Did you know that a law passed in 2006 has the potential to restrict your right to choose who you go to for nutritional counseling? Click on the link to read more -
Playing Monopoly With Our Health
Please also see the Michigan Nutrition Association's website here:
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Are legislators poised to end natural supplement censorship?
You have no doubt read all the bad news about limiting your freedom to choose holistically oriented health care - now it seems we have three new bills being introduced for a vote in Washington that may actually make it easier for us to choose holistic care over allopathic care. Here are the three bills:
The Free Speech About Science Act of 2010 (H.R.4913)
What it does: permit the free exchange of legitimate scientific evidence showing that food, herbs and vitamins hold therapeutic, healing power.
The Freedom of Health Speech Act (H.R.3394)
What it does: stops the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being able to freely and arbitrarily prosecute food and supplement manufacturers for making legitimate health claims. It will force the FTC to prove a claim is false before they can prosecute.
The Health Freedom Act, (H.R.3395)
What it will do: puts the burden of proof on the FDA to convince a court that a claim is false before being able to pursue a company for making health claims.
Why is this so important?
An important reason for showing evidence of a specific nutraceutical product is that using published researched studies and peer reviewed articles is the way the scientific and allopathic medical community evaluates methods and protocols to treat various disease conditions. Right now just as published scientific research studies are done on pharmaceutical drugs so too are they being done on many supplements. This is especially true for those supplement companies who are more reputable and of higher grade.
Each time a micro nutrient or herb is tested in a trial or in vivo (in animals) or in human trials it scientifically verifies these products are effective (and often more effective than pharmaceuticals).
The allopathic medical and scientific communities are slow to change but this is how they will begin to acknowledge, accept and begin adopting more functional methods of treatment and prevention. And ultimately, this is how the current "sick care system” will evolve to be a true "well care system".
Once documentation is legally allowed and you can take this to your doctor when he/she questions why you are following a program based on whole foods, nutrition, supplementation etc, the Medical Schools will be forced to properly train/re-train their students and practitioners in the field of functional nutrition.
This is called a paradigm shift.
This website provides an easy way for you to contact your legislator in support of these important bills: http://truehealthclaims.citizens.org
Further information can be found here:
Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement makers in America
The Free Speech About Science Act of 2010 (H.R.4913)
What it does: permit the free exchange of legitimate scientific evidence showing that food, herbs and vitamins hold therapeutic, healing power.
The Freedom of Health Speech Act (H.R.3394)
What it does: stops the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being able to freely and arbitrarily prosecute food and supplement manufacturers for making legitimate health claims. It will force the FTC to prove a claim is false before they can prosecute.
The Health Freedom Act, (H.R.3395)
What it will do: puts the burden of proof on the FDA to convince a court that a claim is false before being able to pursue a company for making health claims.
Why is this so important?
An important reason for showing evidence of a specific nutraceutical product is that using published researched studies and peer reviewed articles is the way the scientific and allopathic medical community evaluates methods and protocols to treat various disease conditions. Right now just as published scientific research studies are done on pharmaceutical drugs so too are they being done on many supplements. This is especially true for those supplement companies who are more reputable and of higher grade.
Each time a micro nutrient or herb is tested in a trial or in vivo (in animals) or in human trials it scientifically verifies these products are effective (and often more effective than pharmaceuticals).
The allopathic medical and scientific communities are slow to change but this is how they will begin to acknowledge, accept and begin adopting more functional methods of treatment and prevention. And ultimately, this is how the current "sick care system” will evolve to be a true "well care system".
Once documentation is legally allowed and you can take this to your doctor when he/she questions why you are following a program based on whole foods, nutrition, supplementation etc, the Medical Schools will be forced to properly train/re-train their students and practitioners in the field of functional nutrition.
This is called a paradigm shift.
This website provides an easy way for you to contact your legislator in support of these important bills: http://truehealthclaims.citizens.org
Further information can be found here:
Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement makers in America
Friday, September 10, 2010
Fatty acids in disorders of neurodevelopment, learning and behavior
Essential fatty acid supplementation is so important for everyone. EFA's positively impact brain, heart, hormonal and neurological health.
The brain is made mostly of fat. The correct balance of fatty acids is necessary for neuronal health, nerve transmission, maintaining a normal threshold of excitability, and the regulation of inflammation in the brain and elsewhere. A fascinating study published recently in the journal Neuropharmacology reveals the relationship between fatty acids, electrical activity (EEG), and brain function in adolescent boys with ADHD.
“Abnormal fatty acid status has been implicated in the aetiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Delayed maturation in ADHD may result in raised frontal low frequency (theta) electroencephalographic activity (EEG) and a reduction in posterior high frequency (beta, alpha) activity.”
Continue reading at this link...
Fatty acids in disorders of neurodevelopment, learning and behavior
The brain is made mostly of fat. The correct balance of fatty acids is necessary for neuronal health, nerve transmission, maintaining a normal threshold of excitability, and the regulation of inflammation in the brain and elsewhere. A fascinating study published recently in the journal Neuropharmacology reveals the relationship between fatty acids, electrical activity (EEG), and brain function in adolescent boys with ADHD.
