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"So what we try to do is keep everything as close to optimum health as possible. • The Line of Symptoms. As long as all our organs and systems function above this line, we have no problems. But the moment any part of our Personal Health Line dips below the Line of Symptoms, problems begin to manifest. Sometimes, the problems are so slight we don't notice them at first—such as the early warning signals of heart disease and cancer. But at a certain point, if the symptoms persist long enough, and if our Personal Health Line dips below the Line of Symptoms far enough, we take notice." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to optimum health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "These must be removed for optimum health. 12. The Immune System. In many ways, your immune system is the most awesome system in your body, easily rivaling your brain in terms of complexity, subtlety, and self-awareness. And yet, we seem to do everything in our power to destroy it. For example, just one can of soda pop can depress your immune system by some 50% for as long as six hours. There is no chance for good health, or the elimination of disease, until your immune system has been optimized. 13. The Thought That Kills." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to optimum health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "These must be removed from the blood for optimum health. The idea of blood cleansing goes back to the middle ages; and, when you think about it, the concept of "cleaning" the blood probably resonates with today's medical establishment about as well as bloodletting and philosopher's stones. Nevertheless, it works—and what's more, it even makes sense. The concept that we eventually overwhelm our body's ability to remove all of the toxins from our blood is not really too hard to imagine, especially if we actually think about what it is we eat and drink." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to optimum health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "A full complement of the 72-84 trace elements is essential for optimum health. Vitamins The dictionary defines a vitamin as "an organic compound naturally occurring in plant and animal tissue and that is essential in small amounts for the control of metabolic processes." A more illuminating definition is that vitamins are coenzymes. Their primary role is to help your body's enzymes do theit job.' When vitamins are available in limited amounts, enzyme reactions are inhibited." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to optimum health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"This amount is totally inadequate for optimum health. Since we lost the capability of making vitamin C about 20 million years ago, our bodies have had to adapt to chronic deficiency after we moved away from a natural diet to a food supply that did not provide adequate amounts. We are still paying the price of this dietary change. Although the connection between vitamin C and scurvy was first scientifically established by Nobel Laureate Dr A." - 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.) "Therapeutic Uses Antioxidant Activity: Vitamin C is needed by everyone, not only to prevent diseases, such as scurvy, but also to insure optimum health of the whole body. In the presence of any pathology or stress, the amount needed increases very rapidly. It has been found that the more serious the condition, the more vitamin C is needed. Vitamin C is indeed our chief antioxidant. We live in an atmosphere that contains about 20% oxygen. This is used in respiration to create energy. But excessive oxidation will be very harmful." - 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.) "Even though more emphasis will be placed on vitamin C and the B complex vitamins, all of the vitamins discussed are essential for preventing diseases, treating specific clinical conditions, and ensuring optimum health. Vitamin C Vitamin C is the best known and most popular vitamin supplement, partly due to its historical role in preventing scurvy and partly due to the so-called vitamin C controversy. Besides preventing scurvy, vitamin C is our chief antioxidant, effective in treating arteriosclerosis, low stomach acid, various cancers, and aging conditions when taken in optimum doses." - 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.) "In a word, we need a nutrient-rich naturopathic diet for optimum health. TOWARD A NATURAL DIET There are many people who are well and, therefore, do not need to modify their diet. They, obviously, have found the diet to which they are adapted. Any modification of their diet would likely reduce their state of health if it were continued for a long time. So the question is, how can you find out for yourself if you have good health or whether your health can be made better by changing the food consumed? There are two sides to this question, one short term, the other long term. Are you well now?" - 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.)

"Remember that the ultimate litmus test for optimum health, is optimum health, and optimum health cannot be sustained without sufficient magnesium stores. References 1 Altura, BM, "Introduction:importance of Mg in physiology and medicine and the need for ion selective electrodes." Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl, vol. 217, pp 5-9, 1994 2 Seelig MS, "The requirement of magnesium by the normal adult." Am J Clin Nutr,\o\ 14, pp.342-390,1964 3 Seelig MS, "Magnesium requirements in human nutrition." Magnes Bull, vol 3 (1A), pp." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"The purpose of alkaline supplement-based therapies is to neutralize and eliminate not only surface acids, but also those that have built up in the depths of the body's internal environment, until they have all been removed and optimum health has been restored. It is only at this point that the body is completely detoxified of acid wastes. This is a real cure, not simply superficial improvement of symptoms. In fact, the true nature of the condition is not its surface symptoms but the toxic state of the body's internal environment when saturated with acid wastes." - Christopher Vasey, The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating pH Balance in Your Diet (Get the book.)

