| Factors, such as type of malignancy, as well as the nature of the cytotoxic chemical and even the time of day the agents are administeted, appear to influence outcome (please consult the protocol Cancer: Should Patients Take dietary supplements to learn more about the advisability of antioxidant therapy during conventional treatments).
To its ctedit, lipoic acid appears able to counter the hearing loss and deafness that often accompanies cisplatin therapy. |
| We have prepared the chart above to summarize recommendations on the basic dietary supplements and suggested doses for cancer prevention and adjuvant treatment:
In addition to the agents listed in this chart, a number of othet potential adjuvant approaches are discussed in this protocol. For long-term control of cancer, some cancer patients attempt to incorporate as many of these adjuvant approaches as are tolerable and affordable. Othets pick and choose which drugs, hormones, and supplements they want to consume over the long term. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 An example recently was an article with a headline, "Despite known hazards, many potentially dangerous dietary supplements continue to be used." This particular article was written by a medical doctor who was on the payroll of the drug industry. It is not news, it is not true, it is not accurate, and it is not unbiased journalism. It is a debunking campaign put out by the pharmaceutical industry to get people away from excellent, safe and effective natural remedies, and to continue to be brainwashed into believing drugs are the only answer for illness and disease. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 As will be described later in this protocol, certain dietary supplements have also been shown to interfere with angiogenesis.
At the time of this writing, a number of animal studies suggested that chemotherapy drugs could work better if the dosing schedule were changed. Human studies are ongoing, meaning it will be difficult to convince an oncologist to incorporate metronomic dosing instead of the standard MTD. |
| However, it is difficult to obtain enough choline in dietary supplements. Adults can obtain high potencies of choline and other nutrients for the brain in a product called Cognitex. Children may have to rely on choline powders with an unpleasant taste. DMAE is a more convenient way for some children to obtain acetylcholine precursors.
4- DMAE helps accelerate synthesis of acetylcholine. Adults: Begin at a low dose of 100 mg in the morning and 100 mg in the evening on an empty stomach, gradually building up to 500 mg twice daily. |
| Our primary treatment objective for either OA or RA is to suppress the known proinflammatory factors (PGE2, TNF-alpha, IL-lb, LTB4, and IL-6) through a combination of diet, dietary supplements, and, if necessary, certain prescription drugs.
OA is a disease mainly characterized by degeneration of the articular cartilage but these changes also involve the synovial membrane and the bone next to the cartilage. It is a gradual decay that most often affects the weight-bearing joints (knees, hips, and spinal joints) and the joints of the hand. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 Again, the labeling of dietary supplements could carry no claims of therapeutic benefit. Therefore, manufacturers had to market herbs as benefiting a natural body function and not as a treatment for a disease process. Under this legislation, a manufacturer could claim that St. John's wort could improve one's mood but could not claim that it could help depression. Ginseng provides another example: its makers could promote it as helping give the body energy but not as a treatment for chronic fatigue. |
Patrick Holford
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Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 In 2002, a government organization called the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) started a voluntary quality-assurance program for dietary supplements. Look for the USP mark, as it will indicate that the supplement manufacturer has developed a quality-control system to ensure that its supplements contain the ingredients and
, potency declared on the label, meet requirements for limits on contaminants, and comply with the various government rules for nutritional supplements.
