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"Americans have the most luridly expensive urine in the world. chapter two The Commerce of Mood Over most of the last fifteen years, Big Pharma—or the medico-pharmaceutical complex, as it is sometimes called—has ranked first or at the very top on all three of Fortune's profitability measures. Starting about 1980, drug companies, which barely existed before World War II, have been the toast of Wall Street.1 In 2002, the combined profits of the top ten drug companies were greater than the profits of all the other 490 Fortune 500 companies put together." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It just creates "expensive urine," they say. But a recent analysis of nine major studies shows that people who take more than 700 mg per day have about 30 percent less CVD mortality compared to nonvitamin users. Consumers can hardly find a pill today providing less than 500 mg of vitamin C. While true that much of the vitamin passes out in the urine soon after you take it orally, much of it enters your cells. Probably what does go out has performed an antioxidant or detoxifying function traveling through your body." - 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.)

"So, the only side effect of possible overdosing is expensive urine. The action of PLC has been scientifically proven to Energy (ATP) production within the cellular mitochondria Scavenger system for acyl groups Metabolism of branched-chain amino acids greatly assist blood vessel function, however much of the work has been focused with the eventual release of a pharmaceutical (prescription) form of PLC. A dietary version of PLC (USP Dietary Ingredient Certified), Glycine-Propionyl-L-Carnitine (GPLC a.k.a GlycoCarn? has been released three years ago by Sigma-tau Health-Science, Inc." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As I stroked my professorial beard and smiled knowingly, I told him his worthless supplements only made "expensive urine," as I was fond of saying then. While his weight loss was commendable, it wasn't going to improve the state of his blood vessels. But Big Ed made me an offer: since neither of us had anything to lose, how about we repeat his angiogram to see if anything had changed? Well, Big Ed got his quintuple bypass later that week." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Vitamins and Minerals: Will They Give You a Metabolic Tune-Up or Just Make expensive urine? Idon't think people need vitamins and they are a waste of money . . . That is only if they eat wild, fresh, whole, organic, local, nongenetically modified food grown in virgin mineral- and nutrient-rich soils and not transported across vast distances and stored for months before being eaten." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The flawed RDA Mixed in with the research on cancer and vitamin C were studies conducted by National Institutes of Health scientists that falsely claimed that high-dose oral vitamin C is excreted and produces nothing more than "expensive urine." Data from two studies involving only 7 and 15 healthy subjects was used to establish a Recommended Daily Allowance of 90 milligrams for vitamin C. An upper limit of 1,000 milligrams of oral-dose vitamin C was proposed to avoid alleged side effects." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"As nutritionist Robert Crayhon says in answer to this question, "Hey, I want expensive urine! In fact, I want the most expensive urine money can buy!" What About Ephedra? A recent post on an Internet diet board asked the following question: "Do people die from taking ephedra?" The question produced the single best response I've ever seen: "No, people die because they are morons." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"An Overview of Nutritional Supplements: expensive urine or Promising Therapy? In addition to improving one's diet and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals, nutrient supplementation is often important for restoring and maintaining one's health. Numerous studies, described throughout this book, have shown that providing additional quantities of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, or other naturally occurring compounds can help relieve a wide range of symptoms and disorders. Many doctors cling to the belief that the typical diet contains all the nutrients a person needs to stay healthy." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "We still occasionally hear that time-worn cliche that the only thing people obtain from taking supplements is "expensive urine." The beliefs that lead to such remarks reflect an incomplete understanding of human biochemistry and physiology. Perhaps if doctors better understood how nutrient supplements could work, they would be more inclined to pay attention to the research showing that they do work. The rationale for using supplements extends beyond the rather obvious fact that refined, processed foods that are grown on depleted soil are low in vitamins and minerals." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"The false notion that high-dose vitamin C is rapidly excreted from the body and creates nothing more than "expensive urine" should be dispelled. Recent studies conducted by National Institutes of Health researchers show three times greater concentration of vitamin C can be achieved through oral supplementation than previously thought possible. [Annals Internal Medicine 140: 533-37, 2004] Humans should consume at least 2,000 mg of supplemental vitamin C per day, preferably in divided doses, to prevent colon cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "The same study also shows that high-dose oral vitamin C can achieve blood concentrations three times higher than previously thought possible, therefore refuting the "expensive urine" contention put forth by the Mayo Clinic scientists. [Annals Internal Medicine 140:533-7, 2004; Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 102: 13604-09, 2005] Enter Drs. Hickey and Roberts In 2004, Drs." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Vitamins just make expensive urine." "You can get all the required nutrients by eating the right foods." If my patients persisted, I told them nutritional supplements probably would not hurt them, but they should take the cheapest ones they could find because vitamins most likely wouldn't help much either. Maybe you have heard some of these same comments from your physician. For the first twenty-three years of my clinical practice, I simply did not believe in nutritional supplements." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT SUPPLEMENT USE Question: Aren't excess vitamins and minerals just excreted, making expensive urine? Answer: Even if you're starving, your body will lose some vitamins and minerals daily through excretion. Under those conditions, your Table 18.1 Basic Supplement Nutrient Vitamin Amount per Tablet* Percent U.S. RDI Vitamin A (as beta-carotene) 2,500 I.U.** 50 (500 meg RE***) Vitamin D 200 I.U. (5 meg) 50 Vitamin E 15 I.U. 50 (5 mg alpha-tocopherol equivalents) Vitamin C 30 mg 50 Folic acid 0.2 mg 50 Thiamin (B,) 0.75 mg 50 Riboflavin (B2) 0." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"They are misled by food and dietary supplement labels that claim 60 milligrams of vitamin C is" 100% of the Daily Value," or by reports emanating from the National Institutes of Health that high-dose vitamin C creates nothing more than "expensive urine." In fact, a study conducted by National Institutes of Health researchers shows that blood concentrations can safely reach 2.58 times higher (220 micromole per liter of blood plasma) than previously believed possible (70-85 micromole per liter)." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Do you see how ridiculous this concept is? The expensive urine comment, which is perpetuated by doctors who don't really understand nutrition and vitamins, implies that just because something eventually winds up in the urine, it didn't accomplish anything in the body. Why does a drug addict take drugs or an athlete take steroids? Drugs, both recreational and prescription, are detected in the urine, right? Does the fact that they're detectable in the urine mean that they didn't work? If that were the case, there's an awful lot of people wasting an awful lot of money on drugs and medications!" - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) "In fact, I want the most expensive urine money can buy!" What About Ephedra? A recent post on an Internet diet board asked the following question: "Do people die from taking ephedra?" The question produced the single best response I've ever seen: "No, people die because they are morons." When ephedra has been used in supervised weight loss research studies, it's been used in the dosage of 60 milligrams per day in three divided dosages (20 milligrams each) combined with 200 milligrams of caffeine per dose." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Despite this, some cynics still like to say that the vitamins go out in your urine, so all you're doing by taking vitamin supplements is making expensive urine. Using this line of reasoning, these cynics can stop drinking water (it just goes out in their urine). That way, they'll soon stop annoying people who are in the process of getting themselves well. Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation Every vitamin and nutritional mineral, amino acid, and nutritional cofactor is very important in some way to health." - Jacob Teitelbaum, Pain Free 1-2-3: A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now (Get the book.)

"It's funny how the same doctors who cry "expensive urine" in response to vitamin therapy never make the same remark about their prescription drugs that are just as detectable in the urine as vitamins are! The fact that drugs—or vitamin residues—are detectable in the urine means absolutely nothing except that those substances went through the body and did their job. They didn't pass through and accomplish nothing, or else steroids wouldn't be banned by athletic organizations! The body takes what it needs, uses it, and excretes the rest." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

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