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 "We have divided the supplements into four basic categories (beta-cell health; insulin sensitizers; antiglycation agents; and antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents) that mirror the key factors involved in metabolic dysfunction. Understand that the divisions are somewhat artificial, given that nutraceuticals have a fair degree of crossover and complementary effects and health benefits.
As always, talk to your doctor before you begin any nu-traceutical program, especially if you are taking any type of medication."- Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) |
 "After refining, common table salt is mixed with iodine, bleaching agents, and anti-caking agents, which creates a pure white, free-flowing product. Even many salts labeled "sea salt" are washed or boiled, which removes minerals and trace elements, rendering them toxic to the human body. Any salt that has been heated in this manner is converted to a covalent form, which is difficult for the body to assimilate. Celtic sea salt and Himalayan salt are the most energetic and complete salts we have found."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "The tobacco company had forty of its "agents" roam the stands, looking for fans who smoked. The agents invited the smokers to the company's Winston tent, where they were given free cigarettes and NASCAR collectibles. The fans gave RJR their names and other personal information. The experience helped the tobacco company form "a relationship" with the smoker. RJR also erected driving simulators for kids to sit in, giving them a driver's-eye view of the race. Its marketing tactics proved potent."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Iron is also needed by infectious agents such as bacteria. The body lowers blood iron levels during acute infections to avoid aiding the infectious agents. Lowering blood iron may be an important immune response to infections. Iron fortification and supplementation must be reconsidered during infections to prevent worsening infections such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and typhoid.
Nutrient Interactions with Iron
Iron deficiency anemia may be aggravated by a deficiency of vitamin A."- Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) |
 "The bleeding stomachs, they argued, came from mucolytic agents in the tomato (i.e. agents that can degrade the protective layer of the stomach surface), food restriction, and/or stress resulting from animal restraint.16 Others pointed to stomach lesions in water-fed controls in the follow-up study. But tomatoes are not known to contain mucolytic agents, the rats ate as much as they wanted, they were not restrained,17 and there is no explanation why the GM tomato elicited more effect."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
| "To fight infections, immune system phagocytes release oxidizing agents to kill viruses and bacteria. These oxidizing agents can also be harmful to our own cells.
Vitamin C, in its role as an antioxidant, protects our cells against the free radicals released by phagocytes. Histamine is produced by immune cells and can cause inflammations such as a stuffy nose. The antihistamine effects of vitamin C can help with the symptoms of a stuffy nose.
How Vitamin C May Help with Colds
By reducing damage from phagocyte-released free radicals. With an antihistamine effect." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) |
| "The tobacco company had forty of its "agents" roam the stands, looking for fans who smoked. The agents invited the smokers to the company's Winston tent, where they were given free cigarettes and NASCAR collectibles. The fans gave RJR their names and other personal information. The experience helped the tobacco company form "a relationship" with the smoker. RJR also erected driving simulators for kids to sit in, giving them a driver's-eye view of the race. Its marketing tactics proved potent." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Products that have some basis in basic science, clinical trials, or
have a long history of use and safety v Use clean products, free of preservatives, fillers, binders, excipi-
ents, flow agents, shellacs, coloring agents, gluten, yeast, lactose,
and other allergens.
Each person must be cautious and evaluate companies and products for themselves. Be sure to pick quality supplements as you acquire the list of vitamins outlined below. It is optimal to work with a trained dietitian, nutri-onist, or nutrionally oriented physician or health-care practitioner to select the best products."- Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
 "Chemical adulteration includes these toxic additives: preservatives, buffers, neutralizers, moisture controls, coloring agents, flavorings, physiologic activity controls, bleaches, maturing agents, stabilizers, processing aids and other supplements.
Now consider what happens when you apply all three of these techniques at once to the food! Is it any wonder that this food is making us chronically unhealthy?
By contrast, raw fooders may employ minimal processing via chopping, dicing, shredding and so on."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
| "Products that have some basis in basic science, clinical trials, or
have a long history of use and safety v Use clean products, free of preservatives, fillers, binders, excipi-
ents, flow agents, shellacs, coloring agents, gluten, yeast, lactose,
and other allergens.
