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"S. as a dietary supplement. The following websites provide more information about Dr. Beljanski's scientific research: www.beljanski.com (the ORIS site known in French as the Center for Scientific Information, Research and Innovation), www.mbschachter.com, and www.pubmed.com (to view Beljanski's studies and the recent paper from the International Journal of Oncology). CLINICAL STUDIES Some 10 years after his death, the implications of Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "USES Used as a dietary supplement and to inhibit tumor growth in people with cancer. HOW TO USE Recommended dosage for cancer patients is from 30 ml to 60 ml daily of the liquid cartilage extract. Keep frozen until use; thaw product immediately before use by holding vial in the palm of your hand. Take on an empty stomach or as recommended by a physician. CONTRAINDICATIONS Comitris is a natural, nontoxic formulation with no side effects reported." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "USES In the United States, ReaLBuild is sold as a dietary supplement. Its use as an adjuvant in cancer treatments is not to cure the disease but to support already healthy platelet levels—much as Dr. Beljanski originally envisioned. ReaLBuild is especially important for cancer patients undergoing radiation and/or chemotherapy. HOW TO USE ReaLBuild capsules contain powder that should be taken orally. Dosage is from one capsule weekly to one capsule daily. CONTRAINDICATIONS ReaLBuild is nontoxic and does not produce negative side effects. FINAL THOUGHTS Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Regulated as a dietary supplement to support platelet production, ReaLBuild's clinical trial and laboratory studies have been yielding positive results, making it a good choice for use as a support in cancer-treatment regimens. HISTORY Dr. Mirko Beljanski (1923-1998) studied the roles of DNA and RNA in regard to cancer. He and his wife, Monique, conducted research in France at the Pasteur Institute and later at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Chatenay Malabry. Beljanski's discoveries led to the creation of several formulas, known today as Beljanski Products." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Is it a food or a dietary supplement? Whey is a natural by-product of the cheese-making process but it typically comes in a powdered supplement form and can be found in most health food stores. The most common forms seen in dietary supplementation are whey protein concentrate and isolate. Whey protein isolate contains ninety percent or more protein and also contains little to no fat or lactose (making it tolerable by most that may be lactose-intolerant)." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"In 1994, the dietary supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed in the United States. This legislation places herbal products in a clearly defined regulatory category of dietary supplements, along with a number of other products including vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. When the DSHEA was passed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimated that there were about four thousand dietary supplements on the market. After this law was passed, the number has increased dramatically to more than thirty thousand, with more than one thousand being added each year." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"This amendment limited the FDA's authority to regulate dietary supplements, and acknowledged that: 1) The FDA had gone too far in its condemnation of the dietary supplement industry and in its restriction of the public's right to choose its source of nutrients. 2) Dietary supplements should not be treated either as drugs or as food additives. 3) The public was entitled to receive messages about health in conjunction with the sale of dietary supplements. Passage of the Proxmire Amendment, however, did not stop the FDA from attempting to eliminate dietary supplements in other ways." - Herbert Burkholz, The FDA Follies (Get the book.)

