| PREVENTION
¦ Regular supplementation with probiotic bacteria is the most effective way of protecting your body against the development of ulcers caused by H. pylori bacteria. Acidophilus and bifidobacteria can destroy many dangerous organisms before they can create problems.
¦ Avoid stress as much as possible. Although it is now known that stress itself does not cause ulcers, stress does cause the body to increase production of the stomach acids that irritate an ulcer. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| The most successful and popular drug withdrawal and rehabilitation programs for both illegal and legal substances always include a vitamin and mineral supplementation and exercise program (generally walking). They recommend using the most natural vitamin supplement possible. (See list of sources at end of chapter.) The reason for this is most likely that with the natural vitamins there are no artificial substances which would interact and possibly cause an interaction with the drug residue in the patient's system. Vitamin C is always listed as the most critical ingredient these programs use. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 Appropriate dietary measures to increase fibre intake (but excluding seeds and nuts) and supplementation with mucilaginous herbs such as Ulmus (slippery elm). This will also help to maintain healthy bowel flora.
• Gastrointestinal spasmolytics to decrease intra-colonic pressure, e.g. Viburnum opulus (cramp bark), Dioscorea (wild yam) and Matricaria (chamomile).
• Herbs to improve connective tissue strength such as antioxidant herbs containing flavonoids oligomeric procyanidins (OPC) e.g. Vitis (grape seed extract) and Crataegus (hawthorn). |
| Effect of dietary soy supplementation on hot flushes. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1998; 91: 6-11.
276. Yamaguchi M, Gao YH. Anabolic effect of genistein and genistin on bone metabolism in the femoral-metaphyseal tissues of elderly rats: the genistein effect is enhanced by zinc. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 1998; 178 (1-2): 377-382.
277. Fanti P, Monier-Faugere FC, Geng Z et al. The phytoestrogen genistein reduces bone loss in short-term ovariectomized rats. Osteoporosis International 1998; 8 (3): 274-281.
278. Clarkson TB, Anthony MS, Williams JK et al. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| One highly publicized example of self-administered supplementation gone awry occurred in 1989 with l-tryptophan, an amino acid often taken for insomnia. After countless indi-
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James A. Howenstine, MD
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 An important study in the journal CIRCULATION showed that arginine supplementation over time was followed by decrease in size of the arteriosclerotic plaque.
Because of the beneficial effects on arterial plaques, lowering of blood pressure in hypertensive patients, increasing the output of nitrous oxide which protects arteries from plaque formation, increase in the output of growth hormone and help for many males with impotence, we encourage the use of arginine. Arginine can be obtained from Jo Mar Laboratories 800-538-4545 and from our Natural Health Team 800-416-2806.. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 I recommend it for cases where lactobacilli supplementation and antifungal agents do not seem helpful (particularly for diarrhea), and where antibiotic use has been a cofactor in yeast overgrowth. Saccharomyces boulardii is available in capsules. Use up to 500 milligrams three times daily. (See Chapter Eight for more details.) fructooligosaccharides These are food-derived sugars that feed lactobacilli, encourage their repopula-tion, and assist the normalization of bowel function. They are not absorbed and therefore do not raise blood sugar levels. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 As I've discussed elsewhere in this book, moderate supplementation makes sense. But I'm convinced that part of the reason the elderly participants responded so well to the multivitamin is that they weren't eating properly to begin with. They simply didn't have the appetite to consume enough food to get all the nutrients their bodies needed. As a result, their immune systems suffered.
Food Everywhere, But No Desire to Eat
So what causes appetite loss? Often it's a symptom of an underlying health problem or a side effect of a particular drug. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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 LCP Fortification or supplementation for Infant Formulas
Manufacturers in the United States and Canada add linoleic acid to their infant formulas, but it doesn't benefit infants who do not have the capability to transform it into LCPs. Effects of low levels of LCPs are most pronounced in premature and low-birth-weight infants. Sheila Innis, from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, has found that bottle-fed infants consistently have low levels of AA and DHA in their blood serum and red blood cells, even those born full-term. |
| Pfeiffer believed that AD/HD, called minimal brain dysfunction at the time, could be alleviated by correcting brain chemistry through diet and appropriate supplementation. Not many people were espousing such ideas.
