Steven V. Joyal
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 A question many people ask is, "Why should I take supplements when I can get all the nutrients I need from my food?" The problem with this question is that the premise is wrong: the vast majority of people do not get all the nutrients they need. How many people eat a perfect diet? How many men, women, and children consume the recommended five or more servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, along with whole grains, raw nuts, and high-quality protein sources or consume an optimal ratio of less than 4 to 1 of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids daily? |
Hyla Cass
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 Even if you require insulin therapy, don't give up on weight loss, a healthful diet, supplements, and exercise. These measures are every bit as important to your health as they are to the person who is prediabetic, and you are much less likely to develop the devastating complications of diabetes. Don't believe for a minute that "it's OK to cheat, I'll just increase my insulin." Any responsible doctor will tell you that you'll be digging your own grave, one cookie at a time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It will probably never be "mainstream" because the average consumer isn't interested in paying for quality supplements. Average consumers want the watered-down, sugared-coated supplements that let them imagine they're getting good nutrition when they really aren't. Only a special kind of quality-minded consumer will really understand why the Amazon Herb products are so unique and valuable. (And why they cost more than other competing products. They're worth it, trust me.)
Real medicine
This is real medicine, by the way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Get those supplements now and find ways to work them into your diet starting today.
If you can't get sunlight, visit a tanning booth to get ultraviolet radiation. It's a secondary choice, but it's better than doing nothing. Remember not to use tanning booths for too long, and be sure to have great nutrition for at least 30 days before tanning in a booth.
If you can't get sunlight or get to a tanning booth, find other sources of vitamin D. The best source is cod liver oil, which you can mix into a delicious shake the same as you would most whole food supplements. |
| Here's the kicker: Without vitamin D in your small intestine, your body will not absorb calcium even if you take an excess of supplements. This is the single most important point, and I don't think I've ever been able to get this point across with enough emphasis. You must have vitamin D in your body in order to use calcium. So if you're out there taking coral calcium supplements or eating a lot of green leafy vegetables, but not getting sunlight or ultraviolet radiation on your skin, then you are probably not absorbing the calcium you are going to such great trouble to ingest. |
Andreas Moritz
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 A congested colon causes nutrient-deficiency diseases, regardless of how many supplements a person takes. Most health problems are, in fact, deficiency disorders. They arise when certain parts of the body suffer malnourishment; particularly of minerals (see also "Take Ionic Essential Minerals" on page 140).
The following are a number of colon-cleansing methods that I recommend in combination with liver cleanses:
1. Keeping the colon clean through colonic irrigation, for example, is an effective preventive method to safeguard the liver against toxins generated in the large intestine. |
| If you take any medication: While on the liver cleanse regimen, avoid taking any medication, vitamins, or supplements that are not absolutely necessary. It is important not to give the liver any extra work that could interfere with its cleansing efforts.
Make sure that you cleanse your colon before and after you do a liver cleanse: Having regular bowel movements is not necessarily an indication that your bowel is unobstructed. |
| Because of its proven high toxicity, in August 2002 Belgium became the first country in the world to prohibit fluoride supplements.
"Fluoridation ... is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has," said Professor Albert Schatz, Ph.D. (Microbiology), discoverer of streptomycin and Nobel Prize winner. Fortunately, 98 percent of Western Europe has rejected water fluoridation. This includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. |
| You cannot stop a vitamin D deficiency by taking supplements. Sunlight is the only real remedy. To make sufficient amounts of vitamin D, dark-skinned people need to spend at least two to three times longer in the sun than do Caucasians. Their skin absorbs sun rays less efficiently, hence their need for extended sun exposure. Not being exposed to enough sunlight puts African-American men, for example, at a much higher risk of developing cancer of the prostate than white American men. The use of sunscreens, including sunglasses, multiplies this risk. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 This has prompted some physicians to recommend the three vitamins as supplements. Proof is lacking in the form of randomized controlled trials, although a recently published study appears to have confirmed the effect of folic acid supplementation on cognitive performance in human beings. Jane Durga et al. structured a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that took place between November 1999 and December 2004 in the Netherlands. Researchers randomly assigned 818 male and female participants aged fifty to seventy 800 milligrams daily oral folic acid or placebo for three years. |
| Unfortunately, antioxidants only appear to have such an effect when extracted from organic foods as part of our normal diet. supplements have been shown to be inert, and potentially even damaging. As with n-3 fatty acids, it is recommended that you acquire antioxidants from actual fruits and vegetables rather than through supplemental means.
