Amarjit S. Basra
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 Indeed, olive mill waste waters contain high amounts of phenolics which are currently discarded but can be recovered by a newly developed technology and employed in preservative chemistry or as nutritional antioxidant supplements.22
Depending on its degree of acidity, olive oil is classified into different grades that also serve as guidelines for the consumer in the choice of the preferred kind of oil. From this classification, it can be concluded that the most valuable kind of olive oil is the extra virgin variety, obtained from intact olives that are quickly processed and cold-pressed. |
| These data imply that patients should use caution when combining garlic supplements with saquinavir when it is used as a sole protease inhibitor.
The use of herbal products to treat a wide range of conditions is on the rise, leading to increased intake of phytochemicals. The data just presented represent recent studies that reveal potentially fatal interactions between herbal remedies and traditional drugs. A recent review by Ioannides summarizes many herbal remedies with the potential to modulate enzyme activities and thus participate in interactions with conventional drugs. |
| The effect of garlic supplements on the pharmacokinetics of saquinavir, Clin. Infect. Dis., 34: 234-238.
38. Ioannides, C, 2002, Topics in xenobiochemistry-pharmacokinetic interactions between herbal remedies and medicinal drugs, Xenobiotica, 32: 451-478.
39. Tikkanen, M.J., Wahala, K., Ojala, S., Vihma, V., and Adlercreutz, H., 1998, Effect of soybean phytoestrogen intake on low density lipoprotein oxidation resistance, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95: 3106-3110; Caccetta, R.A.A., Burke, V., Mori, T.A., Beilin, L.J., Puddey, I.B., and Croft, K.D. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Because there is always the potential for dangerous interactions between herbs, dietary supplements, and medications, it is essential that you consult a knowledgeable physician before considering any of these approaches.
SAVING MONEY, STAYING SAFE
Skyrocketing drug costs are wrecking everyone's budget. Ask any director of a hospital pharmacy and she will tell you that medicines are breaking the bank. Employers are complaining, state budgets are busted, and if you have to pay for your own prescriptions, you know firsthand how costly your pills are. |
| Anyone who is prescribed oral antibiotics needs to know when to take them and whether they should delay taking other treatments, such as supplements or antacids. Patients should discuss all the pros and cons of oral (systemic) antibiotic therapy with the doctor prescribing it. Certain drugs may cause rare but potentially serious side effects, such as the pseudomembranous colitis that is sometimes seen with clindamycin.
One study found that people using antibiotics (oral or topical) to treat their acne were about twice as likely to come down with an upper respiratory tract infection. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| Medicinal crops are valuable as sources of fresh and dry herbs, essential oils, botanicals, food supplements, and pharmaceuticals. The main approach to improve the agronomic and quality traits of plants has been through classical genetics and breeding. This approach has been tremendously successful and has yielded a huge number of crop varieties with unique agronomical attributes. However, the implementation of classic genetic methodologies is a relatively slow process and depends on the relatively narrow genetic variability within many crop plants. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| If oral supplements are necessary because sun exposure is not practical, we recommend anywhere from 800 IU to 1,200 IU per day. Do not overdose, though. Keep your total intake under 2,000 IU daily. confused about sun exposure. Dermatologists have been issuing dire warnings for decades. They tell us that the sun causes wrinkles, age spots, and skin cancer. If we go out in the sun without slathering on the sunscreen, we've been led to believe we're living dangerously.
If we spend a lot of time soaking up the rays this is indisputably true. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 The agouti mothers who didn't get the supplements produced yellow pups, which ate much more than the brown pups. The yellow pups wound up weighing almost twice as much as their lean, "pseudo-agouti" counterparts.
The University's photo on the previous page is striking. Though the two mice are genetically identical, they are radically different in appearance: one mouse is lean and brown and the other mouse is obese and yellow. What you can't see in the picture is that the obese mouse is diabetic while its genetically identical counterpart is healthy. |
Jack Challem
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 The risk associated with a VDR-gene polymorphism can be easily offset by spending more time in the sun (prompting the body's manufacture of vitamin D) or by taking vitamin D supplements.
The definition of what is and is not a disease is in transition, a situation that begs us to be cautious in equating a genetic predisposition
153 with an actual disease. In an article in the journal Science, Dr. James G. |
| Theanine supplements are available in health foods stores. Follow label directions, because products vary. Another and more preferable option is to simply drink one or two cups of green tea daily. Gamma-Amino Butyric Acid (GABA). This amino acid also functions as a neurotransmitter, and nutritionally oriented physicians often use GABA to treat anxiety. A study by researchers at the University of
Utah School of Medicine identified part of the mechanism. GABA helps the brain filter out distracting signals—background noise, so to speak—that impair thinking. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The logic of using them as supplements is much too particular and superficial. It ignores the dynamic of nature. It's much safer to consume these carotenoids in their natural context, in highly colored fruits and vegetables.