“Abnormal fatty acid status has been implicated in the aetiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Delayed maturation in ADHD may result in raised frontal low frequency (theta) electroencephalographic activity (EEG) and a reduction in posterior high frequency (beta, alpha) activity.”
Continue reading at this link...
Fatty acids in disorders of neurodevelopment, learning and behavior
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Michigan legislature close to approving nutrition and dietetics regulations limiting choice
I need your help.
I and others who work in the field of holistically oriented nutrition are in a battle for our survival here in Michigan against the American Dietetic Association.
Four years ago the ADA’s (American Dietetic Association) lobbyists succeeded in convincing a legislator that all nutritional and dietetics practitioners should be licensed for the safety of the public and a law was passed. As a result of the licensure law that passed in 2006 the Board of Dietetics and Nutrition - appointed by the governor was charged with evaluating other nutrition credentials to determine if any other professionals (besides the Registered Dietitian) can be licensed. The credentials for licensure have been being debated for 4 years now by board members. Only two of the board members are supportive of the distinction between the ADA educational & careers paths and the Nutritionist educational and career paths. The registered dietitians are so far succeeding in writing the licensure requirements to be that of the RDA –
Based on the criteria that the board developed as "equivalent course of study" to dietetics, no other nutrition credentials are accepted. This means that the CNS, CCN, CNC, CN, DACBN do not meet criteria for licensure. However, a PhD or MS Nutrition who can document 900 hours of clinical experience is eligible to take an exam given by the state. The state will use the RD exam and may use the CNS exam for those who do not go through a dietetics program, such as someone with a MS or PhD in Nutrition.
This law will restrict your right to choose what kind of nutritional counseling by legally silencing those who have a different approach than the ADA. For more on some of the distinctions and impact of this law please visit the websites below. (aka; the food programs in our public schools, hospitals and prisons and their sponsors such as Coca-Cola Company - all run bay and endorsed by the ADA).
Please add your voice by using the forms at these websites to send an email against the law as it is being drafted an in support of health freedom of choice.
http://www.michigannutritionassociation.org/
https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=563
Please view the video (next post) featuring Jamie Oliver for more reasons why defeating this law is so important!
I and others who work in the field of holistically oriented nutrition are in a battle for our survival here in Michigan against the American Dietetic Association.
Four years ago the ADA’s (American Dietetic Association) lobbyists succeeded in convincing a legislator that all nutritional and dietetics practitioners should be licensed for the safety of the public and a law was passed. As a result of the licensure law that passed in 2006 the Board of Dietetics and Nutrition - appointed by the governor was charged with evaluating other nutrition credentials to determine if any other professionals (besides the Registered Dietitian) can be licensed. The credentials for licensure have been being debated for 4 years now by board members. Only two of the board members are supportive of the distinction between the ADA educational & careers paths and the Nutritionist educational and career paths. The registered dietitians are so far succeeding in writing the licensure requirements to be that of the RDA –
Based on the criteria that the board developed as "equivalent course of study" to dietetics, no other nutrition credentials are accepted. This means that the CNS, CCN, CNC, CN, DACBN do not meet criteria for licensure. However, a PhD or MS Nutrition who can document 900 hours of clinical experience is eligible to take an exam given by the state. The state will use the RD exam and may use the CNS exam for those who do not go through a dietetics program, such as someone with a MS or PhD in Nutrition.
This law will restrict your right to choose what kind of nutritional counseling by legally silencing those who have a different approach than the ADA. For more on some of the distinctions and impact of this law please visit the websites below. (aka; the food programs in our public schools, hospitals and prisons and their sponsors such as Coca-Cola Company - all run bay and endorsed by the ADA).
Please add your voice by using the forms at these websites to send an email against the law as it is being drafted an in support of health freedom of choice.
http://www.michigannutritionassociation.org/
https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=563
Please view the video (next post) featuring Jamie Oliver for more reasons why defeating this law is so important!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Foods that impact Alzheimer's Diseae Risk - New Study
Study Identifies Food Combination Associated With Reduced Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Individuals whose diet includes more salad dressing, nuts, fish, poultry, and certain fruits and vegetables and fewer high-fat dairy products, red meats, organ meats, and butter appear less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Neurology.
Yian Gu, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center, New York, and colleagues studied 2148 older adults (aged 65 years and older) without dementia living in New York. Participants provided information about their diets and were assessed for the development of dementia every 1.5 years for an average of 4 years. Several dietary patterns were identified with varying levels of seven nutrients previously shown to be associated with Alzheimer's disease risk: saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, vitamin E, vitamin B12 and folate.
During the follow-up, 253 individuals developed Alzheimer’s disease. One dietary pattern was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the disease. This pattern involved high intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, fruits, and cruciferous and dark and green leafy vegetables and low intakes of high-fat dairy, red meat, organ meat, and butter.
The combination of nutrients in the low-risk dietary pattern reflect multiple pathways in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. “For example, vitamin B12 and folate are homocysteine-related vitamins that may have an impact on Alzheimer's disease via their ability of reducing circulating homocysteine levels, vitamin E might prevent Alzheimer’s disease via its strong antioxidant effect and fatty acids may be related to dementia and cognitive function through atherosclerosis, thrombosis or inflammation via an effect on brain development and membrane functioning or via accumulation of beta-amyloid,” the authors write.
