Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 If a patient presents with hypomanic symptoms when taking buspirone, inquire about the use of nonprescription medicines, herbs, and dietary supplements. It is recommended to avoid Gingko in patients taking buspirone, especially in combination with other psychotropic medicines.
Insulin: Theoretically, Ginkgo may alter insulin requirements. Ginkgo increased fasting insulin levels in healthy subjects, though blood glucose levels were not affected (Kudolo, 2000). Clinical Management: Caution is advised if Ginkgo is taken with insulin. |
Mark Sircus
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 The United Nation's Codex Alimentarius commission actually is staffed by people in the medical community whose main goal is to block our access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range, as well as to all the most innovative dietary supplements, especially food based products, and even to organic food. If they have their way we will only be able to buy at highly inflated prices ?with a doctor's prescription ?low levels of vitamins and minerals.
Allopathic philosophy ignores the idea or concept of nutritional deficiency. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Some herbal or other dietary supplements, such as ginkgo, ginger, fish oil, and garlic, can also increase the chances of getting black-and-blue marks. These bruises can also signal nutritional
. . . , , , r • sign of the times deficiencies, such as a lack or vitamin C, K, or B|2, folic acid, or bioflavonoids (a compound found most commonly in citrus and other fruits as well as some vegetables).
Frequent or unexplained bruising can be a warning sign of some serious systemic conditions, especially leukemia. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 You could buy bottles of dietary supplements and try to do your best to replicate what a healthy diet contains, but isn't eating food that contains all of the building blocks of health naturally a lot simpler and better-tasting? Bottom line—no dietary supplement on the market today comes close to providing the life-saving properties of the 101 foods. Proper supplementation can play an important role in maintaining or improving health but it doesn't compare to the healing-power capacity of food! Each food group serves an important function in the body, keeping you healthy and strong. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What, specifically, would the role of the Foundation be with respect to dietary supplements?
SEN. KENNEDY: Let me make absolutely clear that the Reagan-Udall Foundation will in no way override, overturn or conflict with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Nothing in this bill would have that effect.
SEN. ENZI: Yes, we took great pains to make certain there would be no conflict with DSHEA. |
| This bill authorizes the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods. This problem in the wording can be corrected with this simple amendment -- so as to be sure this legislation is about drugs and drug safety only. |
| As I have been reporting for the last week, language relating to the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA creates a new regulatory category and broadens FDA power in a way that can be used to attack dietary supplements. In response to this devious threat, Jonathan Emord, our nation's leading health freedom attorney, prepared amendment language to nullify the threat -- an amendment we now call The People's Amendment. Many of you flooded the Senate with your objections -- AND YOUR VOICE IS BEING HEARD. |
| HARKIN: So, to make this absolutely clear, what you are saying is that the bill we are debating would in no way interfere with consumers' access to dietary supplements?
SEN. HATCH: To add to that point, it seems that the language could, in fact, help dietary supplement consumers, because it would allow collaboration between government and industry to conduct research on issues that might be helpful to supplement consumers?
SEN. KENNEDY: Yes, that is the case.
SEN. ENZI: I agree with Chairman Kennedy's assessment.
SEN. HATCH: I thank you for those assurances and that clarification.
SEN. |
| This is a major breakthrough -- Kennedy and Enzi are now on record stating this will in no way affect our dietary supplements. And Hatch and Harkin are on record as being concerned. There are still two problems. 1) Kennedy and Enzi are hard to trust, based on all the Big Pharma loopholes built into their bill. 2) The FDA and its lawyers get to interpret what S1082 means once it becomes law. The FDA could care less what Kennedy or Enzi intended to say. Until the language is fixed it is a problem of magnitude.
Major Problem #4 -- The Creation of FDA, Inc. |
Bill Sardi
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 The greatest advances in cancer prevention lie in the hands of the patients — via smoking cessation, plant food diets and informed use of dietary supplements - not in the hands of doctors.
