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 If we had more regulations about nutritional supplements, it wouldn't stop people like this, because we (as a nation) are not enforcing the laws on the books right now that could take con artists out of society, or at least take them offline.
Making an honest living is not that difficult
I have to add: I don't have anything personally against the person who turned out to be a con artist. In fact, I feel sorry for the guy in a big way. I have a lot of compassion for him. He must have a terribly sad life. He must have non-stop conflict; it has to be a terrible way to live. |
| A way where you control your finances, you control your choices, you control your health outcome and you control your destiny; a way where you can create abundance and you can find true happiness – not the false happiness that people think comes with buying a new car, but by finding a way to have healthy, loving relationships in your life; a way to give back to society; a way that helps you find outstanding cognitive function and lucidity through nutrition, superfoods, medicinal herbs and honest nutritional supplements.
All of these things are possible. |
| I'm going to expose the con artists in medicine
I say to all the con artists out there -- whether they're in the pharmaceutical industry, the nutritional supplements industry or the surgical procedures industry -- if I hear about your con, and I can manage to dig up enough evidence on it, I'm going to write a feature story and you will be found out. You will be caught. You will be publicized for conning the people. |
| Let me clarify here: I am not a defender of all nutritional supplements and everything natural health just because it's a supplement or just because it's a vitamin. Simultaneously, I am not a critic of everything from the pharmaceutical industry. This article is a clarification is exactly what I stand for, why I'm a huge defender of Free Speech, and why I'm willing to hunt down crooks in any industry and expose them for all the world to see. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, if you're fighting any chronic diseases right now and you have trouble taking nutritional supplements, or you're looking for something that tastes delicious, I would recommend eating one of these organic food bars every single day. Just make it part of your lunch.
The next two ingredients are organic blueberry powder and organic raspberry powder. And I'm excited to see these ingredients in this food bar, because again it shows the wisdom of the team that formulated this bar in recognizing the nutritional value of wholefood concentrates. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When we consume nutritional supplements, we're actually consuming more than the chemical constituents found in those supplements. Foods are more than just the sum of their parts. Foods actually carry a homeopathic element. This element is present in all foods, herbs, supplements or anything you ingest into your body.
It is imprinted onto those foods and supplements by the people who come into contact with them during harvesting, production and marketing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the way, that freedom may be increasingly under attack because of the FDA's desire to regulate nutritional supplements. If you want to keep your health freedoms intact, stay alert. Pay attention to what's going on and act to preserve those freedoms. You can do that by joining the Alliance For Natural Health.
#6: Food labeling requirements
Moving on, the next best thing about America actually lends credit to the FDA! Yes, you heard it here -- I'm actually going to compliment the FDA for doing a good job on something. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It discredits the entire nutritional supplements industry, creating fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) in the minds of consumers who aren't aware of the real motivations behind the law.
8. It erects huge barriers to the introduction of new supplements to the market by forcing manufacturers to spend millions of dollars on compliance, even for substances that have been safely consumed by humans as medicine for thousands of years.
9. It sets a legal foundation from which other nutrients can be outlawed. Each year, watch for the ratchet to be tightened as a growing list of supplements get banned. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's a real problem in the way people use nutritional supplements, silver products, medicinal herbs, and so on; they tend to use them in the same way that an allopathic doctor would prescribe antibiotics, which is to simply mask the symptoms rather than solving the problem.
But as a holistic nutritionist and someone who is a huge proponent of natural health, I encourage you to go beyond that and treat the source of these problems. Change your lifestyle and your diet to the point where you aren't experiencing these infections over and over again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You really don't need that much to create sufficient stores of vitamin D in your body, and it is easy to overdo it, especially if you're not following a perfectly healthy diet, or if you don't have extremely high nutrition from consuming superfoods and nutritional supplements.
