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"And remember that 32 ng/ml is not nearly high enough for optimal health. Maximum reductions in diseases occur around 50. Are there toxic effects with extremely high doses of supplemental vitamin D? Of course, maintaining optimal levels—not minimal levels—is the goal. Research indicates that no adverse effects are produced by taking 4,000 IU per day for a period of six months.2658 Dr." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.) "Hence, dark-skinned people who live in sunny climes produce adequate vitamin D for optimal health. In northern geographical areas humans are exposed to less sunlight and in cold seasons must cover themselves with clothing. They can therefore produce vitamin D only when there is sufficient sunlight to stimulate its production in the skin, i.e. only in spring, summer and fall. A paper by Dr. Nina Jablonski and Dr. George Chaplin demonstrates that skin pigmentation is predicted accurately by latitude, with increasing latitudes correlating to lighter skin." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.) "There was a statement as to why the normal ranges had changed: "Recent studies consider the lower limit of 32 ng/ml to be a threshold for optimal health." It referenced a paper by Dr. Bruce Hollis published in the Journal of Nutrition in 2005. (Hollis B.JNutr. 2005;135:317-22). In the seven-week period between those two tests, the "safe" lower limit for vitamin D more than tripled! Kudos is due Dr. Hollis and his colleagues who hammer away at the establishment to change conventional thinking on vitamin D. The tide is turning, and I predict that soon, reasonable sunlight exposure?" - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"For those of us who are hoping to achieve optimal health, a simple mass market multivitamin will not offer the needed nutrients for that goal. In fact, surveys in North America show that the diets of more than 60 percent of people are deficient in one or more of the essential nutrients. Most surveys test for only eighteen of the forty-five known nutrients and use the standard Daily Values (DV), which are considered very low. Recognized as the minimal requirements for survival, they are inadequate to maintain optimal health." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"L, but the scientific evidence indicates that these midrange, average levels are not ideal. For optimal health, CRP values need to be less than 1.0 mg/dL. For example, recent findings reported in the New England Journal of Medicine show that people who attain the lowest levels of CRP and LDL significantly reduce the rate of heart attack. How to Improve Your Test Results The good news is that you can reduce your risk of future complications by identifying health problems early on and by making lifestyle modifications and other steps as outlined in detail in the upcoming chapters." - 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.)

"We work toward coherence, which generates a state of optimal health. Developing your relationship into a co-creative partnership is based on the ability to communicate effectively with the plant. When we talk about communication with plants, we return to the original understanding of communing or communion, coming full circle to common union. Because the language is not the same as that which we use with humans, we must engage in a language that is communal with both plants and people. We must find the common union or common ground where we both stand." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The moment you decide to address this intricate, delicate system and lend a helping hand is the moment you choose optimal health and a better, more vibrant life. Such simple, concrete steps as eating cleanly, exercising regularly, and evicting as many toxic substances from your life as possible, begin paying off immediately. You'll likely watch unwanted weight disappear. You'll sense a diminishment in any medical condition you may currently have. And you'll feel more alive and be more productive throughout the day." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Recognized as the minimal requirements for survival, they are inadequate to maintain optimal health. While these surveys look for common deficiencies such as iron; calcium; zinc; potassium; iodine; magnesium; selenium; manganese; vitamins A, C, E, Bt (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), and B6; folate (folic acid); and iodine, they ignore equally important nutrients such as essential fatty acids and the amino acids critical to proper detoxification." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "But the typical American diet is vastly unbalanced and contains insufficient amounts of nutrients required for optimal health. In addition, the soil and water in which a lot of our foods are grown are either littered with chemicals or so depleted of nutrients that they can leave the food depleted as well. Much of our foods are grown or irradiated in order to have a long shelf life. There is some controversy as to whether this process destroys the plants' natural enzymes that benefit our health but would also make the food decompose quicker." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Detoxification and Healing: The Key to optimal health, New Canaan: Keats, 1997. -Child Behavior: The Classic Childcare Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development (contributor), New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. Syd Baumel, Natural Antidepressants, Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1998. -Dealing with Depression Naturally, Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1995. Dr. Mary Ann Block, No More Antibiotics: Preventing and Treating Ear and Respiratory Infections the Natural Way, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2000." