Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| Stretch Marks—
Good nutrition B Complex Vitamin E
Multiple vitamin b6 and Zinc
Stretch marks are a deficiency sign of vitamin b6 and Zinc.
Toxemia—
B Complex Vitamin E Real Food Diet
B6 Vitamin C Green Drinks
Exclude all white sugar and white flour products.
Water Retention (Edema)—
Kidney/Bladder Combination
Parsley B Complex, B6& Vit. C Eat no salt.
These herbs contain potassium and other minerals so excess water can be reduced safely. Note: Water intake should not be reduced.
Note: Herbs and juice fasts or mild food diets are safe during pregnancies when problems arise. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 These unfortunate victims usually have a defect in the vitamin B6-dependent pathway for processing homocysteine, and some are cured by supplementation with vitamin b6.
But such conditions are rare and there is much good news. Scientists have discovered several different genes for processing homocysteine, and most of them do a good job, so we need not fret that we might have bad genes for homocysteine. But we should fret if we are not getting enough folate or vitamins B6 and BI2, which keep homocysteine levels in check. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Response rates of vitamin b6 and EPO were no better than placebo effect. 67% of women taking danazol had complete response.
Substantial improvement in PMS symptoms for EPO and placebo suggesting a strong placebo effect. No significant differences in scoring of 10 PMS symptoms or menstrual symptoms between EPO and placebo. Authors conclude the improvement experienced by women with moderate PMS was solely placebo effect.
DB, PC n=36 women with severe PMS
3 months
One, 500 mg capsule
>g EPO providing 45 mg GLA)
Statistically significant difference (p<0. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Oral administration of vitamin b6 at doses of 180 mg per day coupled with 40 mg of iron for twenty weeks led to significant improvements in hemodialysis patients. The administration of 200 mg per day of pyridoxine for five months led to significant improvement in children suffering from bronchial asthma. Vitamin B5 treatment has proven effective in the treatment of autistic children. High vitamin b6 intake suppressed the development of experimentally induced tumors in mice by regulating PLP growth or by immune enhancement.
Pyridoxine can regulate human melanoma cells in vitro. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 B6, is necessary for making serotonin. If stress or depression contribute to your weight issues, you should definitely be supplementing with vitamin C, 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams per day.
Vitamin E
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Vitamin E has a demonstrable effect on insulin resistance. According to diabetes expert Dr. Richard Bernstein, vitamin E in dosages of up to 1,200 IUs a day has also been shown to reduce glycosylation, one of the most destructive and aging effects of high blood sugar (see chapter 2 and "Alpha Lipoic Acid" below). Bernstein recommends 400 to 1,200 IUs a day to many of his patients. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Naturopathic physicians Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno recommend bromelain for the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome that does not respond to vitamin b6 supplements or that has been diagnosed as potentially requiring surgery.
• Crohn's disease, diabetes, gastric ulcers, and gastric upset. Bromelain intensifies the digestive process by breaking down proteins. This makes it easier for the stomach to pass food to the intestine. This effect can counteract gastropare-sis, a condition caused by long-term diabetic nerve damage in which the stomach is unable to pass food along properly. |
Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
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 Also check your multivitamin to see if it has at least 4 mg of vitamin b6 and 8 micrograms of vitamin B12.
Omega-3 essential fatty acids can help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk for heart disease, as discussed in the Active Wellness Basic Food and Nutrition Guidelines. Although omega-3 supplements and vitamin E can help you, the wrong dosage may increase your risk for stroke. Therefore, be sure to consult your physician before taking fish-oil or vitamin E supplements. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Carpal tunnel syndrome is a "pinching" of the median nerve in the wrist that strikes assembly-line workers, typists, and computer-terminal operators who suffer repetitive strain injuries. vitamin b6 treatment has been shown to be very effective in treating this condition and is far preferable to painful surgery, which does not always cure the problem. A dosage of 100 milligrams a day should be safe for most people, or up to 200 milligrams under the supervision of a nutritional physician. |
| Vitamins, Minerals, and Heart Disease
Studies based on laboratory animals have shown that low nutrient levels of vitamin b6, vitamin C, copper, chromium, magnesium, and others are associated with buildup of arterial plaque, even if there is no cholesterol or saturated fat in the diet at all. The Nurses Health Study followed up 87,000 women for over a period of eight years and found that those women with the highest level of vitamin C in their blood had a 3 5 percent lower risk of heart disease than those with the lowest level of vitamin C. |
| Monkeys who have been fed a diet complete except for vitamin b6 have developed severe buildup of fatty deposits in their arteries, along with a high cholesterol level in the blood.28
The Calcium/magnesium balance
When researchers want to induce atherosclerosis quickly in animals for study, they feed rabbits a diet high in saturated fat from something like coconut oil and give them lots of vitamin D, which promotes absorption of calcium. Calcium is the mineral that builds up in arterial plaque and makes the arteries hard, stiff, and inflexible. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 Beans, vegetables, and fruits are rich in folic acid and vitamin b6. Typical daily multiple vitamins provide an adequate amount of these vitamins, along with vitamin Bi2. Animal products are very low in folic acid and are actually high in an amino acid called methionine, which produces the dangerous homocysteine.
