Michael Castleman
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 Chelation combines minerals with other substances, often amino acids. Proponents claim that chelation increases the amount of the minerals that actually gets absorbed into the bloodstream. They call this increased absorption rate bioavailability. Technically, the claim may be true, but ordinary minerals are absorbed just fine and don't need any help to get into your bloodstream.
Unless a health professional advises otherwise, steer clear of timed-release supplements. Timed-release products may not provide the steady flow of nutrients users expect. In some cases, they can even cause problems. |
Earl Mindell
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 B6, niacinamide, zinc, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin C to trigger the nighttime release of growth hormone. Peak secretion of G.H. is reached about 90 minutes after we fall asleep.
Natural growth hormone levels decrease as we grow older. Somewhere around age 50, G.H. production virtually stops completely. But by supplementing your diet with the amino acids and vitamins that stimulate release of growth hormone, production can be brought back up to the levels of a young adult. |
| THE DYNAMIC AMINO DUO: ORNITHINE & ARGININE
Ornithine and arginine, two of the amino acids involved in the release of human growth hormone, are among the most popular amino acid supplements today, essentially because they can help you slim down and shape up while you sleep (which is when G.H. is secreted). While some hormones encourage the body to store fat, growth hormone acts as a mobilizer of fat, helping you to not only look trimmer but have more energy as well. |
| They are vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C; calcium (for optimal protein utilization), magnesium (lost through workout sweating and essential for muscle relaxation), and branched chain amino acids (for repair and reconstruction). For extended energy to keep you going through workouts, some nutrients and foods are better man others. For instance: soybeans would be better for you than peas; wholewheat spaghetti better than white; beets preferable to carrots; grapefruit better than oranges, apples, or bananas.
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Marion Nestle
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 Protecting your heatth care rights The Nutritional Health Alliance (NHA) is an organized coalition of manufacturers, retailer, health cary professionals and concerned consumers who are committed lo protecting vour nutritional right to choose wellness over illness his coordinated effort promises to be the most
What the NHA is doing to protect your family's nutritional rights
^Preventing the FDA Task T Forte from undermining the Proxmire Law and attacking nutritional supplements such as herbs, amino acids and trace minerals.
^ Lobbying against l iR 3642ft. |
Earl Mindell
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| Supplements for Eating More and Gaining Less
The amino acids arginine and ornithine (see section 84) have been found to stimulate the pituitary gland to continue to produce growth hormone, which can rejuvenate your metabolism. While some hormones encourage the body to store fat, growth hormone acts as a mobilizer of fat, helping you to look trimmer and have more energy as well.
You can rejuvenate your metabolism while you sleep.
Best of all, you can rejuvenate your metabolism while you sleep because that's when growth hormone is secreted! |
Marion Nestle
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| The senator viewed as "frightening" FDA's 1993 supplement-labeling proposals; he said they meant that "purchase of high potency vitamins and minerals should be limited, access to herbal products should be restricted, and amino acids should be available only by prescription." The senator surely knew better—the proposals suggested doing so only when the products were labeled with unauthorized health claims—but he said, "If we let the FDA get away with this, next time it will be even easier for the agency to overregulate another industry. . . . |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 Vitamin B6 is necessary to convert the amino acids lysine and methionine into carnitine.
Recommended Usage—Nutritionists recommend 500 mg daily if you choose to supplement with this amino acid. As long as you make certain to eat the amount of complete protein required by your lean body mass for good health, you should have plenty of carnitine itself and its amino acid forerunners. You will find specific recommendations on calculating protein needs in the discussion on macronutrients on page 23. |
| As with carnitine, your body can produce taurine by remodeling other amino acids, especially cysteine and methionine.
Food Sources—Shellfish, especially clams and oysters; muscle meats, such as beef, chicken, and pork; milk; and eggs. Vegetables contain almost no taurine.
Functions in the Body—A growing infant requires taurine for normal development of its nervous system, its retina (the screen of the back of the eye onto which visual images focus), and its muscles. |
| The lining cells actively snatch up and absorb the amino acids, and voila! The mineral is smuggled in and absorbed without ever darkening the door of the ion channel.
Chelation of ionic minerals allows for better absorption without the risk of competition causing deficiencies in other minerals and better tolerance, because the negative amino acid charges balance out the positive charges on the mineral ion. What does that mean to you? That you will have less stomach upset from taking a chelated mineral than from an ionic one. |
| Recommendation: Take 99 mg daily.
• amino acids supply protein, which the body uses rapidly during times of stress. Recommendation: Visit your local natural foods store and purchase a free-form amino complex. Take according to the label.
• See also Immune System Health.
Herbal remedies
• Bilberry prevents destruction of cells throughout the body.