What most impressed me about Dr. Pfeiffer's work was his introduction of the importance of mineral balance in the brain. What is so interesting about how vitamins and minerals act in the brain is the high degree of interaction between them. Perhaps this is what has boggled scientists for so long. |
| You can see that the argument for supplementation with fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins is extremely compelling. In the early eighties, a Canadian team noted that the data accumulated proved diet alone could not provide enough nutrients to overcome fluctuation in brain biochemistry. They urged more study of the vitamins and minerals involved in the synthesis of the five neurotransmitters serotonin, the catecholamines, acetylcholine, histamine, and glycine. |
| My suggestions for dietary supplementation in later chapters are based on clinical experience and the scientific data that are available. But we all must keep in mind that more research in this vein would be extremely helpful to those struggling with AD/HD and that we should do what we can to get it implemented and funded.
PART IV
The 30-Day Plan
We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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| But don't take more than 2,000 milligrams of vitamin C a day, and limit niacin supplementation to 35 milligrams a day.
Gout Chaser
This recipe can help you avoid a painful encounter with gout.
WHAT YOU NEED
8 ounces cherry juice (the darker the better) ounces strawberry juice ounces cranberry juice teaspoons turmeric teaspoons grated fresh ginger Dash of cinnamon
WHAT TO DO
Mix the cherry juice, strawberry juice, and cranberry juice. Spice up the blend with the turmeric and ginger. Add the cinnamon for flavor. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| Subsequently, the researchers began magnesium supplementation with seventy-five of the magnesium-deficient AD/HD children with coexisting conditions. In addition, all of the children were receiving antipsychotic or other nonstimulant therapy for AD/HD. Fifty of the children received six milligrams of magnesium per pound (6 mg/lb) of body weight for six months, and the remaining twenty-five served as controls. The supplemented children showed a magnesium increase in body tissues and a decrease in hyperactivity. The control children remained the same. |
Paul Pitchford
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 Therefore, in the conditions listed below which benefit from vitamin C supplementation, it is assumed that the diet contains insufficient C.
People who eat a meat-centered diet of overly processed foods may well benefit from a gram (1,000 mg.) or so of ascorbic acid daily. Individuals with serious illnesses, especially with excess and heat signs (such as those observed in high blood pressure/heart disease victims) seem to benefit from very large amounts of C, sometimes more than ten grams, but these levels need to be monitored and adjusted regularly. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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| Dietary supplementation With Vitamins, Minerals and Nutrients
One of the most critical things that an individual can do to improve his or her health is to ensure that you are obtaining a needed amount of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients on a daily basis. You can't get these from the normal food you eat, so you must get them from somewhere else. When we do not obtain these substances we are more vulnerable to narrowing of arteries (arteriosclerosis), diabetes, cancer, cataracts, and other serious health problems. |
| Magnesium supplementation may be of greater importance than calcium.
Magnesium is involved with regulation of acid base balance, helps promote absorption of minerals including calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium. Magnesium helps utilization of B complex vitamins, Vitamin C, and Vitamin E. It aids in bone growth and is necessary for proper function of muscles.
Many foods contain magnesium, which is found primarily in green vegetables but is also present in wheat germ, soybeans, milk, whole grains, seafood, figs, corn, apples and oil rich seeds and nuts. |
| Estrogen supplementation Without the Addition of Natural Progesterone.
This is a frequent occurrence. Many physicians prescribe estrogen with no progesterone or synthetic progesterone, which causes problems. Synthetic estrogen inhibits the blood concentration of natural progesterone and thus increases the female dominance with a corresponding worsening of the patients' symptoms.
Inadequate Production of Progesterone.
The non-pregnant female produces progesterone from the corpus luteum of the ovary. |
| Crucial Lactoferrin supplementation To The Body
Dr. Rothschild discovered that the SBO's also produced lactoferrin in humans as a byproduct of their metabolism. Lactoferrin is a vital element to humans as it retrieves iron from our ingested food and then delivers the iron to sites where the body needs iron.
Frequently, lactoferrin levels in the body are not high and those persons may have trouble assimilating iron. Iron deficiency anemia is usually caused by internal bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, but can follow chronic bleeding from any site. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
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 Much like magnesium, taurine affects membrane excitability by normalizing potassium flux in and out of the heart muscle cells. supplementation may prevent digitalis-induced arrhythmias. TBS • See Tribromsalan. TCC • See Triclocarban.
TD1 OXIDIZED MICROCRYSTALLINE WAX • Microcrystalline wax (see) that has been treated with toluene (see). Used as a thickener. TEA- • The abbreviation for triethanolamine.