The second study42 compared a total of 421 macular degeneration patients (cases) with 615 controls. Five of the leading clinical centers specializing in eye diseases and their researchers participated in this study. The researchers measured the levels of antioxidants in the blood, rather than the antioxidants consumed. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| Isoflavone supplements and lipid lowering, International Congress of Endocrinology, Sydney.
29. Kraft, K., 1997, Artichoke leaf extract: Recent findings reflecting effect on lipid metabolism, liver and gastro-intestinal tracts, Phytomedicine, 4: 369-378.
30. Harvey, R., 1995-1996, Lycopus europatus and Lycopus virginalis: A review of the scientific literature, British Journal of Phytotherapy, 4: 55-65.
31. Auf 'molk, M., Ingbar, J.C., and Kubofa, K. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 But when the New England Journal of Medicine published two independent studies in 1975 showing that women on estrogen supplements had a 4.5 times increased risk of endometrial cancer, sales of Premarin began plummeting.52 The fear of cancer trumped the desire to be feminine forever. It is not hard to imagine that lawsuits could have brought on bankruptcy for Wyeth. That didn't happen. In fact, by 1995 over 44 million Premarin prescriptions were being filled each year in the U.S., making it once again the nation's top-selling drug. But how? |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Quality whole food supplements are bio-available, nourish the cells, and do not cause nutritional imbalance or toxicity. They are available in convenient powders, capsules, and tablet form to suit individual needs.
How do you know if a product is a whole food supplement? Read the ingredients label. It will read like a grocery list (i.e., carrots, beets, spinach, kelp, broccoli, barley grass, etc.) rather than a list of isolated vitamins that have been extracted from food and isolated from their companion nutrients (i.e., Vitamin A, B, C, and so on). |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| Each of us is a complex biological system that responds differently to drugs, herbs, dietary supplements, and home remedies. The best we can do is to pay careful attention to how our body responds to whatever treatments we try.
You Are What You Eat
No one really understands why some people develop osteoarthritis at a relatively early age while others seem fairly immune to aches and pains well into their eighties. We used to think this kind of arthritis was due to wear and tear. If you accumulated enough birthdays, the theory went, you were bound to damage joints. But that's not always true. |
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 The techniques below can also help you to relieve neck pain.
Hydrotherapy: Relieve neck pain with an ice massage. Freeze water in a plastic cup, remove the ice, and after rubbing your neck with your hand to prime the area,! rub the ice on your neck for 5-15 minutes. (Wear a glove or mitt to protect your hand from the cold.)
Imagery: Picture your neck pain as a ball that has a particular size, shape, color, and texture. It may be as small as a marble or as large as a basketball. Allow the ball to grow larger and larger. As it does, the pain may momentarily increase. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Supplements are retained in the body longer if taken with simple carbohydrates, like fruit juice. SEE under Energy in Chapter Seven.
•L-GLUTAMINE (C5 H10 N2 03) A crystalline Amino acid precursing Glutamic acid.
WORKS WITH: L-Leucine, L-Tyrosine, Vitamin B6, Folic acid, and Magnesium. RANGE: 1-2 grams per day. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 The sales of Herbs and herbal nutritional supplements in the US increased 101% between May 1996 and May 1998. The most popular herbal products included Ginseng (Ginkgo biloba), Garlic (Allium sativum), Echinacea spp. and St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) [12].
Traditional and Complementary Alternative Medicine are gaining more and more respect by national governments and health providers. |
Ralph Moss, PhD
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 The U.S. government persecuted Kelley in the 1970s. Yet today, the NCI has committed over a million dollars to test the work of Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D., who follows the Kelley method.
There now is a committee at the National Institutes of Health whose sole purpose is to advise the government on alternative cancer treatments and an NCI office to coordinate its efforts. So things are changing.
What caused die cancer establishment to change?
