Gary Null
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 B complex. b-complex vitamins are important throughout life, but there is an extra need for these during menopause. They can be obtained from whole grains, and green vegetables. B5 and B6 are especially helpful during menopause (300-400 mg B5, 150 mg B6 per day). Folic acid, in prescription doses, is a valuable replacement for female hormones, according to Dr. Carlton Fredericks.
Essential fatty acids. EFAs, which are precursors to the natural hormones in the body, are very important for both men and women. People on low-fat diets should pay special attention to this. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 Preliminary medical research to investigate this theory did show that giving thiamine and b-complex vitamins improved the vision of people with early stages of glaucoma. Recommendation: If you have borderline glaucoma or are at risk because of family history for it, take 100 mg thiamine per day along with 50 to 100 mg B-complex.
• Deficiency of vitamin C may cause an increase in eye pressures. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 One double-blind trial used a multivitamin/mineral supplement containing vitamin B6 (600 mg per day), magnesium (500 mg per day), vitamin E (200 IU per day), vitamin A (25,000 IU per day), b-complex vitamins, and various other vitamins and minerals.40 This supplement was found to relieve each of the four different categories of symptoms that have been associated wtih PMS. Similar results were reported in another study.41
Are There Any Side Effects or Interactions? Refer to the individual supplement for information about any side effects or interactions.
Herbs That May Be Helpful
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| Many doctors of natural medicine use at least 100 mg of b-complex vitamins when oral supplementation is called for. It is possible that successful treatment of the B-complex vitamin deficiencies may actually reduce alcohol cravings because animals crave alcohol when fed a B-complex-deficient diet.11
The daily combination of 3 grams of vitamin C (p. 341), 3 grams of niacin (p. 339), 600 mg of vitamin B6 (p. 340), and 600 IU of vitamin E (p. 344) has been used by researchers from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in an attempt to reduce anxiety and depression in alcoholics. |
| The b-complex vitamins (p. 341) are important for athletes, because they are needed to produce energy from carbohydrates. Exercisers may have slightly increased requirements for some of the B vitamins, including vitamin B2 (p. 337), vitamin B6 (p. 340), and pantothenic acid (p. 340);50 athletic performance can suffer if these slightly increased needs are not met.51 However, most athletes obtain enough B vitamins from their diet without supplementation,52 and supplementation studies have found no effect on performance measures for vitamin B2,53,54 niacin (p. 339),55 or vitamin B6. |
| B-complex vitamins (p. 341 ),6 including folic acid (p. 297).7 People with achlorhydria (no stomach acid) or hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid) may be at risk for developing certain mineral deficiencies. Since minerals are important not only for body structure (as in bones and teeth) but also to activate enzymes (such as superoxide dismutase) and hormones (such as insulin), deficiencies can lead to health problems.
One of the major tasks of stomach acid is to break proteins down to the point that pancreatic proteolytic enzymes (p. 289) can easily work. |
| Furthermore, no evidence supports the use of megadoses of b-complex vitamins to combat everyday stress, boost energy, or control food cravings, unless a person has a severe deficiency of one or more of them. Again contrary to popular belief, no evidence indicates that people should take all B vitamins to avoid an imbalance when one or more individual B vitamin is taken for a specific health condition.
Most multiple vitamin/mineral (p. 314) products contain the B-complex along with the rest of the essential vitamins and minerals. |
| Brewer's yeast is not an essential nutrient, but it can be used as a source of b-complex vitamins (p. 341) and protein. It is by far the best source of chromium (p. 282), both in terms of quantity and bioavailability.
How Much Is Usually Taken?
Brewer's yeast is often taken as a powder, tablets, or capsules. High-quality brewer's yeast powder or flakes contain as much as 60 meg of chromium per tablespoon. When doctors recommend brewer's yeast, they will often suggest 1-2 tablespoons of this high-potency bulk product, usually as an optima] way to supply chromium. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 Clinical studies show that b-complex vitamins, especially riboflavin and B6, are useful therapies. One study showed that pancreatic enzymes taken internally both diminish the lesions and reduce digestive problems. Some digestive problems may occur because of a reduced output of hydrochloric acid, a situation that often occurs with rosacea patients. As for migraine headaches, which sometimes occur, investigators surmise they may be due to a food sensitivity problem. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| If you ot youf pet is allefgic to yeast, try rice-based b-complex vitamins, available in natural-food stores.