Individuals whose diet includes more salad dressing, nuts, fish, poultry, and certain fruits and vegetables and fewer high-fat dairy products, red meats, organ meats, and butter appear less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Neurology.
Yian Gu, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center, New York, and colleagues studied 2148 older adults (aged 65 years and older) without dementia living in New York. Participants provided information about their diets and were assessed for the development of dementia every 1.5 years for an average of 4 years. Several dietary patterns were identified with varying levels of seven nutrients previously shown to be associated with Alzheimer's disease risk: saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, vitamin E, vitamin B12 and folate.
During the follow-up, 253 individuals developed Alzheimer’s disease. One dietary pattern was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the disease. This pattern involved high intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, fruits, and cruciferous and dark and green leafy vegetables and low intakes of high-fat dairy, red meat, organ meat, and butter.
The combination of nutrients in the low-risk dietary pattern reflect multiple pathways in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. “For example, vitamin B12 and folate are homocysteine-related vitamins that may have an impact on Alzheimer's disease via their ability of reducing circulating homocysteine levels, vitamin E might prevent Alzheimer’s disease via its strong antioxidant effect and fatty acids may be related to dementia and cognitive function through atherosclerosis, thrombosis or inflammation via an effect on brain development and membrane functioning or via accumulation of beta-amyloid,” the authors write.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Fermented Soy is Only Soy Food Fit for Human Consumption
Is soy good for you? Read this informative article about why fermented soy is the only soy you should consume.
Fermented Soy is Only Soy Food Fit for Human Consumption
Fermented Soy is Only Soy Food Fit for Human Consumption
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Prescription medications or a naturally healthy lifestyle - compare the side effects!
Warnings about prescription medications seem to appear in headlines on an almost weekly basis. I did some research on the side effects of some frequently prescribed medications and here's what I found:
Corticosteroids: used to treat autoimmune disease such as RA, arthritis, lupus, asthma, and MS. Side effects include; abdominal obesity; increase susceptibility to infection; interference with wound healing; interferes with metabolism of folic acid, vitamins B6, B12, potassium, and zinc; a reduction of vitamin D and calcium levels. Long term use leads to decreased bone density and osteoporosis.
NSAID’s (Advil, Motrin, and Aleve): an over the counter medication used to treat minor pain. Side effects include; stomach upset. Over use leads to erosion of the stomach wall and gastritis, gastric ulcers, leaky gut syndrome, which can trigger an inflammatory immune reaction and food sensitivities/intolerances. Even aspirin and ibuprofen have been linked to an accelerated breakdown of cartilage in joints.
Cox – 2 inhibitors (Vioxx, Celebrex): these work to suppress cyclooxygenase activity which rises in the inflammatory response. Side effects include increased risk for heart attack and stroke, erosion of the stomach wall, impedance of brain development such as memory and activity, and can potentially disrupt reproduction.
CRP (C-reactive protein) lowering agents called satins; Lovastatin; pravastatin; simvastatin: these reduce the body’s production of cholesterol by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. This in effect turns off all the other compounds dependent on HMG-CoA reductase such as all of the body’s steroid hormones like estrogen, testosterone, and corticosteroids. Side effects include; depletion of CoQ10 – vital to the production of energy in cells. It can also lead to muscle weakness, and breakdown of muscle tissue.
Now consider the "side effects" of making a few changes to your dietary and lifestyle habits:
Improved sleep
Improved concentration
Increased energy
Less aches and pains
Saved money on prescriptions, co-pays and office visits!
Increased passion and joy for living!
The choice is up to you....
Corticosteroids: used to treat autoimmune disease such as RA, arthritis, lupus, asthma, and MS. Side effects include; abdominal obesity; increase susceptibility to infection; interference with wound healing; interferes with metabolism of folic acid, vitamins B6, B12, potassium, and zinc; a reduction of vitamin D and calcium levels. Long term use leads to decreased bone density and osteoporosis.
NSAID’s (Advil, Motrin, and Aleve): an over the counter medication used to treat minor pain. Side effects include; stomach upset. Over use leads to erosion of the stomach wall and gastritis, gastric ulcers, leaky gut syndrome, which can trigger an inflammatory immune reaction and food sensitivities/intolerances. Even aspirin and ibuprofen have been linked to an accelerated breakdown of cartilage in joints.
Cox – 2 inhibitors (Vioxx, Celebrex): these work to suppress cyclooxygenase activity which rises in the inflammatory response. Side effects include increased risk for heart attack and stroke, erosion of the stomach wall, impedance of brain development such as memory and activity, and can potentially disrupt reproduction.
CRP (C-reactive protein) lowering agents called satins; Lovastatin; pravastatin; simvastatin: these reduce the body’s production of cholesterol by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. This in effect turns off all the other compounds dependent on HMG-CoA reductase such as all of the body’s steroid hormones like estrogen, testosterone, and corticosteroids. Side effects include; depletion of CoQ10 – vital to the production of energy in cells. It can also lead to muscle weakness, and breakdown of muscle tissue.
