It's brilliant because the mainstream media swallows the story hook, line and sinker (journalists aren't very skeptical anymore...). It's idiotic because it's based on a logic gap so large you could drive a circus convoy through it. |
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| Drugs make money for Big Pharma, and vitamins compete with drug sales. Once you understand the economics and the motives of the parties involved here, the junk science con becomes quite obvious: Pushers of pharmaceuticals will always use dirty tricks to discredit nutritional supplements because it is in their financial interests to do so.
My own financial interests, by the way, are squeaky clean. I sell no supplements, I earn no money from supplement companies, and in fact I am not even paid by NewsTarget for my work on these articles. |
| It's the obvious question: If vitamins are so dangerous, where are all the dead vitamin takers? And if pharmaceuticals are so safe, where are all the super-healthy prescription drug patients? They are nowhere to be found.
The healthiest people, by far, are those who take supplements, who engage in regular exercise, and who avoid taking prescription drugs.
Why conventional medical researchers remain nutritionally illiterate
Western medicine still doesn't "get" nutrition. They think all health effects are achieved by single, isolated chemical constituents. But nutrition doesn't work that way. |
| According to the Americal Medical Association, vitamins will kill you but pharmaceuticals will make you healthy.
Someone help me stop laughing before I blow out a lung and require surgery. |
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 Well, I started to drink my vitamins, and I'm taking this Ola Loa product."
Mike: Excellent.
Kunin: And again, it's so wonderful to hear positive experiences from people.
Mike: Where can people find these products right now?
Kunin: Typically you'll find us in the better health food stores -- places like Whole Foods market, Wild Oats market, The Vitamin Shoppe, the mom-and-pop stores. The interesting thing is we're going into a lot of other interesting avenues where you typically wouldn't see vitamins. We're going into hotel rooms -- in the mini-bars.
Mike: No kidding? |
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 Some of those vitamins are extremely important to human health. The fat-soluble vitamins include vitamin E, vitamin A and vitamin D.
It is vitamin D that I am most concerned about, because right now vitamin D deficiencies are widespread across Western populations, especially those in the United States. A deficiency in vitamin D directly promotes a numbers of serious diseases including diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, breast cancer, prostate cancer and even gum disease. |
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 Mike: What about the source of these vitamins? This is going to be a big question from consumers out there. They prefer natural sources, plant-based sources.
Kunin: Sure. Virtually everything is plant based when practical. The other sources are all USP-grade vitamins; everything is checked before we even start blending; everything has a certificate of analysis. Let me give you an interesting perspective of how you can tell the difference between super-high quality and kind of low-end. I think we all recognize vitamin B12 as being critically important and hard to get. |
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| For example, if you buy the Alive Whole Food Energizer, you're not going to see on the label a listing of the B vitamins, the C vitamins, the antioxidants and so on, because it's not broken down like that. It just tells you what foods were used to make the product. From there, you have to understand that those foods provide those nutrients and much more in a full spectrum of great nutrition.
It's also important to take these supplements from several different sources. You don't want to take superfoods every day and rely on that as your only source of supplemental nutrition. |
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| Pushing the pro-Pharma propaganda
Sadly, the mainstream media will buy this distortion, reprint it, and thereby spread disinformation to the public which is already half scared of vitamins thanks to all the other fear tactics being pushed by today's oppressive medical system. But let's get down to reality here for a moment, shall we? Drugs have no natural place in the human body, period. There is no disease caused by a deficiency of pharmaceuticals, and most of the drugs being marketed today are pushed under the most ridiculous advertising claims and distorted medical "science. |
| The message from industry is very clear: Don't take vitamins! And if they have to lie with statistics by making a positive study look negative, they're more than willing to step up to the plate and state the indefensible, almost as if they lived in some alternate universe where the laws of logic have all been reversed.
In fact, the message from the Brigham and Women's Hospital is quite clear. |
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| Mike: You're not swallowing a bunch of junk just to get the vitamins and minerals into your body.
Kunin: I may have discussed this with you in the past, but maybe this will give you another insight as to what Ola Loa is all about and what we stand for. We use a very special form of vitamin B12 in this product. Most people don't realize that not all B12 is created equal. Most of the B12 you get these days are called cyanocobalamin. Most of the vitamin companies use it because it's the cheapest form of vitamin B12 available. Unfortunately, it's toxic. |
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| When you really get down to it, there really is no better way than drinking your vitamins: Absorption is increased and it's not a stress on the body like taking pills can be. More often than not, people have weak stomach acids, so digestion and malabsorption problems are the norm.
Mike: Yes, that's definitely the case.
Kunin: Therefore, you want to make it easy for people and, at the same time, make it a pleasurable experience. OlaLoa has developed the most comprehensive powdered nutrition supplements in the world.
Mike: What does the product line consist of? |
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 Even though proteins important to supplement if you are not already eating a high protein diet, it is far more important to supplement trace minerals, macro minerals like magnesium, zinc and calcium; various vitamins including all the B vitamins; plus vitamins C, D and K. In addition, you need to supplement numerous phytonutrients, which means the medicine that comes from plants. Those include various carotenoids like beta keratin or zeaxanthin, lutein, anthocyanidins, Proanthocyanidins like those found in grape seeds or even Resveratrol found in grape skin. |
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| The other sources are all USP-grade vitamins; everything is checked before we even start blending; everything has a certificate of analysis. Let me give you an interesting perspective of how you can tell the difference between super-high quality and kind of low-end. I think we all recognize vitamin B12 as being critically important and hard to get. Most people have a tough time getting their B12. The vast majority of B12 on the market today is known as "cyanocobalamin," a toxic form of B12. |
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| These are typically not going to do you very much good, because your body doesn't need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. If you want vitamin C, go with whole-food concentrates. You'll get plenty of vitamin C in a full-spectrum package that gives you antioxidants, phytonutrients, and cancer fighting compounds all at the same time; and none of that is actually listed on the label. |
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| Many of the studies on vitamin E, by the way, were conducted on dying heart patients who were only expected to live two weeks, regardless of what they took.
A third way to distort the science is to confuse people with statistical obfuscation. The reporting on this particular study, for example, confuses absolute risk with relative risk. Vitamin A, according to the reports on this study, increased mortality risk by 16 percent. But that is a relative risk number, meaning that if 1 person out of 100 normally died, then 1. |
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