| Besides a multiple, there are three other supplements to consider. The first is a calcium-magnesium supplement. No single-dose multiple supplies enough calcium and magnesium, so consider taking a calcium-magnesium supplement if you consume less than three glasses of nonfat milk and several servings of magnesium-rich soybeans, wheat germ, and dark green leafy vegetables each day. A supplement that supplies about 500 milligrams of calcium and 250 milligrams of magnesium will fill in any nutritional gaps in your diet.
DO KIDS NEED VITAMINS?
Most kids probably need a little nutritional insurance. |
| Ignore chloride, pantothenic acid, biotin, potassium, choline, and phosphorus, since the diet either already supplies optimal levels of these compounds or supplements contain too little to be useful. Also ignore nickel, iodine, vanadium, and tin; it's not clear whether we need these minerals.
• A multiple that provides approximately 100 percent, but no more than 300 percent, of the Daily Value for all nutrients provided. You want a balanced supplement, not one that supplies 2 percent of one nutrient, 25 percent of another, and 600 percent of another. |
Judith Wills
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 Vitamin E is important for maintaining healthy skin and for helping the healing process of all damaged tissue, including skin wounds, and one trial found that 600 mg per day supplements significantly improved levels of sperm activity in males with low fertility.
Wheat germ oil
145
Canola margarine
57
Sunflower oil
44
Sunflower seeds
38
Safflower oil
32
Hazelnuts, shelled
25
Sun-dried tomatoes
24
Almonds
24
Canola oil
22
Cod liver oil
20
Mayonnaise
19
Com oil
17
It is very rare for adults to show clinical symptoms of vitamin E deficiency. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
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 Melatonin supplements would be expected to help both as an antioxidant and as a regulator of other antioxidants. In both cases, supplementation should begin when the person is between forty and fifty-five years of age, long before the cataracts become an imminent threat.
Vitamin C was found to have little effect in one study, but apparently this study did not allow enough time. The more definitive study was published in the American Journal of Nutrition in October 1977, which followed 247 women ages 56 to 71 over a 10 to 12 year period. |
Leo Galland
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 Next, base supplementation on your specific symptoms and adjust your dosage according to how those symptoms change after you begin taking supplements. Allow about a month for changes to occur.
To nourish the cells of your body for optimal function:
?Read labels. Avoid foods that contain added sugar (including dextrose and corn sweetener), salt, or fat (including partially hydrogenated vegetable oils).
?Eat at least three servings of vegetables and two servings of fruit a day (iceberg lettuce, potatoes, and cucumbers should not be counted as vegetables, or you shortchange yourself).
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Stanley W. Jacob, M.D.
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 She had taken an array of supplements, homeopathics, and topical analgesics. She felt she was getting reasonable relief, particularly from the homeopathics and topicals, that allowed her to slightly push her time on the computer.
"I was still limited," she says. "If I overdid it, I would pay for it with pain."
An acquaintance told Oubre about how MSM had helped his shoulder tendinitis.
"I began taking 750 milligrams of MSM twice a day," she says. "After three or four days, I noticed improvement. After a week, the relief was significant. After two weeks, it was amazing. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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Physician-Dispensed Medications: These companies distribute nutraceutical medications that your doctor will have to order for you. |
| Write a list of all the supplements you are taking so there is a copy in your file. Update it periodically. Keep your alternative practitioner advised on what drugs you are taking, but don't expect her to answer questions on prescription medications that your medical doctor has ordered.
Ask the nurse, the prescribing medical doctor, or the dispensing pharmacist your questions concerning pharmaceutical drugs. Don't expect your medical doctor to know everything about vitamins; save those questions for your naturopath or nutritionist. |
| Mid-afternoon: Take the second dose of supplements, without food, along with a second glass of vegetable juice, and a second cup of UltraClear Plus or MediClear. a. Exercise for 10-20 minutes, or take a yoga class of 1-2 hours if you can
6. Dinner: Eat a full dinner, but only from the allowed food groups (see the list of allowed foods in strategy #2): a. Carbohydrate (choose one): rice, baked or boiled potato, baked yam, tofu b. Steamed vegetables or vegetable soup c. Mixed green salad
7. |
Peggy O'Mara
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 I was disappointed that there was no advice on how to support children's immunity before, during, and after vaccination programs. supplements and homeopathy have much to offer children who have reactions. I was also disappointed that more natural practitioners were not represented in the "experts" discussion.
