Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA will regulate, ban or outlaw more herbs and nutritional supplements while Big Pharma pushes patented chemicals as the solution for every health symptom, disorder, or disease... fictitious or otherwise. But the truth is that nature provides all the medicine we really need, and it's available as open-source medicine from plants, with no royalties, no patents and no profiteering monopolistic prices.
Food, herbs and supplements are our best medicine. The healthiest people in our society already know that. But sadly, most doctors still do not. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 He is well versed in and has access to the latest nutritional supplements, prescription drugs, and various wellness strategies that are available.
When Larry uncovered his own case of type 2 diabetes in June 2005, he already knew a great deal about the dangers of glycation and glycotoxins and immediately adjusted his diet to minimize their damaging effects. In fact, he and his wife both dedicated themselves to "cleaning up" their eating habits by switching to poaching and steaming instead of grilling and frying and limiting their consumption of high-protein and high-fat foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: John, this is a fascinating story and a little bit horrifying, because it is still true today that the truth about nutritional supplements is censored and that nutritional supplements are being confiscated. Doctors, especially psychiatric doctors for some reason, believe that only synthetic chemicals can help patients, and that nutrients play no role whatsoever in human health.
John: Exactly, and it is shocking. It is horrific that this is so horribly suppressed. It is even more suppressed now than it was 20 years ago, and it is a terrible thing. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Take it with plenty of water, and not at the same time as nutritional supplements or medications, as it may theoretically interfere with absorption.)
Hydrogen peroxide: Gargling and rinsing with hydrogen peroxide has been found to be terrific for many people.
Oil of oregano: 2 capsules, three times a day Green drinks: Daily
Note: All dosages are daily dosages and in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted. better. I've long been an advocate of daily, fresh-made vegetable and fruit juice (see The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth). |
| The Physicians Desk Reference for nutritional supplements lists nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, coma, and death, if you really want to know.)
These side effects are not—repeat not— associated with the over-the-counter homeopathic arnica remedies you can buy in the store, and are certainly not associated with the topical application of arnica. The Physicians Desk Reference for Herbal Medicines says that when applied topically, arnica preparations have demonstrated "wound healing, antiseptic, and mild analgesic properties. |
| But Kidd, a renowned authority on nutritional supplements, explains that while the two phosphatidylserines are indeed different, if you have plenty of omega-3 O in your body it shouldn't make a difference. oS
The serine molecule will simply bind to the ^ omega-3 (assuming you've got enough) and that % m will be that. Though that's theoretical, it makes 1/1 sense. One product—PS Synergy by Crayhon Research—even combines PS with omega-3 fatty acids for you (it's available on my website at www.jonnybowden.com). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Dietitian's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Nutritional Supplements"
Nutrition Research Newsletter (April 2006)
"Herbal Supplements: What to Know before You Buy"
Mayo Clinic— Tools for Healthier Lives (November 17, 2005)
"How They (Herbal Supplements) Can Interfere With Surgery"
Mayo Clinic — Tools for Healthier Lives (November 23, 2005)
MyVitaminGuide.com www. myvitaminguide .com
This site offers a host of information on the pros and cons of various vitamins, supplements and herbal remedies. Includes articles, reports and resources but also sells products. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Consumers in general in the United
States spend nearly $21 billion annually on nutritional supplements alone—$4 billion more than what they spend each year on going to the movies and video rentals combined.
Even so, the vast majority—61 percent—of American patients don't feel comfortable discussing the alternative therapies they use with their physicians. Nor does the typical physician probe about diet or supplements when seeing a patient during a routine visit. |
| Mullin began to consume a completely whole-foods diet coupled with nutritional supplements, with the hope that it would help to temper the autoimmune response that was raging through the nerves in the lower half of his body.
