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"Cod liver oil, unless it has been stripped of vitamin A and D, is very high in these fat-soluble vitamins, which can build up in the body and become toxic. Prostate "Remedy of Choice" ( SAW PALMETTO) It's at least as good as common prescription drugs and will probably leave you a whole lot happier. If you're a man over age fifty, the chances are fifty-fifty that you have an enlarged prostate, medically known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and the odds escalate as you grow older. It's no picnic." - Jean Carper, Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies (Get the book.) "Over two years only 40 percent on the vitamins developed new tumors, compared with 80 percent taking the drug only. Vitamin takers' survival time was thirty-three months versus eighteen months for the drug-only group. The cancer community is still agog over a spectacular 1996 study by Dr. Larry Clark of the University of Arizona, demonstrating the power of the trace mineral selenium against cancer." - Jean Carper, Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies (Get the book.)

"Taking vitamins as recommended 4. Eating the recommended amount of protein at each meal 5. Adjusting your carbohydrate intake to include more complex foods 6. Reducing or eliminating sugars (including alcohol) 7. Creating a plan for maintenance Step 2: Eating Three Meals a Day at Regular Intervals The second step for you to take is to eat three meals every day at regular intervals. This means eating nutritious food every day. The good news is that to master Step 2 you don't have to make any other changes in your food. You don't have to stop eating pasta or chocolate." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"When you cook your food, according to the Max Planck Institute, you coagulate 50 percent of your protein, 70-90 percent of your vitamins and minerals, and up to 100 percent of your phytonutrients. One of the phytonutrients, for example, called resveratrol, plays a very important role in activating the anti-aging genes. It is gaining growing recognition in fighting age-related diseases ranging from dementia to diabetes. On a live-food diet properly eaten, we actually eat 50 percent fewer calories as compared to a Standard American Diet (SAD), but maintain a very high level of nutrition." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"There are more than five hundred species of bacteria in your gut, most of them "good guys," helping you digest your food, produce vitamins, excrete toxins, regulate hormones, and generally keep your gut healthy and balanced. These functions are impaired when there are too many of the "bad guys" and not enough of the "good guys." But most important, an imbalance in the flora can damage the delicate gut lining and lead to Spent. Antibiotics are just one environmental element that can destroy the balance between good and bad." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"It turned out that he didn't respond too well to my program—the vitamins and the other things that I was doing—and finally I discovered from his mother, not from him, that he consumed 12 ounces of tomato juice every morning, and had since he was a child. That was one of his basic breakfast foods. And it turned out that he had a tomato allergy. Then his mother told me that she too had been allergic to tomatoes, but she hadn't touched them for at least 60 years." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The American psychiatric establishment—including Canada, and including the National Institute of Mental Health—has taken a very strong position against the use of vitamins in psychiatry and have yet to reverse their position, because they're slow learners." Dr. Garry Vickar believes that "doctors have a tendency to close their minds to anything other than what they read in their literature." He suggests that there are ways to help your physician be a part of the healing process. "The name of the game is getting better." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Your health care provider should always be up-to-date on all vitamins, supplements, and herbal or homeopathic remedies you are taking. Supplement overdoses are rare, but possible, and certain combinations may affect individuals adversely. curcumin DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol) NAC (N-acetylcysteine) nimodipine picamilon PS (phosphatidylserine) vitamin C For men: increase daily Side effects may include nausea, bloating, dosage from l gram to vomiting, sweating, and diarrhea; 2.5 grams. Taken in two extremely large doses can cause a heart-divided doses." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Medications and vitamins may contain traces of corn starch. To do a soya challenge test, eliminate the following foods for five days: tamari, soy flour, soya beans, soy protein isolate, vegetable protein, soy flour, soya, vegetable broth, soy protein, hydrolyzed soy protein, soy oil, soya bean oil, lecithin and soya lecithin. To do a nut challenge test, eliminate the following foods for five days: all nuts, almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, filberts, hazel nuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, peanuts and walnuts. Many foods are cross contaminated with nuts, so read the labels." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The investigators wanted to see how the vitamins would affect the ability of endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide for normal arterial dilation. Their conclusion: oral antioxidant supplements significantly restored function in smokers' damaged arteries. As this and many other studies are proving, supplement combinations have enhanced effects. Here are some outstanding examples: • Vitamin C or E alone decreases three-year carotid artery disease progression by 5 percent, but taken together, progression is slowed down 45 percent." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "I started recommending vitamins E and C and talking about diet and exercise to patients. Over time, I began to see improvement in patients who followed my suggestions. I was so impressed that I went for an advanced degree in nutrition. In the early 1980s, I learned about CoQIO, a vitamin depleted by poor diet and the aging process. This substance is a major chemical participant in cellular energy production. As such, it's critically important for strong pumping action of the heart. Plus it provides superb protection against arterial plaque formation." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Multivitamin/Mineral with Antioxidants First and foremost, as a foundation for any supplement program, you need a broad-spectrum "multi"—capsules or tablets packed with combinations of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other nutritional factors. Unfortunately, the really good formulas with potent amounts of therapeutically important substances cannot be crammed into a single pill. Usually, a daily serving involves two, three, or more pills. Our patients take multiformulas that consist of up to eight pills twice a day." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Like CoQIO, L-carnitine belongs to a group of nutrients similar to many vitamins in that they are obtained from the diet through food sources and also made in the body. L-carnitine performs two major functions inside the mitochondria: 1. L-carnitine transports fatty acids to be oxidized to make ATP. It alone does this essential shuttling job, so the body needs a lot of it. The normal heart derives 60 to 70 percent of its fuel from fat, so for anyone with heart disease, efficient fat delivery to the mitochondria is a must." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"It is recommended that you obtain your n-3 fatty acids from eating foods that contain the vitamins and minerals necessary to metabolize the fatty acids in your body. space of time, consistently associate fish consumption with slower cognitive decline.7 In addition to its alleged neuroprotection, n-3 fatty acids may have vascular benefits by increasing the dilation of veins and arteries, reducing the viscosity of our blood, and lowering the amounts of fats in the bloodstream." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Ultimately, it may be better to obtain your fish oils from real fish because you will also ingest vitamins and minerals that can help you metabolize the oil into its potentially neuroprotective components. However, one should be wary of high levels of mercury and other toxins found in some fish populations. Huperzine A. This Chinese herb has shown some facility for improving memory in elderly people. Huperzine A is an alkaloid isolated from club moss that acts as a cholinesterase inhibitor." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Other experts recommend eating antioxidant-rich diets full of fruits and vegetables, since it is theorized that such antioxidants as vitamins E and C and selenium may have the capacity to neutralize free radicals by donating their electrons to help with stability. An abundance of antioxidants, it is held, may preempt the chain reaction of damage to living cells in the body. These theories withstanding, the long-term effects of antioxidants have not been proven." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Yet, any disease is viewed as something that happens beyond your will, despite preventive medicine and simple rules of living (correct diet, physical training, suitable vitamins, stress lessening) that could bring about not only the decrease of psychosomatic disease (like refractive errors) but also increasing the level of personal well-being and living standards. Thus, health does not mean absence of disease, but a state of complete well-being concerning all personal aspects (emotional, mental, bodily)." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"If the food you eat is mostly organic, you are better ofF, as a couple of smaller studies have reported that organic produce contains higher levels of vitamins and minerals than do regular supermarket foods. Supplementation with concentrated food—like the greens powdered drink you are using—is the best way to ensure that you are getting optimal supplies of phytonutrients. But when you are Spent and living in an unnaturally polluted and stressful world, your need for other nutrients is also higher. After the greens powder, the first supplement that I suggest is a multivitamin." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The synthesis of coenzyme Qiq involves a complex process requiring the amino acid tyrosine and at least eight vitamins and several trace elements. The quinone ring of coenzyme Qio is formed from tyrosine. The polyisoprenoid side chain is made from acetyl-Coenzyme A. Thus, the structure of coenzyme Q10 includes a benzo-quinone, or chemical structure containing a six-carbon benzene ring featuring two sets of double-bonded carbons. The isoprenoid side chain is attached at the sixth carbon on the ring (see Figure 4.1 on page 67)." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"All in all, the end result is a healthier environment in the intestines in which more minerals and vitamins can be absorbed. Prebiotics: • stabilize the intestinal flora and ecology • improve gut health, thus improving absorption and digestion • increase the release of bone-modulating factors from foods, e.g." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "They have been referred to as the next essential fatty acids (omega-3s) or the new vitamins. Probiotics are more than just the latest new cheese or yogurt, they are the next step in nutritional wellness. Where Do Probiotics Come From? Where do all of these species of probiotics come from? Most of today's lactic acid bacteria strains used in probiotic supplements were isolated approximately 20 years ago from human, dairy and vegetal origins. It is these same strains that are found in the probiotic foods and supplements on the supermarket shelves today." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "A mother's probiotic flora helps with the production of vitamins essential for infant development. Probiotics inhibit bad microbes in the vagina from causing infections that can cause early labor. Probiotics also promote proper immune reactions in the mother, preventing the mother from having negative immune reactions that can harm the baby. The most important benefit of the mother's probiotics (maternal microflora) for the growing fetus is their ability to fight bad microbes." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Just taking them off their medications and replacing their drugs with vitamins, minerals, and other therapies yields miraculous results. How much of this is due to drug-on-drug interactions and how often additional medications are added to treat drug-induced side effects I can't say. All I know is that the more drugs someone takes, generally the worse off he is." "How much improvement can be expected when a person is taken off drugs and put on a healthier lifestyle? " Dr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Do you also give nutritional advice as regards vitamins? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "Definitely, we suggest programs that are specific to what a person's circumstances are and try to target him in that way. We don't try to put people on a cookie cutter type of program though." "If you have people with anxiety or psychiatric problems, what other advice do you give them to handle the situation? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "The bottom line is they need to find a way to get themselves off of that stuff." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Enzymes are substances within the body that enable vitamins, minerals or hormones to do their jobs. 358 Systemic: relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism "What successes have you had with the treatments? " Dr. Shyler L. Neveaux, AP: "We had a guy come in a wheel chair who had experienced an accident in a plane. At the age of 41/42 years old, he was unable to defecate or urinate on his own and was sexually incapable. After massage and acupuncture he finally regained feeling in his legs and feet and can walk again." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Many of these vitamins work together, and restoting all of them helps people get better fastet," says Robert Cathcart, M.D., a doctot in private practice in Los Altos, California. Vitamin C May Dry Up Blisters It's not exactly what you would call tecent research. But two studies, one from 1949 and anothet from 1950, suggest that people having shingles outbteaks get substantial telief from intravenous doses of large amounts of vitamin C." - The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books, Prevention's Healing With vitamins : The Most Effective Vitamin and Mineral Treatments for Everyday Health Problems and Serious Disease (Get the book.) "Most of them have been pregnant, which has depleted their bodies of nutrients, so they're more likely to be deficient in the B vitamins and magnesium." Here's what researchers have learned about the nutrition connection. rKEMElNSTKUAL SYNDROME 4t> 1 Kick the can. The cola can, that is. While the caffeine in your coffee, tea or soda doesn't cause PMS, it can aggravate symptoms in some women, says Dr. Abraham. Go easy on sugar and salt. This can be difficult when you're craving chocolate and potato chips, but giving in to your cravings can create a vicious cycle, according to Dr. Abraham." - The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books, Prevention's Healing With vitamins : The Most Effective Vitamin and Mineral Treatments for Everyday Health Problems and Serious Disease (Get the book.) "But dietary surveys indicate that mothers-to-be tend to come up short, consistently getting well below the Daily Values of seven nutrients: vitamins B6, D and E, folate, iron, zinc and magnesium. That's why Dr. McGanity recommends a multivitamin/mineral supplement that includes no more than the Recommended Dietary Allowances for pregnant women. (There are no Daily Values for pregnant women.) "Use of a supplement as additional insurance is worthwhile and is not potentially damaging," he says. Not all obstetricians recommend a multivitamin/mineral supplement, 1 1 o however. " - The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books, Prevention's Healing With vitamins : The Most Effective Vitamin and Mineral Treatments for Everyday Health Problems and Serious Disease (Get the book.)

"Cooking food for three minutes or longer above u8°f (48°c) also denatures proteins, breaks down natural fibers needed to maintain the health of the intestinal tract, and significantly reduces the availability of vitamins and minerals.7 When we consume the majority of our food in cooked and processed form, we deplete our body's energy reserves, thereby reducing its ability to produce health. In short, we shorten our lives. The refining of food destroys enzymes and many natural nutrients." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"I can—and will—tell you what ranges of dosage I have used with my clients, but because there are so many conflicting claims about vitamins I recommend that you talk to your health practitioner or a person skilled in nutrition about your specific lifestyle and cunent eating patterns. An appropriate vitamin C dosage may vary from 500 to 5000 mg a day. The doctors skilled in vitamin C supplementation often suggest a "bowel tolerance" dosage. That means starting low and adding a little more vitamin C each day." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

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