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Despite our poor diets, why do so many doctors doubt the value of supplements? |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 THE PRESENT SITUATION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDICINAL PLANT CULTIVATION IN EUROPE
Countries of the European Union have been and remain the biggest market for medicinal plant products, although their own production has considerably increased too.12 Their import of drugs exceeds exportation (see Figure 10.1). The local production is focused on high-quality or special cultures. Some examples are depicted in Table 10.1. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 Companies marketing "dietary supplements" cannot make specific therapeutic claims regarding their products (i.e., about using them to diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat or cure a specific disease.) However, they may make "statements of nutritional support" or "structure and function claims" (statements explaining how the product may affect the structure of function of the body) and "general health claims" (claims about the effects on "well-being" achieved by consuming the supplement). |
Kevin Trudeau
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| It appears the actual objective of this organization is to bring natural dietary supplements under the umbrella of the pharmaceutical industry. Is it true that the pharmaceutical industry is trying to take over all-natural products? In America, pharmaceutical giants are buying vitamin, mineral, herbal, and homeopathic companies. Currently there are two products being marketed on television. The ads look eerily similar to drug ads. The packaging of the products makes them appear to be drugs. But in this instance, they are not drugs at all. |
| Virtually every day we hear about "warnings" relating to the usage of dietary supplements. The news organizations that report this information, for the most part, do virtually no research into the accuracy or truthfulness of these warnings. There are different standards used in what is classified as news and advertising. If information is presented by a politician or government agency, such as the FDA or FTC, news organizations present that information as 100 percent factual. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Cytokine and prostaglandin production by monocytes of volunteers and rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with dietary supplements of blackcurrant seed oil. British Journal of Rheumatology 1993; 32:1055-58.
4. Evans WC. Trease if Evans' Pharmacognosy, 13 th edition. London: Baillere Tindall, 1989.
5. Mills S, Bone K. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
6. Belch JJF, Hill A. Evening primrose oil and borage oil in rheumatologic conditions. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2000; 71(suppl):352S-5S.
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Kevin Trudeau
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| The European Union set up a directive on dietary supplements. It is part of a larger forum of worldwide legislation in which the government of the United States is bound called CODEX. This will severely restrict access to natural health products in Europe and all around the world. This directive is set up by some of the wealthiest people on planet earth to guarantee and ensure their profits. CODEX is one of the most unbelievable set of legislative rules in the history of mankind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Currently, this site is sparse, but we are working on adding new supplements as quickly as we can. In time, we plan to list actual recommended products in this database as well.
All of these reference sites are hyperlinked to each other where appropriate. So you can click around and explore all the healing properties of foods, herbs, nutrients and supplements, or you can look up a particular health condition (like "depression") and see what's good for that.
The research is based on thirteen books by authors like Michael T. Murray, Gary Null and Michael Tierra. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 A dry extract (drug to extract ratio range 8—12:1) is used as a component in dietary supplements and health food products.
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Uses
Preparations of oats (green tops) are used in acute and chronic anxiety, stress, and excitatory states, neurasthenic and pseudo-neurasthenic syndromes, skin conditions, weakness of the connective tissue and of the bladder, as well as a tonic and restorative. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Nutrition is often pivotal to health, but this does not mean that the individual should resort to taking dietary supplements. Instead, examine the person's normal diet to determine whether or not changes might be beneficial to healing. For example, the individual may need to alter the kinds of foods eaten, how they are cooked, or how they are eaten, among other factors.
Structural issues must also be recognized and addressed with an appropriate modality, such as osteopathy or chiropractic. Herbs cannot replace the therapeutic value of manipulation if it is indicated. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 Unlicensed herbal products, sold as food or dietary supplements.
• Prescription-only medicines (POM); these potentially hazardous plants may only be dispensed by order of a prescription by a registered doctor.
• Pharmacy-only medicines (P); certain others may only be supplied by a registered pharmacist, or may be subject to dose (but not duration of treatment) and route of administration restrictions. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 You can get the EFA your body needs directly from your foods, unrefined cold-pressed vegetable oils, or from dietary supplements. Coconut oil, however, has a very small percentage of these fats (only 2%). A benefit of using coconut oil in your daily diet is that MCFA work synergistically with the essential fatty acids improving the body's utilization of these fats. A diet rich in coconut oil can enhance the efficiency of essential fatty acids by as by as much as 100 percent.6 Not only that, but coconut oil also acts as antioxidant protecting EFA from destructive oxidation inside the body. |
Marion Nestle
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 Although a stand-alone agency could eliminate perceptions of bias or competing missions, it "might create new problems and inefficiencies in the oversight of dietary supplements and other food-related issues not included in the new agency." Thus, the council recommended "efforts to strengthen agency coordination . . . and the development of comprehensive, unifying legislation, followed by the development of a corresponding organizational reform plan by allowing risk-based allocation of resources and utilization of science-based regulation, enforcement, and education" (emphasis added). |
| The FDA's priorities, of course, also are shaped by budget restrictions and by congressional interventions, industry lawsuits, and intense pressures related to other food issues under its domain: food labeling, health claims, dietary supplements, and—as I explain in part z of this book—genetically modified foods.