"Congressional passage of the dietary supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which was sponsored by Senator Hatch in 1994, removed regulatory authority that the FDA previously had over vitamins and supplements by providing manufacturers with a very large loophole. As long as they don't claim that their products cure a specific disease without showing evidence, they can make general health claims without providing backup. For instance, a manufacturer can say its product "promotes liver health" and advise someone with a liver problem to take it." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Codex dietary supplement rules are in effect in Norway and Germany. For example, in Norway, the sale of vitamin E is restricted to no more than 45 International Units, the maximum for vitamin C is 200 mg per tablet, and coenzyme qio is now classified as a drug and is dramatically higher in price. In Canada, when the 'sleep booster' tryptophan was reclassified as a drug, the price escalated by 500%. Eventually, the cartel wants to make even home-grown herbs illegal and require all natural supplements to have a Drug Identification Number (din)." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"NES Case Overview: Cass Cass is an author and the mother of two active children whose normal, hectic routine came crashing to a halt when she was felled by a contaminated dietary supplement. In the late 1980s, she had taken a supplement containing L-tryptophan, touted as a natural sleep aid. However, the Japanese manufacturer had cut corners in production, resulting in contaminated capsules, and also had inserted genetically modified bacteria to enhance its effectiveness." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Taking a dietary supplement simply does not provide the same benefit. I know it's easier to pop a pill than to choose whole grain bread or whole grain-blend pasta, or to remember to add ground flaxseed to your fruit smoothie, or to make a point each day to eat a bunch of fruits and vegetables. It's easier to grab chips or cookies than to choose yogurt and nuts for a snack. But there is magic in the packaging! Just remember that. WHY WHOLE FOODS ARE THE ANSWER The more we know about nutrition and health, the more it seems we need to eat the way we did a hundred years ago." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"This from a man who had professed in 1993 that "The public can be assured that access [to dietary supplements] will not be altered" by the FDA. THE dietary supplement HEALTH AND EDUCATION ACT OF 1994 It was not until October of 1994 that both the Senate and Congress approved a compromise bill, the dietary supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. which guaranteed consumers' access to dietary supplements but also preserved the FDA's right to regulate claims used to sell them." - Elaine Feuer, Innocent Casualties : The FDA's War Against Humanity (Get the book.)

"Dietary supplement of neosugar alters the fecal flora and decreases activities of some reductive enzymes in human subjects. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 63, 709-716. 214. Moro, G., Minoli, I., Mosca, M., Fanaro, S., Jelinek, L, Stahl, B., and Boehm, G. (2002). Dosage-related bifido-genic effects of galacto- and fructooligosaccharides in formula-fed term infants. J. Pediatr. Gastroenterol. Nutr. 34, 291-295. 215. Boehm, G., Lidestri, M., Casetta, P., Jelinek, J., Negretti, F., Stahl, B., and Marini, A. (2002)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Swanson, C, and Picciano, M. F. dietary supplement use by US adults: data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000. Am. J. Epidemiol. 160(4) 339-349. 7. Mishra, V. (2007). Oxidative stress and role of antioxidant supplementation in critical illness. Clin. Lab. 53, 199-209. 8. Seifried, H. E., Anderson, D. E., Fisher, E. I., and Milner, J. A. (2007). A review of the interaction among dietary antioxidants and reactive oxygen species. J. Nutr. Biochem., Mar. 13 [Epub ahead of print]. 9. Prior, R. L., Wu, X., and Schaich, K. (2005)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Controversy surrounds the equivalency of efficacy of the two precursors to 25(OH)D, and this has been interpreted by some to reflect the inadequacy of vitamin D2 as a dietary supplement or food for-tificant [16]. When a single dose of either vitamin D2 or vitamin D3 was administered, 25(OH)D2 was shown to remain in blood for a much shorter time than the 25(OH)D3, declining after 1 week [17]. Further research is needed to determine the relative contribution of ergocalciferol to vitamin D status." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in Canada and the United States: Importance to health status and efficacy of current food fortification and dietary supplement use. Nutr. Rev. 61, 107-113. 3. Institute of Medicine. (1997). "Dietary Reference Intakes for calcium phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D and fluoride" National Academies Press, Washington DC. 4. Holick, M. F. (2006). Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets. J. Clin. Invest. 116, 2062-2072. 5. Norman, A. (1998)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, which I describe in more detail in Chapter 18 (Vitamins and Supplements). Because of the very real risk of liver failure and possible death I do not recommend kava for the treatment of mood disorders. Kava is potentially lethal and should not be used. OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS There is one study I know of that has examined the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on symptoms of bipolar disorder.7 Thirty patients with bipolar disorder were randomized to receive four months of omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish-oil capsules or placebo." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"If it weren't for the 1994 dietary supplement law that allowed a lot of these natural hormones and nutrients to be marketed, pregnenolone would have still been ignored. It's a shame because there is so much potential in this hormone. I was familiar with some of the studies done on mice and rats concluding that pregnenolone was one of the most potent memory enhancers. So when pregnenolone came on the market, I called up a lot of my colleagues and asked them, 'Have you ever tried this?' None of the health professionals I called had tried it." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The best dietary supplement of vitamin A consists of generous quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables. Supplemental forms of vitamin A such as retinyl palmitate and retinyl acetate convert readily into retinol and their potency is listed on the packaging. With supplemental beta-carotene, two meg of beta-carotene are needed by the body for conversion, resulting in one meg of retinol. This is known as a RAE ratio of 2:1. For beta-carotene in food, the RAE ratio is 12:1, so 12 meg of beta-carotene in food is needed to provide one meg of RAE." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"OSL) of coenzyme Qio for chronic administration as a dietary supplement is 1,200 mg a day. In a recent trial on the safety of coenzyme Qio in its reduced form as ubiquinol in human subjects, doses up to 300 mg daily for two months was found to be safe. Higher doses were not tested in this study. In the Parkinson's study, the ubiquinone form of coenzyme Qi0 was used. Safety data on high-dose coenzyme Qiq ingestion are also available based upon animal studies." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Richard Bloomer (Bloomer, et al, 2006, 2007, and 2008) have utilized the most humanly invasive measurements (including muscle biopsies) undertaken in the dietary investigation for the performance of any L-carnitine (or any other dietary supplement for that matter) to date. Here are some of the details of the double-blind measurements undertaken within this study as well as some of the results of the most important clinical findings: "The study was conducted as a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial. A total of 42 subjects were enrolled." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Sometimes, the solution can be as simple as taking a dietary supplement to correct the deficiency. Because most children today live off junk foods, these deficiencies are more common than you think. Eating foods drenched in pesticides and hormones and antibiotics might also be having a damaging effect—and how will ingesting yet another chemical provide a true "cure"? "There are a host of other potential modifiable contributors to our increasing fatness besides the increased availability of inexpensive, ca-lorically dense foods and of devices favoring a sedentary lifestyle," Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The 1994 federal dietary supplement and Health Education Act specifically prohibits manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements from making claims that the supplements cure disease. First parties who profit from the product's sales must adhere to strictly narrow structure-and-function claims allowed within the DSHEA framework. However, third parties like The Doctors' Prescription for Healthy Living, that is, publishing companies and other sources of information that do not profit from the sale of the product, are protected under the First Amendment and may make stronger claims." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The number of these products multiplied greatly after Congress passed the dietary supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), a law that allows the sale of "natural" health products or nutraceuticals with only minimal government oversight. While DSHEA did legislate FDA oversight of these products, the rules governing their use are extremely liberal. Since evidence of effectiveness is not required, the only rule is that nutraceutical manufacturers can't make health claims about their products." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"This allowed stevia to be sold as a dietary supplement under legislation called the dietary supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. The FDA, in one of its more politically incorrect debacles, has ruled that Traditional Preparation stevia is presumed safe as a dietary supplement but is considered unsafe as a food additive. This incongruity openly protects the profit margins of the "sweetener giants." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the definition of a dietary supplement is "any product taken by mouth that contains a so-called dietary ingredient and its label clearly states that it is a dietary supplement. The 'dietary ingredients' in dietary supplements may include vitamins, minerals, herbs, colloidal minerals, trace elements and amino acids as well as substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, metabolites, extracts or concentrates. Dietary supplements can be found in many forms such as pills, tablets, capsules, liquids or powders." - Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D., Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements: How to Restore the Body's Natural Vitality (Get the book.)

"I recommend to my patients a combination dietary supplement of methylsul-fonylmetbane (MSM) (1,000 mg daily) and vitamin C for its anti-inflammatory effect. I also recommend two other dietary supplements— alpha lipoic acid (50 mg daily), which provides protection against free radicals that can exacerbate eye pressure.. .and L-arginine (1,500 mg, twice daily), which increases circulation. Also helpful: The herbs grape seed extract (200 mg daily) and green tea extract (200 mg daily), both of which help prevent eye damage." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"But, under the dietary supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), stevia can be sold as a "dietary supplement"; it's illegal, however, to promote it as a sweetener. (Such claims make a company's shipments subject to seizure, fines, or criminal prosecution.) Moreover, an FDA consumer safety officer told me that "the safety of stevia has been questioned by published studies. And no one has ever provided the FDA with adequate evidence that the substance is safe." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

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