J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 A cure might require an antibiotic to kill excessive bacterial growth that our immune systems cannot fight off on their own, nutritional supplements to improve our immune status, antiviral herbs, or other treatments and therapies.
Curing is what is done to us when we are sick, while healing is stimulated from within our bodies, minds, and spirits. You can both heal and cure yourself by following the ten steps to viral immunity outlined in part 2. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 The manufacturers are justified in one sense, in that they could argue (and in court must argue) that they are selling nutritional supplements, not medicines, and so are not required to put effective dose levels for treating diseases on their labels.
Therefore, the doses listed on many herbal product labels are far below what is needed to obtain a therapeutic effect, especially in acute cases. I found general agreement in China, India, and Nepal with regard to dosage levels. In China, you would usually leave the herb doctor's office with about 4-8 ounces of dried plants—a 3-day supply. |
The Garlic CureJames F. Scheer, Lynn Allison and Charlie Fox
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| This man not only encouraged us, insisting that we would both heal, he sent us alternative literature, explained how we should change our eating habits and lifestyle and even sent us nutritional supplements, mostly aged garlic extract.
After a half year on this regimen, I feel like a new person. So does Bob. What a renewal! And we owe it all to the loving man directed to us due to our prayers.
S.J., Los Angeles
HALLUCINATIONS & VIOLENT BEHAVIOR
I'm a visiting nurse to an 86-year old patient who is diabetic, blind and subject to hallucinations with periodic violent behavior. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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| Currently, several companies make nutritional supplements that are designed for the eyes. Martek makes Neuromins brand of DHA and Carlson produces Super DHA. These are a good way to start. Check for one with lutein, such as Ocuvite with lutein.
• Turmeric root has been shown to prevent cataract formation in animal studies. I estimate you would need about 2 500-mg capsules twice per day to get enough for this protective effect. Less is necessary when taking other vitamins. |
The Garlic CureJames F. Scheer, Lynn Allison and Charlie Fox
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| These nutritional supplements would be safer than any other drugs tested to date on sickle cell patients."
A pilot clinical trial by the Onishi research group to determine if aged garlic and other antioxidants could reduce the amount of dense cell formation showed promise. Over six months, these biochemists demonstrated that 6 grams of aged garlic extract - a gram is l/28lh of an ounce -4 to 6 grams of vitamin C and 800 to 12001.U. of vitamin E daily may be beneficial to sickle cell patients in that it improved blood values and showed a trend toward reducing painful crises. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Use nutritional supplements responsibly.
Some people who have adopted the Origin Diet found it easy, since they needed only to fine-tune already healthy eating styles. Other people found the process a bit daunting at first, until they realized they didn't need to make all the changes at once. Granted, the more steps you include in your diet, the greater the health benefits, but adding any step to your routine will improve your health. So don't beat yourself up if you don't follow the Origin Diet perfectly. Give yourself credit for small steps toward a healthier eating style. |
Elaine Feuer
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 Journal of Advancement in Medicine Volume 3, Number 4, Winter 1990
A Significant Improvement in a Clinical Pilot Study Utilizing nutritional supplements, Essential Fatty Acids and Stabilized Aloe Vera Juice in 29 HIV Seropositive, ARC and AIDS Patients
T. L. Pulse, M.D. and Elizabeth Uhlig, RRA
ABSTRACT: It has been found that poor nutrition is one of the risk factors for progressing from HIV seropositive into ARC and into AIDS. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
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 There are now some good indications that the damage can be reduced significantly by special nutritional supplements, especially if their is early intervention. These children need special supplementation beginning as soon as possible after birth and certainly within the first year.
Targeted Nutritional Intervention is a program developed by Trisomy 21 Research specifically to address the nutritional needs of DS children. The founder, Dixie Lawrence Tafoya, who has two children with DS, was profiled on ABC's Day One news magazine. |
Michael Tierra
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 Concentrated foods such as wheat grass, bee pollen, spirulina, and yeast can be very helpful as nutritional supplements, but should not be regarded as primary foods making up your dietary needs. These foods spare you the efforts to plan and prepare wholesome meals, but they do not provide the full range of food components essential to a good diet. Time spent in properly preparing and calmly eating balanced meals is your surest investment in health.
THERAPEUTIC DIET
At the first sign of acute disease one should abstain from all solid foods. |
Elaine Feuer
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| The 1976 Proxmire Amendment classified nutritional supplements as foods and gave consumers access to them at a reasonable cost. It was designed to prevent the FDA from limiting vitamin potencies, thus ensuring the consumer's right to purchase dietary supplements in the amount, combination, and potency desired.
