| Iron, copper, selenium, vitamin A, and D are the nutrients that must be used with discretion. Most other nutrients are unlikely to harm.
RISKS OF NUTRITION THERAPY
In an extensive review of the literature found in the New York Academy of Sciences textbook BEYOND DEFICIENCIES (vol.669, p.300, 1992), Dr. Adrienne Bendich found the following data on nutrient toxicity
>B-6 can be used at up to 500 mg (250 times RDA) for up to 6 years with safety. |
| Something in oranges is even more chemo-protective than vitamin C. Although most people only absorb 20-50% of their ingested calcium, the remaining calcium binds up potentially damaging fats in the intestines to provide protection against colon cancer.
In 1963, a major "player" in the American drug business, Merck, tried to patent a single antibiotic substance that was originally isolated from yogurt. But this substance did not work alone. Since then, researchers have found no less than 7 natural antibiotics that all contribute to yogurt's unique ability to protect the body from infections. |
| Through a wide variety of mechanisms, vitamin C is a potent inhibitor of cancer.138
2) Augmenting medical therapy. C may be able to enhance the toxicity of chemo and radiation against the cancer cells while protecting the patient from possible harm. C was able to enhance the effectiveness of a drug (misonidazole) that improves outcome in radiation treatment of cancer. C improved the tumor-stopping abilities of a wide range of medical therapies against brain cancer (neuroblastoma) cells in culture. |
| Lipoic acid increases the available levels of other antioxidants in the body, like vitamin E6 and glutathione.7 While there are many antioxidants found in a healthy diet and produced in the body (like uric acid), lipoic acid is the only antioxidant that meets the "wish list" of Dr. Lester Packer of the University of California at Berkeley. |
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 We instinctively eat different foods so that all of our vitamin, mineral, carbohydrate, protein, and fiber needs are met.
Several studies, performed on both infants and animals, reveal the natural abilities within organisms to select a nutritionally balanced diet. One study allowed infants to eat whatever they chose, and the researchers were pleasantly surprised when the children selected healthful baby foods over "junk" baby foods.1 The children initially ate sugary sweets, but eventually chose vegetables and fruits.
While analyzing this study, Arthur Halliday, M.D. |
John Boik
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 Scutellaria baicalensis (huang qin) induce apoptosis, inhibit metastasis, inhibit angiogenesis, stimulate immune system
Viscum album (sang ji sheng) cytotoxic, stimulate immune system, inhibit angiogenesis, induce apoptosis vitamin D3 induce differentiation, inhibit angiogenesis, stimulate immune system, inhibit apoptosis
17.3 DISCUSSIONS ON INDIVIDUAL AGENTS
Discussions on the pharmacokinetics and clinical use of selected agents are provided below. |
Michael Lerner
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 He also cited evidence for decreased cancer risk related to physical activity via increased thermal effects, and increased concentrations of vitamin A."n
One very striking gap in the literature on exercise and cancer is that there are no studies that 1 have been able to find assessing the effect of exercise on an existing cancer—only cancer prevention. Indirect evidence, however, shows the benefits of physical activity for people with cancer. |
Thomas Bartram
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 Prolonged consumption of strong tea, coffee and other caffeine drinks leads to a deficiency of vitamin Bl which manifests as general anxiety, even agoraphobia.
Alternatives:- Passion Flower, German Chamomile. Lime Blossom, Skullcap, Oats. Cowslip, Damiana, Dogwood, Valerian, Wild Lettuce, Motherwort, Pulsatilla.
In cases of anxiety the heart is involved -whether physically or otherwise. A 'heart sus-tainer' may give the patient an unexpected 'lift' enabling him to cope.
Motherwort tea. Combine equal parts: Motherwort (heart), Balm (gentle nerve relaxant), Valerian (psycho-autonomic). |
Gary Null
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 In preventing the condition, selenium has shown itself 250,000 times more effective than cystine; 500 times more potent than vitamin E.54 In addition, an adequate amount of selenium lightens the detoxification chores of the liver. Since it works in your immune system to clear out toxic debris, it is the liver's partner in ridding your body of waste products.
