Vitamins – F.I.G.H.T for your health!

Vitamins & Minerals = SAFE

Linda — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:45:11 +0000

Linda’s comment: While poison control statistics prove supplement the money grubbing Pharmaceuticals continue to do bogus testing and say they are dangerous…Dangerous? Hey, what about pharmaceuticals….were you aware that Western drugs kill over 200,000 thousands a year?

It boils down to doing your own research, then research some more and make you own determination if they work or not….don’t take my word for it or the words of others….research, research then research some more….THEN make your decision.

Full article: http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDS/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Excerpt:

No Deaths From Vitamins or Minerals

Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements’ Safety

(OMNS, October 14, 2009) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics available from the U.S. National Poison Data System.

Prostate Cancer with comments by Dr. Gordon

Linda — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:12:32 +0000

I believe over 90% of all prostate cancer does not need surgery or radiation. Now you have another expert agreeing but he puts the number at 80% did not need surgery.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.comSubject: Holistic urology

Link: www.integrativeurology.org

Excerpt:

Dr Aaron Katz is Director of Holisitic Urology at Columbia University Medical Center in NY. The impact of Oximation on DNA transcription is becoming more evident. Researchers at Stanford,MD Anderson,Johns Hopkins,and Columbia looking at prostate cancer seem to be ahead of other researchers looking at cancer. The upshot is that epidemiologically, what we see work for prostate cancer also works for breast cancer. This article is from the Winter edition of Holistic Primary Care.

There are approximately 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed each year. The vast majority are caught at early stages— thanks to concerted screening efforts—and most can be controlled through a comprehensive multimodal holistic approach aimed at reducing inflammation, a key driver of the disease.

Vitamins and Teenagers: A Personal Statement

Linda — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:15:23 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 26, 2010

Vitamins and Teenagers: A Personal Statement
by Stephen H. Brown, PhD

(OMNS, Jan 26, 2010) In our house, vitamin supplements sit on the counter in open bowls like nuts, dried fruits, or jelly beans.

Colds, respiratory illnesses, intestinal viruses, mono, and other infectious diseases are constantly present in American schools. In response, my teenage kids have placed four bowls on the kitchen counter – a large one in the middle full of vitamin C surrounded by three smaller bowls of niacin, vitamin D, and thiamine tablets. They help themselves to the vitamins when they feel the need, and many of their friends have adopted the idea as well. Regularly, the kids report that the vitamins actually work. The most frequent comments are, “Wow, I can breath through my nose again!”, and “I was sure I was getting sick yesterday but I feel fine today.”

How did this start? My father introduced me to vitamin C as a teenager and I was further inspired by Linus Pauling’s “How to Live Longer and Feel Better.” (1) In order to safely raise my kids on extra vitamins with maximum effectiveness, I started actively researching orthomolecular medicine. As a result, I advised my teenage children to focus on responsive dosing of four vitamins that are underrepresented in modern diets. I provided the following suggested daily doses as a starting point:

6000 mg of vitamin C
4000 IU of vitamin D
200 mg of thiamine
250 mg of time-release niacin

There is an obvious association between vitamin intake and poor health. Teenagers can understand this. Some might think that it is not good parenting to let teens have unfettered access to nutrients. We need to constantly remember that these and other vitamins are non-prescription for a reason. (2) As previous Orthomolecular Medicine News Service articles have pointed out (3), vitamins are remarkably safe. They are far better then sugary candy, fast foods loaded with sodium and fat, or caffeine-laced soft drinks.

Vitamin supplements have been widely available for only a few decades. For the first time, families have the ability to independently control intakes of essential nutrients. A very large amount of research has repeatedly shown that proactively controlling micro-nutrients is necessary to optimize health.

Easy access, peer acceptance, and occasional obvious usefulness, in that order, appear to me to be important motivators for teenagers. I am hopeful that my kids are more sensitive to their own health and the health of their friends, and are looking for an association between supplement use and improved health.