UNDERSTANDING THE MEDICAL TERMS
Angina means chest pain caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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| Most B-complex supplements contain 50 milligrams of vitamin b6.
• Vitamin C is probably best-known of the nutrients that affect immunity. A whole literature of studies shows the effect of vitamin C in increasing immune activity and reducing the incidence of infection. This includes Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling's 1976 study on vitamin C and the common cold. It's true there's plenty of resistance to the late Pauling's enthusiasm for vitamin C in the medical and scientific community, but his studies speak for themselves. And his aren't the only ones. One double-blind study by I. M. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Eating large amounts of sugar increases the vitamin b6 deficiency which high levels of female hormone can cause.)
The sugar taken from the bowl for use in coffee and other beverages is but the tip of the sweet iceberg. Sugar is used on breakfast cereal, and the cereal already has sugar as one of its ingredients. Ketchup contains a large amount of sugar. The cheesecake you think is a protein dessert has a high sugar content. There is even sugar added to some brands of salt—watch for the word dextrose on the label. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 However, in order to make carnitine, the body must have adequate levels of vitamin b6, vitamin C, and several other nutrients. Since the alcoholic is often deficient in these nutrients, carnitine levels are also affected. Carnitine normally facilitates fatty acid transport and breakdown. When levels are low, fat tends to accumulate in the liver—exactly what is seen in alcohol-induced fatty liver. An even higher carnitine level than normal may be needed to handle the increased fatty acid load produced by alcohol consumption. |
| Vitamin B6 is required for proper immune function (see Immune Support).
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 deficiency is seen in ten to thirty-five percent of all HIV-positive patients, presumably as a result of either decreased intake, reduced absorption, or antagonism by the drug AZT.34'35 As serum cobalamin levels decline, progression to
AIDS increases and neurological symptoms worsen.
In one study, fifty-nine HIV-positive patients without any symptoms at the beginning of the study were followed over a two-and-one-half-year period. |
| Nutritional Supplements
• Chromium: 200-400 meg per day
• Vitamin A: a dosage of 25,000 IU per day appears reasonable (higher dosages may be useful but should be monitored closely by a physician; sexually active women of childbearing age should not take vitamin A in daily dosages greater than 5,000 IU due to the link between excessive vitamin A and birth defects)
• Vitamin E: 400 IU per day
• Selenium: 200 meg per day
• Zinc: 45-60 mg per day
• Vitamin B6: 25 mg three times per day
• Pantothenic acid: 2. |
| In rats, a vitamin b6 deficiency appears to cause both increased uptake of and sensitivity to testosterone.22
Pantothenic Acid
Pantothenic acid is important in fat metabolism and may be of value at high dosages in the treatment of acne. This potential benefit was evaluated in a study of 100 Chinese with acne. The study group consisted of forty-five males and fifty-five females between ten and thirty years of age; eighty percent were between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three.23 They were given 10 grams of pantothenic acid per day, in four divided doses. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Among lesser but gratifying benefits, vitamin b6 and zinc may prevent stretch marks in pregnancy.
Chromium helps to regulate carbohydrate metabolism (the chemistry of starches and sugars in the body). This fact is peculiarly important to women, for high estrogen levels may trigger a latent diabetes—as the birth control pill, containing that hormone, is known to do. Inositol not only aids liver control of the female hormone, but studies of its action on the brain waves indicate that it acts like a natural tranquilizer, so much so that my good friend, Dr. |
| Other than choline and inositol, of which the importance to a woman was discussed earlier, the asterisked nutrients have actions which are also of great usefulness in preventing or treating disorders frequent in women. vitamin b6 is asterisked because, as I noted earlier, it reduces water retention in pregnancy and in the premenstrual week. Together with potassium, it is an effective treatment for hypertrophic arthritis. Together with zinc (which is asterisked for that reason) it may help to prevent or to control a type of schizophrenia not uncommon in women who must endure excessive stress. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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| Many people with chemical sensitivities turn out to have a magnesium deficiency). vitamin b6 is another important vitamin for asthma control; paradoxically, it is depleted by theophylline-type asthma drugs. Vitamin BI2 can provide relief to asthma sufferers through its ability to activate the body's chemical detoxification pathways.7
In my office, I sometimes use an "asthma drip," an intravenous "cocktail" of nutrients that are particularly helpful. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| It's interesting to realize that if you were consuming sugarcane, instead of the sugar extracted from it, you'd be supplied with Vitamin B6; and if you were using fruits as a modest source of sugar, you'd automatically be supplied with Vitamin C. Nature proposes, man disposes.
