Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 And, "the IGF-1 content of milk is not altered by BST supplementation" on the basis of "more comprehensive [industry] studies" (31), although these studies in fact conclude that "mean IGF-1 levels in the [rBGH] treated animals are always higher than those found in the controls." Excess IGF-1 milk levels were trivialized in comparison with endogenous levels in human saliva and blood by FDA's use of highly speculative and misleading calculations (30).
More appropriate calculations should be based on the following considerations and data: Adult humans produce daily about 1. |
Michael T. Murray
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 Initial supplementation Programs
Recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes þFoundation supplements: þHigh-potency multiple vitamin and mineral supplement?follow dosage recommendations on page 325-327. þGreen drink—one serving daily þFish oils?,000 to 1,200 mg EPA and DHA daily þVitamin C?00 to 1,500 mg daily þVitamin E?00 to 800 IU daily þNiacinamide?5 to 50 mg per kg (2.2 pounds) body weight þGreen tea extract? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're seeing a lot of information about vitamin D supplementation with cod liver oil. We're seeing research on herbs like turmeric, now being shown to be a strong anti-cancer herb and something that boosts immune system function. We're learning how cinnamon can control blood sugar levels in diabetics. We're learning about the super healing powers of fruits such as blueberries and raspberries. We're seeing more research on garlic and how garlic can prevent cancer. We're also seeing research on ginseng and how ginseng extracts prevent colds and flus during the flu season. The list goes on and on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You don't need any supplementation whatsoever.
That's a common myth promoted by people in conventional medicine who really don't have the education or the understanding in nutrition that we would now consider to be authoritative. There have been significant advances in the understanding of nutrition over the last couple of decades. And yet, medical schools are still teaching nutrition as it was taught in the 1960s. |
Michael T. Murray
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| Other benefits noted with inulin supplementation include increased absorption of calcium and magnesium, improved elimination of toxic compounds, and increased production of beneficial short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) like butyrate. Butyrate and other SCFAs are the primary fuel for healthy cells in the large intestine, helping them maintain their function as a barrier against the absorption of harmful compounds.10'11
Several double-blind studies have looked at the ability of inulin to lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| But other studies found no benefit from vitamin E supplementation. Food sources of vitamin E include wheat germ, vegetable oils, dark leafy greens, nuts, and seeds.
B vitamins. In a new Swiss study, people who recendy underwent an angioplasty to clear their blocked arteries were given either a combination of B vitamins or a placebo. Those who took the B vitamins - folate, B12, and B6 - fared much better. This group needed significantly fewer repeat angioplasties and also suffered fewer heart attacks and deaths.
The homocysteine-lowering effect of folate probably helped. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When I talk about nutrition and supplementation, I'm talking about taking literally dozens of capsules and eating several scoops of whole-food concentrate powder each and every day of your life. That's what I do; that's what healthy people do.
Why doctors misunderstand nutritional supplements
Doctors, by the way, don't seem to understand that these aren't medications, these aren't drugs: these are FOODS. So it's very difficult to "overdose" on any of these items; your body was actually designed to digest and assimilate these whole foods. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 They found that there "was a modest reduction in high blood pressure with calcium supplementation" and that those who were at the greatest risk of developing hypertension and those who had lower levels of calcium to begin with benefited the most.2
CALCIUM 23
Selecting Supplements
There are many calcium supplements on the market, and the difference between them goes beyond brand name or price.
The calcium in a calcium supplement comes attached to something else. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Organizations like the AHA, however, insist that nutrient supplementation is actually bad for your health.
See http://www.newstarget.com/001587.html
Lie #10: All these lab tests are for your own good.
Truth #10: At least half of all diagnostic tests ordered by doctors are medically unnecessary. They're often conducted merely to generate revenues for the hospital or medical group that owns the doctor's clinic. Some doctors are actually required to generate a certain dollar amount of lab test revenues in order to keep their jobs. |
Jack Challem
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 After several weeks of supplementation, the two nutrients had a dramatic rejuvenating and energy-boosting effect. The old rats' physical activity doubled and was almost identical to that of nonsupplemented young rats. The improvements, according to the researchers, were like taking a seventy-five-year-old woman and restoring her to the vigor of someone half her age. Ames and Hagen also reported comparable improvements in the animals' memories. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Murray: Absolutely, and I think it all starts with diet, lifestyle, proper supplementation and proper attitude. We can use these natural compounds as adjuncts or supplements to those basic strategies for good health.
Mike: How about a brief on your new book?
Dr. Murray: My latest book is "How To Prevent And Treat Diabetes With Natural Medicine." This book really addresses a growing epidemic of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. We offer a sound solution, a program that works. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I am not a conspiracy theory expert, but I really believe that when people start to understand the health benefits of supplementation, people will be taking less pharmaceutical drugs. So there is a great debate out there because the pharmaceutical industry would like to get all of the vitamins off the show. It is an economic decision. They'd rather see people taking drugs.
Mike: I am one of the people who talks about that and, like you, I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. I think it's just corporate greed. I mean, they want to make more money.
Dr. Strand: Oh, yes! It's an economic decision. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the wise way people are making their decisions, and then going out of their way to find supplementation.
Mike Adams: In terms of having business success with the Amazon Herb company, where are you now, with the big picture, and with embracing technology to help leverage your growth?
Amazon John: I absolutely 100 percent embrace the technology because the technology of course, ultimately, is one of the great tools to leverage where we're going and accelerate the activity. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Supplementation is often highly effective in treating or allieviating many problems, such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, anxiety attacks, heart failure, heart attacks, kidney stones, childhood behavioral disorders, obesity, tooth decay, lead poisoning, and failure to detoxify chemicals.
