Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 An earlier British study comparing the effects of vegan to omnivorous diets also found elevated
TSH levels and goitrogenic effects among the vegans, even after excluding the three persons with the highest TSH levels because they had taken kelp supplements.60 Vegans with zinc and/or B12 deficiencies could be particularly vulnerable to thyroid damage. Zinc is required for adequate thyroid function and cobalt—central to the vitamin B12 molecule—is needed for synthesis of thyroxine. |
Rebecca Wood
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 You won't find entries for alcoholic beverages, supplements, meat, fish, eggs, dairy products (except butter), or other animal foods—the scope is the vegetable realm. I include butter for its inimitable medicinal and culinary properties. I've included honey (sometimes classified as an animal food) because it is a useful whole foods ingredient. I've included several foods sold as supplements: microalgae and barley and wheat grass juice. Unlike other supplements that are isolated food components, these are remarkable whole foods, ones that I heartily recommend to you. |
Mike Adams
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| To put all this in another way, you can do everything right in terms of nutrition, you can avoid all of the foods that cause disease, you can take all of the supplements that prevent disease, but if you aren't moving that nutrition into every cell in your body, it's almost the same as not getting it in the first place. And the only way to get nutrition into every cell in your body is to move your body and use it: practice exercising and stretching and flexibility training. If you can, take up yoga or pilates. Start walking or biking or jogging or doing something that moves your body. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Enzymes produced by S. mutans for the purpose of utilizing dietary sugars are highly related to the cavity-causing ability of this bacterium. These enzymes allow the bacteria to form larger areas of plaque on the tooth surface, which in turn lead to the formation of cavities. Polyphenols extracted from tea can lessen the risk of cavities by arresting the production of one of these enzymes, called glucosyl-transferase. When polyphenols are added to their drinking water, animals develop far fewer cavities and accumulate less plaque. |
David Wolfe
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 Edible clays (bentonite and others) as well as enzyme supplements are often helpful as well.
Hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid) is a more difficult situation and has many causes that are all related to internal toxicity and an excessive amount of acid-forming minerals in the body. An individual with this condition should have their iodine levels checked by a naturopathic doctor or physician. (If iodine is absent, two tablespoons of raw kelp seaweed should be daily added to the diet). |
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| Beneficial supplements that I have noted over years to be helpful with pancreatic conditions include: supplemental enzymes (i.e. Beauty Enzymes) and MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane) powder.
33% FATS
Fatty Fruits, Nuts, Coconuts, Seeds
The Sunfood Triangle: The Center Point
(Chlorophyll : Sugars : Fat)
If you are on insulin injections, please contact a naturopathic doctor to devise a plan to wean yourself down or completely off from insulin.
It takes years to heal a diabetic condition, but it can be healed by staying the path. |
Mike Adams
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| Avoid isolated vitamins and mineral pills
So what kind of supplements should you turn to? Well, first let's talk about what you should NOT turn to. You should NOT turn to isolated vitamins and minerals that are sold in low-cost bottles at your favorite discount retailer. What I mean by that is don't go out and buy a bottle of vitamin C, and don't go out and buy a bottle of calcium. Don't buy a bottle of lycopene or some other isolated plant chemical. Instead, you want to get your vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals from natural sources — plant sources. |
Marion Nestle
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 In 1989, tryptophan supplements produced by a Japanese petrochemical company, Showa Denko, caused eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS), an unusual constellation of symptoms of muscle pain, weakness, and increased blood levels of white cells (eosinophils). Eventually, more than 1,500 people who had taken the supplements became ill, and about 40 died. The FDA prevented further marketing of the supplement, and the company stopped making it.40
This example might just indicate that genetic techniques sometimes lead to unexpected problems, but this particular situation had additional implications. |
| Children who are even mildly deficient in vitamin A are at increased risk for early death, but health authorities can prevent an astonishing proportion of such deaths—more than half—with supplements of vitamin A (not beta-carotene). supplements are relatively inexpensive and need to be taken once every six months or so, but because they cannot always be obtained by the people who need them most, fortification of a commonly consumed food might be another way to solve a serious world health problem. |
Hyla Cass
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 Tocotrienols
Tocotrienols are a form of the antioxidant vitamin E. Naturally found in palm oil and available as a supplement, research suggests that tocotrienols are the most potent antioxidants in the vitamin E family. They also show promise for cancer prevention, especially for breast and skin cancer. Studies have found that they can bring down LDL cholesterol counts through the same mechanism as statins, and that they protect the heart.
