| Even with enough vitamin and mineral supplements, you may still lose about 5 percent of your bone density in the first six months of nursing. Imagine how much more that would be without nutritional supplementation. Happily, this bone loss begins to be restored twelve months after delivery. Whether nursing beyond nine months causes any permanent loss of bone density is still being debated, but I do not believe there is enough evidence at the present time to justify your stopping breast-feeding after nine months unless you wish to do so. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 Nutrient Value: Beets are high in potassium and trace minerals, while beet greens contain significant amounts of calcium, iron, folic acid, and vitamin A.
Selection and Care: Judge a beet by the freshness of its greens. Choose young roots with upright, frondlike tops, and look for purple-red beets that are firm, symmetrically shaped, and smooth. Avoid soft, dull-colored beets. Scrub beets well, and shred or pare the thin outer skin before cooking. |
| Anthocyanosides—flavonoids found in both the skin and substance of berries—potentiate the benefits of vitamin C, which, in turn, protects against the hardening of the arteries. The abundance of proanthocyanins, quercetin, 4-oxo-flavonoids, and other phytonutrients makes berries viricidal fruits that can be used to fight off infection. Blueberries help to treat diarrhea. Billberry prevents macular degeneration and the development of cataracts. Due to its ability to acidify urine, cranberry is commonly prescribed to treat bladder infections. |
| Nutrient Value: Along with their power triad of phytonutrients and their fibrous pectin, apples are high in potassium, vitamin A, and trace minerals.
Selection and Care: Back in the early 1990s, farmers used to spray apples with Alar, a chemical which caused apples to ripen uniformly. However, the pesticide was also a neurotoxin, and after the media caught on to the story, the Department of Consumer Affairs pulled the treated produce off the market and prohibited the use of the chemical. |
Leo Galland
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 Although coenzyme Qio is present in many foods that also contain vitamin E, and is additionally synthesized in the human body, deficiency of coenzyme Qio has been identified in groups of patients with a diversity of clinical problems, ranging from periodontal disease to high blood pressure and diabetes. Psychiatric drugs and anticancer drugs may also lower levels of ubiquinone in the body's tissues. |
| Bifidobacteria nutrient-dense diet, bioflavonoids, EFAs, antioxidants, fiber, thorough chewing (releases EGF) antioxidants, zinc, coenzyme Q10 cysteine, vitamin C, glutathione, cruciferous vegetables, bioflavonoids, milk thistie lectively called silymarin. Milk thistle is reportedly potent enough to protect against poisoning by the mushroom Amanita phalloides (death cap), which contains the most potent liver toxins known.90 Milk thistle also protects against acetaminophen poisoning in rats91 and many types of liver disease in humans. |
| The immune defects associated with a relative vitamin E deficiency in "healthy" children are the same deficits associated with increased mortality in the elderly.
The Role of Iron
After the wrong kind of fat, the nutrient most likely to cause rather than prevent infectious disease is iron. Iron is unique among essential minerals, because there is no mechanism for its excretion once it is absorbed into the body. Whatever iron is absorbed must be either used or stored, and excessive storage of iron in the body promotes the generation of free radicals. |
| There are many different causes of anemia, which include folic acid deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, disorders of the bone marrow, and conditions that increase the rate at which red blood cells are broken down in the spleen. Iron deficiency, when mild, may not produce anemia but may still cause fatigue, immune defects, or fungal infections of skin.81 There are probably twenty million people in the United States who are iron-deficient, and half of them are not anemic. Women with chronic fatigue and mild iron deficiency who are not anemic improve their energy after taking low doses of iron. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 More recently, there has been evidence suggesting that giving high doses of folic acid and vitamin B-12 to smokers and women with premalignant cellular pathology reverses the lesions.910 Early reports by Dr. Charles E.
Butterworth, chairman of nutrition sciences at University of Alabama, suggest that abnormal (metaplastic) sputum cytology in smokers, and precancerous pap smears in women, revert to normal if patients are maintained on 10 milligrams of folic acid and 500 micrograms of B-12 daily. These amounts are 25 and 166 times the RDA of folate and B-12, respectively. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Occasionally we think of a vitamin, yet it is common knowledge that 80% of cellular activity depends directly on these micronutrients. A balanced diet is one that provides sufficient quantities of the macro and micronutrients, although there may be many dietitians and doctors who think that a balanced diet means holding a soft drink in one hand and a cinnamon roll covered with refined sugar in the other. In reality, nearly all foods and vegetables contain both macro and micronutrients, although in different concentrations. |
Gale Maleskey
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 It's on-site when beta-carotene is converted to the active form of vitamin A. It plays a walk-on part in the production of collagen, one of the body's major structural proteins. In the liver and intestines, iron also does essential emergency work, converting harmful toxins into safer compounds that can be more easily excreted.