Twenty-five years of struggle by thousands of individuals. Hundreds of popular books detailing advances in nutritional medicine. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Those men with low dietary intakes of beta-carotene who took the supplement form of the antioxidant (calculated at about 2000 mg/day) had a decreased risk of prostate cancer. By study end, just 1,338 men had been diagnosed with prostate cancer (38.9% with the advanced form of the disease). However, no association was found between supplementation with beta-carotene and risk of prostate cancer in men with normal baseline plasma levels of the antioxidant (Kirsh et al 2006). |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Yet again, we see that while supplements may give great wealth to supplement manufacturers, they will not give great health to you and me.
When all was said and done, this study found that macular degeneration risk could be reduced by as much as 88%, simply by eating the right foods.*1
At this point you may be wondering, "Where can I get some of those carotenoids?" Green leafy vegetables, carrots and citrus fruits are all good sources. Herein lies a problem, however. |
Greg Critser
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 Putting aside all of the off-label prescribing and the taking of supplements, seniors were using more pills than ever before. Over-the-counter medication use was also at an all-time high. Among seniors and, for that matter, the general population, polypharmacy was no longer seen as a problem. It was an opportunity.
And it was, when one backed up and looked at it all — away from the political Sturm und Drang of Medicare drug benefits and HMOs — a strange and wonderful thing to behold. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 As I became aware of the discrepancy between manufacturers, I drew on my professional training and experience as a compounding pharmacist to establish criteria that would insure that any product in my shop and on my website was safe and effective.
My criterion for my private-label products was and is simple yet non-negotiable: quality and truth in labeling. This means that for my own private-labeled line, as well as other natural health product lines that I carry, I require stringent guidelines for their manufacturing process. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Almost all of the billions of dollars of taxpayer money expended by the NIH each year funds projects to develop drugs, supplements and mechanical devices. In essence, the vast bulk of biomedical research funded by you and me is basic research to discover products that the pharmaceutical industry can develop and market. In 2000, Dr. Marcia Angell, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, summarized it well when she wrote20:
... the pharmaceutical industry enjoys extraordinary government protections and subsidies. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 As far as I know, mine is the only health newsletter and website that does not sell supplements or take advertising. I am going one step beyond. In addition to all of the above, I am not going to receive any compensation in any form, directly or indirectly, from any of the products that I endorse or recommend. This way my newsletter, the books that I write, and all the informational publications I publish, on DVD, VHS tape, and internet websites, can be produced and sold without the FTC being able to do anything about it. Why? |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 From magnets to mattresses, supplements, traction devices, shoe inserts, and even spring-loaded cushioned shoes, a lucrative industry has developed in search of the quick fix. Unfortunately, patients will experience only a temporary improvement (or an equivalency reaction) with these "placebo" devices. Finally, the media's affinity for controversy can be misleading to the public with statements such as "The [White House] promised relief today to millions of workers with aching backs, crippled fingers, sore wrists, and other physical problems caused or aggravated by their jobs. |
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| Below is some advice on how to protect against this type of injury.
Wear the right shoes: Prevention is the most effective way to treat shin splints. Athletes, especially runners who are overpronators, tend to suffer shin splints most. Overpronation occurs when the feet roll inward too much. To avoid this, it is important to get the right shoes and/or the right insole. |
| Below are some suggestions of other types of therapies that can relieve the pain.
Prolotherapy: With this treatment, a solution of simple compounds (usually dextrose or calcium carbonate) is injected at the point of the injury. This triggers an inflammation response that increases the blood supply and delivers the nutrients necessary to promote the growth of new cells and repair damaged connective tissue. Consult a naturopathic practitioner who practices prolotherapy regarding treatment.
Massage and hydrotherapy: Massage may be helpful in relieving pain and improving range of motion. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 You can obtain all of these supplements directly from suppliers' websites. See Appendix IV for more information.
Summary
You have now learned what you need to do to address your food intolerance(s). You have been given an outline of how to identify and tackle other conditions with remedial plans to hasten your progress, and in some cases achieve what could never be achieved through diet alone. I hope you will emerge all the healthier for having done so. You are now armed with guidelines about how to avoid food intolerances in the future as well as how to eat more healthily than before. |
| You can obtain all of the supplements referred to in this book from the Allergy Research Group and the Biotics Research Corporation, by contacting the two companies directly.
Allergy Research Group
2300 North Loop Road
Alameda
California 94502
Tel: 800-545-9960 or 510-263-200 Fax: 800-688-7426 or 510 263-2100 email: [email protected] website: www.allergyresearchgroup.com
Biotics Research Corporation
6801 Biotics Research Drive
Rosenberg
Texas 77471
Tel: 800-231-5777 or 281-344-0909
Fax: 281-344-0725 website: www.BioticsResearch. |
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