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Pancreatic support is increasingly necessary for optimal health. FROM A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION WITH DR. GARRY GORDON In August 2006, the American Chemical Society published research that showed conclusively that methylmercury induces pancreatic cell apoptosis and dysfunction.59 Mercury is a well-known toxic agent that produces various types of cell and tissue damage, yet billions of people are exposed to levels of mercury harmful to pancreatic health." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The amount of new evidence bearing on inputs for optimal health and safety has been remarkable. Yet, the strength of the new evidence is largely in adults and we have much to learn in children. Vitamin D across the lifespan and dietary sources of vitamin D are described in the chapter devoted to vitamin D (Chapter 43). Dietary sources of vitamin D are limited and mostly consumed as fortified foods, especially milk. A summary of studies on vitamin D status in children and adolescents worldwide was recently compiled by El-Hajj Fuleihan [ 107]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"More important, they discovered through the findings of other researchers and clinicians worldwide, as we have, that "the diet that has time and again been shown to reverse and/or prevent [diseases caused by animal protein consumption] is the same whole-foods, plant based diet found to promote optimal health in laboratory research and in the China Study. The findings are consistent..''37 LYMPHOMA In Norway, 15,914 individuals were followed for eleven and a half years. Those drinking two or more glasses of milk per day had 3.5 times the incidence of cancer of the lymphatic organs." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In his book Understanding the Messages of Your Body: How to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve optimal health, Jean-Pierre Barral expresses one of my core beliefs about raising and educating our children: "Just as we teach our children respect, politeness, various rules of civility, and other ways to get by in school and in society, we have to teach them the right attitudes to promote their well-being and health." Barral goes on to sums up these "right attitudes" brilliantly, in just a few well-chosen words: "eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Therefore, it's a good idea to use probiotics daily for optimal health. Summary Probiotics offer the human body a variety of health benefits. Your health is the most important thing in your life. Probiotics promote health. You can find probiotics in dairy foods, fermented foods and yogurt. New technology is putting probiotics in less traditional foods such as chocolate, cereal and other novel foods. When choosing a supplement, consider the potency, best species for your age and certain health conditions, production techniques, survivability and reliability." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Experts are recommending the use of a variety of probiotic species (and strains) to promote optimal health. Multi-Species Probiotics Are Best A multi-species probiotic is highly recommended based on current knowledge about probiotics and their health effects. Why is this? Combinations of probiotic species have been found to have a synergistic effect. In other words, species of probiotics work together to give a greater health benefit than a single species can alone. Let's look at an example. A combination of L. casei, L. plantarum, L. acidophilus, L. bulgaricus, B. longum, B. breve, B." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"We had assumed that the field of health would mirror the world of happiness, that optimal health would be the outcome of using all of the behaviors in the model concurrently. We were wrong. The more we talked to patients and doctors, the more we realized that any one of the practices would have a healing effect. Each is a biochemical powerhouse on its own. But imagine your incredible feelings of wellness and happiness if you did, in fact, invoke all of the Brilliant Health practices. What would your life be like? It would be an extraordinary and ongoing experience of daily delights." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Hopefully, in the years to come we will look back and see how ridiculous we were to have believed that biomedicine alone—without considering the health consequences of how we live our lives—could possibly provide optimal health. The measure of America's recovery from this era of commercially distorted medicine will be the extent to which real and effective encouragement of healthy ways of living is reintegrated into the best medical care available—not replacing, but supported by, the appropriate clinical application of biomedical science." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Even for teenagers, conventional medical wisdom is that they need ten hours sleep for optimal health. We adults have infused our culture with an absurd pride in sleeping less, thinking that it means we've accomplish more. While this is debatable in adults, for children, nothing could be further from the truth. Medical research has shown that everything, from academic and athletic success to driving skills, is adversely affected by lack of sleep." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Through our educational programs and your experience here in our majestic mountain valley, you will learn about the choices that naturally bring forth optimal health and spiritual joy. You will also experience what thousands of our guests attest to: a unique, healthy foundation for living, a renewed connection with yourself, and a strong, unshakable sense of self-esteem and love for Self and all living beings, as well as for the living Earth. There are many ways by which our guests find the Tree of Life." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"According to NES theory, for optimal health your body-field, as a quantum structure in space, must be aligned properly with these Earth fields. The three axes form planes that intersect your body very close to the center line of your body, slightly to the left, where the heart is located. Peter's research shows that a misalignment can distort the communication networks in your full body-field, in large part because the heart cannot imprint information properly." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The beneficial effects and functions of vitamin C are numerous and critical to optimal health. Vitamin C is involved in the manufacture of collagen, the main protein substance in the body, which results in its role in wound repair, connective tissue structures, vascular wall integrity, skin elasticity, healthy gums, and more. It is also critical to immune function, the absorption and utilization of other nutrients, and the manufacture of numerous hormones and nerve conduction substances, and it is an antioxidant." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "That said, Mother Nature's talent in producing healthy babies is awesome indeed, and no matter the range of one's individual decisions regarding optimal health care, most babies arrive intact and healthy. Women who receive prenatal care enjoy the lowest risk of maternal and infant mortality in history. It is important to recognize those things we have control over and those we don't. While women should do their best to take excellent care of themselves during pregnancy, they must not assume personal responsibility for vagaries of biology like miscarriages and rare abnormalities." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Enhancing the immune system, the endocrine system, and the liver's detoxification of hormones; reducing and blocking proinflammatory chemicals produced by the body; and providing optimal health in the large intestine represent innovative and effective approaches to the treatment of endometriosis. Considering the long-term consequences of endometriosis—pain, disability, and disruption in personal, family, and work activities— innovative approaches that treat the whole body and remove the cause promise a light at the end of the tunnel." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The advertisements that bombard us feature foods with a much higher fat content than the level recommended by our government health agencies—and that recommended level itself is too high for optimal health. Culinary schools for chefs who eventually will be in charge of restaurant, hotel, and institutional cuisine do not teach them how to prepare healthful, tasty, attractive meals that contain only about 10 percent fat." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Optimal health is achieved when energy is in balance, flowing effortlessly through the body. Qi travels twenty major pathways, which TCM calls meridians. They're accessible through 400 different acupuncture points. By stimulating these meridians at carefully chosen points and in carefully chosen combinations, the acupuncturist can overcome blocks, help balance energy, and promote health. One of the reasons conventional Western medicine has trouble wrapping its mind around acupuncture is that it's hard to subject it to the kind of specific scientific study that Western scientists are used to." - 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.)

"This upper level is conservative, as few side effects have been noted below 3000 IU (2000 mg). For optimal health and disease resistance, 400 to 800 IU of natural vitamin E is often taken. It is recommended that supplementation of vitamin E over 400 IU be increased gradually so that the body can get used to the blood-thinning effects, especially in cases of high blood pressure. Some surgeons recommend the discontinuation of vitamin E supplementation before surgery to decrease any risk of excess bleeding. Premature infants are very sensitive to alpha-tocopherol supplements." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "To ensure optimal health for both the baby and the mother, these vitamins and minerals need to be maintained at their ideal levels. Appendix B: Weight Loss Weight gain can be understood as resulting from taking in more calories than are burned for energy. Limiting calories in the diet and increasing exercise are both valid approaches to weight loss. It is important to note that the ability of the body to burn nutrients for energy may be limited by deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals. Much of the modern diet is made from refined grains such as white flour." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"The evidence for a relationship between milk and milk products and bone health was also reviewed in determining quantities to recommend for optimal health. Beyond getting adequate nutrients and milk products, the committee considered dietary habits detrimental to health, especially with regard to energy excess, but also for bone health. Dietary patterns as they influence acid-base balance may also play a role in bone health. 1. Milk and Milk Products The Dietary Guidelines for Americans include 2 cups of milk or milk product daily for children aged 2 to 8 years and 3 cups after age 8 [45]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Achieving optimal health requires that we incorporate the 5 Keys to health in our lives. Key # 1: Learning Awareness happens as we gain knowledge about what the body requires for health, why it develops disease symptoms, and how we can cooperate with it to produce health. þThe body is designed to always work for health, but it depends on us to supply its needs. Disease happens as a logical consequence of nutritional deficiencies, toxic build-up in the organs, and faulty beliefs. Cooking and processing destroys the life-giving properties of food." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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