Fighting Microbes, Helping Enzymes
Given iron's role in energy production and protein synthesis, it only makes sense that a shortage may decrease our resistance to infection. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 The best protective dietary regimen I can give you is to avoid alcohol if you're a smoker (and vice versa), eat all the beta-carotene you can in leafy green vegetables, and have lots of vitamin C—a minimum of 60 milligrams a day (the RDA), preferably from fruit or vegetables rather than from supplements.
There are, of course, many cancers to which I have not specifically referred—lymphomas, leukemias, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, and others. But seven malignancies—lung, colon, breast, uterine, prostate, oral, and skin—account for most cancers and for more than half the deaths. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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 For maximum effectiveness, lecithin may be taken with vitamin B5, and also with the nutrient DMAE.
DMAE, however, may be somewhat stimulating for many people, and it should not be taken by people with bipolar, or "manic," depression, because it can exacerbate the depressive phase of the cycle.
Phosphatidyl choline can be ingested not only by taking lecithin, but also by taking choline bitartrate or choline chloride. Both of these nutrients, though, can create a slightly "fishy" odor, and occasionally cause diarrhea.
Lecithin can be purchased in health-food stores and supermarkets. |
Stephanie Beling
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 As for vitamin D, it is found in fortified milk and in a limited number of foods, and it is made by the body when skin is exposed to sunlight. (Fifteen minutes of sunlight twice a week ought to do it for young adults; for the elderly, more than that is recommended. |
| She cites the example of a client who was taking in only 1400 calories per day but had a vitamin and mineral content well above most other diets at that calorie level. The nutritional superstar was the sea vegetables she used daily. In fact, Kathie's analysis of the client's diet without the sea vegetables showed several nutrients in short supply.
Thanks to their phytochemical power, sea vegetables are antiinflammatory and tumor-suppressing. Their phytochemical content also includes the carotenoids and flavonoids, the most powerful of the antioxidants. |
| Its remaining 15 percent packs a phytochemical wallop over and above its other nutrients—specifically, vitamin C and manganese. Pineapple's phytochemical collection includes carotenoids and flavonoids. It also contains the bromelin enzyme, which helps prevent blood clots from forming.
Pineapple will not ripen after it is picked, so what you buy is what you get. A good test for ripeness is to smell the base of the fruit; it should smell sweet. The pineapple should not be too green in color, and although it should be firm to the touch, there should be some a ? 11 give. |
| The citrus fruits, berries, melons, tropical fruits, and the yellows and oranges—apricots, peaches, nectarines, mangoes—are particularly good vitamin C sources.
To all this must now be added the evidence that current research is yielding about the phytochemical power in the red, yellow, and orange fruits. Beta carotene, for all its newsworthiness, is only one of the 600-plus carotenoids that have thus far been identified by scientists. Carotenoids are serious antioxidants, but that is not all they do. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
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 A recent study led by the University of California Medical School and published in July 1992 confirms what was taught fifty years ago in veterinary schools: "Vitamin E is effective against the memory disorders experienced by persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease." We might say, without being completely tongue in cheek, that it could be worthwhile to seek treatment from a veterinarian . . . |
| Vitamin C to form elastin. . . . One of the early signs of copper deficiency is osteoporosis."3
DIABETES AND THE ROLE OF CHROMIUM AND VANADIUM
Diabetes is the third cause of mortality in the West. Its complications are serious and debilitating: blindness, nonfunctioning kidneys that require either dialysis or a kidney transplant, cardiovascular disorders of all kinds that can lead to the necessity of amputations.
In 1957 livestock breeders discovered that diabetes could be both prevented and treated through administering two trace elements: chromium and vanadium. |
| For those people in the group suffering from cancer, particularly cancers of the stomach and esophagus, 21 percent survived as compared to the control group that did not receive vitamin E, beta-carotene, and selenium. This improved result was obtained when only three basic nutrients in low doses were supplied to a test group—yet the human body requires close to one hundred nutrients every day. |
| In tests of lycopenomin subjects were also given selenium, lycopene, and vitamin C. This resulted in the development of food supplements with an exceptional antioxidant capacity, which increases an organism's natural defenses.