The kids know I’m the family “expert” on vitamins and I have occasional in depth conversations. I rarely maintain their interest. Vitamins have not, in my opinion, taken health care’s center stage because this theory is not particularly exciting. But you can prove it works by giving it a fair trial.

The vitamin revolution is about behavior. I don’t care why the kids take vitamins B1, B3, C, and D. I just care that they take them, and stay well as a result. Watching my children and their friends independently control their vitamin intake has been a turning point for me. I believe that my kids are ordinary kids and that most kids will respond similarly.

Media scare stories aside, the overwhelming scientific evidence is that we are living in a time of epidemic vitamin deficiency. Supplements correct that when food groups eating does not or can not. Deficiency of just these four vitamins is often responsible for the multitude of disorders that qualify children for special education and asthma medication. Later in life, inadequate vitamin intake clearly contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, excessive dental cavities, anorexia, depression, dementia, and sleep disorders. Persons wishing to confirm or question this statement are encouraged to look at the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service archive, freely accessible at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml .

With the stakes so high, all methods of increasing consumption of these four vitamins are worth consideration. My kids have definitely benefited from supplemental vitamins. I’m hopeful that other parents will find this simple option equally useful.

(Stephen H. Brown received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale. He has worked for industry in the field of heterogeneous catalysis since 1988 and has 80 patents. Dr. Brown has been blogging at www.cforyourself.com since 2006, and contributing to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service since 2007.)

References:

(1) Reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html .

(2) Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.

(3) More than 75 OMNS news releases are available at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml

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Destroying confidence in Vitamins

Linda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:15:33 +0000

Full article: http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n02.shtml

Excerpt:

How To Destroy Confidence In Vitamins When You Do Not Have The Facts

(OMNS, January 11, 2010) “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this year’s annual meeting of the World Headquarters Of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators, and Reporters (WHOPPER).

“Let us get right to the point. Many of our members and affiliates have complained about what is, for us, an alarming and dangerous segment of health care: so-called ‘orthomolecular medicine.’ We wish to assure you, although this therapeutic approach is, unfortunately, very effective in preventing and treating disease, that we will make sure the public will never learn of it. We can say this with considerable confidence, since for over 50 years we have managed to keep virtually all psychiatrists from using niacin to treat schizophrenia; we have kept cardiologists from prescribing vitamin E and co enzyme Q10 for heart disease; and we have kept general practitioners from prescribing vitamin C for viral illnesses.

“Yes, it has really been a triumphant half-century. How did we do it? It is really quite easy. Here is a summary for those of you that may have missed the last WHOPPER meeting.

No Deaths From Vitamins or Minerals

Linda — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:50:58 +0000

Linda’s comment: There has not been one death caused by a vitamin or dietary minerals. Toxicology shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin, yet the media and the medical establishment continue to slam the use of the very thing that could keep them healthy. FOLLOW THE MONEY folks…read the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service report from October 14, 2009. Are we safe? I would say yes. I would have been dead by now had it not been for the supplements I take. The FDA and the news media are always looking for the bodies, but of course they need to protect the pockets of the Pharmaceutical industry, which btw does multi million dollar studies using 500 mg of VitC and then turn around and say the 500 mg of VitC showed no significance??!! I guess not…what a waste of money….I take 20,000 grams of VitC daily, along with the rest of the FIGHT program….With all the health problems I suffer from it is the vitamins/supplement/herbals that keep me going…

Start standing up for your CHOICE and RIGHTS folks. Do your research and then listen to your body as you swallow your choices of medical herbals….

Be Healthy

Linda

Excerpt:

(OMNS, October 14, 2009) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics available from the U.S. National Poison Data System. The 132-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers published in the journal Clinical Toxicology shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin. (1)

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2007 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. There was one death from chronic overdose of magnesium hydroxide, commonly known as the laxative/antacid milk of magnesia, and it was inappropriately listed in the “dietary supplement” reporting category. Nutritional supplements do not contain magnesium hydroxide.

Full article: http://www.orthomolecular.org