About half of newly diagnosed cancer patients have metastatic cancer that has spread to other organs and tissues and oncologists (cancer doctors) concede there is no proven treatment for advanced-stage cancer. By then a quick fix is impossible. Treatment is rendered because patients and their families demand it, but with little hope for cure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The present concern is that the bill will pass with ambiguous language that could allow its regulatory powers to threaten free access to dietary supplements and functional foods. While the bill's supporters claim there is no such language contained in the bill that would subject foods and supplements to new FDA regulations, they nonetheless refuse to support the food and supplement protection amendments authored by Jonathan Emord (a high-profile attorney specializing in FDA regulatory law) and generally supported by the health freedom movement.
While S. |
Bill Sardi
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| While a revolution is underway in natural cancer remedies, backed by solid science, alternative medicine clings to archaic cancer treatments of the past, seemingly oblivious to the fact we now live in an era of genetic medicine where foods and dietary supplements can switch cancer genes off better than any prescription medicine.
For the first time in history, cancer patients have more powerful molecules at their direct disposal than any therapies pharmaceutical companies could even think of developing. |
Dan Buettner
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 At the University of Minnesota, Greg taught medical students the science of herbal medicines and dietary supplements as well as issues in cross-cultural clinical care. There, he was also the principal investigator of the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the West of a Kampo formula. He obtained FDA approval to import and study in human volunteers keishi bukuryo gan, an 1,800-year-old remedy consisting of four herbs and a mushroom for treating menopausal hot flashes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| What, specifically, would the role of the Foundation be with respect to dietary supplements?
Mr. KENNEDY. Let me make absolutely clear that the Reagan-Udall Foundation will in no way override, overturn or conflict with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Nothing in this bill would have that effect.
Mr. ENZI. Yes, we took great pains to make certain there would be no conflict with DSHEA. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I am sure you and other Senators were not intending to create such concern among the 150 million Americans who rely on dietary supplements to assist their health, and this matter is easily corrected with a simple amendment.
Proposed amendment to S1082:
"The bill, S1082, is hereby amended to eliminate any reference to the terms food or food ingredients within Subtitle B - Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, such that food and food ingredients will not be subject to any jurisdiction or control by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Under the provisions establishing that registry, reports of adulterated foods would be made by many, if not all, of the same parties who are required to file reports of serious adverse events associated with the use of dietary supplements under Public Law 109-462. And so passage of the Durbin amendment could be seen to supersede the law we enacted last year for supplements, which I am relieved to hear was not the intent of our colleague, Senator Durbin. |
| It is for this reason that the language of the original Durbin amendment establishing a new adulterated food registry could have been read to apply to dietary supplements.
This raised problems for me, and indeed for our colleague Senator Harkin, since we had spent more than 2 years working with Senators Durbin, Kennedy, and Enzi to draft, pass and enact the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 109-462. |
| While Enzi refused to change the language, we created such an uproar that assurances are officially in the Congressional Record that this legislation is not to be used to harass dietary supplements.
And we headed off a potential attack by Durbin -- who for some reason is always trying to get vitamins classified as drugs (more safety hypocrisy). Key to this effort was myself writing for NewsWithViews.com, Mike Adams writing for NewsTarget.com, and John Hammell of the International Advocates for Health Freedom. Support also came from many other groups who forwarded the message. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 LLC, a company that tests dietary supplements, says that the sample of Zantrex-3 it tested in 2005 contained 1,223 mgs of caffeine. That's more than 36 cans of Classic Coke® or 12 shots of espresso.24
While caffeine is a mild diuretic (what a lot of dieters use to get rid of that extra water weight), it is also a cardiac stimulant that gives you a boost of energy. An addictive substance, it stimulates your brain in the same way cocaine and heroin do. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Enzi has refused to place the Emord amendment into the legislation, insisting that dietary supplements are not threatened by the language (which is false).
Following the Senate vote, the battle will move to the house and then to a conference committee.
Hatch and Kennedy are already on record saying they will seek to add a biologic drug pathway for approval as an amendment in the conference committee. This will dovetail with the Reagan Udall Foundation and will lock in the Big Pharma-Big Biotech monopoly for the next 50 years. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Sterols and stanols are also available in dietary supplements. The supplement forms of phytosterols are advantageous in that they do not require refrigeration, are convenient to take, and are largely calorie free.