Flea Killers
• Bake fleas out of your house: remove children, plants, and pets, close up your house, and turn up the heat to the highest setting. Go on an outing for the day; when you return, the fleas will be killed.
• Use a flea comb. Run the comb through your pet's fur, and drop the fleas that remain on the comb into a nearby container of soapy water (which should be flushed down the toilet when you're through).
• Shampoo your animal to knock off fleas and drown others. |
| As the little sprouts grow, they are packed with vitamin C and b-complex vitamins, and the protein content also increases.
Sprouts continue to grow and create ftesh vitamins until the moment you eat or cook them. Simply soak seeds overnight, then drain and place in a wide-mouth jat with cheesecloth fixed over the top with rubber bands (or you can buy sprouting kits at yout natural-food store). Rinse and drain several times a day and watch yout sprouts grow.
Many different types of seeds can be used. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Whitaker, include vitamin A, the b-complex vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin Bs, vitamin B12 and pantothenic acid), iodine and selenium. He says to look for a multivitamin/mineral supplement containing all of these nutrients.
Fibromyalgia
Some doctors say that fibromyalgia comes from using muscles too much, to the point where they are stressed or get injured. Others say it's the result of not using your muscles enough, another consequence of a sedentary lifestyle. |
| Edelberg: 10,000 international units of vitamin A twice a day; 50 milhgrams of b-complex vitamins a day; 1,000 mdligrams of vitamin C a day (use the buffered form); 400 international units of vitamin E a day; 500 mdligrams of glutamine three times a day; one capsule of rice bran oil (gamma oryzanol) three times a day; two 380-rnilhgram tablets of deglycyrrhizinated licorice four times a day—between meals and at bedtime—for one month; and 30 milhgrams of zinc picolinate a day for one month. |
| It's not exactly clear how the b-complex vitamins and vitamin C protect the body, but animal studies show that the physical damage caused by stress is minimized with these vitamins." mm Yoga
Yoga really shines here, according to Alice Christensen, founder and executive director of the American Yoga Association. If you want a portable stress buster, Christensen recommends the complete breath exercise (see page 152), which you can do at your desk, in the car or anywhere else when you start to feel stressed out. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
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 Other nutrients depleted by sulfites are vitamin A (sulfites destroy 80 percent of the vitamin A in eggs), the b-complex vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene.
31. Protecting Yourself Against Sulfites
If you have allergies, asthma, or suspect that you are sensitive to sulfites, you can protect yourself in several ways:
?Read labels and avoid foods with any sulfiting agents.
?If the food is being sold loose or by the portion, ask the store manager to check the ingredient list on the product's original packaging.
?Have your inhaler with you when you go out to eat. |
Rebecca Wood
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 Dried seeds contain b-complex vitamins, calcium, iron, and sulfur.
Use When immature, the jackfruit is boiled and used as a vegetable, added to chutneys, or dried and ground into a starchy meal. Its cooked seeds'taste something like chestnuts and are added to soups or ground into flour. When mature, jackfruit is eaten raw as a fruit, juiced, added to salads, or served with yogurt. Cooked, it may be pureed for a sauce or preserved in syrups. Jackfruit is also dried. The fruit's skin, core, and the uncooked seeds are inedible. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| The doses recommended for vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin Bg and the b-complex vitamins are higher than the Recommended Dietary Allowances, says Dr. Lark, and should not be taken for longer than three months without the advice of a doctor.
Eyestrain
From that first bleary squint at the alarm clock to the last nodding glimpses of the late show, your baby blues prove all day why the eyes have it— tough, that is.
The human eye can see up to 60 "pictures" a second, and many of these sights can lead to sore eyes. |
John Heinerman
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 Sunflower seeds, too, stabilize the nerves because they contain oils that are calming and b-complex vitamins that help nourish the nervous system. Tobacco increases the output of adrenal gland hormones which reduces the allergic reaction of smokers. Sunflower seeds do the same. These allergic reactions can be a major problem to individuals attempting to stop smoking.