Each person must be cautious and evaluate companies and products for themselves. Be sure to pick quality supplements as you acquire the list of vitamins outlined below. It is optimal to work with a trained dietitian, nutri-onist, or nutrionally oriented physician or health-care practitioner to select the best products." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
 "A later study found CIA agents to be similarly skilled, with a 70 percent accuracy rate versus 51 percent for law enforcement officers.
What makes Secret Service and CIA agents so good at spotting liars is likely another case of nature via nurture. Their inherent talents for body language detection probably brought them to the job to begin with, and then years of conscious study of nonverbal communication made these agents masters of detection."- Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.) |
 "A major function of this enzyme is to detoxify those biochemical agents that might be deadly to prostate cancer cells. It may even be said that this enzyme is responsible for the drug-resistant nature of some types of prostate cancer. Yet, when BCNU and Maitake D-fraction are combined, there is extensive inactivation of this enzyme, said Drs. Tazaki and Konno. They add that Maitake D-fraction, used alone, with carmustine or other potential chemotherapeutic agents, "may have a great potential as an effective, alternative therapeutic modality for hormone-refractory prostate cancer."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "After refining, common table salt is mixed with iodine, bleaching agents, and anti-caking agents, which creates a pure white, free-flowing product. Even many salts labeled "sea salt" are washed or boiled, which removes minerals and trace elements, rendering them toxic to the human body. Any salt that has been heated in this manner is converted to a covalent form, which is difficult for the body to assimilate. Celtic sea salt and Himalayan salt are the most energetic and complete salts we have found." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "It is linked with the energetic imprint of viruses and prions, which are aberrant proteins that fold bizarrely and turn into disease-causing agents. Prions are most familiar to the public as the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
Energetic Terrain 5
Energetic Terrain 5 is associated bioenergetically with the skin and lungs and links to the energetic template of a btoad spectrum of viruses, including the many strains of human papilloma virus and the Bunyavirus family, particularly herpes-related and wart-related viruses."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "I believe patients should not receive treatment for infectious agents unless testing definitively confirms infection, because the medicines used to treat infections have marked side effects and can be dangerous. Nonetheless, there is one line of research that supports the idea of chronic infection. Studies that began at Temple University showed that CFS patients have activation of the body's innate antiviral defense mechanisms, a system that normally goes into play only if there's a viral infection."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "The result of this extensive workup for infectious agents is nearly always negative. So the chances of finding evidence of ongoing infection in someone with chronic infectious-type symptoms is, in fact, rare. Why do I order so many tests? Well, in a relatively small number of patients, one or more of these tests may, in fact, reveal an infection or other medical cause that is treatable. And, of course, there's no way to rule out an infectious agent without testing for it. If this detailed workup proves negative, there are still other kinds of tests to carry out." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "I then finish up by testing for antibodies against two other infectious agents. The first of these is parvovirus B19. Although usually a disease of children, this infectious agent can produce a flulike illness in adults, characterized by a skin rash, fatigue, and joint achiness. Even if there is no history of a rash, I test for this virus when there is a hint of infection." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "On a broader societal level, medication spellbinding helps to explain why so many people take psychiatric drugs, as well as other psychoactive agents, long after the chemicals have begun to do more harm than good.
_Chapter 3
The Toothless Watchdog Growls
DURING THE TIME that most of the men, women, and children in this book were having their lives ruined and sometimes destroyed by antidepressant drugs, what position was being taken by the pharmaceutical companies, organized psychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and legions of so-called medication experts?"- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "Other research points toward specific breakdowns, such as a Cortisol insufficiency in the central nervous system, a general immune system dysfunction, or side effects of multiple infectious agents in the body. Because there is no identifiable cause, there is no cure, and, perhaps worse, there is no effective, long-term treatment.
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For CFS patients, the syndrome can be devastating. For months they can feel relatively well and function fairly normally, and then the crushing fatigue hits like a storm, forming a black cloud over their lives and usually driving them into bed." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Because NES works at the level of information and is not biochemical, it is compatible with pharmaceuticals, herbs, supplements, and other healing agents. Clients are counseled to continue their other treatments and to confer with their other health care professionals. Randolph was eighty years old at the time he sought NES practitioner and naturopathic physician Jason Siczkowycz's assistance. Six months prior, he had been hospitalized with pneumonia, and since that time he had debilitating fatigue." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
| "If testing is positive, both of these agents can be treated by an infectious diseases specialist.