Dose: Take 100 mg per day of tocotrienols. This dose is fine to take in addition to the tocopherol form of vitamin E that's usually found in multivitamins. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 The consumption of high-quality protein and supplements (especially vitamin Bg and magnesium) reverses to normal the early to middle stages of this potentially life-threatening disease. Even in later, more serious stages, administering amino acids or human albumin, vitamin B(„ and magnesium intravenously will eliminate the problem. Thete's just no excuse for allowing death from toxemia to claim the lives of more mothers.
Following is an interview with Dr. Tom Brewer. We challenge the NIH to release their decades-old study of his work!
The Work of Dr. Tom Brewer
From 1963 through 1976, Dr. |
Mike Adams
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 James Balch, author of the A to Z Guide To supplements, supports the same line of thinking:
The average American diet of meats, refined grains, and soft drinks (which are high in phosphorus) leads to increased excretion of calcium. Consuming alcoholic beverages, coffee, junk foods, excess salt, and/or white flour also leads to the loss of calcium by the body
- James F. Balch, M.D. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 As is well known, with aging there is an increase in the number of multiple co-occurring chronic conditions, including cognitive decline and dementia. Because the proportion of the population in the United States and other nations that are aged continues to increase, cognitive and motor deficits are growing rapidly. Cognitive impairment and dementia are major causes of disability in our nation, and their financial impact and long-term care costs are enormous. The major cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aging clearly results in declines in brain size, weight, and function [4-6]. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Magnesium supplements, in doses of 300 milligrams per day, appear to slow the progression of neuropathy over the long term.5
If You Have Nerve Damage
If the nerves of your feet have been damaged, it is important that you get regular checkups and protect your feet. If you have lost some feeling, check your feet daily for any sign of injury or infection, such as redness or swelling, and have it treated right away. Avoid walking barefoot. If you have lost some feeling in your feet, you may not know if you step on something that breaks the skin. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Besides, you can only use (if you have an efficient system) 4-10 percent of the available nutrients in these supplements due to their inorganic structure. Usable calcium has to go through the photosynthesis process that only plants go through; that is one of the reasons that plant food is such a reliable source of calcium and other nutrients. Read what the Journal of International Medicine had to say about the causes of osteoporosis:
Osteoporosis constitutes an important health problem in modern Western countries and is an increasing problem in the Far East. |
| Taking supplements is not the answer. These are inorganic, artificial substances that the body cannot metabolize fully. The answer is to eat a diet high in raw food (at least 75-80 percent). This way you ensure that you are getting the maximum amount of nutrients and by combining your food properly, you will get the maximum break-down and absorption of these nutrients. |
| In brief:
• Fruit contains all the nutrients we need
• Fruit allows the body to cleanse and repair itself
• Fruit in its natural state is appealing to all our senses
• All fruit leaves an alkaline residue or end product in the body
• Fruit regulates your blood sugar
If you follow Step 1 of Perfect Health you will find yourself satisfying the body's need for glucose and supplying yourself with ample vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants so that you will save yourself the cost of expensive, useless supplements, while at the same time benefiting your health. |
| After many mornings spent trying to swallow all these tablets and having the most awful aftertaste, I gave up; first, because since starting to take these supplements my "traveling pharmacy" grew daily to cope with the permanent headaches, constipation, nausea, and lethargy and second, my medical aid was pushed over the "threshold" with all these expenses. |
| Seems like you would be doing some serious damage if you continue to take supplements; remember that 90-96 percent of your hard-earned cash is being flushed away along with your bone mass.