Now consider the "side effects" of making a few changes to your dietary and lifestyle habits:
Improved sleep
Improved concentration
Increased energy
Less aches and pains
Saved money on prescriptions, co-pays and office visits!
Increased passion and joy for living!
The choice is up to you....
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Annoucing Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul Yogic Lifestyle and Nutrition Workshop
I am delighted to be part of a new lifestyle and nutrition program which will offered by two prominent cardiologists; Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., F.A.C.C. and Dr. Ginette Gomez, D.O., F.A.C.C. at Beaumont hospital. The program, which is scheduled to launch via a two day workshop next month, is called Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul. Unique to this lifestyle program is that it focuses on the body-mind-spirit connection through yogic lifestyle and nutrition. I developed the recipes and nutritional portion of the program in keeping with the Sattvic way of approaching food and nutrition which is founded in whole foods, primarily vegetarian.
The workshop will beheld April 17 and 18th at Bay Pointe Golf Club in West Bloomfield.
Please visit the Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul website for more information or to register for the workshop
The workshop will beheld April 17 and 18th at Bay Pointe Golf Club in West Bloomfield.
Please visit the Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul website for more information or to register for the workshop
Sunday, January 17, 2010
High Colesterol & Heart Disease - Truth or Myth?
This article examines the last 70 years of research on what causes heart disease.
The Response-to-Injury Rabbit Never Developed Atherosclerosis — Why Not?
August 23, 2008
by Chris Masterjohn
The pop science version of cholesterol goes something like this: when you eat fatty foods, especially foods rich in animal fat, the saturated fat and cholesterol in these foods wind up in your blood and stick to your arteries. Since saturated fats are solid outside your body, they will be solid inside your body too — depsite the 30-degree increase in average temperature. Arteries are much like pipes. When they get caked up with grease, blood flow is impaired, and a heart attack ensues.
None of the prominent scientists who promoted the idea that cholesterol is a critical factor in the development of heart disease ever believed anything remotely resembling this nonsense. From the beginning, they recognized that atherosclerotic plaque accumulates behind the layer of the artery in contact with the blood, called the endothelium, and that the cholesterol and fat within it is engulfed in white blood cells.
Keep reading by clicking on this link - http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/cholesterol.xml
The Response-to-Injury Rabbit Never Developed Atherosclerosis — Why Not?
August 23, 2008
by Chris Masterjohn
The pop science version of cholesterol goes something like this: when you eat fatty foods, especially foods rich in animal fat, the saturated fat and cholesterol in these foods wind up in your blood and stick to your arteries. Since saturated fats are solid outside your body, they will be solid inside your body too — depsite the 30-degree increase in average temperature. Arteries are much like pipes. When they get caked up with grease, blood flow is impaired, and a heart attack ensues.
None of the prominent scientists who promoted the idea that cholesterol is a critical factor in the development of heart disease ever believed anything remotely resembling this nonsense. From the beginning, they recognized that atherosclerotic plaque accumulates behind the layer of the artery in contact with the blood, called the endothelium, and that the cholesterol and fat within it is engulfed in white blood cells.
Keep reading by clicking on this link - http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/cholesterol.xml
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Agave Nectar, the High Fructose Health Food Fraud
New information suggests that Agave is not a safe sweetener due the way it is chemically processed and it's high fructose content. Fructose is linked to the development of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Please read -
Agave Nectar, the High Fructose Health Food Fraud
Agave Nectar, the High Fructose Health Food Fraud
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Why a holistic approach to health takes time
Many people who attend my lectures or contact me are hungry for information they can use to help themselves live a healthier life. Unfortunately, many people are still looking for that magic bullet, that one supplement or food they think will change it all and solve all their health issues. I wish there were such a nutrient, but there is not.
You see our bodies are very complex and have many systems that work in concert to maintain homeostasis such as; Central Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Respiratory system, Digestive system, Reproduction system,Lymphatic System,Cardiovascular System and the Endocrine System. Although it may seem obvious that your headaches and fatigue are stress induced there is usually more to it than that. Thus a comprehensive approach ie: "holistic" is going to be more effective in the long run.
Clients typically come to me with one overriding heath concern that they are suffering from. Interestingly, after our initial session together they begin to realize they will need to address several areas as a part of a lifestyle change if we are to begin to solve their health problems. This is where a holistic approach often takes longer and is due to the need to establish a path and process that is systematic. It's essential to move through each stage carefully, monitor progress and make adjustments as needed so as not to shock the body and make the person feel worse. At the same time we are working to bring the body back to balance as quickly as possible so they feel better. When clients do as I teach them they actually begin to heal themselves and they are empowered to maintain their new healthy lifestyle and hopefully require much less allopathic treatment.
You see our bodies are very complex and have many systems that work in concert to maintain homeostasis such as; Central Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Respiratory system, Digestive system, Reproduction system,Lymphatic System,Cardiovascular System and the Endocrine System. Although it may seem obvious that your headaches and fatigue are stress induced there is usually more to it than that. Thus a comprehensive approach ie: "holistic" is going to be more effective in the long run.