Chronic Sinusitis
Some people with chronic fatigue or widespread pain will mention that they also have other recurring symptoms, or their past medical record may make note of such conditions. For example, it's not uncommon for a chronic fatigue patient to report having had repeated attacks of sinusitis. When this is the case, I ask the patient if he or she has problems with stuffed nose, postnasal drip, and pain or pressure in the face." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "For the next fifteen years, rhe Lakhmids and Ghassanids would fight a vicious proxy war driven as much by the temperaments of their respective leaders as by the policies of the great powers for whom they were agents."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "These bacterial suicide bombers cause overproduction of a number of the immune system's most powerful agents, including the enzymes that release lysozyme, and TNF (tumor necrosis factor). The result is shock, sometimes fatal. The diabolical beauty—there is no other word—of the system is the bacterium's ability to delay telease of its cargo of Lipid A until its arrival in the lymphatic system, which can carry it throughout the body. Frequently, the system works so well that by the time the first symptoms?chills, rigor, high temperature"?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
| "In the conventional biological paradigm, the causes of disease are almost always limited to biological and genetic processes and environmental factors such as toxins and infectious agents.
In terms of public health, with the exception of the negative health effects of ultraviolet radiation from the sun and radon gas from the earth, there is little scientific agreement about the health effects of energy fields, natural or man-made. Debate rages about the effects of the loss of the ozone layer and the output from high-power electrical transmission lines on health." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
| "Indeed, the profession is hell bent on reenergizing the push for these useless, toxic agents, touting the antidepressants at every opportunity, claiming that the "benefits trump the risks for kids."1
_ChaptRP 9
Sleeping Pill Madness
ON AN AFTERNOON in June 1990, a hotel maid noticed a man wandering around the tenth floor of the glass-and-steel-enclosed tower of the Hyatt Hotel. He was dressed appropriately and looked about the age of many businessmen who came to the hotel but he looked tense, nervous, and was as white as a sheet." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "This dual impact is one of the main reasons why people persist in taking psychoactive agents, including prescription psychiatric drugs. In an extreme example, during routine electroshock "treatment," the individual often dutifully submits to continued shocks over a period of many days while the trauma to the brain produces so much brain dysfunction that the befuddled victim has no idea what has happened to him. Do psychiatric drugs ever "help" people?" - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "It also lists numerous cardiovascular drugs, antiinflammatory and antiinfective agents, hormones, chemotherapy drugs, and miscellaneous others. Yet, as thorough as the article is, it leaves out antidepressants as a cause of depression, confirming how slow the profession has been to identify these culprits. HOW THE CONCEPT OF SPELLBINDING CAME ABOUT WHEN I BEGAN WORKING on Medication Madness, no one had as yet put together this package of effects that I am calling medication spellbinding. The concept occurred to me while I was reviewing dozens of cases for inclusion in the book." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "Flavonoids also are among many of the allelopathic agents that plants produce to reduce competition. Flavones from rice leaves inhibited weed growth but not rice biomass, and luteolin from chrysanthemum also inhibited weed biomass (Kong et al, 2004; Beninger and Hall, 2005). Quercetin-3-dimethylether, naringenin, and eriodictyol found in Dittichia root exudates induced agravitropic growth in lettuce seeds (Levizou et al, 2004)."- Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "Studies have demonstrated that flavonoids inhibit activation of NF-kB in different cancer cell lines, suggesting a possible explanation for the inhibitory effects of these agents on cancer cells (Davis et al, 1999; Gupta et al, 2002; Liang et al, 1999a-c; Yang et al, 2001). Recently, our laboratory has investigated the inhibition of IKK activity in LPS-activated murine macrophages by various polyphenols including EGCG and theaflavins (Pan et al, 2000). TF-3 inhibited IKK activity more strongly than did the other polyphenols." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "Although color signaling, especially to pollinators and fruit dispersal agents, is clearly a primary function of anthocyanins in angiosperms, such signaling is rare if not absent in gymnosperms from which the angiosperms arose. In gymnosperms and angiosperms, anthocyanins are typically sequestered in vacuoles (see Chapter 5 for a detailed description of the vacuolar transport of flavonoids)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) |
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