Latest Andrew Saul newsletter.

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To The Group,

 

Here is the latest Andrew Saul newsletter. In my opinion this guy is

the best the web has to offer in nutrition and vitamin therapy.

 

He's just like most of us, just looking for the truth, not trying to

sell something. It's just that he has spent most of his life doing it

both professionally and personally.

 

His website is a library of knowledge.

regards,

Frank

 

 

 

" So join the thousands of happy, peppy people and get a great big

bottle

of . this stuff. " (Lucille Ball, from the " Vitameatavegemin " routine)

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF (SM) NEWSLETTER Vol 2, No 6

January 24, 2002 " Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the

A.M.A. "

Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free

online library of 300 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

scientific

references.

 

" HELLO, FRIENDS. ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT USING OR BUYING VITAMINS?

Do

your

eyes glaze over when you see those rows and rows of shelves of

supplements?

Do you hear conflicting stories on TV that say vitamins are worthless,

or

even harmful? Do you poop out at parties? (Sorry; It's that " Lucy "

bit

again.) Well, the answers to your problem are in this little list. "

 

Here's quick-click guide what NEWSLETTER readers may want to know:

 

TABLETS, CAPSULES, LIQUID OR POWDER?

http://www.doctoryourself.com/tabtable.html (This is a brand new

article,

with reference links within it.)

 

TABLETING INGREDIENTS ( " Excipients " )

http://www.doctoryourself.com/labels.html

 

IF TABLETS UPSET YOUR STOMACH

http://www.doctoryourself.com/tabtaking.html

 

6 Powerful Answers for when under-informed people badmouth megadose

nutritional supplements:

 

1) SUPPLEMENT SAFETY

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_factoids.html (by

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.)

 

2) NEWS MEDIA OBJECTIONS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antivitamin.html

 

3) DOCTORS' OBJECTIONS http://www.doctoryourself.com/naturedoc.html

and

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html (This is a major

article, also written by Dr. Hoffer)

 

4) HOSPITAL OBJECTIONS http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html

 

5) LEGAL ASPECTS http://www.doctoryourself.com/strategies.html

 

6) SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT FOR SUPPLEMENTATION

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bibliography.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/werbach.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antioxidants.html

 

FOODS THAT WORK LIKE SUPPLEMENTS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/foodpill.html

 

HOW TO GET KIDS TO TAKE VITAMINS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kidsvit.html

 

AN ALTERNATIVE TO B-12 INJECTIONS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/nasal.html

 

WHY WE NEED FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman2.html

(by William Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.)

 

LAWS IN PROGRESS TO RESTRICT YOUR ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTS

http://www.doctoryourself.com/supplement_limit.html

 

An Important Note: I have no financial connection whatsoever with the

supplement industry, or with anyone who markets such products.

Commercial

use of DOCTOR YOURSELF material is strictly prohibited. This

NEWSLETTER

contains no advertising and we mean to keep it that way.

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF WEBSITE OF THE MONTH:

http://www.health-heart.org/ has lots of good information on clinical

nutrition and vitamin therapeutics. Though I favor higher than the

posted

doses of vitamin C, I really like this noncommercial site's upbeat,

can-do

attitude. I also endorse its outspoken criticism of the pharmaceutical

industry. There is a cool " Daily Supplement Pyramid " at

http://www.health-heart.org/simple.htm and a very clear, short

discussion of

essential fatty acids at http://www.health-heart.org/vitamins.htm

 

READERS SAY:

" Great website! I noticed you have a page on Lyme disease

http://www.doctoryourself.com/lyme.html . Please consider putting in a

plug

for the homeopathic remedy, Ledum. Ledum in the 1M potency is almost a

specific for Lyme disease. I use it in my own practice and have

several

cures of Lyme disease with it. (I am a homeopath.)

 

" Regards,

" R. F., M.D. "

 

Dr. R. F. (not his real initials) is yet another natural-minded

physician

who is likely to lose his medical license if State " health "

authorities

find

out that he's successfully treating inflammation without antibiotic

drugs.

Do not be fooled: the well-entrenched politically powerful

pharmaceutical

cartel is STILL trying to squash alternative health care wherever it

can.

 

If you think I overstate the case, look at this:

 

" Dear Dr. Saul,

" I have real some of your website information. It is very good. I

request

your assistance. I am a physician and officer in the U. S. military. I

have

used nutritional therapies in my civilian practice for several years.