In addition, I would like to see you explore the influence of medicine on natural evolution. Evolutionary biology has concentrated on microbes without paying attention to the population with which they interact. The outcomes are dire. |
Leo Galland
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| Although Swank's data indicate that patients who followed his regimen fared better than those who did not,39 neither low-fat diets nor
EFA supplements have become standard therapy for MS. In fact, there has been no standard therapy for MS, because no drug has been shown to alter the long-term prognosis.40
During five years on the Swank diet, Linda fared pretty well. She had no further episodes of optic neuritis and no progression of muscle weakness. She even recovered enough strength in her foot to be able to walk or run without a limp. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D.
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| With most supplements I've taken over the years I could never tell the difference," says Magers. "With this one, I can tell a difference."
"MSM Soaking" for Athletes
In the chapter on osteoarthritis, we mentioned a promising use for MSM as a hot-tub soak to relieve pain. Dick Brown, Ph.D., of Coburg, Oregon, one of the premier track and field coaches in the United States, has been exploring the soak concept for athletes as well. He feels ir offers "tremendous potential" for speeding muscle recovery from hard training and as a preventive and therapeutic aid against injury. |
| I have been taking other supplements for years but when I added MSM that made the difference."
Chapter Eight
Headaches
About Headaches ijjjleadaches are painful not just for the people who have them but for the doctors asked to treat them. In a 1994 survey conducted by Consumer Reports magazine, medical treatment for headaches was voted the single largest category of patient dissatisfaction—nearly 25 percent.
Such discontent implies a huge number of people. |
| Thus there may be a synergistic effect from combining rhese two supplements.
As a tribute to MSM's potency, some supplement companies have already begun adding MSM to their glucosamine sulfate formulations.
Patients have frequently asked my opinion about chondroitin sulfate, another popular nutritional supplement suggested for arthritis. I have not seen patients improve after adding chon-droitin sulfate, however.
MSM often allows patients on medication to reduce the number of pain pills they need and sometimes even eliminate them. |
| Medical World News, a periodical read by many doctors, led off its January 1993 issue with an article entitled "Vitamins: Emerging as Disease Fighters, Not Just supplements." The article said that new studies on the role of vitamins are shifting the foundations of nutrition research, policy, and public health in this country.
A whole new era appears to be dawning where physicians will be guided in their treatment of illness by integrative methods combining the best of pharmaceutical, surgical, and natural tools available to them. |
Michael Tierra
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 VJL These deficiencies are not resolved by taking expensive food supplements, most of which are rapidly eliminated through the urine and wasted. This is because the deficiency is due to imbalance and poor assimilation or rapid elimination of these important nutrients. (Persons with diets consisting primarily of fruits and vegetables will excessively eliminate minerals and vitamins from the system, despite the high intake accompanying these foods. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D.
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| For decades, only a small minority of nutritionally oriented physicians advocated supplements as a potent, safe, and inexpensive way to help treat illness and create optimum health.
Current nutritional research has weakened the conventional viewpoint and supported the minority idea. For one thing, nutritionists acknowledge that huge numbers of people fail to eat anything resembling a balanced or nutritionally sound diet. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Avoid taking iron supplements within two to three hours of using agrimony, chebula, gambir, green tea, uva ursi, white willow bark, or any form of St. John's wort other than hypericin-standardized capsules or tablets.
FORMULA formula comments
Four-Substance A traditional Chinese herbal formula that treats all forms Decoction of anemia.
Angina
Angina is a syndrome of squeezing or heavy pressure-like pain in the chest caused by an insufficient supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. It can also be experienced as pain in the left shoulder blade, left arm, or jaw. |
Leo Galland
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| By increasing the generation of free radicals, EFA supplements taken without vitamin E may impair some important components of the immune response.74 Vitamin E at a dose of only two hundred milligrams per day reverses EFA-induced immune suppression, even in people taking high doses of fish oil.75 Combined treatment with vitamin E and fish oil is especially beneficial for the function of phagocytes. The optimum dose of vitamin E for improving immune function is probably in the range of two hundred to four hundred milligrams per day. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Vitamin A supplements also are likely to be detrimental.
Some people with Parkinson's disease have been found to have high levels of lead in their brains. Chelation therapy is the only way to remove lead from the body.