THE FDA'S WAR ON "QUACKERY"
In the fall of 1971, the FDA also made a serious attempt to halt the growth of the increasingly popular field of alternative medicine. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| There is a huge discrepancy in the attitude of health authorities when it comes to such laxity in the control of noxious chemical substances, as we have already highlighted, and their strict criteria for the authorization of nutritional supplements, whose beneficial effects have been demonstrated by scientific means. We, the doctors who work with alternative treatments, have witnessed the good results obtained with such therapies. |
| Doctors that promote natural therapies and companies that produce nutritional supplements should be applauded; not ostracized and persecuted. From my tendentious point of view, I will list some of the consequences of this anti-establishment information and important impact it could have on the health of the population. žIncrease prevention awareness. žEnormous savings in medical costs. žResearch for and by the people; not for the industry. žHalt to unnecessary medical intervention. žIncrease utilization of natural effective therapies. žDramatic fall of iatrogenic deaths. |
| I personally argue in favor of taking vitamins and other nutritional supplements because we never take in enough of the right foods to obtain the substances needed to prevent disease. The risks that some attribute to the consumption of megadoses of vitamins are unfounded and ludicrous in comparison to the proven risks we run when we don't supplement our diet.
Minerals
The foods the average American eats do not maintain the body's minerals at an adequate level. The human body doesn't have the power to extract minerals directly from the environment nor to manufacture them from other substances. |
| However, other tests prove that nutritional supplements are essential in the prevention of cancer. Research biochemists know it is more than just beta carotene and vitamins C and E in vegetables and fruits that help prevent cancer. Folic acid, one of the B vitamins, is a powerful nutrient, and often deficient in those who need it the most.
Researcher Edward Giovannucci, Harvard Medical School, thinks folic acid may help turn off cancer genes. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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| Sodium and potassium bicarbonates are highly alkaline, and when taken as nutritional supplements rapidly reduce acidosis in the body. Other, though slower, ways to reduce acidosis are by drinking green vegetable juices and adding more vegetables in your diet.
CdUtiOtl'. Do not ^e bicarbonates for longer than two weeks, as you can over-alkalinize your system. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Throughout my medical practice, I have observed that the cancer patients who live the longest are those who indefinitely adhere to a diet based on a high intake of complex carbohydrates (fruits and vegetables), a small intake of animal protein (meats), a minimal intake of animal fat (red meats and milk products) and a vast amount of nutritional supplements. This nutritional plan has a positive impact not only on cancer but on high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypercholesterolemia, and just about every other disease. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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| Borage, evening primrose, and flax oils are most frequently used as nutritional supplements. These oils are balanced in their levels of the two primary EFAs, omega-3 and omega-6, favoring the first. Those who have difficulty processing fats and utilizing these EFAs, can benefit from borage or evening primrose oil supplementation. Most people do not get enough omega-3 EFAs from the foods they eat. By the way, many people do better with fish oils.
Omega-3 and -6 oils are incorporated into the cell membrane, and cell membranes are responsible for transporting nutrients. |
James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A.
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 Yet another patient with celiac-associated lymphoma improved when the only therapy was a gluten-free diet in combination with nutritional supplements.
There have also been reports in the peer-reviewed literature of cancer patients in the grips of apparently hopelessly fatal cancers who have experienced dramatic improvements and recoveries on a ketogenic diet. This diet provides energy through fats, not carbohydrates. Although this is a much stricter, more difficult diet to follow, it starves the cancer cells of the glucose they need to reproduce. |
Gale Maleskey
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 He recommends a number of nutritional supplements to hinder the progression of HIV to AIDS.
Vitamin ? Of all the antioxidants that may help stop the virus in its tracks, research shows that vitamin E has the most consistent and best results. In one study, HIV-positive men with the highest levels of vitamin E in their blood were 34 percent less likely to develop AIDS than men who had the lowest levels of the vitamin.
Vitamin E's antioxidant power prevents cell damage caused by HIV, so it inhibits the replication of the virus, says Susan Kowalsky, N.D. |
| Once you've adopted these changes, some practitioners believe that a combination of nutritional supplements can speed your progress toward sexual health and that certain herbs are potent enough to dramatically increase blood flow to the penis and boost your sex drive, says Thomas Kruzel, N.D., a naturopathic doctor in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, some vitamins and minerals provide the building blocks for sexual health.