Even this brief overview suggests why efforts to control foodborne microbes are likely to prove contentious. Food safety politics involves diverse stakeholders with highly divergent goals. |
Philip Yam
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 Cow material has been used in vaccines, dietary supplements, and other products not normally thought of as bovine-related.
More relevant to the U.S. than mad cows, perhaps, are the mad deer and elk loose in some parts of the country. Actually, they do not really go "mad"—they waste away, turning into fur and bones before they die. The affliction is called chronic wasting disease (CWD) and is the only known prion disease that affects wild animals. And because it is easily transmitted, it poses the potential for a rapid, uncontrolled spread. |
| One of the biggest concerns, especially early on in the BSE epidemic, was whether products derived from cattle could harbor infectivity—vaccines, gel caps, dietary supplements, and the like.
About 53 to 70 percent of a bovine actually turns into meat for humans. The remaining cattle parts become animal feed or find their way into an astonishing variety of nonfood products. "Indeed, it has been said, and not altogether facetiously," the U.K. BSE Inquiry noted, "that the only industry in which some part of the cow is not used is concrete production. |
| There is, however, one area in the health industry that the FDA doesn't regulate, that packages cattle brains and other parts, and that doesn't have to list ingredients or sources: dietary supplements.
Mystery Pills
It's not hard to find at your neighborhood health store various products that purport to boost your brain power, enhance your vision, or get your sex drive going. Although they may be marketed as "herbal" supplements, they may not contain any herbs at all. |
| Contracting a prion disease from cosmetic products or dietary supplements is theoretical; no observational or experimental study has proven that such products can infect. Enough time has passed since the outbreak of BSE that it is safe to say that the stuff in personal care jars poses virtually no risk, since it is not ingested. But the same cannot be said for supplements and all their mystery components, which their manufacturers want you to consume every day. |
| Norton, "Raw Animal Tissues and dietary supplements," New England Journal of Medicine 343 (2000): 304-305.
48 Paul Brown, as quoted in Anita Manning, "U.S. Supplements May Harbor Mad Cow Diseases," USA Today, January 22, 2001.
CHAPTER 13: SEARCHING FOR CURES
1 Paul Brown, "Drug Therapy in Human and Experimental Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy," Neurology 58 (2002): 1720-1725.
2 Paul Brown, interview by the author, Bethesda, MD, February 27, 2002. All subsequent quotes are from this interview unless otherwise noted. |
| But so far, there is no evidence that humans have contracted a prion disease from dietary supplements.
Potential BSE material can also enter the U.S. via cosmetics. Stearic acid, stearate, tallow, oleic acid, collagen, glycerin, gelatin, and tallow derivatives go into lipsticks, hair gels, shaving creams, and moisturizers. By and large, such toiletries are almost assuredly safe from BSE. "The processing of tallow derivatives and gelatin both involves steps that just massively reduce infectivity," Brown remarked. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 This market dynamic also is true for nonherbal dietary supplements.) But when I was interviewed for a one-page story that appeared in the February 3, 2003, issue of Newsweek magazine, I did say that Rhodiola rosea might become the next "herbal superstar." I continue to believe this, for several reasons.
First and foremost, the herb is extremely safe. Based on centuries of use—going back almost 2,000 years to its documented tradition as a remedy in classic Greek medicine—plus numerous animal and human clinical studies, Rhodiola rosea has demonstrated a high degree of safety. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 A man who listens to our syndicated public radio show offered his own experience with fish oil:
/ had quite a bit of pain in my joints, particularly my knees. Then I started taking fish oil with omega-3 fatty acids. It has completely eliminated all the pain in the joints. I've been taking them for about 2 months and all the pain is gone. I take one capsule in the morning and that's it. Not only that, but it has virtually eliminated the clicking in my knees. When I would stand they would click. That's almost gone, and the pain is definitely gone. |
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