Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| There are professional nutritionists who say we should use supplements and there are also those who say a balanced diet will provide enough vitamins. I am not going to summarize the evidence to both views; I favor supplementation. Here are my reasons.
1. The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for vitamins are felt by many experts to be too low. Dr. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Apparently, the "active ingredient" in lecithin is an oil called phosphatidyl choline, and supplements containing only phosphatidyl choline are probably the most efficient way to obtain whatever good is in lecithin.
And plenty of good there is, too. Here is just a quick sampling of the evidence. As you read it, keep in mind that LDL cholesterol is considered an actual risk factor for heart disease, while HDL cholesterol is regarded as protective.
Sweden, 1974: Five 50-year-old men took 1.7 grams of lecithin per day for nine weeks, also abstaining from alcohol. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Pauling, "Clinical Trial of High Dose Ascorbic Acid supplements in Advanced Human Cancer," Chemico-Biological Interactions 9 (1974), p. 285.
12. R. Samberger, "Possible Inhibitory Effect of Selenium on Human Cancer," Canadian Medical Association Journal 100 (1969), p. 682.
13. G. N. Schrauzer, "Selenium and Cancer: a Review," Bioinorganic Chemistry 5 (1976), pp. 275-281.
14. G. Greeder and J. A. Milner, "Factors Influencing the Inhibitory Effect of Selenium on Mice Inoculated with Ehrlich Ascites Tumor Cells," Science 209 (August 15, 1980), pp. 825-827.
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Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 Physiological effects of dietary clay supplements." Final report on contract number NAS 9-3905, 1965, available from NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX.
2. Smith, R.R. "Recent Advances in nutrition: clay in trout diets." Presented at the USTAFA Convention, no date.
3. Britton, R.A., Dolling, D.P. & Klopfenstein, T.J. "Effect of com-plexing sodium bentonite with soybean meal or urea in vitro ruminal ammonia release and nitrogen retention in ruminants." Journal of Animal Science, 46, 1738, 1978
4. Quisenberry, J.H. & Bradly, J.W. "Sodium bentonite feeding experiments. |
Richard Lucas
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 To mention one example, he reported that 12 out of 15 patients experienced an average reduction of serum cholesterol of 156 milligrams after three months of taking soybean lecithin supplements daily. He points out that a low-fat diet alone had failed to lower the cholesterol level in these patients.
Dr. Morrison also mentions that two of these patients had a history of angina pains, but after they took lecithin for three months "the symptoms of angina disappeared..."
The initial amount of 36 grams (6 tablespoons) of lecithin administered by Dr. Morrison is relatively high. |
| In addition to lowering excessive cholesterol, soybean lecithin supplements provide many other remarkable health benefits.
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SUAN—NATURE'S MEDICINE
Suan is the Chinese name for garlic. This little bulb has been known in China from earliest times and was mentioned in the Calendar ofHsia, a book written 2,000 years before Christ. According to Chinese tradition, when Emperor Huang-Ti was climbing a mountain some of his followers ate the leaves of a poisonous plant and became deathly ill. By eating wild garlic which was found growing in the area, their lives were saved. |
Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon
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 Investigators have documented that vitamin E supplements seem to lower the risk of heart disease by about one third and boost the cardioprotective action of beta carotene.5 Vitamin E, like aspirin, also helps blood flow freely by promoting factors that prevent clots. Vitamin E could create havoc when taken with Coumadin, because this vitamin apparently adds to the effect of the blood thinner. Clearly, if you take an anticoagulant, don't undertake self-treatment with vitamin E. Your doctor should be monitoring any such supplementation very closely. |
| How many people take their supplements and antibiotic together? Most of us find it much easier just to swallow the whole handful of pills at once and forget about it until it's time for the afternoon dose of tetracycline. But once you learn about minerals, you won't want to take them at the same time as this antibiotic.
A woman being treated for Chlamydia infection might not know it was not clearing up. Her doctor might not realize it, either. Weeks and months could go by before he discovered the problem, and by then serious complications that can lead to infertility might be in progress. |
| Mineral supplements and Tetracycline
Tetracycline is one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in the world. It is cheap and quite effective for treating all kinds of maladies from acne to sexually transmitted diseases. It is the drug of choice against a Chlamydia infection, which can cause scarring of the fallopian tubes and infertility. Tetracycline is also the primary treatment for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a potentially deadly disease transmitted by wood ticks.