• Catnip is an antistress herb that also promotes sleep.
• To relax the nerves, use chamomile. It is a pleasant-tasting sleep aid.
• Hops eases nervousness and stress.
• To achieve a total mind-body relaxation, use kava kava. |
Marion Nestle
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| These are categorized as sources of energy (carbohydrate, fat, protein, alcohol); essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements; fiber; and water. Other nutrients also may be required under certain conditions. In addition, "phytochemical" substances in plant foods, although they are not considered essential (because people can live without them), may nevertheless protect the body against cancer and other diseases. A great deal of attention is focused on dietary fat, and Table 40 explains the different types. |
Ruth Winter
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 Of the twenty-two known amino acids, eight cannot be manufactured in the body in sufficient quantities to sustain growth health. These eight are called "essential" because they are necessary to maintain good health. A ninth, histidine, is thought to be necessary for growth only in childhood. Widely used in moisturizers and emollients because they are thought to help penetrate the skin. Certain amino acid deficiencies appear to have tumor-suppressing action. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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 Although amino acids are not considered important energy sources, BCAAs serve as important fuel sources for skeletal muscle during periods of metabolic stress. Under such conditions, BCAAs may promote protein synthesis, suppress protein catabolism and serve as substrates for gluconeogene-sis. BCAAs are mainly catabolized in skeletal muscle, stimulating the production of, among other substances, L-alanine and L-glutamine.
The BCAAs' possible anti-tardive dyskinesia activity may be accounted for, in part, by decreasing the availability of L-phenylalanine in the brain. |
| Branched-chain amino acids are sometimes used in enteral and parenteral feedings in the management of hepatic encephalopathy. They are also occasionally used enterally and parenterally in the management of extensive burns and other severe trauma conditions because of their possible anticatabolic action in these conditions.
L-leucine is also known as 2-amino-4-methylvaleric acid, alpha-aminoisocaproic acid and (S)-2-amino-4-methylpenta-noic acid. It is abbreviated as Leu or by its one letter abbreviation L. Its molecular formula is C6H13NO2, and its molecular weight is 131.17 daltons. |
Rebecca Wood
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 It has a unique surplus of two amino acids, methionine and tryptophan, which are usually lacking in popular vegetable protein foods.
Buying If purchasing hulled sesame seeds, purchase only those that have had their hulls mechanically removed. If the hulled seeds are not organic, you can assume that caustic lye was used to dehull them, thus denaturing nutrients and flavor. According to Paul Pitchford, overuse of hulled sesame seeds and hulled sesame products like tahini may contribute to liver and gallbladder stagnation. The whole seed is the healthful choice. |
Ruth Winter
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| There are more than forty nutrients, including minerals, vitamins, and the amino acids from proteins.
Additives are substances or mixture of substances other than basic foodstuffs present in food as a result of any aspect of production, processing, storage, or packaging. BHT and BHA are examples of preservatives and Red No. 3 is an example of a coloring. Some substances—vitamins E and C, for example—are both nutrients and additives. The two vitamins are sometimes added for their ability to retard rancidity.
Can you decipher the chemicals on the label? |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 You get enzymes, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and hundreds of other nutritional substances you need for a healthy, energetic body capable of handling stress and fighting off disease.
Go for the Whole Grains and Legumes
Grains such as wheat, corn, millet, barley, oats, quinoa, amaranth and rice are not only delicious, they contain a wonderful potpourri of nutrients, as well as fiber. Get reacquainted with whole grains. Try oatmeal or a whole-grain cereal or bread for breakfast. For lunch, have a salad on a bed of brown rice or millet. |
| Digestive enzymes are built from amino acids and vitamin or mineral cofactors or coenzymes. Zinc and magnesium are two of the most common digestive enzyme cof actors. The B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid and biotin, as well as the minerals molybdenum, manganese, copper, iron and selenium, play the role of coenzymes as well. Each time the enzyme does its job, it uses up its coenzyme, which then needs to be replaced. Eating foods rich in vitamins and minerals will insure that your digestive enzymes will be able to quickly reactivate. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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| ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
ACTIONS
The branched-chain amino acids may have antihepatic encephalopathy activity in some. They may also have anticatabolic and antitardive dyskinesia activity in some.
MECHANISM OF ACTION
It has been theorized that some of the symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy are due to the accumulation of false neurotransmitters in the brain resulting, in part, from alterations in plasma levels of BCAAs. BCAAs may improve encephalopathy symptoms in some by decreasing the accumulation of these false neurotransmitters and perhaps other substances involved in the encephalopathy. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Vitamin K, amino acids, calcium, folic acid, magnesium, potassium, vitamins B6, B12 can all be depleted.
