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Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra See book keywords and concepts

Although L-carnitine can be manufactured by the body, adequate quantities of the amino acids lysine and methionine are required for L-carnitine synthesis. A deficiency of L-carnitine may result in a fatty liver, a weakened immune system, muscle wasting, and perhaps even heart failure. ENZYMES Papain and Bromelain—Papain is an extract of papaya, and bromelain is an extract of pineapple. They not only aid in digestion, but also have been reported to reduce soreness and speed healing of bruises and swelling after minor trauma. Bromelain also acts to help with the absorption of quercetin.

More advanced antiaging therapies include the use of hormones, amino acids, and powerful antioxidants. Later in this chapter, I will give you my prescription for health, healing, and longevity which combines all of these therapies. Previously in this book, I discussed important health maintainers. I also spoke about cholesterol levels, preferably with low LDL and high HDL as positive markers. I also discussed iron overload and the harmful effects of homocysteine. But there are also two other exciting markers of health.

These amino acids can be taken on an empty stomach, one hour prior to exercise, or before sleep. You can find these nutrients in almost any health food store, and there are no side effects at the recommended doses of 1 to 2 grams each. For an excellent book on HGH, I would suggest Grow Young with HGH by Dr. Ronald Klatz. A STRATEGY OF PREVENTION The search for the fountain of youth has been going on for centuries. Today, people are especially concerned with delaying the process of aging. In my mind, the best method for halting disease and delaying aging is prevention.

If we do not consume foods with enough of the essential amino acids, the body may be unable to produce the protein it requires for healthy functioning. We all have read signs, particularly in elementary school cafeterias, with statements such as "Eating meat builds strong muscles." This is because meat is considered to be one of the best sources of protein. Unfortunately, meat also contains considerable quantities of hidden fat. Other complete protein sources include dairy products, eggs, fish, and poultry.

If the body does not take in sufficient protein and a correct balance of amino acids each day, then it will take what it needs from its own muscles. Yes, the body will find a way to produce protein—but it does not distinguish skeletal muscle from heart muscle. Therefore, overzealous fasting and dieting may lead to deterioration of the heart muscle, making a person susceptible to arrhythmias and perhaps even sudden death. In our hospital weight loss program, for example, we were particularly careful to maintain the minimum daily protein requirement for each individual.

Vegetable sources of protein, though highly desirable, are often deficient in one or more of the essential amino acids. Thus vegetarians may need to supplement their diets with dairy products or consume certain combinations of foods to make complete proteins. Excellent vegetable sources of protein as well as carbohydrates include legumes (such as beans, peas, and lentils) and grains. Carbohydrates make up the largest source of calories in our diet and should be the major source of nutrients. They are the primary energy storage molecules found in most living organisms.

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Bronson Pharmaceuticals carries a full line of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Write: Bronson Pharmaceuticals, 4526 Rinetti Lane, La Canada, CA 91011-0628. Tel: #818-790-2646. Twin Laboratories, Inc. carries a full line of vitamins, minerals, and nutritional supplements. They carry DMAE-H3, which is a vitamer of choline. Write: Twin Laboratories, Inc., 2120 Smithtown Avenue, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779. Tel: #800-624-0391. The Princeton Brain Bio Center is an outpatient clinic and research center, which treats a full range of diseases and preventive nutritional medicine.

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The fragments from the amino acids are then sent to be used for making glycogen if the body needs glycogen and doesn't have readily available glucose, or they are sent into the part of the body's organs where fatty acids are made. So the excess protein very readily can end up as fat. The fat is de novo fat, i.e., fat newly made by the body, so it is saturated fat. How Does the Digestion and Absorption of Fat Happen? When fat is eaten, it must first be digested before it can be absorbed through the intestinal wall.

Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry Carl C. Pfeiffer See book keywords and concepts

The recently discovered glucose tolerance factor (GTF), which contains chromium, B3, and three amino acids, is essential for the proper functioning of insulin and is necessary for proper carbohydrate metabolism. Brewer's yeast is the best known natural source of GTF. When any of the mechanisms involved in blood glucose regulation becomes affected by disease or begins functioning poorly, the result is a lack of balance between glucose, insulin, and insulin antagonists. If too much insulin and/or too few insulin antagonists are produced, the result is chronic low blood sugar.

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Nutritional supplementation with amino acids has also been shown to raise growth hormone levels. In a study (to be published) that I conducted, an interesting nutritional product, Gammanol Forte (manufactured by Biotics Research: 1-800-437-1298), was shown to raise growth hormone levels by over 45% in women. Growth Hormone Dosages and Recommendations Human growth hormone is given in injectable form. It is given in doses of 0.05-1.5 I.U. per day in a subcutaneous injection, which is similar to an insulin injection.