When tetracycline (Achromycin V, Sumycin, etc. |
| Both beverages (but especially tea) may interact with supplements taken to combat iron deficiency anemia. The tannins in the tea grab on to the iron in the supplement and keep it from being absorbed. Whether the iron is in a pill all by itself, such as Feosol or Femiron, or combined with other nutrients as a vitamin supplement with iron, it will be wasted if it is taken at breakfast with coffee or tea.
Iced tea lovers will also have to be wary. Someone who has a healthy spinach salad or an egg salad sandwich will not absorb the iron if they drink iced tea with their lunch. |
| Are there any vitamins or supplements I should avoid?
7) Are there any precautions or warnings I should know about?
8) Are there any contraindications that would make this drug inappropriate?
9) Which other medicines should I avoid?
10) Are there any OTC remedies I should avoid?
11) What side effects are common with my medicine?
12) Are there any symptoms that are so serious you would want to know about them immediately?
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Chapter Three
Lethal Drug/Drug Combinations
What makes a drug interaction dangerous? |
| Federal bureaucrats generally have been skeptical about the need for supplements or the existence of nutritional problems. Unless people start developing classic deficiency diseases such as scurvy, pellagra, or beriberi, no one is likely to worry.
Such clear-cut and dramatic cases of deficiency disease are almost unknown in the United States today. We have heard that there were cases of pellagra on hospital wards in the American South until the early 1960s, but none has been seen for decades. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 I have been free of the angina; I am taking all the recommended supplements and vitamins. I have high blood pressure and cholesterol, am overweight. Spiritually I am more attuned to my surroundings, try to learn more about other people, their customs. Also, I get in touch with my own beliefs and thoughts. Try to help others—if thru w^nt mi/ hrln
When I started the program, I was mostly interested to learn to avoid old age diseases and to avoid possibly having to go later into an old age home. Now I know that I do not have to acquire the diseases that most older people succumb to. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| I did not know how much, how often, and which ones of the various supplements were needed for any particular patient or problem. I also realized that I did not know when to quit the vitamin shots. Was the patient the best judge?
Although I was stumped as to how to proceed further, this avenue of treatment at least told me that injected vitamins and minerals was a valid approach to treating people as an alternative to the use of toxic drugs. It became my first line of therapy. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 The FDA's plan is to remove the agents used by alternative physicians, such as supplements and herbs,
THE PERILS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Injury, even death, from prescription drugs has now become routine. That is the view of Thomas J. Moore, senior fellow in health policy at the George Washington University Medical Center and author of Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet. |
| Periodic blood tests can then be used to tell how the body is progressing in its healing ability and when supplements or the diet itself need to be altered again."
The Future of Biological Dentistry
Mercury and other dental materials contribute to many of the degenerative diseases for which patients seek medical help today. Traditional dentistry and medicine have not yet recognized this growing danger, but biological dentistry is confronting it head-on. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 Increasing calcium intake alone, mostly via supplements, is rarely enough.
In truth, the scientific jury is still out on this calcium-consumption approach to the problem of preventing bone loss. While some scientists recommend that all postmenopausal women consume up to 1,500 milligrams of calcium per day—almost twice the National Academy's Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of 800 milligrams—a growing body of research suggests only those women who are consuming low amounts of dietary calcium should up their intake.
A bone-mineral study at our research center came to a similar conclusion. |
| Incidentally, there is no evidence that regular exercise increases the requirement for specific vitamins or minerals, so do not feel that, as a serious athlete, you have to take supplements.
Fluids—Keep on Drinking
We've emphasized the need for fluid replacement throughout this book. We come back to it once again because it's the older athlete who is at greatest risk of dehydration.
As we pointed out in Part One, age diminishes our thirst and kidney function. These changes can lead to a state of chronic dehydration in older people. |
| For some people over 70 years old, supplementation may make sense. When supplements are used, the nutrients in the table should be present in any multivitamin or multimineral preparation you choose. For individual recommendations tailored to unique needs, the advice and counsel of a physician or trained, registered dietitian is helpful.
RATS ARENT PEOPLE
We don't want to leave this subject without commenting briefly on the long series of caloric-restriction studies done on rats over the last fifty years. |
Frank A. Oski, M.D.
