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"Some cancer patients have gone into remission; patients with macular degeneration have had significant visual improvement; and fibromyalgia patients have gotten their lives back. nutritional medicine is common-sense, mainstream, preventive medicine. In this age of biochemical research, we are now able to determine what is happening in every part of each cell, and the very essence of degenerative diseases is now coming to light. As such, I recommend this book to physicians who are willing to look objectively at medical evidence." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About nutritional medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) "But they are missing the all-important synergistic effects of nutritional medicine. This refers to the ways antioxidants work together. To halt oxidative stress, the body needs enough antioxidants to handle all the free radicals, and the antioxidants need all of the supporting nutrients to do their job well. These ingredients work in synergy as they accomplish the ultimate goal of defeating oxidative stress. I suggest that my patients provide all of the nutrients to the cell and tissues at optimal levels. I want to stop this inflammatory process from even getting started." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About nutritional medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) "Let me tell you what I have learned over the past seven years of practicing nutritional medicine. You don't just wake up one morning with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. My patients who are coming in not feeling well, complaining of fatigue, frequent infections, poor sleep, anxiety, and depression are also suffering from the beginning stages of degeneration due to increased oxidative stress. I can almost tell by looking at a person's face if he is under excessive oxidative stress. His face is drawn and ash-colored, and he does not look vibrant or healthy." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About nutritional medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) "He is one the many reasons I am positive the use of nutritional medicine holds so much promise for patients in all types of health. • • • In this chapter we've discussed our nation's approach to health care. What is yours? Do you fear growing old? Have you accepted chronic disease or pain as a given in your future? Are you willing to make necessary life changes to ensure your health? I believe a full and abundant physical life does not need to start slipping away at age forty. I believe each year of your life can be your very best. It is time to stop living too short and dying too long!" - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About nutritional medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Nutritional medicine pioneer Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., believed that between 75 and 95 percent of alcoholics he studied were hypoglycemic. "Too much therapeutic emphasis has been placed on psychological factors while more basic biochemical deficiencies and defects in body chemistry have received relatively little attention," he says. Douglas Baird, D.O., medical director of the Hypoglycemia Support Foundation, goes one step further, saying: "I have never, ever seen an alcoholic who wasn't hypoglycemic. It just doesn't occur, it's the same problem." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"I still incorporate all of these modalities into my current work, but during most of the last decade I have focused my attention on the rapidly advancing field of nutritional medicine. Nutrition has also been an area of great interest to the general public, because, I believe, it is one we all have in common. Nutrition has been and continues to be a primary part of my life and practice, as well as my own personal challenge." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.) "Designed as a course in basic nutrition that proceeds to nutritional medicine. For example, we begin with Building Blocks, then progress to Foods and Diets, which is followed by a specific Seasonal Diet Plan, The Ideal Diet, and then to Part Four, with many examples of Nutritional Application, thus providing the individual experience. 3. A Special Interest Manual a. If the environment is of special concern to you, and the various names of additives found in food or in your own cupboard are of interest, then you can look them up. b." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"This was a textbook perfect example of something that has happened to those of us in nutritional medicine a thousand times—we hear about something, we know something works, and years later, the research catches up. Right before writing this section I went to the National Institute of Medicine's library, the main database for recognized, respected, peer-reviewed journal studies, and I typed in "Selenium and MDS." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Really, I was too busy doing heart catheterizations, and anyway, I "knew" that nutritional medicine was "unproven." At that time I had already been practicing "revolving-door" cardiology for six years. Patients in crisis would come to me and I would treat them with traditional interventions and send them home. Pretty soon they would return and we'd do it again. No matter what we did, how many drugs we prescribed, or interventions we used, patients just kept coming back with more health problems." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Make it possible for physicians to practice nutritional medicine. The medical establishment must remove the fear that physicians will lose their medical license if they begin to work with vitamins and minerals. Integrative Healthcare The pressure on physicians to avoid nutritional therapy has been immense; many physicians have lost their license because they would not give up their practice of nutritional medicine. However, opinion is changing." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"I started going to meetings on nutritional medicine. I studied the medical literature on causation of heart disease. As I applied my new knowledge, the crises among my patients became fewer and fewer. I felt exceedingly gratified. I had more time to do prevention. The old patient/new crisis revolving door practically stopped. New patients would come to me, having heard that there's a doctor in town doing things differently and getting sick patients well. They would often be last-resort cases. Those challenges would spur more digging to learn even more to help them." - 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.)