The health benefits of Salmon Essentials
The Salmon Essentials nutritional supplement is actually good medicine. If it could be patented and sold as a prescription drug, it would probably be one of the most popular and exciting prescription drugs released on the market in years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you study the medical literature, you understand, without a doubt, that patients who take a complete balance of optimal levels of high-quality nutritional supplements have a health benefit over those who don’t.
So I don’t look at it as treating a disease. I look at it as a health benefit that improves their health. So we are just building up the body’s natural immune system -- the natural repair system, or what is referred to as the antioxidant defense system. |
| Well, at that time, someone gave my wife some nutritional supplements -- which I strongly did not believe in at that time. I was a typical doctor, and I thought that it would just create expensive urine or be a waste of money. But I told my wife, "Honey, you could try anything," because we were just not helping. When that happens to your family, it really hits home, being a physician. I have to admit that, within weeks, she got better. Within months, she was off of all of her medications, and within about five or six months, she was better than she had been in nine or ten years. |
| You start to understand that nutritional supplements can decrease what I call the free radical damage, or the dark side of oxygen -- we're basically rusting inside. You start to understand this more and more. You start to realize that drugs aren’t going to be the answer for decreasing the risk of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s or dementia. But when we initiate these healthy lifestyles, we can actually reduce our risk and, in a lot of cases, eliminate that risk. |
| There is so much information in the popular press about how all you need is three balanced meals a day, and about how nutritional supplements are a waste of money. I mean, even the American Heart Association has now come out against vitamin E, and their stand against vitamins is legendary. How do you account for this great disparity between the medical literature and the popular line?
Dr. Strand: Well, first of all, the American Medical Association came out two years ago stating that multiple vitamins should be taken by everybody, which is a major change for them. |
| I am curious, do you prescribe nutritional supplements to your patients, then?
Dr. Strand: I certainly do, and I believe that there is a strong health benefit. When my peers come up to me and ask, "Ray, why do you recommend vitamins to your patient?" I will look at them and say, "Well, have you ever recommended exercise to your patients?" They reply, "Well, of course I do." I ask, "Why do you do that?" They respond, "I think that my patients who exercise have a health benefit over those who don’t." I ask, "Well, what do you base that on?" They answer, "I base that on the medical literature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'll notice that the FDA only applies this standard to prescription drugs; never to nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, Chinese medicine or anything in the world of alternative medicine. The FDA will argue that drugs that are killing tens of thousands of Americans should be kept on the market because they have some benefit, but when it comes to a natural remedy or a medicinal herb, the FDA will bend over backwards to argue the exact opposite.
It's never about the benefits versus the risks in the case of herbs. |
| There are a huge number of nutritional supplements, vitamins, medicinal herbs and natural health therapies that drastically reduce arthritis pain even better than Cox-2 inhibitors without all of these health risks.
Who benefits? Drug companies
Who, then, really benefits from keeping Vioxx and Cox-2 inhibitors on the market? Well, the answer is clear: Drug companies. The stock prices of Pfizer and Merck benefit; in fact, they shot up the moment this decision was made by the FDA advisory panel. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are some nutritional supplements that can help -- I agree. But the bottom line is, if you don't engage the physical body, if you don't do some strength training and some cardiovascular training, you're not going to get the results you want.
Finding a workable system
Most people who are really committed to losing body fat are okay with the effort part. That hasn't been the problem. The problem has been finding a strategy that really works. What's a system that works? People tried the Atkins Diet or the low carb diet, and for many people that didn't work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why is it that we live in a nation with health care priorities that cause us to spend billions of dollars testing antidepressant drugs and synthetic chemicals, but yet we will spend very little money on testing the healing qualities of natural foods and nutritional supplements? Clearly we have our priorities backwards, because it turns out that the answer to depression is readily available to every American consumer, right in their grocery store, right now. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's an excellent product; I think it's one that should be part of your daily regimen of nutritional supplements.
Be sure to work with a qualified health practitioner before taking any supplement, by the way. One of the side effects of salmon oil is a reduction in the "stickiness" of your blood cells. That makes your blood flow more smoothly, but it also "thins" the blood at the same time. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 A nursing mother should maintain a balanced diet, but can also benefit from taking multivitamins and nutritional supplements. Discuss the need for supplements with your health care provider.