SELENIUM FOR ANEMIA
In an indirect way, selenium can keep you from developing iron-deficiency anemia, or even help you recover from it. |
| Excess synthetic vitamin D, in particular, causes you to excrete both phosphorus and calcium in your urine. Since they try to keep your mineral levels in balance, the kidneys react to too little calcium in your body by discarding valuable phosphorus as a waste product.65'66 At this point it seems redundant, but once again we hammer home just how important it is to balance the bone-builders. |
| Other swimmers also demonstrated remarkably improved performances by taking vitamin E—E for energy, in this case.
How much "E" for energy? Sixteen hundred units a day worked for two top skaters, also supervised by Dr. Shute. However, this is not the amount needed for daily supplementation. One hundred to two hundred units, obtained from our food intake or supplements, would be more than adequate under most conditions. |
| In other words, anyone breathing polluted air can help themselves before respiratory problems begin, by helping themselves to nature's own antipollution device, vitamin E.
• Polluted food supplies. Today, much of the food most Americans eat is processed. We are eating devitalized foods that are not fresh, with fewer nutrients. We are also eating lots of chemicals like coloring agents, artificial flavors, and preservatives that all make the food appear more attractive and taste fresher. |
Michael Lerner
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| Prasad et al., "Vitamin E Enhances the Growth Inhibitory and Differentiating Effects of Tumor Therapeutic Agents on Neuroblastoma and Glioma Cells in Culture," Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biological Medicine 164(2): 158-63 (1980). See also L. Wood, "Possible Prevention of Adriamicin-lnduced Alopecia by Tocopherol," New England Journal of Medicine 312:1060 (1985).
4 Bjorn E.W. Nordenstrom, Biologically Closed Electric Circuits: Clinical, Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for an Additional Circulatory System (Stockholm: Nordic Medical Publications, 1983).
5 D.A. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 They thus may have a role to play in promoting vitamin C's anticancer effects.
Bioflavonoids are being evaluated, by themselves and together with other substances, in the treatment of cancer.
The general consensus is that a synthetic relative of bioflavonoids, fiavone acetic acid, or FAA, is an immune booster, although not a very useful drug by itself (1). FAA increases natural killer (NK) cell activity in mice (2). In Italian laboratory tests, FAA produced mixed results. |
Michael Lerner
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| Following publication of this study, its senior investigator Moertel went on network television to denounce vitamin C as "absolutely worthless." Pauling responded by accusing the Mayo Clinic of making "false and misleading" claims about the study and asked for a retraction, correction, and apology from the New England Journal of Medicine, which had published the study. The editor refused. The journal also refused to publish two letters from Pauling and at least two other letters critical of the study. |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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| AC ?5 vitamin E
Fe + 2 Fe + 3
Lipid peroxidation inducer
Fe + 3-ADP-ascorbate
Curcuminoids were more potent inhibitors of experimentally induced lipid peroxidation than a-tocopherol. All the four curcuminoids tested, curcumin, demethoxycurcumin (DMC), bisdemethoxycurcumin (BDMC), acetylcurcumin (AC) were almost equally active. |
Michael Lerner
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| Reynolds, "Vitamin B6 Deficiency and Carcinogenesis." In Poirier, et al., eds., Essential Nutrients in Carcinogenesis, 339-45.
27 E. Cameron and L. Pauling, "Supplemental Ascorbate in the Supportive Treatment of Cancer: Prolongation of Survival Times in Terminal Human Cancer," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 73:3685-9 (1976). See also "Supplemental Ascorbate in the Supportive Treatment of Cancer: Reevaluation of Prolongation of Survival Times in Terminal Human Cancer," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 75:4538-42 (1978). |
Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
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 The grain has little vitamin A, but the edible leaf has it in abundance. In short, the quinoa plant can satisfy all of a person's basic nutritional needs.
Quinoa has the telltale properties of a long-cultivated plant, including an inability, under normal circumstances, to survive in the wild. Its seeds mature all at once and do not shatter, traits that make the grain easy to harvest and that native planters probably promoted by the selection and preservation of seed down through the centuries. |
| Amaranth leaves, which are lance-like in shape and about two inches long, compare favorably to spinach in nutritive worth and are especially rich in calcium and vitamin A.