Clients typically come to me with one overriding heath concern that they are suffering from. Interestingly, after our initial session together they begin to realize they will need to address several areas as a part of a lifestyle change if we are to begin to solve their health problems. This is where a holistic approach often takes longer and is due to the need to establish a path and process that is systematic. It's essential to move through each stage carefully, monitor progress and make adjustments as needed so as not to shock the body and make the person feel worse. At the same time we are working to bring the body back to balance as quickly as possible so they feel better. When clients do as I teach them they actually begin to heal themselves and they are empowered to maintain their new healthy lifestyle and hopefully require much less allopathic treatment.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Resolution 2010 - Part I: Reduce Your Toxic Load
Part I - Check your water report!
If you live in Michigan especially the area around the thumb you are being exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic in your drinking water. According to Environmental Health report this area of Michigan has evidence of higher death rates due to causes of death including several types of cancer, diseases of the circulatory and respiratory system, diabetes mellitus, and kidney and liver diseases. Each of these diseases has shown some evidence of association with arsenic exposure.
Specifically, cancer of the female reproductive organs was elevated. Deaths from all diseases of the circulatory system and cerebrovascular diseases were elevated in both males and females. In females only, deaths from atherosclerosis were elevated and deaths from aortic aneurysm were reduced. Deaths from respiratory diseases were elevated in the study area, with chronic airways obstruction-related deaths elevated in both males and females. Males also experienced elevated mortality rates for all diseases of the respiratory system. Deaths from diabetes mellitus and kidney diseases were also elevated among both males and females in the study area. Deaths from chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis were reduced for males and females.
There are other scary contaminates in our water too so it's a good idea to check your city's water evaluation report to know what is in the water in your area. Unfortunately, many contaminats such as prescription drugs cannot be filtered out right now.We need stricter laws to ensure proper disposal of these substances in order to prevent further contamination.
How this report was done: Estimates of arsenic concentrations in drinking water in the six-county study area were compiled from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) arsenic database which contains results from water samples collected and analyzed between 1983 and 2002. You can read the entire report here www.ehjournal.net/content/6/1/4
What can you do about this? Get a water filtration system for all drinking and cooking water. Many are inexpensive. Check the label to see what contaminates the brand your considering filters out. You can also get a shower head water filter (highly advisable) to eliminate these toxins from entering through the skin.
If you live in Michigan especially the area around the thumb you are being exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic in your drinking water. According to Environmental Health report this area of Michigan has evidence of higher death rates due to causes of death including several types of cancer, diseases of the circulatory and respiratory system, diabetes mellitus, and kidney and liver diseases. Each of these diseases has shown some evidence of association with arsenic exposure.
Specifically, cancer of the female reproductive organs was elevated. Deaths from all diseases of the circulatory system and cerebrovascular diseases were elevated in both males and females. In females only, deaths from atherosclerosis were elevated and deaths from aortic aneurysm were reduced. Deaths from respiratory diseases were elevated in the study area, with chronic airways obstruction-related deaths elevated in both males and females. Males also experienced elevated mortality rates for all diseases of the respiratory system. Deaths from diabetes mellitus and kidney diseases were also elevated among both males and females in the study area. Deaths from chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis were reduced for males and females.
There are other scary contaminates in our water too so it's a good idea to check your city's water evaluation report to know what is in the water in your area. Unfortunately, many contaminats such as prescription drugs cannot be filtered out right now.We need stricter laws to ensure proper disposal of these substances in order to prevent further contamination.
How this report was done: Estimates of arsenic concentrations in drinking water in the six-county study area were compiled from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) arsenic database which contains results from water samples collected and analyzed between 1983 and 2002. You can read the entire report here www.ehjournal.net/content/6/1/4
What can you do about this? Get a water filtration system for all drinking and cooking water. Many are inexpensive. Check the label to see what contaminates the brand your considering filters out. You can also get a shower head water filter (highly advisable) to eliminate these toxins from entering through the skin.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
PUTTING THE "C" IN CURE:
PUTTING THE "C" IN CURE:
Quantity and Frequency are the Keys to Ascorbate Therapy
Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
(OMNS, December 15, 2009) What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one, and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby vitamin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in less than 48 hours. Ray calculated that the child had received just over 2,000 mg vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what vitamin C expert Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitamin C/day, that baby never had bowel-tolerance loose stools. (1)
With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all that ascorbate was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitamin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better. You choose the answer that works for you.
Quantity of Dose
Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner earned his MD from Duke University School of Medicine and was subsequently board certified in diseases of the chest. (2) A working summation of Dr. Klenner's therapeutic use of vitamin C is 350 milligrams vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day (350 mg/kg/day), in divided doses. (3) Since a kilogram is about 2.2 pounds, this translates to:
mg of Vitamin "C" Body Weight Number of Doses Amount per dose
35,000 mg 220 lb 17-18 2,000 mg
18,000 mg 110 lb 18 1,000 mg
9,000 mg 55 lb 18 500 mg
4,500 mg 28 lb 9 500 mg
2,300 mg 14-15 lb 9 250 mg
1,200 mg 7-8 lb 9 130 - 135 mg
Although these quantities may seem high, Dr. Klenner actually used as much as four times as much for serious viral illness, administered by injection. The oral doses listed above are, for the doctor, comparatively moderate.