"However, since I continue to believe that it is a potentially very useful nutritional medicine adjunct, I have not deleted the discussions and suggestions for its use from this text. Footnoting I have made a conscious decision to make this a book for the general reader rather than for researchers. Therefore, I have avoided extensive footnotes and article references. See the Bibliography for books and articles consulted, and the discussion of Science and Nutrition in the Introduction." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"Schachter directs a health care facility in Suffern, New York, using nutritional medicine, chelation therapy, homeopathy, and other complementary treatment methods. 2 Executive Boulevard, Suite 202 Suffern NY 10901 Tel: (845) 368-4700 www.mbschachter.com ALEXANDER SCHAUSS, PH.D., is a research psychologist and mental health therapist, and holds associate professorships at colleges of naturopathic medicine in Oregon and Arizona." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Specializing in nutritional medicine and psychiatry, she treats most illnesses from the perspective of diet change, nutritional supplementation, and natural hormones as needed. Tel: (800) 289-8497 www.theweayup.com LENDON H. SMITH, M.D., a graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School, specialized in nutrition-based therapies since 1975. He passed away in 2001. ALLAN N. SPREEN, M.D., is a general practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, with a specialization in nutrition-based medicine. WALT STOLL, M.D., A.B.F.P." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In addition, as I became increasingly interested in nutritional medicine during the mid 1980's, I started Joe on a multivitamin/mineral and antioxidant formula, as well as coenzyme Q10. In 1987, Joe had another angiogram. Amazingly, it showed that one of his arteries was no worse than it was 10 years before, another artery was only slightly worse, and a third had actually improved. All our efforts had helped stabilized his symptoms—a big accomplishment for a progressive disease like his." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Over the next decade I studied mind-body interactions, became a certified psychoanalyst, and read all I could about nutritional medicine. I spent nine years studying bioenergetic psychotherapy, an approach that confirmed my experience and belief that stress in the psyche can translate into physiological processes that create "dis"-ease in the body. Eventually, I coupled this approach with learning all I could about providing better care for the psyche and the body. The latter brought me into the field of nutritional approaches as well as to cellular healing." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Usually, with a combined program of nutritional medicine, medications, or reverse lifestyle changes, and, if necessary, surgery, we can stabilize or reverse existing disease. Many of our sickest patients make remarkable recoveries. We have written this book as a guide for you, the medical consumer. It is an effort to explain and demonstrate the benefits of an integrated cardiology approach based on our medical research and our combined fifty years of clinical cardiology practice." - 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.) "All through the 1980s, I found myself driven to learn all I could about mind/body and nutritional medicine. It consumed most of my spare time. I found major healing benefits for my patients using B vitamins, fish oil, green tea, and exciting natural substances with strange names like nat-tokinase and phospholipids. They transformed sick lives into revived and energized lives. They gave patients the optimism and encouragement to become more involved in their own healing process." - 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.) "This principle of team nutritional medicine makes perfect sense, but for many it takes a long time to understand. Unfortunately, many researchers and health care providers still don't get it. And the consumers are left totally confused by a barrage of conflicting media reports that give shallow information based on flawed studies. As an example, take a Finnish study covered widely in the press a few years ago. In this particular experiment, longtime middle-aged smokers received either a harmless placebo or 50 international units (IU) of synthetic vitamin E every day for six years." - 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.)

