Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
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 Standards for dietary supplements, which are not as stringent as the standards for food additives, are controlled by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, regulated under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Proponents of stevia as a dietary supplement claim that it can lower blood pressure, strengthen the heart and vascular system, boost immunity, improve digestion, reduce weight, clear up skin problems, act as a contraceptive, and enhance youthfulness. Scanty evidence is available on the validity of these claims.
Stigmasterol (STIG-muh-STER-awl). |
Christopher Hobbs
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 If you have any doubt that people today need adaptogens and immune stimulants, perhaps even as regular dietary supplements, just take a look around. The modern environment is full of many new biological challenges created by the industrial and electronic revolutions. This is especially true given that most of these new challenges have popped up during the last hundred years, which is quite sudden in terms of the time it takes for the human body to evolve defense mechanisms. |
Jean Carper
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 Our natural remedies cannot be advertised or sold as such, but are marketed as food—as "dietary supplements." Thus you cannot even tell exactly what the product is designed to treat. The labels are forbidden to make "health claims," but may make only vague and meaningless claims that a product affects a "structure or function" of the body, such as "good for the eyes" or "good for the circulation. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 Some of these areas, such as finding meaning or purpose, making more room for humor, or becoming part of a community, are not as easy to come by as beginning a program of dietary supplements. But they're every bit as vital. And you can begin working in these areas while pursuing your vitamin program and other ways of strengthening your immune system.
Look carefully at the chapters that discuss the Ten Common Denominators of Illness. Start with the conditions that seem applicable to you, and follow the commonsense recommendations outlined in each chapter. |
| Chromium is lost in the refining of grains. dietary supplements of high-chromium brewer's yeast, if tolerated, have been shown to lower serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels and lift HDL levels. Chromium also boosts glucose tolerance, another important aspect of artery protection. Dosage: Take 200 micrograms of chromium a day, up to 1,000 micrograms, as part of a cholesterol-lowering regimen.
Selenium is another key element in preventing coronary heart disease. It's a part of the body's antioxidant arsenal. Treatment: Eat whole foods and take up to 250 micrograms a day. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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 I do not recommend taking dietary supplements that contain GLA unless you have cancer and are advised to do so by a physician. The Permanent Remissions Plan contains a healthy dose of a number of other friendly fats shown to be effective at preventing cancer and heart disease.
CLA
First isolated 10 years ago from hamburger, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) now appears to be present in almost all animal foods. The
--?-highest concentrations of CLA occur in red meats, milk, and cheese. CLA is formed during the cooking of foods. |
| This is often due to a decrease in estrogen with menopause and the body's declining ability to convert vitamin D to the hormonal form that controls calcium absorption from foods and dietary supplements. The elderly may also experience an increase in the production of parathyroid hormone, which can accelerate the loss of calcium from the bones.
Calcium absorption from most foods, including most vegetables and grains, is similar to that of milk. You can absorb only between 10% and 60% of the calcium in your diet. Only 20%-40% of the calcium in cow's milk is typically absorbed. |
| Women undergoing surgical and therapeutic treatment of breast cancer were given dietary supplements containing GLA plus megadoses of vitamins A, C, and E and the mineral selenium for 18 months following therapy. The women's clinical condition, extent of tumor spread, quality of life, and survival were followed during the trial. The main findings were:
1. None of the patients died during the study period (the expected number was four).
2. None of the patients showed signs of further metastases.
3. The patients' quality of life improved (no weight loss, decreased dependency on painkillers). |
| More research in this area is needed before we can draw any definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of carotene supplements, but one thing remains clear: dietary supplements can be used to augment a phytonutrient-rich diet but never to supplant it.
PYRAMID LEVEL ONE: CAROTENOID VEGETABLES
WHAT CAROTENOIDS DO
At least 20 major published studies demonstrate that people who eat foods with a high carotenoid content reduce their risk of cancer by 30%-50%. |
| Unlike synthetic beta-carotene dietary supplements, which contain no lycopene or any other natural carotenoids, these foods contain a spectrum of disease-fighting carotenes.