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They do have a multivitamin without copper, which is recommended highly: Ziman Fortified. Write: Willner Chemists, Inc., 330 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Tel: #212-685-2538. Bronson Pharmaceuticals carries a full line of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Write: Bronson Pharmaceuticals, 4526 Rinetti Lane, La Canada, CA 91011-0628. Tel: #818-790-2646. Twin Laboratories, Inc. carries a full line of vitamins, minerals, and nutritional supplements. They carry DMAE-H3, which is a vitamer of choline. Write: Twin Laboratories, Inc., 2120 Smithtown Avenue, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779.

Teenagers Body growth and the hormone surge at puberty make the greatest demands of the lifetime on minerals, vitamins, and amino acids. These demands are not met by junk foods or by standard vitamins and minerals, which are high in copper, and low in zinc and manganese, and devoid of selenium and molybdenum. Teenagers may need Ziman Fortified or Vicon Plus, plus selenium and molybdenum. These two preparations are designed to give adequate zinc, manganese, and vitamins, but no copper, which is abundant in drinking water. Extra vitamin C and B6 may sometimes be needed.

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Kruzel recommends talking to your doctor before you begin taking these amino acids. Raynaud^ If you have Raynaud's disease, your hands overreact to cold, and your feet may, too. Stepping outdoors on a wintry day, you feel as if all your fingers or toes go numb instantly. Odder still, the numbness can assault your fingers even if you're just rummaging around in the freezer for a package of frozen carrots. When you look at your numb toes or fingers, they appear dead white, as if all the blood had left them.

The use of individual amino acids in large doses is considered experimental, and the long-term effects on health are unknown. High doses of arginine may cause nausea and diarrhea. People who have genital herpes should not take arginine because it may increase herpes outbreaks. Also, don't take arginine and lysine at the same time, as they can interfere with each other. Cysteine in high doses can cause kidney stones in people who have cystinuria, and it can inactivate insulin, so use caution if you have diabetes.

It happens when we break down carbohydrates for energy, when we use amino acids that come from protein, and when we use fats for energy. So biotin is working all over our bodies, all the time. It is critical for good health. Are You Absorbing This? Luckily, most people never become deficient in biotin. Among adults, people who are most likely to be deficient are those with absorption problems. People who have Crohn's disease, an intestinal disorder, may be deficient because they don't absorb enough biotin from food. Some infants have a genetic inability to use biotin.

Avoid the form called glucose tolerance factor (GTF), a combination of chromium, nicotinic acid, and amino acids, which may vary so much in composition that it is not a reliable source. Who's at risk for deficiency: People who eat large amounts of refined sugar and carbohydrates and those who have diabetes, are insulin resistant, or are fighting infection or recovering from injuries. Good food sources: Broccoli, turkey, ham, and grape juice.

Some of the chromium found in brewer's yeast is thought to be glucose tolerance factor, a combination of chromium, nicotinic acid (a form of niacin), and amino acids. If you're supplementing with brewer's yeast simply because of its chromium content, though, you might want to take a chromium supplement instead, suggests Dr. Anderson. "With brewer's yeast, you don't know what you're getting, because the nutritional quality varies from batch to batch and supplier to supplier," he cautions. Dr.

In some cases, magnesium simply provides the energy needed for the body to link together the molecules of amino acids that make up a protein or the fatty acids that make up fat and cell membranes. At other times, it helps change the shapes of molecules so that they can bind together. In the case of genetic material, magnesium molecules bind to the "backbone" of the famous double-stranded DNA helix, helping to stabilize its structure and maintain order. This is important since each cell uses DNA as the blueprint for reproducing itself or parts of itself.

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Sugars, some amino acids, and small fatty acids are easily oxidized, whereas saturated large-chain fatty acids are not. Cancer cells actually make less mitochondria than the corresponding "normal" cell. This is why fat may actually decrease cancer, because adequate supplies of fat may ensure that mitochondria are "happy" and the cell will see no reason to change its course. There also are various levels of fermentation and respiration in cancer cells.

The body can make glucose from amino acids obtained from proteins, or it can start with pyruvate. The signals to begin gluconeogenesis are sent out when glucose levels in the diet drop to low enough levels and the supply of glycogen in the liver is used up. Gluconeogenesis functions to bridge the gap until energy can be obtained from stored fat. With today's high-carbohydrate food intake, fat usage for energy is diminished. After reducing carbohydrates, it can take some time for the body to switch over to primarily using fat for energy.