Spice up your memory?
A recent study of 1,010 elderly Asians not diagnosed with a form of dementia revealed a possible association between curry consumption and increased cognitive performance on the Mini Mental State Examination. |
| I must emphasize that there is much we don't yet know about the compound, including whether n-3 fatty acids from plants are as good as those from fish, and whether supplements are a help or hindrance. Take your n-3 fatty acids if you wish, but also take care not to overestimate their contribution to your cognitive health until more is known. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 After four weeks, those receiving ALA supplements had statistically improved insulin sensitivity, and all three dosages of ALA were effective. Other studies have supported these findings. There is some suggestion that lipoic acid reactivates vitamins C and E when they have performed their antioxidant function, and works synergistically with niacin and thiamine, as well.
GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID (GLA)
GLA reportedly can reverse nerve damage to peripheral nerves in patients with diabetic neuropathy. GLA regulates insulin, and seems to protect against diabetic heart, eye, and kidney damage. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Increase intake of acidophilus yogurt and/or take lactobacillus supplements. called the Affirm VP system uses a probe inserted in the vagina that can detect trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, and Candida species from a single vaginal swab. Additional diagnostic methods include polymerase chain reaction tests, but most doctors' offices do not yet use these. A new 10-minute antigen test for trichomonas is also available. Women who are found to have an infection of T. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Ray Sahelian, a board-certified family practice physician who has written a number of books on natural health, tells us that there are several supplements and herbs that can reduce anxiety and stress. In addition to kava, these include passionflower, ashwaganda (an Ayurvedic herb), fish oils, St. John's wort, valerian, hops, and scullcap.
Certain homeopathic remedies are successful in treating anxiety. There's been a lot of work on homeopathy in children reported in the French scientific literature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: If you've been following the debate over the FDA's new CAM Guidelines (click here for latest update) that threaten to destroy natural medicine by regulating herbs, supplements and even vegetable juices as "unapproved drugs," you've no doubt heard the opposing opinion by some natural health commentators who claim the guidelines say nothing new. Some are even saying the CAM Guidelines are a "non issue" and represent "no big deal."
As much as I appreciate the efforts and comments of others in the natural health world, I strongly disagree with their assessment on the CAM Guidelines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Since aloe reverses "sludge blood" and boosts circulation to extremities, diabetics suffering from peripheral neuropathy (hands and feet going numb) are likely to benefit strongly from aloe vera supplements.
Click here for more science on aloe vera and diabetes.
Aloe vera lowers cholesterol and triglycerides
When used internally, aloe vera gel improves the quality of the blood and helps rebalance the blood chemistry in a way that lowers cholesterol and total triglycerides (in people with elevated levels). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| On the contrary, all it would do is exempt supplements from the registry.
These changes, all contained in the amendment which was approved yesterday, make clear that there are no new dietary supplement requirements in the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act. It is my hope this will reassure the many who have expressed concern that Congress was inadvertently repealing Public Law 109-462.
The voice of the people has been heard. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| While the bill's supporters claim there is no such language contained in the bill that would subject foods and supplements to new FDA regulations, they nonetheless refuse to support the food and supplement protection amendments authored by Jonathan Emord (a high-profile attorney specializing in FDA regulatory law) and generally supported by the health freedom movement.