Frequency of Dose
For those unable to obtain intravenous vitamin C, it is essential to pay special attention to one of the most important aspects of vitamin C therapy: dividing the dosage improves absorption and retention of vitamin C. High oral doses of vitamin C yield higher blood levels of the vitamin, and dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels. Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts. Many a medical website and government-based dietary recommendation hinge on ignoring them. Hilary Roberts, PhD, writes: "Stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitamin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. In setting the RDA, unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitamin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.'" (4)
And there is ample proof to not like. Vitamin C, in very high doses, has been used to successfully treat several dozen illness (5), with a published, peer-reviewed literature spanning the last 60 years. Therefore, the effectiveness and safety of megadose vitamin C therapy should, by now, be yesterday's news. Yet I never cease to be amazed at the number of persons who remain unaware that vitamin C is the best broad-spectrum antibiotic, antihistamine, antitoxic and antiviral substance there is. Equally surprising is the ease with which some people, most of the medical profession, and virtually all of the media have been convinced that, somehow, vitamin C is not only ineffective but is also downright dangerous.
Bias against Ascorbate Therapy
When you pick up a health or nutrition book and need to know really fast if it is any good or not, just check the index for "Klenner" and three other key names: Cathcart, Stone, and Pauling. Robert F. Cathcart, an orthopedic surgeon, administered huge doses of vitamin C to tens of thousands of patients for decades (6), without generating a single kidney stone. Irwin Stone, the biochemist who first put Linus Pauling onto vitamin C, is the author of The Healing Factor: Vitamin C against Disease. (7) Pauling cites Stone thirteen times in his landmark book How to Live Longer and Feel Better (8), a recommendation if there ever was one. The importance of vitamin C's power against infectious and chronic disease is extraordinary. To me, omitting it is tantamount to deleting Shakespeare from an English Lit course.
Because of such bias, the primary way patients (and through them, their physicians) have been exposed to Dr. Klenner's work has been through Dr. Lendon Smith's 68-page Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. (9) Upon discovering this book, one of my undergraduates submitted a paper to another class discussing a substantial number of medical references she had found on vitamin C as a cure for polio. That course's instructor told me privately that the student's work was absurd, and he literally described her as a "dial tone." I recall a nutritional presentation I made to a hospital staff. All was going well until I mentioned using vitamin C as an antibiotic, as Dr. Klenner did. The mood changed quickly. And how many of us have heard this old saw: "If vitamin C was so good, every doctor would be prescribing it!"
Cardiologist Thomas Levy, MD, explains: "I could find no mainstream medical researcher who has performed any clinical studies on any infectious disease with vitamin C doses that approached those used by Klenner. Using a small enough dose of any therapeutic agent will demonstrate little or no effect on an infection or disease process." (10)
Preventive Doses
Dr. Klenner recommended daily preventive doses of 10,000 to 15,000 mg/day. He advised parents to give their children their age in vitamin C grams (1 g = 1,000 mg). That would be 2,000 mg/day for a two year old, 9,000 mg/day for a nine year old, and for older children, a leveling-off at about 10,000 mg/day. As for me, I simply say, "Take enough C to be symptom free, whatever that amount may be." It worked for my family. I raised my children all the way into college and they never had a dose of any antibiotic. Not once.
It is high time for medical professionals to welcome vitamin C megadoses and their power to cure the sick. Cure is by far the best word there is in medicine. It would seem that you cannot spell "cure" without "C." I do not think Dr. Klenner would dispute that.
(Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level, and has won three New York State teacher fellowships. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters.)
References:
(1) Bowel tolerance as an indicator of vitamin C saturation is discussed by Dr. RF Cathcart at http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html and http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html
(2) For more about Dr. Klenner's life and work: http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html
(3) Klenner FR. The significance of high daily intake of ascorbic acid in preventive medicine, p 51-59, in: A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine, Third Edition, Roger Williams, PhD, ed. Keats, 1979.
(4) Hickey S and Roberts H. Ascorbate: The science of vitamin C. 2004. ISBN 1-4116-0724-4. Morrisville, NC: Lulu.
(5) http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html
(6) http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html
(7) The complete text of Irwin Stone's book The Healing Factor is posted for free reading at http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/
(8) Pauling L. How to Live Longer and Feel Better, revised edition, 2006. ISBN-13: 9780870710964. Reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html
(9) The full text of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner's Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C is posted for free reading at http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm
(10) Levy TE. Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins: Curing the Incurable. Livon Books, 2002. ISBN: 1-4010-6963-0 and 978-1401069636
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Quantity and Frequency are the Keys to Ascorbate Therapy
Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
(OMNS, December 15, 2009) What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one, and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby vitamin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in less than 48 hours. Ray calculated that the child had received just over 2,000 mg vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what vitamin C expert Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitamin C/day, that baby never had bowel-tolerance loose stools. (1)
With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all that ascorbate was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitamin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better. You choose the answer that works for you.