Omega-3 Oils
While many people are used to taking vitamin and mineral supplements, comparatively few take essential oils, yet these nutrients are vital to good health. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Chinese). For instance, prior studies showing beneficial effects of selenium, another trace metal, in Chinese could not be replicated in the U.S.
GARLIC
Garlic has been shown to improve glucose control in rat models of diabetes; studies in humans, however, have not shown that garlic improves glucose control. Although garlic was initially promoted for its cholesterol-reducing effect, subsequent research has not confirmed it.
ALA
Alpha lipoic acid (ALA), which is found in liver, potatoes, and broccoli, has no effect on glucose levels. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The authors of these various studies differ in their conclusions concerning whether selenium prevents initiation of carcinogenesis or inhibits tumor progression; nevertheless, the benefit of selenium for prostate cancer prevention is fairly consistent. A wealth of preclinical studies supports the anticancer properties of selenium. Much of the evidence concerning selenium's anticancer/antitumor properties suggests mechanisms of action other than those associated with its antioxidant properties [65].
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| An apparent excess of hemorrhagic stroke in the treatment group complicated this study. The Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS) tested RRR-a-tocopherol from "natural sources" in 2002 participants with clinical evidence of CVD [77]. Trial analysis identified a 77% decrease in nonfatal myocardial infarction but also a nonsignificant increase in early deaths from CVD and total mortality, although no increase in risk of hemorrhagic stroke was observed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Because of supplementation now, we can get it at levels you can't obtain from food. If you really study the medical literature, an overwhelming number of studies, even when they do a study on one nutrient at a time, show a significant health benefit. However, there are studies out there that show that if you use one nutrient by itself at higher level, it can actually cause oxidative stress or more free radical production. That is where the problem comes in when you see a negative study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units daily) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type 1 diabetes over the next twenty years.
Shocking Vitamin D deficiency statistics:
32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient.
40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.
42% of African American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.
48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient.
Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient. |
| Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.
Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease -- by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body.
It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your body from sunlight exposure: your body will self-regulate and only generate what it needs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Vitamin D supplementation can prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis and many other disorders. And magnesium, of course, can greatly improve cardiovascular health and actually help prevent heart attacks. And we haven't even talked about the healthy oils and how supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids or macadamia nut oil can greatly enhance cardiovascular health while improving nervous system function.
If you want to talk about public health and what kind of testing we should be doing, let's start with the things that can create the greatest positive public health impact. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Supplementation through a multivitamin is essential in most cases to ensure sufficient levels are received. Vitamin B6 is toxic to the nervous system when taken in supplements in doses above 1,000 milligrams.
Levels of Vitamins and Minerals Desired in a Multivitamin
Essential Supplements
Total Daily Amount
Vitamin A* (retinol or beta-carotene)
5,000-10,000 IU
Vitamin C
60 mg
Vitamin D
400-800 IU
Vitamin E**
40-400 IU
Thiamin
3-25 mg
Riboflavin
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| As you can see, the good news is that this situation can be easily remedied by making sure you give your children the nutrients they need in the form of supplementation. Indeed, since mothers who take nutrients during pregnancy lower their child's risk of developing childhood cancer as well as a large number of other diseases, it is never too early to start.
The program has been written for adults, however it can be adapted for children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adams: And this trend - can it be reversed through vitamin D supplementation later on in their life? Or is that set in stone?
Dr. Holick: I don't know. What we're concerned about is the possibility that this may be imprint on the infant for the rest of his/her life. And I'll give you an example. There was a study done in Finland, and what they did was they looked at children 1 year of age that received 2000 units of vitamin D as a supplement for the first several years, and they followed them for over 20 years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Dozens of previous (and better designed) studies have looked at this issue and have shown a clear 30% - 40% reduction in bone fractures due to wise supplementation with calcium and vitamin D. But organized medicine wants you to think that somehow the body doesn't need nutrition. Instead, its promoters want you to believe that only prescription drugs can help you -- as if toxic, synthetic chemicals were somehow more important for human health than the natural bone-building substances provided by nature for which our bodies were actually designed. |
Jack Challem
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| The patient's cognitive functions stabilized after regular alpha-lipoic acid supplementation. Dr. Klaus Hager and his colleagues used alpha-lipoic acid to treat eight other mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease patients for one year. Using standard medical tests for assessing the disease, Hager found that the patients' cognitive functions remained stable during this time. Normally their cognitive skills would have declined appreciably. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 For patients taking steroidal drugs, supplementation with a source of GLA such as evening primrose oil, borage oil (Borago officinalis), or black current oil (Ribes nigrum) may be beneficial (Marra and de Alaniz, 1990). In one clinical trial, 38 estrogen-dependent breast cancer patients showed a faster clinical response to tamoxifen after oral ingestion of GLA (as found in EPO) (Brinker, 2001).
American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Safety Rating
CLASS 1: Herbs that can be safely consumed when used appropriately (McGuffin etai, 1997). |
| One randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled (R, DB, PC) study performed on 22 participants using flaxseed oil concluded that the duration of supplementation may have been too short to have an effect on rheumatoid arthritis, or that missing co-factors may have interfered with the clinical outcomes of this study (Nordstrom et al, 1995). Two R, DB crossover trials found that flaxseed baked in food products produced a significant decrease in LDL cholesterol and in retarding the rate of bone resorption (Arjmandi et al, 1998a; Arjmandi et al, 1998b). |
Andrew L. Stoll
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 Dietary supplementation of EPA increased EPA in cells, demonstrating that omega-3 dietary supplementation can profoundly affect immune function.
Although speculative, the inflammatory theory of depression may unify a host of observations that were previously unexplained. It is also consistent with the theory that the soaring rates of major depression in this century are mediated by the rising ratios in our diets of omega-6 fatty acids relative to omega-3s. |
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