Over the next eight months Mullin's constant pain and weakness began to ebb. His near-constant dizziness and heart-rate swings diminished. By December 2004, Mullin was able to get into a car and drive for the first time in fifteen months. His first priority was to see his mother, who had been hospitalized. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The future of nutrition in conventional medicine is very bright, although the integration of nutritional supplements has been a slow, and, at times, lonely process. For example, the Canadian government has just placed a warning on their HMG-reductase statin labels, warning that these drugs can diminish ubiquinone (coenzyme Qiq) levels, which can cause heart failure. This is a mammoth step for the Canadian government, and I applaud them for raising this issue with their population. Unfortunately, our own Food and Drug Administration is not so enlightened yet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Did you know you can protect yourself from mercury using nutritional supplements and superfoods? Taking chlorella and spirulina helps remove mercury and other heavy metals. Drinking cilantro in a smoothie also does the trick. Uber-nutritionist Jon Barron has a product called Metal Magic that combines these two ingredients. Check out www.BaselineNutritionals.com
Dr. Gabriel Cousens also uses Natural Cellular Defense to help remove heavy metals. He's a raw foods guru and a pioneer in vibrational nutrition. Check out his info (and his raw foods retreat) at www.TreeofLife. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I personally own more nutritional supplements than you see at many vitamin shops... odd, but true. Some people collect lift tickets, I collect nutritional supplements.
Continuing with the product recommendations, I'm a huge fan of Recovazon, a product I consider to be a miracle healing medicine. I've used it to speed recovery after sports injuries and heavy training sessions. I also use it any time I feel I'm fighting a cold or flu. The taste is wicked at first, but this is no candy-flavored junk medicine. This is real medicine provided by nature, right from the Amazon. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once you understand the economics and the motives of the parties involved here, the junk science con becomes quite obvious: Pushers of pharmaceuticals will always use dirty tricks to discredit nutritional supplements because it is in their financial interests to do so.
My own financial interests, by the way, are squeaky clean. I sell no supplements, I earn no money from supplement companies, and in fact I am not even paid by NewsTarget for my work on these articles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But they sure love to "manage" disease with expensive drugs or surgical procedures, all while pretending that foods, herbs and nutritional supplements have absolutely no medicinal value whatsoever. In time, even medicine will be forced to acknowledge the healing properties of foods and plants, but until that happens, it's up to you to stay ahead of the curve and inform yourself about the miraculous medicines provided by nature. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Ephedrine-type alkaloid content of nutritional supplements containing Ephedra sinica (Ma-huang) as determined by high performance liquid chromatography. J Pharm Sci; 87(12): 1547-1553. 1998b.
Haller CA, Jacob P, Benowitz NL. Short-term metabolic and hemodynamic effects of ephedra and guarana combinations. Clin Pharmacol Ther; 77(6): 560-571. 2005.
Haller CA & Benowitz NL. Adverse cardiovascular and central nervous system events associated with dietary supplements containing ephedra alkaloids. N Engl J Med; 343(25): 1833-1838. 2000.
Haller CA, Jacob III, P & Benowitz NL. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is a non-profit organization that publishes information about the healing power of nutritional supplements and genuine anti-aging breakthroughs from the world of natural health.
On February 26, 1987, approximately 25 armed FDA agents and U.S. Marshals burst through the glass doors of the Ft. Lauderdale offices of the Life Extension Foundation with guns drawn. A second group of FDA agents simultaneously attacked the LEF warehouse, where they detained LEF founder William Faloon at gunpoint.
Employees were lined up against the wall and searched. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Repeatedly banned and confiscated herbs and nutritional supplements that compete with prescription drugs. Ephedra, for example, was banned by the FDA based on a political agenda, not good science.
Conducted armed raids on alternative medicine clinics, confiscating computers, threatening alternative health practitioners, and scaring away patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Get your vitamin C from nutritional supplements or superfoods made from plants. Good sources are rose hips and Pure Camu -- a product from the Amazon Herb Company that's made from camu camu berries (the highest natural source of vitamin C in the world). (See http://amazondreams.amazonherb.net/Pure_Camu_Solo.aspx )
The Amazon Herb Company also makes a high-grade Camu C Serum product that's excellent for wound care. It's positioned as a high-end skin care product, but many people use it directly on wounds to speed healing. See: http://amazondreams.amazonherb.net/Lluvia_CamuSerum. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The CAM Guidelines (click here to read them yourself) represent a new era of thinking at the FDA and describe the agency's intentions to regulate herbs, functional foods, therapeutic oils, nutritional supplements and even physical devices such as massage rocks as either "drugs" or "medical devices." Click here to read our previous story describing the CAM Guidlines. These guidelines have been widely described as a brazen FDA attempt to destroy naturopathy and alternative medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA, drug companies and mainstream media routinely invent scare stories about vitamins and nutritional supplements, then publicize them in order to scare consumers away from nutritional therapies (and herd them into profitable drug treatments).