LJ Iron supplementation appears to be beneficial to some people with Parkinson's disease. The production of tyrosine hydroxylase, an enzyme involved in the production of dopa (the precursor of dopamine), apparently can be stimulated by iron supplementation. However, consult with your physician before taking supplemental iron. |
| Other factors involved in ulcer formation include stress, taking certain drugs or supplements, excessive alcohol consumption, and a hereditary predisposition. A number of conventional medications are used to treat ulcers. (See under Considerations, below.)
The main symptom of peptic ulcer is a burning pain occurring before a meal, about an hour after a meal, or during the night. There may be discomfort in the chest or back. Other symptoms include headache, a choking sensation, itching, and nausea and/or vomiting. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 My waist used to be a size 43 and now is a size 36.1 weighed 249 pounds; now 1 weigh 210 and have solid muscle mass. My complexion and appearance are those of a man in his early thirties and my potency of a man in his twenties. My ankles are no longer swollen and new pulses, yes, new pulses, have developed where once they were dead. I no longer take any medications for all those problems, whereas 1 used to be on at least 15 prescriptions at a time. My insulin needs are down from 95 units a day to 35-45 units a day. |
| In November of 1995, while traveling in search of an answer, I was introduced to a man who exposed me to your Water Cure program and advised me to stick to it very seriously to get cured. I now began to seriously increase my water intake, but was still leery of increasing salt intake due to the tra-ditional medical contraindications for its perceived high blood pressure problems. Later I learned of the error of that thinking and began to increase my salt intake, too. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| One problem with the supplements is that they are not well absorbed by the body. A special form called quercetin chaconne appears to be better absorbed. Many experts recommend taking quercetin with bromelain, which increases the absorption of quercetin and many other medications. (See BROMELAIN under The Herbs in Part One.) Many naturopathic physicians recommend taking both quercetin and bromelain with vitamin C.
Quercetin interacts with many prescription medications, usually by prolonging the time they remain in circulation in the blood. |
Dr. Vern Cherewatenko and Paul Perry
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 Experts at the third International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus said exercise—along with a proper diet and supplements such as vitamin B6 and chromium—may help lower blood sugar. This, in turn, may reduce health risks to mothers and fetuses.
Monitoring your blood glucose levels is especially important during pregnancy, because the level can drop quickly as a result of exercise. Talk with your health care team about learning to maintain tight control during your pregnancy. |
| Although we still don't know all the subtleties of supplements, it is obvious that they should be a part of a healthy antidiabetes program.
Step 7: Stay Stress-Free
Although it is doubtful that stress can cause diabetes, there is little question that it can make it worse. It does this in two ways, and one of those is mental. When we are exposed to stressful situations, many of us have a tendency to eat or drink too much food or alcohol. Many experts think we consume extra calories because they bring us comfort in these times of distress. |
| Conte has researched HCA extensively, and has published several articles using HCA as the major component in various supplements designed to help people lose weight and control their glucose levels. Conte states that during the last eight years since he completed a double-blind study on the effectiveness and safety of HCA there have been substantial medical improvements in those patients taking HCA. |
Michael Tierra
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| The best-quality noni supplements are made from the unripened green fruit. Noni should be taken on an empty stomach before meals, since stomach acids and enzymes tend to destroy the specific enzyme that liberates the xeronine compound. Contraindications: Avoid using it during pregnancy or while nursing a baby.
Dose: Currently noni is available in juice, dried, encapsulated, and oil forms. Follow the dose indicated on the package. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 Some people have to avoid all milk products, while others can use lactase supplements or may be able to tolerate yogurt or cheese. There are several commercially available products that can be used in place of dairy if necessary. See the box on page 293 for a few of my personal favorites.
Hidden Food Allergies
A "food allergy" is an immediate or delayed adverse reaction to the ingestion of a specific food. |
Leo Galland
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| An increase in these symptoms with omega-three supplements is almost surely a sign to switch to GLA. Lack of response is usually a reason to add GLA. Controlled studies have demonstrated therapeutic benefits for people suffering from arthritis, eczema, and premenstrual syndrome.38 What is important in making therapeutic decisions, however, is not the disease but the patient. EFA therapy does not treat disease, it improves cellular function.
Linda Samuels is a petite, cheerful young woman with a scary medical history. At the age of twenty-five she developed pain in her eyes and blurred vision. |
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