Microparticles of zeolite could provide a major advance in the areas of illness prevention and sports medicine and can positively effect general tiredness. The importance of using antioxidant supplements in addition to prescribed medicines is generally recognized for many sicknesses in which oxidizing stress is high, in particular for instances of diabetes and cancer. |
| Specific Properties:
• Plays a role in bone and muscle development
• Stimulates cerebral function and mental alertness
• Plays a role in metabolizing calcium, phosphorus, copper, magnesium, and vitamin D and in the fixation of calcium
• Plays a role in the secretion of estrogen and testosterone
Indicated for use in the treatment of:
• Osteoporosis
• Menopause difficulties
• Contraindicated in cases of rheumatoid arthritis
Bromium (Br)
Indicated for soothing of the nervous system
Bromium is another hyper-trace element. |
| It is composed of lycopene, vitamin C, selenium and the tribomechanically micronized natural mineral clinoptilolite. Based on known biological properties of its ingredients, Lycopenomin Active® is intended to maintain a proper balance of essential and trace minerals, to stimulate immune response, and to provide antioxidative protection. environment is volcanic formations and cliffs that have been sedi-mented both in the ocean and by gas and steam. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
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 She took seven grams of oral vitamin C and somehow got herself together to go to her job. As the day went on, she felt better outside of the house.
Since denny foiling had not contained the paint toxins, we began intensive ozoning both at the Red House and at the apartment. Although ozoning had failed us twice before, it now seemed our best option. For the next three weeks we spent all our time either working at our jobs or ozoning to make the apartment and the house livable. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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| This vitamin helps convert stored blood sugar into glucose, the brain's only fuel. It helps protect blood vessels, and appears to protect significantly against heart attacks. People in midlife and beyond need about 20 percent more B6 than younger people for optimal cognitive function, but they usually don't get it, because the metabolism of B6 declines after age forty. Most Americans ingest only about half of even the low RDA of B6.
Because of its beneficial effects upon circulation, B6 has been shown in studies to successfully improve memory. |
Gale Maleskey
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| Many women's bodies have trouble converting this vitamin into a usable form, says Dr. Silbert. She often recommends P5P, which is short for pyridoxal-5-phosphate, because it is easier to convert. Dr. Silbert suggests taking 50 milligrams of P5P instead of straight B6.
Many antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory herbs are also used to relieve cramps, says Dr. Silbert. She often recommends feverfew. Some research suggests that this herb helps lessen pain by preventing the formation of prostaglandins, chemicals that are a critical part of the chain that creates the sensation of pain. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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| Vitamin C, for example, has a calming effect.
Magnesium also produces a calming effect; its deficiency is sometimes implicated in anxiety. Furthermore, people with so-called Type A personalities are prone to accelerated magnesium depletion. In one study, Type A people in a stressful situation excreted almost 100 percent more magnesium than a control group of Type B people. |
David Brownstein
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 Whether the treatment involves stopping drugs such as birth control pills or synthetic estrogens, correcting vitamin and nutrient deficiencies or using dietary strategies, the focus should be on maximizing the body's own thyroid production and utilization.
When medication is needed to treat hypothyroidism, I believe that using a desiccated glandular thyroid product (such as Armour thyroid) is a much more effective treatment option than using T4 derivatives solely. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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| DMAE produces acetylcholine when it is combined with phosphatidyl choline (derived from lecithin), and vitamin B5. In some patients, it has generated effects that were almost as striking as those elicited by potent pharmaceutical drugs such as tacrine.
DMAE definitely increases memory—particularly short-term memory, which is very dependent upon adequate levels of acetylcholine. It also elevates concentration and learning ability.
In some of my patients, DMAE—which stimulates the central nervous system—has improved mood and subjective perceptions of well-being. |
| Magnesium is also a powerful free-radical scavenger, helps increase the antioxidative power of vitamin E, and promotes circulation by deterring blood clotting and decreasing blood pressure. A study in Europe indicated that low intake of magnesium increased risk of sudden death from heart attack by about 50 percent.
An appropriate daily dosage to achieve brain longevity is 200 to 300 mg. If magnesium is taken in very high dosages (600 to 700 mg), it sometimes causes diarrhea.
Selenium
This may well be the most effective mineral antioxidant. |
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