Dietary sterols include sitosterol, campe-sterol, and stigmasterol. Soybean oil is the principal source of sterol esters, followed by canola, sunflower, and corn oils. Sterols reduce total cholesterol levels and LDL cholesterol because they are natural competitors of cholesterol absorption and resorption.
Plant Sterols and Stanols
Average dose of 3. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Dietary supplements are required to list all ingredients on the label including the name and quantity of each ingredient. But is that enough? Neal Spruce says, "Quality is only assured when using a manufacturer with a registered pharmaceutical license with good manufacturing practices in place. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 But while the fructose found in berries, melons, apples, and some root vegetables is naturally occurring and therefore more healthy for you, "the fructose that Americans get from processed foods and beverages, as well as pharmaceuticals, flavors, cosmetics, and dietary supplements, is not derived from fruit," Bianchi explains. "Instead, the fructose typically is chemically refined from corn in the United States. The reason people get confused is because fructose sounds like it's from fruit. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Along with intelligent food preparation/cooking methods that reduce dietary glycotoxin ingestion, there are several dietary supplements that can be a helpful part of an antiglycation strategy.
Benfotiamine
Glycotoxins damage your body at both the macrovascular and microvascular level. To help protect yourself against the damaging consequences of glycation, there's one supplement that is especially important: benfotiamine. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 HIV-infected persons frequently use herbal remedies and dietary supplements along with conventional therapies.36 Because garlic is one of the dietary supplements most commonly used by the HIV-positive population, the effect of garlic on the pharmacokinetics of saquinavir, a protease inhibitor, was studied, and the latter's plasma pharmacokinetic parameters were given.37 In the presence of garlic, the plasma concentration of saquinavir during an eight-hour dosing interval decreased by 51 percent, and the mean maximum concentration (Cmax) decreased by 54 percent. |
Bottom Line Health
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| To learn more about vitamin D, visit the National Institutes of Health's Office of dietary supplements at http://ods.od.nih.gov/fact sheets/vitamind.asp.
Women Still Missing Critical Folic Acid
Tsunenobu Tamura, MD, professor of nutrition science, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Kathleen Yadrick, PhD, professor of nutrition and food systems, University of Southern Mississippi, Hat-tiesburg.
Siobhan Dolan, MD, associate medical director, March of Dimes. |
| For example, certain dietary supplements can increase the action of blood-thinning medications, thinning the blood to dangerous levels, she says.
If your doctor isn't comfortable with an alternative or complementary approach that you feel strongly about, you still have options, Black-man maintains. Either find a new physician or continue seeing your doctor, alerting him/her about your decision to use the complementary or alternative approach. Then, you can consult someone else who is knowledgeable about the alternative therapy.
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| Many natural remedies are effective, inexpensive and safe. dietary supplements, herbs and simple lifestyle changes are available for most health problems*
Important: Some natural remedies can bring immediate relief, but others may take weeks. Be prepared to wait up to one month before you feel the full effect.
To see what works best for you, try one of the following remedies, available in health-food stores, for two weeks. If you don't begin to see a beneficial effect during that time, try a different remedy for the condition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So we have a conspiratorial trio now working in concert to keep you stupid and diseased: The mainstream media (which takes billions of dollars each year from drug companies), the drug companies (which earn billions of dollars each year selling advertised drugs), and the FDA (which enforces the monopoly and eliminates competition by censoring truthful information about dietary supplements). It is this trio which explains why Americans now pay the highest prices in the world for health care and yet are simultaneously the most diseased people of any industrialized nation in the world. |
Bottom Line Health
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| To learn more about vitamin D, visit the — National Institutes of Health's Office of dietary supplements Web site at www.ods.od. nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp.
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Are Cheap Vitamins as Potent as Expensive Ones?
Any brand of a single vitamin, such as vitamin C, is usually fine, but the potency varies among brands of multivitamins. Some less expensive brands, such as Wal-Mart's Spring Valley, are well-made, but some supermarket and drugstore brands may not be as reliable.
Name brands that are made by divisions of major pharmaceutical companies usually deliver what they claim. |
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