A diet high in protein will also increase the urinary excretion of calcium. In March 1983, the Journal oj Clinical Nutrition reported the results of the largest study ever conducted on osteoporosis. Researchers at Michigan State University and other major universities found that by age sixty-five in the U.S. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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 On the boron-deficient diet, the women experienced increased loss of both calcium and magnesium. On the boron-supplemented diet, the opposite was true. Urinary excretion of calcium and magnesium was significantly diminished, and serum concentrations of 17 beta-estradiol, as well as testosterone, increased. The findings of the study suggest that maintaining adequate levels of boron, particularly in the presence of adequate levels of magnesium, can help prevent calcium loss and bone demineralization in postmenopausal women and, perhaps, others. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of ephedra supplements in February 2004 (US Food and Drug Administration, 2004). FDA exempted ephedra-containing preparations used by licensed acupuncturists and doctors of Oriental medicine for traditional indications (i.e., short-term use for respiratory disorders) so long as these preparations are not labelled as dietary supplements. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 For this reason, many multivitamin-mineral supplements do not contain phosphorus. The only exception is for elderly people, whose diets tend to be lower in phosphorus. Calcium interferes with phosphorus absorption, so older people who are taking a calcium supplement might benefit from taking additional phosphorus.117
What is the potential importance of taking magnesium?
Dietary magnesium deficiency may occur in up to 25% of adult women in the United States and in even higher numbers of elderly people of both sexes. |
Carlo Petrini
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 The content of the current multitude of newspaper columns and color supplements, TV programs and game shows all devoted to the subject of food and gastronomy is the clearest proof of this development, which has taken on the dimensions of a social trend. There is no in-depth cultural analysis, no real knowledge of the subjects discussed: traditions add "color," and often pure nonsense is talked for the sake of audience figures. Try an experiment yourself: ask ten people to tell you what gastronomy is. |
Tom Bohager
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 LACTOBACILLUS CASEI ž"Lactobacillus casei is effective in the treatment of intestinal infections. It inhibits tumors in mice and increases immunity in humans against bacterial and viral infections. L. casei encourages proper gastrointestinal function and elimination and maintains the balance of the gastrointestinal terrain."3 ž"Oral administration of Lactobacillus casei has been found to enhance innate immunity by stimulating the activity of. . . NK cells. The ability to switch mucosal immune responses ... with probiotic bacteria provides a strategy for treatment of allergic disorders. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| PUSH ME, PULL ME: SOY AND THYROID DRUGS
Boosting the thyroid with drugs like Synthroid, then depressing it with thyroid inhibitors like soy foods or isoflavone supplements can put extreme stress on the thyroid. Environmental scientist Mike Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., points out that this is the classic way that researchers induce thyroid tumors in laboratory animals. The fact that soy is "natural" does not make it safe or weak. A serving of soy food provides up to three times the goitrogenic potency of the pharmaceutical thyroid-inhibiting drugs methimazole and 6-propylthiouracil. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| A systematic review. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 84, 5-17.
100. Dyerberg, J., Bang, H. O., and Hjorne, N. (1975). Fatty acid composition of the plasma lipids in Greenland Eskimos. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 28, 958-966.
101. Richter, S., Duray, G., Gronefeld, G., et al. (2005). Prevention of sudden cardiac death: Lessons from recent controlled trials. Circ. J. 69, 625-629.
102. Mozaffarian, D., and Rimm, E. B. (2006). Fish intake, contaminants, and human health: Evaluating the risks and the benefits. JAMA 296, 1885-1899.
103. Siscovick, D. S., Lemaitre, R. N., and Mozaffarian, D. (2003). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 USP standards are enforceable by the FDA.
Chapter Four
The Weight Loss Lie
Over 50 million people spend more than $40 billion annually to lose weight, yet we are in the worst shape in the history of modern civilization.
Fat is Not a Four-Letter Word
Fat is not a word that people like to use to describe overweight people. In our politically correct society everything is called by a different name. It reminds me of comedian George Carlin's very funny act based on calling things by a different name to parody political correctness. He would say things like, "You can't call anyone ugly. |
Sue Palmer
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 But when human beings eat a balanced diet, supplements aren't generally necessary. Too much sugar is a sure way of putting the diet out of balance. In the words of Oxford scientist Bernard Gesch, 'There is evidence that nutrition can improve [developmental conditions J.More importantly, if careful diet can be used to treat these, it's possible we can also prevent them in the first place.'
The additive cocktail
While children may be missing out on essential nutrients, they are usually getting high doses of inessential additives. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Native Americans of the Southwest used yucca as shampoo, to treat wounds and sores, as well as symptoms of arthritis and rheumatism. Yucca root extract has no known unpleasant or harmful side effects. It is a rich source of vitamin A and B complex. It has a high content of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, manganese and copper. It is best to buy the liquid Yucca extract, without alcohol, from "Herb Farm" or other sources found on the Internet. Yucca capsules are being absorbed poorly by the body. |
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