7) The FDA currently "negotiates" with drug companies over drug safety warning labels, refusing to do its job of protecting the public from dangerous or deadly drugs. Case in point: an FDA advisory panel actually voted to put Vioxx back on the market after it killed more than 50,000 Americans and its own manufacturer voluntarily recalled the drug. |
| The FDA has conducted multiple armed raids on vitamin shops and natural health clinics in order to crush alternative medicine and deny the public access to nutritional supplements.
11) The FDA has used disinformation and half-truths to ban ephedra and attack kava kava, among other medicinal herbs. The agency routinely invents or exaggerates selected piece of information to justify any action it desires to take against natural medicine.
12) Thanks to lax FDA drug safety standards, U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: The FDA has slammed the door shut on accepting public comments over its contentious "CAM Guidelines" that threaten to destroy natural medicine by classifying virtually all health-enhancing foods, juices, nutritional supplements and functional foods as "unapproved drugs." NewsTarget has acquired emails from an FDA employee and key author of the CAM Guidelines. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 But you should remain aware that many companies peddling health nutritional supplements may be selling a very expensive form of hope. Only real, controlled research will show which of these products, if any, have a demonstrable effect on CFS, FM, and the other unexplained illnesses. The BioBran story makes the point that some of these food supplements can alter biological processes that have an impact on health. But the company making this product paid for quite a large number of studies documenting the immune-activating power of their product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This retailer will never carry vitamins, herbs or nutritional supplements, by the way. I'm happy to recommend other sources for those products.)
Introducing RoHS compliance
Both EcoLEDs and Better Life Goods offer products adhering to strict RoHS guidelines. That's the new European standard called Reduction of Hazardous Substances. It means our products contain no mercury, cadmium lead or other toxic chemicals or heavy metals. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Even in the case of nutritional supplements, however, safe dosage limits should not be exceeded, so manufacturers often print recommended daily intake levels on the labels, and these should not be exceeded.
As an alternative to recommending that cancer-conscious individuals drink multiple cups of green tea daily, some agriculturists are devising ways of upping the level of active ingredients in tea plants, particularly the catechin EGCG. This would result in higher EGCG levels in every cup. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 More information about the Consumer Wellness Center, including its End Censorship of nutritional supplements and Nutrition for Expectant Mothers initiatives, can be found at http://www.ConsumerWellness.org
Individuals and businesses can support the Consumer Wellness Center and its initiatives through tax-deductible donations. Currently, only checks are accepted, but the CWC will launch a web-based donation form later this month. For more information about supporting or sponsoring the Consumer Wellness Center, call (520) 232-9300 or visit http://www.consumerwellness.org/Sponsorship. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's when the drug companies, hospitals, FDA and everybody else depending on the current drug marketing racket steps in and tries to convince you to stop taking nutritional supplements and surrender to a (short) life of pharmaceuticals.
Pushing drugs and abandoning the people
For the Brigham and Women's Hospital, I think this action we're seeing today is yet another example of how organizations that once accomplished meaningful work have apparently sold their souls to Big Pharma and now operate as little more than drug company front groups. Gee, I wonder where their funding comes from? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| You'll also find a section on the most popular nutritional supplements, and information on the clinical management of interactions. Each monograph contains the common names of herbs followed by its official scientific name. A complete description of the herb is provided, including its medicinal parts (e.g., flower and fruit) and its unique characteristics. Additional common names and synonyms as well as a detailed summary of the active compounds are given. |
| A number of severe side effects have been reported, though these are mostly in connection with nutritional supplements and not with medications. Common side effects include headache, dizziness, irritability, motor restlessness, sleeplessness, urinary disorders, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke, seizures, and possibly death (Anon, 1996). Chronic use may cause an anxiety state.
Urinary retention secondary to ephedrine use is more commonly seen in males with prostatism.
Dependence can develop with extended intake. |
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