Farmers see this. Physicians do not.

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Farmers see this. Physicians do not.

 

Selenium

 

In cattle, endometriosis can be due to selenium deficiency. Since

your cow can't give you any milk without having a baby first,

dairymen well know to supplement all cows' feed with selenium. This

is usually accomplished with a multimineral tablet the size of a

microwave oven.

Okay, it's a mineral-fortified salt block (after

all, salt IS a mineral...) that can cows lick anytime they want.

Human females should do as well, but they don't.

 

We go out of our way to supply selenium to cattle, particularily in

geographical regions that have selenium-poor soil (New York state is

just one of these). Farmers simply must have healthy, fertile, easy-

to-conceive, happily-pregnant, uncomplicated-delivering Bossys by

the herd. The economics are obvious: farmer's cannot afford

otherwise; a herd with endometriosis would be banckrupcy on the

hoof.

 

Women with endometriosis, on the other hand, mean economic success

for all the many, many systems we have to capitalize on their

sickness. Doctors, nurses, support staff, surgeons, hospitals,

administrators, HMO's, insurance companies, pharmaceutical

manufacturers, drug salespeople, and lots of others' jobs depend on

people being unwell.

 

The uterus has always been irresistable to

money-medicine, and, with an estimated half a million unnecessary

hysterectomies annually, I would say that little has changed.

 

The secret to endometriosis is to see it for what it is: an end

result of malunutrition.

 

Farmers see this. Physicians do not.

 

Cows are raw food vegetarians who obtain their minerals from grains,

leafy greens, and smart dairymen who provide mineral supplements

preventively.

 

Physicians and their ilk try to treat endometriosis

1) after it has occured and 2) with drugs. Endometriosis is not due

to a drug deficiency.

 

The secret to this disease is found in the barnyard.

 

Selenium is probably important in stopping endometriosis because

this important trace mineral works so closely with vitamin E.

Vitamin E has been known to ensure that animals have healthy uterine

linings since the 1930's.

 

There is a research trail on this as long

as your arm. Therefore, supplementing the diet of a human female

with (natural) vitamin E, 400 to 1,000 IU daily (Balch, 1990, p

167), plus 100-200 micrograms (mcg) of selenium, is a good move.

 

Folate (folic acid)

I suspect folate deficiency as a cause of endometriosis. To some

extent I base this opinion, once again, on cows. And I repeat that

cows are vegetarians. Raw food vegetarians.

 

Folate, once known as vitamin B - 9, is named after the dark green

leafy vegetables it was first extracted from. " Folium " is Latin for

leaf. Folic acid contains three parts: pteroic acid glutamic acid,

and para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA).

 

Folate is an important coenzyme

in your body which helps to move carbon units about, and is

necessary for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing purines and

pyrimidines, which are essential for the synthesis of nucleotides...

which make up your RNA and DNA. Folate is also necessary for making

the heme (the iron-containing, nonprotein part of hemoglobin) for

your red blood cells

 

Too little folate causes nutritional megoblastic anemia (that's

large, immature red blood cells that can't carry oxygen well). This

is especially important during growth situations, such as pregnancy,

infancy and childhood.

 

Cows get plenty of folate because they eat plenty of foliage (green

leafy stuff, like grass). They are also blissfully free from a

silent folate-stealer: the birth control pill. Oral contraceptives

dramatically increase (at least double) the need for folic acid in

women. Disease in general increases need for folic acid.

 

Adolescent girls in particular are likely to have folic acid

deficiencies (Williams, 6th, p 245) Why? Because food sources of

folate are often quite unpopular. They are:

 

1. green leafy vegetables (Teens LOVE these. Not.)

2. organic organ meats ( " Awesome!)

3. asparagus ( " McSparagus! My favorite fast food! " )

 

It is likely that, during the pre-adult growth period when they need

it most, teenagers are not getting adequate dietary folic acid.

Female teenagers reaching menarche (beginning of menstruation) are

therefore malnourished. Folate undernutrition is probably a factor

in endometriosis.

 

Other nutrients that James F. Balch, M.D. recommends for

endometriosis include vitamin C in quantity, the vitamin B-complex,

essential fatty acids (found in lecithin or primrose oil), iron,

iodine, calcium, and magnesium (Balch, p 167).

 

His concise

discussion of endometriosis (pages 165-168) includes a discussion a

theory that endometriosis may actually be an " unrecognized

congenital birth defect. " If this is true, surgical correction may

be warranted. But likewise if true, prevention must be emphasized.

 

Since there is no question whatsoever that malnutrition causes birth

defects, dietary revision makes sense. What is good for heifers is

good for humans. I vote for a bovine diet.

 

Raspberry leaves are rich in magnesium and have a long tradition of

uterine usefulness. I have seen raspberry leaf tea reduce pregnancy

problems and delivery times in humans. We fed piles of raspberry

leaves to our rabbit, who rewarded us with ten young practically

while our backs were turned. This is a large litter even for a

rabbit.

 

Pregnancy and endometriosis are not in a cart-and-horse

relationship: it is not known for certain which one influences the

other. But I think the less sure we are, the more we should look to

nature for our examples.

 

References:

Balch, J. and Balch, P. (1990) Prescription for Nutritional Healing.

Garden City Park, New York: Avery.

 

Williams, Sue R. (1989) Nutrition and Diet Therapy, sixth edition.

St. Louis: Mosby.

 

 

Reprinted from the book FIRE YOUR DOCTOR, copyright 2001 and prior

years by Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York

14470 USA Telephone (716) 638-5357

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi, everyone,

 

I saw this article from Dr. Saul about using vitamins such as selenium, folic

acid, Vitamin C,

Vitamin E, etc. to treat endometriosis and I just had to respond as the subject

hits very close to

home for me.

 

I've had endometriosis since 1997. I took a high quality, high potency

multivitamin/multimineral

supplement which supplied most of the nutrients that were mentioned in the

article, and it did

nothing to stop the excruciatingly painful episodes of endometriosis.

Absolutely nothing. I had

pain in my lower abdomen and in the area of my rectum that felt like I had 50

razor blades cutting

me to pieces inside. I couldn't even WALK, never mind eat or sleep, when it

would flare up, the

pain was so bad. And then I would get alternating hot sweats with cold chills,

and sometimes

vomiting.

 

Writing this now in 2004, I am happy to say that I HAVE BEEN FREE FROM SEVERE

PAIN for 3 years

now? Why? NATURAL PROGESTERONE CREAM, as recommended in the books " What Your

Doctor May Not Tell

You About Premenopause " by Dr. John R. Lee and " Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom "

by Dr. Christiane

Northrup.

 

I belong to another called EndoNatural for women interested in

natural approaches to

treating endometriosis, and there are many satisfied natural progesterone cream

users on that

list. I would say that it is the #1 alternative treatment talked about in that

group.

 

Best regards,

 

Cathy B.

 

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Farmers see this. Physicians do not.

 

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Therefore, supplementing the diet of a human female with (natural) vitamin E,

400 to 1,000 IU

daily (Balch, 1990, p

167), plus 100-200 micrograms (mcg) of selenium, is a good move.

 

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