While S.1082 contains some useful provisions that limit advertising for new drugs, it could also ultimately be misused to threaten consumer health freedoms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe we will one day see a golden age of health freedom, where drug ads are banned, supplements are set free and the act of helping patients heal (rather than merely treating their symptoms) will no longer be criminalized. Make no mistake: healing has been outlawed in the United States. |
| The FDA, in cooperation with the FTC, has viciously attacked Lane Labs, a company that manufactured and marketed genuine anti-cancer supplements. Lane Labs has been "targeted for termination" by the authorities in order to prevent it from successfully marketing a product that really does cure cancer. (Conventional medicine depends on lucrative cancer screenings and treatments to boost revenues. Natural cures for cancer are not tolerated. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you believe in your right to purchase herbs, supplements, homeopathic remedies or other naturopathic or "alternative" health items, please consider posting your comments using one (or both) of the links listed above.
The petition to extend the deadline
The April 22nd petition letter to extend the FDA deadline is reprinted, in part, below:
April 22, 2007
Re: FDA Docket No. 2006D-0480
Request to Extend Time Period for Comments
Reference is made to the Federal Register, February 27, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 38, Page 8756-8757), http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E7-3259. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 He or she will help you identify whether you should take HCI supplements.
A very small minority of people actually have high stomach acid levels, though their number is considerably lower than we are sometimes lead to believe.
BEWARE A BACTERIUM CALLED HELICOBACTOR PYLORI
If you do have low stomach acid levels, then you should also look to test for the presence of a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori before you start taking HCI supplements.
H. pylori is the most common chronic bacterial pathogen in humans. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| EDUARDO
I cannot afford all the required supplements, yet even so I am vigilant about my organic food intake. I juice organic fruits and vegetables. My vegan lifestyle supplies me with constant energy throughout the day. I remember the times I crashed with exhaustion in the past around midday. Instead of being home with upper respiratory infections, today they are mild annoyances. My healthy body recuperates easily without absences from work.
MONICA JACKSON
My husband and I were introduced to a physical and emotional lifestyle change at Gary's health retreat. |
| John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) his "first choice for antidepressant treatment for most people," although he is emphatically against using anything, including natural supplements, as "magic bullets" for a disease as complex as depression. "Rather than just recommending a different kind of pill for them to take," his holistic approach includes treatment for "the levels of thought and the spiritual level, which might encompass psychotherapy, spiritual practices like prayer and meditation, and lifestyle interventions like light therapy and exercise.
"The raw material of St. |
| Then you have to take orthomolecular nutritional therapy, intravenously or with intramuscular shots, along with oral supplements of all the nutrients."
Dr. Hodes credits clinical ecologists with having made a major contribution in the treatment of people with Alzheimer's disease when they recognized the importance of four- to five-day diversified food-rotation diets. In a food-rotation diet, you eat a variety of foods and no one food more than once or twice a week—thus eliminating the food allergens to which you are generally "addicted. |
| Omega-3 is found in fish and green leafy plants like spinach and in supplements you can buy like flaxseed oil and fish oil. You can't get them any other way. Most Americans do not eat enough fish and greens. If you look at other countries, you can predict the prevalence of depression in the population just by knowing the average annual fish consumption. In Germany, the average person eats just 20 pounds of fish per year and they have a very high rate of depression there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| I called a lot of people in the vanguard of using new supplements and nobody seemed to know anything about it." So Dr. Sahelian decided to try it for himself.
Patient Story: Pregnenolone_
/ bought a bottle of 10 milligram pills and started in the morning. I took it for about a week and honestly, I didn 'tfeel much. The year before, I had taken DHEA, also starting with 10 milligrams. I had felt a little bit of energy, a little bit of mood elevation, so I thought maybe pregnenolone didn't have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier in the brain. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 His Stanford colleague Michael Kohane, an expert in fruit flies, had been studying the effects of supplements of nicotinamide adenine din-ucleotide (NAD) on his fruit fly specimens. An important cofactor for enzymes, NAD helps in energy metabolism within cells by transporting hydrogen, which is essential in setting the fly's built-in timer for larval development. Energy availability also directly affects an organism's fitness. |
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