TEA • The leaves, leaf buds, and intermodes of plants having leaves and fragrant white flowers, prepared and cured to make an aromatic beverage. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Enzyme supplementation: live plant digestive enzymes
IX. Reasons to use enzymes
A. Enzymes lost or destroyed in cooked foods
B. Enzymes decrease with age
C. Enzyme depletion during illness
D. Digestive disturbances
E. Enzymes help detoxify
X. Food enzymes: a new perspective on food combining
Chapter
Enzymes: A Secret of Health and Longevity
According to my new paradigm of nutrition set forth in Spiritual Nutrition and The Rainbow Diet and elaborated in this book, . whenever we process foods in any way, we disorganize the SOEFs of the food, and hence, lower the life force. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 J Dietary supplementation during radiation therapy requires careful consideration. Since radiation therapy depletes the body's stores of beta-carotene and vitamins C and E, it would seem natural to take supplements during radiation treatment. However, there is some evidence that the greater the body's stores of these free-radical scavenging vitamins (and of the mineral selenium) during treatment, the larger the tumor will be after treatment. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| Supplementation during the prenatal period, lactation, and in infant formulas, to modify behavior in non-AD/HD children as well as in AD/HD children and adults. Neuromins is used preventively as well as to correct deficiencies. how much? |
Paul Pitchford
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| If negative and inferior foods are removed from the diet according to the first two priorities above, then steps 3 and 4 (supplementing and reducing) tend to occur as a consequence, and there is far less need for supplementation with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and isolated nutrients.
Even though it is clear that supplements have merit, it is questionable if they are ever truly necessary when diet is optimal. Supplements are used both for prevention and for overcoming imbalances and disease. |
Prevention Magazine
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 There are definite risks with supplementation."
Why are food sources of beta-carotene so much better than supplements? Scientists still aren't sure, but they suspect that it may be because beta-carotene has at least 500 siblings, collectively known as carotenoids. It's possible, they say, that it's not just the beta-carotene that's causing the benefits but the combination of beta-carotene plus its less-recognized kin.
Lycopene, a carotenoid found in tomatoes, for instance, may be considerably more potent than beta-carotene in the battle against cancer. |
Jean Carper
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 Plant-based diets as well as antioxidant and botanical supplementation are becoming more accepted in mainstream medicine, not necessarily as magic bullets, but as a part of a multidimensional program that augments or "complements" conventional surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Indeed, using diet as cancer therapy is attracting some prestigious mainstream attention. Pioneering Dr. Ernst
Wynder, president of the American Health Foundation in New York, has launched two major "nutritional intervention" cancer studies. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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 Consider selenium and other antioxidant supplementation.
• See "Methods to support the immune system" in the Immune System Section.
Profiles of herbs used in this formula:
Burdock, Arctium lappa, is an alterative, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, diuretic (especially the seeds), mutagenic, and mild laxative. 188,373375 It stimulates the natural flow of lymphatic fluid, supporting excretion of toxic by-products from cells. |
| Consider:
GTF chromium, zinc, vitamin E, B-6, niacin, biotin, magnesium and vitamin C supplementation.
Profiles of herbs used in this formula:
Gymnema, Gymnema sylve&xt, is one of the few hypoglycemic herbs with promise for insulin-dependant diabetics. This herb is being studied for its possible ability to regenerate pancreatic cells when used long term.135138
Blueberry, Vaccinium spp., not only has blood sugar normalizing abilities, but also supports normal venous integrity, which is very important for diabetics. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
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| Systems under stress from auto-immune diseases, alcohol abuse or other imbalances cannot make this transition so supplementation with GLA can prove beneficial.
None of the previously available nutritional oils combine the needed EFAs in anywhere close to the proportions that scientists have determined is ideal. One would have to carefully use a combination of these oils to get the optimal combination. Hemp oil is just coming on the market. It has a perfect 3:1 ratio of LA to LNA and a healthy GLA component (1.7%) as well. |
Paul Pitchford
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| Any sharp reduction in long-term supplementation can have bad results. When the body has become accustomed to large amounts of certain nutrients, a slow withdrawal over several weeks is best; it allows the organs of digestion to shift from isolated nutrients to absorbing and metabolizing the nutrients from foods. The fact that mega-dosing with nutrients can have at least some positive short-term benefits is not a sufficient recommendation for its use. |
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