Tomatoes also contain the anticancer phytonutrients, p-coumaric acid, chlorogenic acid, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and ascorbic acid. This phytonutrient profile may explain why tomatoes lower the risk of cancers of the digestive tract and why people who eat a Mediterranean diet enjoy comparatively lower rates of these and other types of cancer. |
| Innovative Ways to Boost the Cancer ^Killing Power of Conventional Therapies
I'll show you how to enjoy phytonutrient-rich foods, phytofood products, special recipies, and dietary supplements that will augment the efficacy and safety of conventional medical therapies for cancer. Sadly, the vast majority of oncologists remain unaware that diet and nutrition play such a vital role in stopping cancer cells from growing and spreading. Many cancer specialists don't know, for example, that the type of fat that you eat can radically alter the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 Follow the suggestions under Dietary Guidelines, above, and take appropriate dietary supplements.
Meniere's Disease
Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that causes intermittent episodes of vertigo (dizziness and loss of balance) that may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, hearing loss, sound distortion, a feeling of pressure or fullness in the ear, and, possibly, a sensation of buzzing or ringing in the ear. Making sudden movements often adds to the vertigo, and you may become so dizzy that you require help to walk or remain standing. |
American Medical Publishing
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| Vitamin A
Vitamin A is found in several forms in dietary supplements. Preformed vitamin A (vitamin A acetate and vitamin A palmitate) has well-recognized toxicity when consumed at levels of 25,000 International Units (IU) per day, or higher. (Beta-carotene does not have the potential for adverse effects that the other forms of vitamin A do, because high intakes of beta-carotene are converted to vitamin A in the body at much lower levels). |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
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 The National Academy of Sciences outlined the tests which a substance or element must pass before being called an essential nutrient: "First, it should be possible to demonstrate repeated and significant responses in growth or health to dietary supplements of the element and to the element alone; second, it should be possible to develop a deficiency state on diets that lack the element but that are otherwise adequate and satisfactory. Such diets should contain all other known dietary essentials in adequate amounts. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Use dietary supplements. Lecithin (a phospholipid) and the sulfur-containing L-taurine and L-methionine amino acids are compounds that will promote bile circulation, which enhances estrogen's excretion out of the body. These lipotropic formulas support the liver metabolism of estrogen. A typical formula might provide the following, sometimes in a base of liver-stimulating herbs like milk thistle, black radish, beet, or dandelion, for twice-daily consumption: choline (a concentrated form of lecithin), 500 milligrams; inositol, 250 milligrams; taurine, 250 milligrams; methionine, 250 milligrams. |
American Medical Publishing
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| Be advised that herbal and other botanical ingredients of dietary supplements include processed or unprocessed plant parts (bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and stems), as well as extracts and essential oils. They are available in a variety of forms, including water infusions (teas), powders, tablets, capsules, and elixirs, and may be marketed as single substances or in combination with other materials, such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and non-nutrient ingredients. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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| Preventing and Treating Sugar Disease
Diet and dietary supplements play a principal role in preventing and treating sugar disease. Behavioral factors such as exercise also play an important part. Let's look at some of the key areas of prevention.
Do You Have Sugar Disease? -c3sO-
1. Do you have an elevated waist-to-hip ratio? Get a tape measure and measure your waist and hips. Feel for your hipbones on the side to locate the hip, measure them, then measure your waist and calculate the ratio. If it's greater than 1.0 for men or 0.8 for women, you may have a problem. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
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 Seniors in particular may benefit from food sources of vitamin D, such as fortified milk or dietary supplements.
Hormones
Estrogen has a powerful stimulating effect on the bone-making cells (osteoblasts). When a woman's estrogen levels drop after menopause (either natural or surgical), bone formation slows down. If a young woman stops menstruating—sometimes as the result of an eating disorder—the associated lack of estrogen can prevent her bones from growing properly.