"All through the 1980s, I found myself driven to learn all I could about mind-body and nutritional medicine. It consumed most of my spare time. By 1986, I was convinced enough to start using coenzyme Q10 for more cardiac situations, like arrhythmias, hypertension, coronary artery disease, CHF, and angina. In 1990 I actually began to develop my own vitamin and mineral formulas using coenzyme Qi0; B vitamins; vitamins C, E, and D; carotenoids; flavonoids; calcium; fish oil; green tea; and so on, and I believe that they all have merit in the treatment and prevention of heart disease." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Foundations of nutritional medicine. Tarzana, CA: Third Line Press, Inc., 1997:133-60. 12. Rimland B. Vitamin B6 and autism: The safety issue. Autism Res Rev Int i996;io(3):3. 13. Rimland B. What is the right 'dosage' for vitamin B6, DMG, and other nutrients useful in autism? Autism Res Rev Int I997;n(4):3. 14. Kinrys G. Hypomania associated with omega3 fatty acids. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000;57:715-16. 15. Ipatova OM, Prozorovskaia NM, Baranova VS, et al. Biological activity of linseed oil as the source of omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid. Biomed Khim 2004;50:25-43. 16. Logan A." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"I also hope that you now realize that nutritional medicine is not outside the scope of science and that so-called "orthodox" medicine is not the only true and scientifically based medical model. The nutritional basis of disease is just as scientific as orthodox medicine, which I have attempted to demonstrate throughout this book. What makes orthodox medicine "orthodox" is that its leaders have wrested control from nutritional scientists, who actually have more complete and scientifically based methods of treating disease and maintaining health." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"This impairment causes the individual to become more vulnerable to the environment," according to nutritional medicine specialist Dr. Jeffrey Bland.18 These nutrients are also critical for the formation of neurotransmitters and hormones necessary for sleep. Testing Your Detoxification Capabilities Determining how efficiently the body can detoxify itself is especially useful for those with sleep disorders. Two laboratory tests that can help are the functional liver detoxification profile and the oxidative stress profile." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Some doctors describe impressive results in many patients, especially the elderly, with injections of 1,000 meg. of B12 and 10 mg. of folic acid. The suggested therapeutic dosages for most uses of folic acid or treating deficiency problems is about 1 mg. twice daily; it may take several months for this vitamin therapy to correct the deficiency and replenish stores of folic acid. Some studies are researching folic acid doses of 5-15 mg., and even up to 60 mg. daily. The elderly, the pregnant, and women on birth control pills should definitely take additional folic acid." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"Foundations of nutritional medicine. Tarzanna, CA: Third Line Press, Inc, 1997:133-60. 42. Winter SL, Boyer JL. Hepatic toxicity from large doses of vitamin B3 (nicotinamide). N Engl J Med 1973;289:1180-82. 43. Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine [www.cebm.net/levels_of_evidence.asp#levels] (D TREATING ANXIETY WITH VITAMIN B-12 (COBALAMIN) Vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) is involved in numerous biochemical reactions as a cofactor and coenzyme. Its main functions involve DNA synthesis, methionine synthesis from homocysteine, and conversion of propionyl into succinyl coenzyme A from methylmalonate." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Jonathan Wright, MD, a pioneer in nutritional medicine, has had success in treating insomnia using supplements of essential amino acids. He reports the case of a man who had been suffering from insomnia most of his adult life. Over the previous 18 years, doctors had prescribed 14 different drugs, starting with sleeping pills and progressing to antidepressants. The sleeping pills left the patient feeling groggy, while the antidepressants resulted in nightmares and, in the case of two drugs, heart trouble. He had also tried L-tryptophan supplements, but his insomnia did not improve." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Hence, they do not think that they are practicing nutritional medicine when they test for and treat potassium deficiency. Of course, we realize that many people don't have the opportunity (or the money) to measure their nutrient levels. For this reason, we've organized our supplement recommendations for people who supplement without a physician's guidance, although we urge you to always inform your physician what you are doing. Many physicians do not have an in-depth understanding of nutritional therapies, and often patients must enlighten their doctors." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"It's important to understand that ordinary tests on blood serum levels don't provide the correct data," says John Dommisse, MD, a nutritional medicine specialist. "What must be measured are whole blood levels." Whole blood analysis, which examines both the serum and the blood cells, is not commonly done, since most mainstream physicians are looking at blood primarily to diagnose a disease and serum testing is generally adequate for that purpose." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Foundations of nutritional medicine. Tarzana, CA: Third Line Press, Inc., 1997:133-60. TREATING ANXIETY WITH AMINO ACIDS ight of the 22 amino acids that have been identified are considered essential because they cannot be made in the body and adequate amounts must, therefore, be present in the food. These are isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. The other 14 amino acids are inter-convertible in the body, and for this reason, have been labeled non-essential." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"For insomnia, biofeedback can be successful if the practitioner uses the biofeedback machine that corresponds to the patient's type of insomnia, according to Melvyn Werbach, MD, an expert in both biofeedback and nutritional medicine. "Biofeedback is appropriate when insomnia is due to overactivation of the autonomic nervous system," Dr. Werbach says. "I use it particularly with people who have a problem with obsessive thinking when they try to go to sleep. This is when EEG biofeedback is most effective." Similarly, sleep expert Peter Hauri, Ph.D." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

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