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 Breast-fed babies who received supplements of cow milk do no better than infants who only receive cow milk. This suggests that if a baby is to benefit from breast milk he must receive breast milk alone.
The study in Chile also demonstrated that as income rose, mothers tended to switch from breast feeding to bottle feeding. This switch accounted for the striking finding that mortality rates for infants was higher in the families with better incomes.
The protective value of breast feeding has also been demonstrated in a series of studies in Guatemala. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Finally, even though I have discussed a multitude of nutrients and drugs that can provide some protection against excitotoxin damage, I am in no way encouraging you to use these supplements to justify a continued use of excitotoxic food additives. This is especially true for those at high risk for excitotoxic damage and for developing one of the neurodegenerative diseases.
Appendix I
HIDDEN SOURCES OF MSG
As discussed previously, the glutamate manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise MSG added to food. |
| The only time I have even a glowing spot in my vision is when I forget to take one of my supplements. It is important to prevent migraine attacks since sometimes permanent strokes can result. Before I had discovered these preventive measures I saw a man in my office who had developed the identical symptoms I had suffered, but his blindness persisted. His migrainous attack was so intense that he had a stroke in the visual part of his brain that left him blind in one half of his visual field. |
| It should be remembered that correction of magnesium deficiency in other body tissues by taking magnesium supplements can take as long as six months to be completed.419 So dietary correction of magnesium deficiency can be a very slow process.
But what about humans? How do they react to low magnesium levels? There is evidence that similar neurological problems do occur in humans. For example, one journal article reported the case of an elderly lady who had taken diuretics for hypertension 420 As a result her serum magnesium levels became very low. |
| These recommendations in no way imply that you can cure ALS or even totally prevent it from occuring merely by avoiding excitotoxin food additives or by taking supplements. But it is entirely possible that these measures may slow down the progress of the disease and may in some instances delay the onset of the disease in susceptable individuals. In the future, special drugs may be designed which can attain these lofty goals.
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| These vital supplements should be supplied by the diet because when deficient, serious disease can occur. Far too many physicians, because of a neglect of nutritional courses in medical training, do not appreciate the critical nature of these nutrients in human health.
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| I would just caution the reader to avoid excess doses in the forms of supplements. (No more than 25 milligrams twice a week.)
7. While there is as yet no proof, it makes sense that general stimulation of the nervous system should be avoided by individuals at the greatest risk of developing one of the neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, ALS, and Parkinson's disease. Caffeine is a mild brain stimulant. Seizures are known to occurs when large doses of caffeine are ingested. When caffeine stimulates the brain cells it increases their metabolism and hence demand for energy. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 A solution has been found: administrative law, administered by bureaucrats. It supplements criminal prosecution, which remains a threat that makes physicians more likely to submit meekly to the bureaucrats.
Administrative Law
Administrative remedies against physicians have a historical precedent: The Star Chamber in Westminster Palace, London, once used to curb the power of the British nobility. Because of its own abuse of power, the Star Chamber was abolished in 1641. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| When they took calcium and magnesium supplements, the dairy-craving stopped. These children were '' looking'' for calcium, and somehow their bodies knew it was in the milk. However, the children were sensitive to dairy products (history of ear infections, colic, phlegm, asthma, and most had dark circles under their eyes). The cells lining the intestines were injured by the allergic reaction and were unable to break down the milk to retrieve the calcium. The more milk they drank, the more the intestines rejected it. A catch-22. But their bodies were trying to tell them that they needed calcium. |
Annemarie Colbin
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 For example:
• Excess minerals or even vitamins (in the form of supplements, salt, concentrated foods, or herbs) will cause a need for more fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and water—in short, more food. Everyone knows, that, among other things, salt creates thirst; but it can also create artificial hunger. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| We all need supplements. But how much and which ones?
Your Senses Tell Your Needs
CLUES ABOUT VITAMIN AND MINERAL DEFICIENCIES
The olfactory or smelling sense helps to indicate deficiencies or excesses. John Kitkoski spent considerable time and effort to find laboratories that manufacture the purest products available. When you open a bottle from the kit, what you smell is what is on the label. What you smell is what you get. Many people like the smell of a particular vitamin or mineral and yet they have no symptoms suggesting a deficiency. |
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