Exercise
Physical impact and weight-bearing exercise stimulates bone formation. |
American Medical Publishing
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| Ephedrine alkaloids in dietary supplements are usually derived from one of several species of herbs of the genus Ephedra, sometimes called Ma huang, Chinese Ephedra and epitonin. Other botanical sources include Sida cordifolia. Ephedrine alkaloids, as they are known, are amphetamine-like compounds with potentially powerful stimulant effects on the nervous system and heart. Hundreds of consumer illnesses and injuries associated with the use of these products have been reported. |
| When marketed as dietary supplements, amino acids are sold as single compounds, in combinations of two or more amino acids, as components of protein powders, as chelated single compounds, or in chelated mixtures. Amino acids are promoted for a variety of uses, including body-building. Some are promoted for claimed pharmacologic effects. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 In modern times dietary supplements like evening primrose oil and grape seed have further blurred the distinction. Other tonics are more dynamic, notably some of those used in Chinese medicine, particularly the yang tonics like Trigonella (fenugreek) and Eucommia and the qi tonics like Panax ginseng (asiatic ginseng): these move beyond the simply sustaining towards their own contraindications in the very debilitated. |
| The growth of human breast carcinoma xenografts was studied in mice treated with dietary supplements of EPO and fish oil and compared to controls. Animals in the treatment group developed tumours which were significantly smaller than controls.35
Hypotensive effects
Vegetable oils including sunflower oil, linseed oil and EPO enhanced the hypotensive effect of antihypertensive drugs (dihydralazine, clonidine and captopril) in rats under experimental conditions.36 Hypertension induced in rats was reversed by the addition of DGLA (5.0%) to the diet. |
| Anaphylaxis was attributed to a woman with allergy after taking, among other dietary supplements, a commercial extract of E. purpurea and E. angustifolia.83 However, it was suggested that the pharyngeal irritation experienced by the patient may have been due to the alky-lamide content of the preparation (the patient took twice the recommended amount).84
OVERDOSE
Not known. |
| As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the pre-market safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions.
In Australia, herbal medicines are subject to federal legislation, defined by the Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulations, and State and Territories legislation reflected in the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP). |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 Today, oil of oregano, Oreganol caps, and Oregamax caps are among the most sought after dietary supplements known. The discovery will serve humanity forever, since wild oregano is one of the most potent and safe of all natural antiseptics and since few if any natural compounds can match its efficacy. Note that any reference to oil of oregano refers to the high quality mountainous wild oregano produced by NAHS. No responsibililty is taken for those who utilize other or inferior products. The NAHS wild oregano products are guaranteed wild. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| In the USA, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated dietary supplements (including herbal medicines) as foods within the 1958 Food Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). 'Generally Recognized As Safe' (GRAS) for human consumption was a rating provided by this legislation. GRAS status for a herbal product implies general recognition of its safety based on long-term and/or widespread traditional use without significant side effects. The GRAS status listed in the monographs includes herbs and components listed in Sect. 582. |
American Medical Publishing
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| Phenylalanine
A number of illnesses, including those similar to the eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS) associated with Ltryptophan consumption, have been reported to FDA in individuals using dietary supplements containing phenylalanine. There are also published reports of scleroderma/scleroderma-like illnesses, which have symptoms similar to EMS, occurring in children with poorly controlled blood phenylalanine levels, as well as in those with phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize phenylalanine.
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Richard Lucas
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How Lecithin Is Used
As dietary supplements, generally one tablespoonful of granular soybean lecithin is taken twice daily and one or two tablespoonfuls of soybean oil are taken daily. The granules may be used in any number of ways; e.g., stirred in juices, sprinkled over cereals, and added to meat or vegetable dishes. The oil may be used over salads and as cooking oil.
Proper diet is also stressed. Animal fats should be avoided because they have a high prevalence of cholesterol. Foods fried in deep fat or prepared with saturated fats should be greatly reduced or competely cut out. |
Andrew L. Stoll
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 Most fish oil sold as dietary supplements comes from the muscles of the fish, which have much lower vitamin A levels than the liver. I advise not using cod liver oil or the oil from any other fish liver as a source of omega-3 fatty acids.
Impaired Platelet Function
Platelets are in the bloodstream to help with blood clotting if an injury occurs. At the site of tissue injury, chemicals of the inflammatory process are released, which cause the platelets to clump together and start the process of wound healing. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Out of all the therapies tried in ALS patients, the most successful have been those using antioxidants, such as vitamin E, and dietary supplements that increase cellular glutathione levels.
It has been shown that when individuals with ALS are given large doses of L-leucine (one of the branched chained amino acids) they significantly improve their neurological function and the progress of the disease is slowed. It is known that L-leucine is an important inducer of the glutamate inactivating enzyme GDH. |
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