Yohimbine: Charge Up Your Sex Life
For centuries, people have used yohimbe, the bark from a West African tree, to boost sex drive. |
| Weiss and other alternative medicine doctors use herbs and nutritional supplements. If you've been diagnosed with intermittent claudication, talk with your doctor about trying these remedies.
Arginine and Magnesium Can Open Up Arteries
The amino acid arginine is involved in the production of nitric oxide, a chemical released by the cells lining the artery walls. Nitric oxide allows blood vessels to relax and open up, Dr. Weiss says.
A standard dose is 500 milligrams up to three times a day. |
| Alternative treatments for scleroderma include nutritional supplements that help reduce inflammation and improve circulation. Some can also address possible underlying causes, including digestive problems, says Andrew Rubman, N.D., director of the Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines in Connecticut and a consultant to the Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. If you've been diagnosed with scleroderma, you should get your doctor's approval before you take supplements. |
Elaine Feuer
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| Despite the success of True Health's AIDS trial—no other AIDS study involving pharmaceutical or nutritional supplements had produced such positive results—the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a court order to prevent True Health from selling their product as a treatment to AIDS patients. As I drove Richard and his lawyer back to their hotel, Richard related True Health's experience with the federal government. I remember asking, "Are you saying there is an effective nutritional treatment for AIDS and the government is stopping it?" I was appalled. |
| No other AIDS study involving either pharmaceutical or nutritional supplements had produced such positive results without any negative side effects. According to Harvard University, only one in five thousand AIDS patients converted from positive HIV activity to negative at the time of True Health's AIDS test.
Stokley arranged for Southern Methodist University to confirm both the Walter Reed statistics and the Karnofsky statistics. Elizabeth Uhlig, RRA, computerized and coded all data, and Phyllis Rueckert, Ph.D., prepared a Statistical Analysis of AIDS Research Data for True Health. |
| I have seen no difference in the course of HIV disease between those persons taking nutritional supplements and those who did not."
Apparently, Barbaro and the FTC did not consider it significant that Barbaro had never used True Health's product.
The FTC arranged for another medical doctor, Carl Grunfeld, with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, to testify on their behalf. Dr. Grunfeld maintained that HIV disease had "no clear-cut relationship between the intake of nutrients and HIV disease. |
the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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 Pregnant women should check with their doctors before taking any over-the-counter medications or nutritional supplements.)
Rehydrate with fruit juice. If nausea has advanced to the vomiting stage, you'll need to drink lots of fluids—especially carbohydrates like fruit juice—to guard against dehydration, says Dr. Nie-byl. If you can't keep any food or drink down, see your doctor immediately.
Neck Pain when to see your doctor
• Your neck pain persists for more than three days or keeps coming back.
• You suffer from neck pain after a fall or accident. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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Lactobacillus acidophilus
V QtllDb Like so many nutritional supplements, acidophilus gets a lot of hype. It's also enormously popular. A sur-| vey by Whole Foods, a magazine for natural food retailers, found that between 33 and 40 percent of natural food store customers bought acidophilus supplements each year during a three-year test period.
That may be because this is one supplement that seems to live up to its hype. |
| And Americans, believing that they may have the power to lower cholesterol, normalize blood pressure, treat arthritis, shrink tumors and even fight AIDS, are embracing them not just as tasty treats but also as nutritional supplements.
But hey, we all know the rule: If things sound too good to be true, they usually are. So you probably won't be surprised to learn that mushrooms won't make you immortal. Studies show, however, that there are compounds in some mushrooms that may be able to fight disease and boost immunity. jI v Talk about a charmed reputation. |
| That's why doctors say that nutritional supplements are as important to the diets of people with CFS as fruits, vegetables and grains. The following are the key nutrients that experts recommend you include in your daily regimen.
Muscling Up with Magnesium
When a group of British researchers found that people with CFS had below-normal levels of magnesium within cells and that the same people felt better when they received supplementation, some thought magnesium was going to be the great glistening hope for those with CFS. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D.
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 Pulse TL and Uhlig E: A significant improvement in a clinical pilot study utilizing nutritional supplements, essential fatty acids and stabilized Aloe vera juice in 29 seropositive, ARC and AIDS patients. / Adv Med 3,209-230,1990.
36. Singer J: A randomized placebo-controlled trial of oral acemannan as an adjunctive to anti-retroviral therapy in advanced HIV disease. Int ConfAhDS 9(1), 494,1993. [Abstract No. PO-B28-2153]
37. Rowe TD, Lovell BK, and Parks LM: Further observations on the use of Aloe vera leaf in the treatment of third-degree X-ray reactions. } Am Pharm Assoc 30, 266-269,1941. |
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