What Else to Take If You Take These Drugs
Plenty of water! Supplements of the above. Take two hours after ingesting these drugs. Also, be sure to use probiotics during and after taking them (see natural alternatives at the end of this chapter).
Other Tips on These Drugs
If you are taking these drugs for a prolonged amount of time, your physician should periodically assess your kidney, liver function as well as your blood chemistry. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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| The catabolism of L-leucine, L-isoleucine and L-valine initially involves the same three reactions: the conversion of the amino acids to their corresponding alpha-keto acids; the conversion of the alpha-keto acids to their corresponding acyl-CoA thioesters and carbon dioxide; and the conversion of the acyl-CoA thioesters to their corresponding alpha, beta-unsaturated acyl-CoA thioesters. |
| Sulfite oxidase is involved in the degradative metabolism of the sulfur amino acids methionine , and cysteine. Sulfite oxidase, which is located in mitochondria, converts sulfite to sulfate. Sulfite is derived from the metabolism of cysteine. It also enters the body in the form of free sulfites which are used as food additives. Aldehyde oxidase is involved in a number of reactions, including the catabolism of pyrimidines and the biotransformation of xenobiotics. |
Rebecca Wood
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| B vitamins, but somewhat fV T§f|$v^|-^\ lower than others in pro-;& tl(p te*n' ^ conta^ns iron' Y1~ rWh \fw\ tamin E, amino acids,
I KtjTn. 7ft and linoleic acid. Short-Wa SM\ (my 8ram brown rice con-J/L wr^lw\ \ tains less protein but / IJ IW V more minerals; it is f h heartier and more strength-/ i/w ening than the long-grain.
Sweet, or glutinous, rice is more warming, higher in protein, and more easily digested than regular rice. It strengthens the kidneys, spleen-pancreas, and stomach.
Use Rice is unlike such cereal grains as barley, rye, and wheat. |
| It contains more than twenty different vitamins and minerals plus nineteen amino acids, including all of the essential amino and fatty acids. It is particularly rich in lysine and is one of the highest natural sources of chlorophyll. It is from 50 to 60 percent protein.
Use Chlorella, like other microalgae, is usually consumed as a dietary supplement. Due to its high processing costs, chlorella is one of the most expensive microalgae. It is available in pill and powder form.
See Wild Blue-Green Algae. |
| This corn boasts an improved balance of four critical amino acids (lysine, tryptophan, methionine, and cystine); it is superior in its protein profile to beans, milk, or beef. This new cornmeal has a sweet and nutty flavor. My preference, however, is for energetically superior, open-pollinated corn, rather than a hybridized variety. See Corn; Flour.
0 CORN OIL
A popular commercial oil, corn oil is a byproduct of the corn industry. It requires high-tech processing to extract the small (5 percent) amount of oil from corn. I don't recommend corn oil.
See Corn; Fat and Oil. |
| Miso is a concentrated protein source, which contains a rich amino-acid profile of the eight essential amino acids. Miso's protein content ranges from 12 to 20 percent, depending upon the kind. It is also low in fat but high in salt, thus used best in moderation. Miso reduces vata.
Use Miso may be used in place of Worcestershire sauce, salt, and soy sauce as a seasoning agent. Miso's most typical use is in soup, where it serves as a rich and flavorful bouillon, but it is also used in sauces, dressings, and even some desserts.
Before adding miso to a soup, thin it with soup stock. |
| Health Benefits Soy sauce and tamari are nutritious natural flavor enhancers and an excellent source of amino acids and glutamic acid. Because they are fermented, they enhance digestion. Plain salt contains two grams of sodium per teaspoon, while the same amount of natural soy sauce contains 286 milligrams of sodium, about a seventh as much.
In low-sodium circles, soy sauce has a bad name because of its high salt content. This reputation would be warranted if it was consumed by the glassful—which of course is not the case. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Foods rich in the amino acids tyrosine and tyramine such as aged cheeses, wine and chocolate, interfere with enzymes needed to metabolize sympathomimetic drugs such as beta agonists. Side effects of mixing these foods with beta agonists in sensitive people can include severe high blood pressure, intracranial bleeding, severe headache, chest pain, sweating, palpitations, changes in pulse rate, visual problems, breathing difficulties. In rare cases, coma can result.
Salmeterol (Serevent)
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Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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| CONTRAINDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, ADVERSE REACTIONS
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Branched-chain amino acids are contraindicated in those with the rare inborn errors of metabolism maple syrup urine disease and isovaleric acidemia. BCAAs are also contraindicated in those with hypersensitivity to any component of a BCAA-containing supplement.
PRECAUTIONS
Pregnant women and nursing mothers should avoid BCAA supplementation.
Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy, trauma and ALS or other diseases with BCAAs must only be done under qualified medical supervision. |
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