Quantity of Dose
Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner earned his MD from Duke University School of Medicine and was subsequently board certified in diseases of the chest. (2) A working summation of Dr. Klenner's therapeutic use of vitamin C is 350 milligrams vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day (350 mg/kg/day), in divided doses. (3) Since a kilogram is about 2.2 pounds, this translates to:
mg of Vitamin "C" Body Weight Number of Doses Amount per dose
35,000 mg 220 lb 17-18 2,000 mg
18,000 mg 110 lb 18 1,000 mg
9,000 mg 55 lb 18 500 mg
4,500 mg 28 lb 9 500 mg
2,300 mg 14-15 lb 9 250 mg
1,200 mg 7-8 lb 9 130 - 135 mg
Although these quantities may seem high, Dr. Klenner actually used as much as four times as much for serious viral illness, administered by injection. The oral doses listed above are, for the doctor, comparatively moderate.
Frequency of Dose
For those unable to obtain intravenous vitamin C, it is essential to pay special attention to one of the most important aspects of vitamin C therapy: dividing the dosage improves absorption and retention of vitamin C. High oral doses of vitamin C yield higher blood levels of the vitamin, and dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels. Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts. Many a medical website and government-based dietary recommendation hinge on ignoring them. Hilary Roberts, PhD, writes: "Stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitamin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. In setting the RDA, unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitamin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.'" (4)
And there is ample proof to not like. Vitamin C, in very high doses, has been used to successfully treat several dozen illness (5), with a published, peer-reviewed literature spanning the last 60 years. Therefore, the effectiveness and safety of megadose vitamin C therapy should, by now, be yesterday's news. Yet I never cease to be amazed at the number of persons who remain unaware that vitamin C is the best broad-spectrum antibiotic, antihistamine, antitoxic and antiviral substance there is. Equally surprising is the ease with which some people, most of the medical profession, and virtually all of the media have been convinced that, somehow, vitamin C is not only ineffective but is also downright dangerous.
Bias against Ascorbate Therapy
When you pick up a health or nutrition book and need to know really fast if it is any good or not, just check the index for "Klenner" and three other key names: Cathcart, Stone, and Pauling. Robert F. Cathcart, an orthopedic surgeon, administered huge doses of vitamin C to tens of thousands of patients for decades (6), without generating a single kidney stone. Irwin Stone, the biochemist who first put Linus Pauling onto vitamin C, is the author of The Healing Factor: Vitamin C against Disease. (7) Pauling cites Stone thirteen times in his landmark book How to Live Longer and Feel Better (8), a recommendation if there ever was one. The importance of vitamin C's power against infectious and chronic disease is extraordinary. To me, omitting it is tantamount to deleting Shakespeare from an English Lit course.
Because of such bias, the primary way patients (and through them, their physicians) have been exposed to Dr. Klenner's work has been through Dr. Lendon Smith's 68-page Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. (9) Upon discovering this book, one of my undergraduates submitted a paper to another class discussing a substantial number of medical references she had found on vitamin C as a cure for polio. That course's instructor told me privately that the student's work was absurd, and he literally described her as a "dial tone." I recall a nutritional presentation I made to a hospital staff. All was going well until I mentioned using vitamin C as an antibiotic, as Dr. Klenner did. The mood changed quickly. And how many of us have heard this old saw: "If vitamin C was so good, every doctor would be prescribing it!"
Cardiologist Thomas Levy, MD, explains: "I could find no mainstream medical researcher who has performed any clinical studies on any infectious disease with vitamin C doses that approached those used by Klenner. Using a small enough dose of any therapeutic agent will demonstrate little or no effect on an infection or disease process." (10)
Preventive Doses
Dr. Klenner recommended daily preventive doses of 10,000 to 15,000 mg/day. He advised parents to give their children their age in vitamin C grams (1 g = 1,000 mg). That would be 2,000 mg/day for a two year old, 9,000 mg/day for a nine year old, and for older children, a leveling-off at about 10,000 mg/day. As for me, I simply say, "Take enough C to be symptom free, whatever that amount may be." It worked for my family. I raised my children all the way into college and they never had a dose of any antibiotic. Not once.
It is high time for medical professionals to welcome vitamin C megadoses and their power to cure the sick. Cure is by far the best word there is in medicine. It would seem that you cannot spell "cure" without "C." I do not think Dr. Klenner would dispute that.
(Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level, and has won three New York State teacher fellowships. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters.)
References:
(1) Bowel tolerance as an indicator of vitamin C saturation is discussed by Dr. RF Cathcart at http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html and http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html
(2) For more about Dr. Klenner's life and work: http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html
(3) Klenner FR. The significance of high daily intake of ascorbic acid in preventive medicine, p 51-59, in: A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine, Third Edition, Roger Williams, PhD, ed. Keats, 1979.
(4) Hickey S and Roberts H. Ascorbate: The science of vitamin C. 2004. ISBN 1-4116-0724-4. Morrisville, NC: Lulu.