Yet large food companies that Robinson contacted turned a deaf ear to his idea. Finally, despairing of its acceptance, in 1972 he presented his data to Robert Rodale, the publisher of Organic Gardening magazine and a pioneer in promoting healthier ways of life for urbanized Americans. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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 An extensive series of experiments was conducted in rodents (Newmark and Lipkin 1992) to assess a diet that mimicked four of the suggested dietary risk factors for colon cancer: high fat and phosphate, and low calcium and vitamin D. Feeding this stress diet for 12 weeks resulted in hyperproliferation of cells in the sigmoid colon. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that increasing the level of dietary calcium could return colonic proliferation to normal values. |
| Vitamin A), sterols, and rubber
• Protein synthesis, which combines amino acids to produce the primary gene products, proteins, including enzymes
Still further complexity is found in products such as alkaloids that arise from combinations of these pathways.
Complexity and Variability
The identity of the specific constituents in the minor and major components of food—the qualitative composition—is in large part determined genetically. Environmental factors also affect qualitative composition and influence quantitative composition. |
| By 1970, the possible anticarcinogenic activity of vitamin A was being explored, as were the modifying effects of fruit, fiber, dairy products, and certain vegetables.
In 1969, the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) convened a committee to address issues of cancer testing. The committee held a workshop that focused on the major testing methods and priorities for carcinogenicity testing. |
Michael Lerner
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| A fresh trial, he emphasizes, "must not be carried out by vitamin C enthusiasts nor by bigots, but by fair-minded physicians, and conducted not in secrecy but in open cooperation using a mutually agreed protocol."
Therein lies the crunch. The idea of a cooperative approach embodying agreed criteria is not easily realized. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Selenium in concert with vitamin E has an antiinflammatory effect, and some studies suggest a role in preventing cancer growth. Indeed a recent study showed that doses of 200 micrograms of selenium daily halved the rates of prostate, breast, and colon cancer in human subjects. Selenium is also a component of an important antioxidant enzyme, glutathione peroxidase, which typically decreases in blood level with age. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 Rejuvenate Your Immune System with Enzymes
In step 2, I discussed the oxidative process and antioxidants, and in step 1, I introduced the basics of diet and the importance of foundational vitamin and mineral supplements. In this chapter, you will learn about the importance of digestion and how to use dietary and supplemental enzymes for the rejuvenation of the immune system.
Steps 1-3 equip you for the fundamental construction of natural health and are a cornerstone of your viral immunity plan. |
| However, when applied to the American way of life-active, aggressive, busy, and extreme—pure vegetarianism does not provide enough protein and may cause iron and vitamin B12 deficiency. Also, a vegetarian diet that includes dairy products and is high in carbohydrates from wheat may cause problems for Americans who have allergies to milk proteins and inflammatory substances in wheat. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 He had isolated and synthesized vitamin B5, pantothenic acid, and had written many papers on biological chemistry and nutrition for scientific journals. In recent years he had become particularly interested in what he called "biochemical individuality," and it was his papers and books in this area that drew my attention.
Williams had studied individual differences in nutritional requirements and had begun to pull together the literature on the subject. His findings were eye-opening. |
| Most people probably ought to add a B-complex vitamin (larger than "recommended" amounts of folic acid, B6, and B12 seem to help prevent heart disease) and a multimineral—with iron for women who are still menstruating, without it for postmenopausal women, and men— once a day with food.
If supplements have sometimes evoked strident debates, discussions of food allergy have on occasion provoked frenzies. |
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
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 In ECaP we have had people on laetrile, vitamin C, strict dietary regimens, standard therapy only, and some on no medical therapy at all. At first I was worried that people would argue over who was doing the right thing. Instead, they all share the belief that they will get well. They waste no energy on deciding whose therapy is better. The diversity opens people's minds to other allies in the struggle and helps them see that there's no single answer, that in a sense any path can be the right one. The group is a family but more open than most families. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 For other food sources of vitamin C, see "Getting What You Need" on page 142.)
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Herbal Therapy
Look for toothpastes and mouthwashes containing bloodroot, such as Vi-adent, says Varro E. Tyler, Ph.D., professor of pharmacognosy at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Scientific studies show that bloodroot can help prevent the buildup of plaque and the development of gum disease.
Homeopathy
If you think you have gingivitis, you may want to try one of the following 30C remedies two or three times a day until you see your dentist, says Chris Meletis, N.D. |
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