Dr. Douglass said that he had seen patients develop respiratory problems when they stopped smoking and he thought this was likely due to allergic reactions that had been kept in check by the anti-allergic effects of tobacco. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Eating sugary foods often initiates a vicious cycle of additional sugar cravings, as an increase in your body's need for b-complex vitamins creates craving for even more sugar.
Nicotine is a brain stimulant much like caffeine, and since stimulating the brain magnifies PMS symptoms, eliminating smoking and cutting back on coffee, tea, and cocoa is a good idea. PMS is often associated with disruptions in the normal sleep pattern. In addition to eliminating caffeine, a supplemental dose of melatonin might be helpful. (See "Sleep Disorders," p. 242. |
| Antioxidant-B-complex multivitamin: Special antioxidant formulas containing b-complex vitamins are now being sold in natural-food stores. This combination is essential for anyone with a flagging memory. Take one pill or capsule in the morning with food, and one in the evening with food.
Gingko biloba: Three 60 mg. pills or capsules daily.
Choline: There are three types of choline sold at natural food stores: phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl inositol, or phosphatidyl serine. As far as I'm concerned, they all do a good job and you should use whichever is easiest for you to find. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 These include vitamin C, vitamin E and the b-complex vitamins. Taking a magnesium/calcium supplement can relieve the pain of muscle spasms and often relieves chronic headaches. A copper deficiency can cause inflammation in the joints, as well as fragile skin and connective tissue. The bioflavonoids such as grapeseed extract and quercetin can help reduce inflammation reactions.
Herbs for Pain
White Willow Bark (Salix spp. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva) B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco) Berocca Plus Tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets
(Rugby)
Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
| SS3t
Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva)
B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco) Berocca Plus Tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets
(Rugby) Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
| Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva) B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco) Berocca Plus Tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets
(Rugby) Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
| SS3t
Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva) B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco)
Berocca Plus tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets .
(Rugby) Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
| SS3t
Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva) B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco) Berocca Plus Tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets
(Rugby) Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
| S53t
Alpha Betic Tablets (Abkit) B-C w/Folic Acid Plus
Tablet (Geneva) B-Complex Plus Tablets
(United Research) b-complex vitamins Plus
Tablets (Teva) B-Plex Plus Tablets (Zenith
Goldline) Bacmin Tablets (Marnel) Becomax RX Tablets
(Ampharco) Berocca Plus Tablets
(Roche) Bugs Bunny Complete
Children's Chewable
Tablets (Bayer) Cerovite Senior Tablets
(Rugby) Circavite T Tablets (Circle) Clusinex Syrup
(Pharmakon) Daily Multiple Vitamins/
Minerals Tablets
(Vanguard) Dr. |
Rebecca Wood
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| Strawberries provide vitamin A, as much vitamin C as oranges, and some b-complex vitamins, as well as silicon, some potassium, and fiber.
Buying Buy local strawberries, fully red and slightly soft, with hulls intact. Since strawberries do not ripen off the vine, local vine-ripened strawberries will be the most aromatic and flavorful. Out-of-season or out-of-region strawberries may look like strawberries, but that's about all. Peak season is from late spring through early summer. Do not remove the green caps until after washing the fruit and just before serving. See Fruit. |
Gary Null
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 Do you get enough protein and b-complex vitamins in your foods? Long-term deficiency of protein or B complex may be a source of ulcerative colitis as well. If you combine whole grains with beans, nuts, seeds, and green vegetables,.this should be no problem.
4. Emotions that get the best of you may be making matters worse for you. Do you mope when you should cope? Do you often experience helpless feelings? |
Rebecca Wood
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| It also contains appreciable amounts of b-complex vitamins, glutamic acid, starch, and trace minerals.
Use Kombu is the easiest seaweed to use, and it is versatile. Put it in any soup stock and every pot of beans. Add it to stews, or use it as a wrap for food morsels. It also stands on its own baked, deep-fried, or boiled. Kombu, when rehydrated and cooked with liquid, becomes mucilaginous, and after several hours of cooking it will break into small pieces. When crisped (without hydration) for a few minutes in the oven, it becomes a delicious chip. |
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