Reducing your sugar intake calls for nothing more than a sense of discretion. Why buy canned fruit in heavy syrup if light-syrup pack is available? And what's the matter with water-packed fruit, even if it's labeled for diabetics? You don't have to wait for diabetes, you know. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| Try vitamin b6, 50-150 mg per day, under your doctor's supervision. It typically takes twelve weeks to see benefits.
• Splinting the wrist can help.27 As symptoms improve, you can begin to use the splint only at night.
• When conservative measures fail, doctors sometimes recommend diuretics, local injections of steroids, or surgery. Surgery is not always curative and should be used only as a last resort, particularly in pregnancy, since the syndrome usually resolves after delivery.
CHAPTER 12
Diabetes
Aparticular kind of pain occurs in diabetes. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Later observations prove the same effect of the Pill on vitamin b6 and Vitamin B12. These actions certainly demonstrate the interplay of female hormone with many factors of the Vitamin B Complex.
In research in clinical nutrition, when I directed the program at the Shaler Lawton Foundation, we repeatedly observed that women given large doses of folic acid frequently commented on increased swelling and tenderness of the breasts in the premenstrual week. This, of course, reflected a heightened response to estrogen and confirmed the findings in the chick experiment. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 A lack of vitamin b6 greatly impairs the digestion and processing of protein. Vitamin D deficiency leads to a malabsorption of fat and greatly impedes calcium absorption. Thus, poor appetite represents a vicious cycle; the individual is already deficient and by failing to eat properly, he/she becomes severely deficient. The result will certainly be impaired health and, in the extreme, anorexia, which can be fatal.
Appetite stimulation kit
• HerbSorb eastern spice formula (to stimulate the flow of digestive juices) — take 2 capsules with each meal. |
| They are also one of the few dependable sources of chromium and are an excellent source of potassium and phosphorus, plus they are a top source of vitamin b6. Furthermore, they are so rich in fatty acids for fuel and fiber that just a few Brazil nuts completely satisfy hunger.
Carob molasses
The carob tree, growing wild in the Mediterranean, may well be the manna of the Bible. While the word carob as such doesn't appear in the Bible, according to the Biblical scholar B. Montague-Drake there is no doubt that it is referred to in Luke 15:16. |
| These nutrients include vitamin b6, potassium, magnesium, and vitamin C. The positive effects of vitamin C are greatly aided by bioflavonoids. Yet, protein deficiency is the most common nutritional factor accounting for swelling in the extremities. This is because proteins are required for the maintenance of normal fluid balance in the body. This is why individuals with this condition often suffer from low blood levels of albumin and globulin, two important fluid regulating proteins. These proteins are produced by the liver. |
| Nutrient deficiencies which increase the vulnerability to wart infestation include a lack of zinc, selenium, vitamin C, copper, vitamin A, vitamin D, and vitamin b6. Be sure to take these nutrients on a regular basis.
Few people realize that warts are communicable. If an individual directly touches another person's warts, he/she can develop the infection. According the the editors of American Family Physician it is also possible to contract warts from towels, bedding, and other objects. |
| Nutrients which improve the function of the uterus and help prevent cramps include pantothenic acid, magnesium, vitamin E, essential fatty acids, and vitamin b6.
Excessive cramping may also warn of uterine and/or cervical infection. Major culprits include yeasts (Candida albicans), viruses, and bacteria, the most notorious being Chlamydia.
Menstrual cramps/difficulty combat kit
• bromelain (uncoated, i.e. BromaZyme) — take 2 or more capsules on an empty stomach twice daily.
• oil of oregano — 2 drops under the tongue twice daily.
• oil of myrtle — apply to the vaginal walls twice daily. |
the Editors of PREVENTION
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 No one really knows why, but it's believed that vitamin b6 helps to alleviate nausea by somehow helping liver enzymes modulate the brain chemistry. Dr. Lucking suggests taking brewer's yeast, a rich source of the vitamin, for motion sickness. Sprinkling the yeast on popcorn is a nice way of taking it, says Dr. Lucking, and popcorn is a bland food that absorbs some of the stomach acids that may irritate people with motion sickness.
Nail Fungus is yail fungus is tough to cure, not because it's a hardy foe but because it has carved out an ideal environmental niche for itself. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Henry Schroeder, Dartmouth College's expert on minerals:
21 times the Vitamin Bi (thiamin) 14 times the Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
16 times the niacin (B3)
14 times the vitamin b6 (pyridoxin)* 4 times the pantothenic acid
11 times the folic acid
17 times the Vitamin E (tocopherols)*
2 times the choline* 7 times the calcium
9 times the phosphorus
12 times the magnesium 12 times the potassium
3 times the molybdenum
2 times the chromium* 14 times the manganese 6 times the iron 42 times the cobalt 12 times the zinc*
Note: Dr. |
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