(5) http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html
(6) http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html
(7) The complete text of Irwin Stone's book The Healing Factor is posted for free reading at http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/
(8) Pauling L. How to Live Longer and Feel Better, revised edition, 2006. ISBN-13: 9780870710964. Reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html
(9) The full text of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner's Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C is posted for free reading at http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm
(10) Levy TE. Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins: Curing the Incurable. Livon Books, 2002. ISBN: 1-4010-6963-0 and 978-1401069636
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.
Editorial Review Board:
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.
Damien Downing, M.D.
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
James A. Jackson, PhD
Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D.
Erik Paterson, M.D.
Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
How do you cook your food?
Do you use a microwave to cook your food? I hope not.
Did you know that microwaves destroy the nutrients in your food leaving you to consume a toxic soup?
Perhaps you remember reading about the dangers of microwaving infant formula or perhaps you remember reading that microwaved blood killed a patient back in 1991 in Oklahoma? This is because microwaves destroy natural substances - they destroy nutrients in food and alter our structural makeup in detrimental ways.
How they work:
Microwaves are very short waves of electromagnetic energy that travel at the speed of light. Microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. As these microwaves are generated they bombard the food and they cause the polar molecules to rotate at the same frequency millions of times a second. All this agitation creates molecular friction, which heats up the food. The friction also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name for this deformation is "structural isomerism".
The now famous study by Hans Hertel in Switzerland proved that voulenteers who consumed microwaved milk and vegetables showed a decrease in all hemoglobin and cholesterol values, especially the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants.
Effects on health -
Consuming microwaved food has been linked to pathogenic activity, lymphatic and digestive disorders and cancer. Microwaving foods shows a decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics in all foods. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain. Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
Don't believe me? Just search microwave dangers and read the evidence.
Did you know that microwaves destroy the nutrients in your food leaving you to consume a toxic soup?
Perhaps you remember reading about the dangers of microwaving infant formula or perhaps you remember reading that microwaved blood killed a patient back in 1991 in Oklahoma? This is because microwaves destroy natural substances - they destroy nutrients in food and alter our structural makeup in detrimental ways.
How they work:
Microwaves are very short waves of electromagnetic energy that travel at the speed of light. Microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. As these microwaves are generated they bombard the food and they cause the polar molecules to rotate at the same frequency millions of times a second. All this agitation creates molecular friction, which heats up the food. The friction also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name for this deformation is "structural isomerism".
The now famous study by Hans Hertel in Switzerland proved that voulenteers who consumed microwaved milk and vegetables showed a decrease in all hemoglobin and cholesterol values, especially the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants.
Effects on health -
Consuming microwaved food has been linked to pathogenic activity, lymphatic and digestive disorders and cancer. Microwaving foods shows a decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics in all foods. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain. Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
Don't believe me? Just search microwave dangers and read the evidence.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Lower your risk of developing chronic disease by changing your diet
Ask any health care provider (allopathic or naturopathic) and they will confirm that inflammation is the leading cause of chronic health conditions such as; CVD, insulin resistance and diabetes; stroke, arthritis and a host of digestive disorders such as IBD, Crohn's disease and intestinal permeability.
You see inflammation is the body's way of responding to a health crisis. So if you can prevent inflammation you can prevent chronic illness.
The really mind blowing thing here is that inflammation is preventable and actually reversible in most instances if you just modify your diet and eat a low glycemic, Mediterranean style diet that is based around plants and good fats, lean protein, legumes, nuts and seeds. And, by the way did I mention that the NIH, ADA, AHA and even the AMA have all issued statements advising doctors to have their patients follow a low - glycemic Mediterranean style diet program along with daily exercise and stress reduction first, before putting them on medications?
The question is why aren't more doctors heeding this advice for there patients?
I just spent four days in NYC at an intensive First Line Therapy training and learned more about how to implement this Therapeutic Lifestyle approach to wellness in my coaching practice. Basically, this is a whole lifestyle approach to wellness that teaches you how to make changes that drastically reduce your risk of developing chronic health conditions that are caused by inflammation. It includes not only diet and exercise but stress reduction too.
Stay tuned (or visit my website for a sneak preview) for more details on my new lifestyle program!!! Did I mention you loose weight on this too?
You see inflammation is the body's way of responding to a health crisis. So if you can prevent inflammation you can prevent chronic illness.
The really mind blowing thing here is that inflammation is preventable and actually reversible in most instances if you just modify your diet and eat a low glycemic, Mediterranean style diet that is based around plants and good fats, lean protein, legumes, nuts and seeds. And, by the way did I mention that the NIH, ADA, AHA and even the AMA have all issued statements advising doctors to have their patients follow a low - glycemic Mediterranean style diet program along with daily exercise and stress reduction first, before putting them on medications?
The question is why aren't more doctors heeding this advice for there patients?
I just spent four days in NYC at an intensive First Line Therapy training and learned more about how to implement this Therapeutic Lifestyle approach to wellness in my coaching practice. Basically, this is a whole lifestyle approach to wellness that teaches you how to make changes that drastically reduce your risk of developing chronic health conditions that are caused by inflammation. It includes not only diet and exercise but stress reduction too.
Stay tuned (or visit my website for a sneak preview) for more details on my new lifestyle program!!! Did I mention you loose weight on this too?
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