 

" I had a patient two months ago with severe bronchitis and history of

recurrent pneumonia who I gave a 25cc IV push of vitamins C (2500mg),

B-complex, B6, Dexpanthenol, Trace minerals, magnesium chloride

(1000mg) in

10cc sterile water. This man was not responding well to antibiotic

therapy

and turned around in 24 hours after the IV. There was a complaint from

2 of

my " colleagues " that I was giving nutritional IV's. I now must justify

my

treatment with documentation. The protocol I use is from Dr. Alan

Gaby.

There is no regulation against the nutrition I used. It is just that

the

other doctors think nutritional, especially IV, therapy is quackery.

 

" Will you provide me with some specific documentation regarding the

benefits

and safety of nutritional IV's or any other recommendation I can use

to

satisfy this demand and dismiss the complaints of the " uninformed "

doctors

with whom I must work?

 

" Thank you,

" G. Y., M.D. "

 

Dear Doctor,

One would think that Dr. Gaby's recommendation would be justification

in

itself. The fact that the patient recovered should also suffice, as I

am

sure you agree.

 

Your problem is not an easy one, because whatever information you

bring

forward will be discounted as scientifically unproven, as out of date,

as

quackery, as personal promotion, or worse.

 

Here is my suggested reading list to strengthen your defense:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html (Abram Hoffer,

M.D.)

http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan1.html (Hugh D. Riordan, M.D.)

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antivitamin.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitciv.html (Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.)

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html (Frederick R.

Klenner,

M.D.)

 

YOUR FEEDBACK WANTED:

Have you ever been denied a natural therapy by a doctor or hospital?

Tell

your story! Email your experience to me at

drsaul

 

MORE READERS' LETTERS:

EPILEPSY AND VITAMIN E

" I throughly enjoyed your Newsletter on Vitamin E. In Prevention

Magazine,

November, 1989, there was an excellent article on Vitamin E and

Epilepsy

which I am enclosing. " Sharon Myers "

 

Thank you, Sharon. The PREVENTION article mentioned research showing

that

children using antiepileptic medication had reduced plasma levels of

vitamin

E, an indication of vitamin E deficiency. So doctors at the University

of

Toronto gave epileptic children 400 I.U. of vitamin E per day for

several

months, along with their medication. This combined treatment reduced

the

frequency of seizures in most of the children by over 60 percent. Half

of

them " had a 90 to 100 percent reduction in seizures. " (Epilepsia, Vol

30, No

1, 1989).

 

This is a good reference to have, not only for epilepsy, but for proof

of

the safety of 400 IU of vitamin E per day in children (equivalent to

about

800 to 1,200 IU/day for an adult). It also provides a clear example of

drug

medication creating vitamin deficiency. In recent years, PREVENTION

magazine

has greatly changed, and you will likely no longer find articles such

as

this in it any more. But you now will find pharmaceutical company drug

ads.

I do miss the good old Rodale PREVENTION.

More on epilepsy at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/epilepsy.html

 

DR. RINSE FORMULA

" I used to buy this product, but some places have discontinued it.

Would you

have a list of places that still sell the Dr. Rinse in a can? "

 

I do not know where to get it in a can, but I can tell you how to make

it in

a jiffy, right here:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/dr_rinse.html

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF " STEALTH FOOD " OF THE MONTH

You have to love a snack with its own website, right? But at

http://www.doritos.com , as well as on a package of " Cooler Ranch "

tortilla

chips, they really play down the junk-food truth: This variety of

" Doritos "

contains a whole slew of artificial ingredients, including THREE

artificial

food colors, Yellow Dye Number 5, Red Dye Number 40 and Blue Dye

Number

1.

I called Frito-Lay (it's their nickel:1-800-352-4477) and I told them

that I

think readily available, safe natural colors should be used instead,

and

that I wanted to talk to the boss about it. They passed my call

around

to a

series of cheerful but ineffective people, eventually promising me a

call

from a Vice President. No such luck. No such call. No such concern

from

one of the largest empty-food manufacturers in the world. Buy another

brand, and call Frito Lay and tell them why.

 

Want to know the sordid history of the artificial, cancer-promoting

sweetener saccharin?

http://www.doctoryourself.com/history5.html

 

Want to read about our past Winners of the DOCTOR YOURSELF " STEALTH

FOOD "

AWARD?

http://www.doctoryourself.com/stealthfoods.html

 

COMING NEXT ISSUE:

SELECTING A MULTIPLE VITAMIN

What about different SUPPLEMENT BRANDS?

Readers' Ask: NATURAL VS SYNTHETIC: What's the REAL difference?

A New BOOK REVIEW

And More, Of Course!

 

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