Homocysteine is not used directly in proteins; rather, it is an intermediate substance that can be converted into the amino acids methionine or cysteine, both of which are used directly in proteins. In 1933, a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital noted clinical features in an eight-year-old boy that suggested the child had died from arteriosclerosis—a most unusual situation. After many years of medical detective work, Dr. Kilmer McCully, an American researcher and pathologist, was able to put together the pieces of this intriguing puzzle.

This is probably a reference to data published many years ago, which indicated if someone already has a kidney disease, then amino acids can exacerbate the condition. Nowhere have we found any evidence that kidney function suffers from a low-carbohydrate diet. On the contrary, as we have shown by direct measurements on people, uric acid in the blood decreases when low-carbohydrate diets are employed. Furthermore, recent studies indicate no benefit of a low-protein diet for children who have an existing kidney disease.28 We have also presented one alternate theory of heart disease.

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Fortunately, my colleagues and I have discovered in our research the exact amount of protein that can be consumed with carbohydrates without causing a buildup of amino acids in the blood. The ratio is one part protein to five parts carbohydrates. For instance, if you eat one ounce of turkey, eat five ounces of stuffing along with it; eat one meatball for five ounces of spaghetti; just moisten your breakfast cereal with milk, rather than immersing it.

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Branched chain amino acids will be used intravenously instead of glucose in hospitals. 13. Tyrosine and phenylalanine will be the treatment of choice in depressed patients. 14. More trace elements may be found, such as boron for plants and iodine for animals. A great event was the beginning of speech in the porpoise and humans. Perhaps a comparative study of speech areas of the brains of these two species may show involvement of a specific trace element.

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Along with bugs and bacteria, food irradiation destroys important nutrients including vitamins A, E, K, and B complexes, essential amino acids, fats, and enzymes. With irradiation, not a single component of the original whole food remains chemically unchanged.8 ?Food irradiation kills some, but not all, harmful bacteria. Anatoxin, a carcinogenic substance which develops from food molds, is produced in greater quantities in irradiated food. The bacteria which causes botulism, the most fatal form of food poisoning, is not killed, but its natural enemies are.

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The availability of tryptophan and tyrosine in the brain is a major factor in determining the rate at which vital neurotransmitters are produced; within one hour after a meal moods can change according to the rise and fall of these two amino acids in the blood.) An essential amino acid (found in cheese, meat, milk, and eggs) necessary for the manufacture and release of the brain's antidepressants dopamine and norepinephrine. pretzels, sugared cereals, and junk foods) deplete your body of mood-regulating nutrients.

ABOUT YEAST Yeast is an excellent source of protein, a superior source of the natural B-complex vitamins (with the exception of B12, which is bred only into fortified nutritional yeast), organic iron, trace minerals, and amino acids. But like other protein foods, yeast is high in phosphorus, which means that to reap its benefits without jeopardizing your health you should be adding extra calcium to your diet. Too much phosphorus, in case you have forgotten, can take calcium out of the body.

These can be obtained in liquid or powdered form and are derived from soybeans, which contain all the essential amino acids. Available without carbohydrates or fats, these supplements generally supply 26 g of protein per ounce (2 tablespoons), about the equivalent of a 3-ounce T-bone steak. Look for formulas modeled after naturally occurring proteins so that you can get the proper therapeutic value. CAUTION It is dangerous for any supplement to be used in place of food on a regular basis, taken in megadoses, or substituted for medication without the advice of a physician.

They lack certain essential amino acids and are not used efficiendy when eaten alone, which might account for their being widely—but erroneously—believed to be (a) optional, (b) fattening, and (c) wholesome when eaten in small amounts. PUTTING PROTEIN IN PERSPECTIVE ?Complete proteins generally have more fat than incomplete proteins. ?Incomplete proteins combined with rice, corn, or grains can become wholesome, low-fat complete proteins. ?Mixing complete and incomplete proteins can give you better nutrition than having either one alone! 108. Why Not a Low-Fat Chicken in Every Pot?

ASPARTAME Technically not an "artificial" sweetener because it is composed of two amino acids (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) that are natural components of many common proteins, aspartame contains as many calories per gram as sugar (4 g) but is about two hundred times sweeter, so much smaller amounts are needed. It is considered safe by the FDA and AMA except for persons suffering from phenylketonuria (PKU), an inherited inability to metabolize phenylalanine that can lead to severe retardation.

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