Q If you need to supplement mother's milk, try almond milk, Rice Dream (made from brown rice), or a soymilk formula with a small amount of papaya (put through a blender). This resembles mother's milk. You can add a small amount of blackstrap molasses and brewer's yeast after the baby is a few months old. Always consult your health care provider before making any changes in your baby's diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can add this study to the heap of advice designed to discredit nutritional supplements. Defenders of organized medicine and pharmaceuticals will stop at nothing to try to convince the entire population to throw away their supplements and buy more prescription drugs. And if that doesn't work, they'll just try to get the FDA to ban all the supplements as was recently tried in Europe via the CODEX Food Supplements Directive, which sought to outlaw thousands of nutritional products.
For anyone really interested in how to have healthy bones, here's how to do it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Without a doubt there are influences of natural sunlight that go beyond the creation of vitamin D, and thus a discussion of vitamin D alone cannot account for the nutritional deficiency present in these diseases, nor the ability to treat and reverse those diseases through the consumption of nutritional supplements.
If you think about it, it wasn't too long ago that conventional medicine thought there were only four vitamins: vitamins A, E, C and B. They thought that as long as you had these four vitamins, you would be a healthy individual. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, the FDA wants to regulate and even outlaw most nutritional supplements and medicinal herbs. That's once again a protectionist strategy to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. I wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later someone in organized medicine argues that outsourcing our offshore surgical procedures is hurting the U.S. economy, and they might try to pass a law that makes it illegal to go overseas to get surgery. |
| When you have restrictions on travel, restrictions on nutritional supplements and restrictions on people buying drugs from Canada, you begin to see a sharp deterioration of freedom in this country. You lose freedom and you become more of a police state. That's what we're seeing in this country today.
All of that stands at odds with the fact that we live in a global economy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have a lot of natural hormones available right now as nutritional supplements including Melatonin, DHEA and even injectable human growth hormone (although some would certainly argue the long-term safety and efficacy of some of these as well).
But I believe that it is inherently safer to put natural hormones into the human body rather than synthetic chemicals. So from the get-go, PYY3-36 has one obvious advantage. It's something that we already have in our bodies. So what's the promise of this prescription drug?
The promise is that by inhaling this protein, your appetite will be reduced. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But just to be safe, always work with your health care provider before starting any nutritional supplements, including spirulina.
A solution for constipation
In fact, there's one thing I want to mention here for those suffering from constipation or bowel disorders, if you really want to give yourself a helping hand, go out and consume large quantities of spirulina powder on a daily basis, in your breakfast shakes or other fruit shakes. At the same time, get yourself some aloe vera juice or gel, and buy some okra and eat it raw. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What food are they eating that they shouldn't be eating, what foods should they be eating that they're not eating, what nutritional supplements can we give the person to help their system start producing more appropriate levels and appropriate types of cholesterol? In addition, if we have to, there are some natural herbal therapies that can be used to help decrease their cholesterol levels. I always try first to do it with diet and nutrition, and then use the herbs.
Mike: That's interesting. Do you find that patients are able to integrate the diet and nutritional advice?
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| So to enhance your colon health, it is extremely important to avoid consuming large quantities of red meats and processed foods, while at the same time, making sure you supplement your health with all of those nutritional supplements that you know are good for you. These are the superfoods and the green foods, and things like cod liver oil and plant-derived mineral supplements.
Spry gum with xylitol
Moving along, another product that I am increasingly excited about is called Spry gum. It is something I've mentioned to several people now, and they're chewing on it too. |
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| Clearly, omega-3 fatty acids are one of the most exciting nutrients in foods that are available to American consumers, and you can get these in everyday foods, or as nutritional supplements in things like salmon oil or flax seed oil. You can also eat chia seeds if you'd like to get some good, healthy omega-3's. |
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