"Remember that the ultimate litmus test for optimum health, is optimum health, and optimum health cannot be sustained without sufficient magnesium stores. References 1 Altura, BM, "Introduction:importance of Mg in physiology and medicine and the need for ion selective electrodes." Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl, vol. 217, pp 5-9, 1994 2 Seelig MS, "The requirement of magnesium by the normal adult." Am J Clin Nutr,\o\ 14, pp.342-390,1964 3 Seelig MS, "Magnesium requirements in human nutrition." Magnes Bull, vol 3 (1A), pp." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"THE BODY'S NATURAL 24-HOUR CYCLE This concept is very important and should be completely understood, appreciated, and incorporated into one's lifestyle to promote optimum health. The body must be given adequate time to be able to properly complete digestion, absorption, assimilation, and elimination each day. In simple terms, we could think of the 24-hour day divided into three approximately equal sections. Although they do not happen completely consecutively, each function of digestion, absorption, assimilation, and elimination must be allowed sufficient time to complete." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In fact, EFAs aren't just good, they are essential to supporting optimum health. And since the body cannot produce EFAs on its own, the only way to get them is through a proper diet or supplements, thus making outside sources of these fats essential. Essential fatty acids, especially omega-3, are needed for a healthy cardiovascular system, for proper nerve and brain function, proper hormone balance, proper elimination, and a solid immune system. Unfortunately, most of our foods are devoid of these essential fatty acids, leaving the general population deficient as well." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Thus, learning to breathe is an essential ingredient in obtaining optimum health. Why? Because deeper, fuller breathing not only increases the physical amount of oxygen needed to drive the body's metabolic processes, but also assuages tissue spasticities and releases tension. By freeing up blocked feelings and emotions, breathing gets the body in touch with feeling. As a psychotherapist, I have seen many patients perform deep-breathing exercises and as a result experience deep feelings, crying, and emotional release. This release in itself is healing." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "I try to provide simple answers to complex questions on how to achieve optimum health. Although healing is truly a multifaceted process, this book offers clear and concise information about vitamins, minerals, fat, fiber, and cholesterol. It includes valuable facts about exercise and healing foods as well as the latest information about antiaging strategies. It also explains how nutritional supplements can make a difference in your life. One more thing. I realize that I provide a lot of information—maybe more information than you want." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "The realization that true healing takes place only when this balance is restored ignited my interest in exploring the energetic/metabolic/nutritional constituents that make up the whole process of optimum health. Just how important is this process? fact Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world. fact Cancer is the second-leading cause of death. fact Coronary artery disease and cancer may be preventable by risk factor modification. fact Obesity is a risk factor for both heart disease and cancer." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "Although vitamin and mineral supplements are no substitute for a proper diet, they are a beneficial, nontoxic, and easy way to promote optimum health. Unfortunately, even the rare individual who eats a balanced diet (about 9 percent of Americans) that includes five to nine servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day does not get the larger amount of these nutrients demonstrated in scientific studies to be effective. While supplemental vitamins and minerals are the easiest way to make up the deficit, the problem is that most supplements are unregulated as to potency and absorption." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The human body cannot incorporate synthetic, unnatural substances into its tissues for optimum health. Prostate and Male Midlife Problems The prostate is a walnut-sized gland of the male reproductive system, located below the bladder and encircling the urethra. It helps control urination and produces a major component of semen. It depends on an adequate supply of nutrients and balanced hormones for its health. At some time in his life, usually around middle age, almost every man will experience discomfort and problems caused by an inflamed or enlarged prostate gland." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"These nutraceuticals offer an exciting opportunity to achieve optimum health and vitality, and possibly will help us regain the vigor of our youth. Physicians who embrace therapies that sustain mitochondrial defense will provide a metabolic cardiological solution for their patients. They will be practicing an exciting new phase of integrative cardiology that will determine the quality of millions of people's lives. I believe that the time has come for traditional medicine to listen to the demands of the public." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"When we are in a state of optimum health, the water levels are balanced and are at the top of both tube columns. But, as trauma, disease, or continued lack of good nutrition stress the body, it is as if the U-tube is tilted over and some of the water spilled. The body eventually returns to a balance, but with a little less vitality than it had before, just like the U-tube with a lower level of water in the two columns." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Your partner in optimum health, CHAPTER 1 HOW TOXIC ARE YOU? TAKE THE TEST If you have been dealing with chronic illness, low energy, accelerated aging, or if you simply have had trouble losing unwanted fat, gaining mental clarity, andfeeling the best and happiest you can, it's time for a change. And that change starts with an understanding of how toxic you are, where toxins comefrom, and what they potentially could be doing to you and yourfamilyfrom the inside out. - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Nutritionists suggest a 1 to 1 ratio of potassium and sodium for optimum health. Ef^ CAUTION! If you consume lots of coffee, alcohol, and sugar, or are stressed out and at the same time feel run down and weak in the knees and have muscle cramps, your potassium levels may be low. Being sick, on an extremely low carbohydrate diet, or anorexic, may cause nausea and rapid heartbeat. In extreme cases, electrolyte depletion can even lead to heart failure. Because vomiting and diarrhea deplete electrolytes, children with these symptoms must be kept hydrated." - Brenda Adderly, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Supplements: Everything You Need to Make Informed Choices for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"We have to clean up the whole mess to restore optimum health. Treat the cause, yes, but also help people get relief from all the effects—in Joanne's case this included chronic sinus infections, yeast problems, PMS, hormonal imbalances, painful cystic breasts, thyroid problems, nutritional deficiencies, and inflammation. So we went to work." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"RECOMMENDED USAGE Experts vary about how much iron is required for optimum health. The following information indicates an average. If you have questions, contact your health care professional. Children 10-18 milligrams Women 25-50 years: 15-75 milligrams 50 + years: 10-50 milligrams Men 25-50 years: 10-18 milligrams 50 + years: 10-18 milligrams Even though the earth contains an enormous supply of the mineral, the most common nutritional deficiency in the world is of iron." - Brenda Adderly, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Supplements: Everything You Need to Make Informed Choices for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The nucleus and cytoplasm of a cell attract opposite charges; the nucleus is the positive 'pole,' and the cytoplasm is the negative 'pole' " (Living Foods for optimum health, p. 35). According to the bioelectric paradigm, a drop in this bioelectric potential is the first step of the disease process. Hence many people do not feel good even though their lab tests show no overt or diagnosable signs of disease. On a cellular level, these tired people are unable to properly dispose of toxins and absorb nutrients. Their bodies are enervated." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "His book Living Foods for optimum health was acclaimed by Coretta Scott King as a "landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living." Lou Corona I have heard Lou Corona speak several times. He is radiant and dynamic. At the age of 53, he could pass for a 30-year-old. This is because he began the 100% raw vegan diet about 31 years ago! He had been very sick: badly constipated, plagued by severe acne and a tumor on his head, but he didn't want to have surgery because he knew of someone who died after surgery for such a tumor." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The Vitamin C Foundation—a group of physicians and other health practitioners and advocates dedicated to promoting the therapeutic value of vitamin C—recommend that "every man, woman and child over the age of 3 consume at least 3 grams (3,000 mg) of vitamin C daily in order to enjoy optimum health." Hold on to your horses—it recommends even more during pregnancy (6,000 mg or 6 g) and "much, much more during periods of disease"— 20,000 mg and up. Cardiovascular Health Vitamin C also plays an important role in heart health." - 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.) "Its basic premise is that "an optimum diet is the key to optimum health." Pauling took a great deal of flack for his advocacy of high-dose vitamin C and was dismissed by much of the medical establishment as a nut job. But in 2005, researchers published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrating that vitamin C killed cancer cells in test tubes." - 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.)

"We can never have optimum health without efficient digestion, and we cannot have efficient digestion without an adequate supply of enzymes and sufficient stomach acid. One of the first indications of enzyme depletion in the body is the incidence of a digestive problem. Our digestive systems become weakened when the body has been deprived of its nutritional needs for years on end. The digestive organs become less efficient in their job of digesting, absorbing, assimilating, and delivering energy to cells. It is not just what we eat that is important, it is what we are able to digest." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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