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IN THIS ISSUE:

 

1) CAFFEINE PSYCHOSIS

 

2) VITAMIN WARS and a must-see free online documentary

 

3) CODEX AND CAFTA UPDATES

 

4) VITAMINS ENHANCE CHEMOTHERAPY by Erik T. Paterson, M.D.

 

5) HOW TO FIND A DOCTOR WHO OFFERS INTRAVENOUS (IV) VITAMIN

C

 

6) CANCER, DIET, AND DOCTORS

 

7) DRY SKIN

 

8) THE VALUE OF HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN THERAPY by Bo Jonsson,

M.D.

 

9) HEPATITIS

 

10) FLUORIDATION

 

11) ENURESIS (BEDWETTING)

 

12) READERS SAY

 

13) FREE RESOURCES

 

14) UNSTRESS YOUR LIFE, Part Five, by John Mosher, Ph.D.

 

A POPULAR SERIES OF 1950's MAGAZINE S for

decaffeinated coffee

depicted husbands so afflicted with " coffee nerves " that

they were more like

beasts than men. One such cartoon illustration actually

showed the hubby in

a cage, raging and railing against his terrified family

from behind bars.

 

But it's not funny. Caffeine, the most common and most

unrestricted of

stimulant drugs, has diverse and adverse effects on the

human body. Ruth

Whalen, a medical lab technician, learned this the hard

way. She suffered

for over twenty years from various psychoses that, she

discovered, were

eliminated when she eliminated caffeine. A new book,

Welcome to the Dance,

is her story. It is also an intensely personal and

medically comprehensive

look at just how severe caffeine's negative effects can be.

Admittedly I am

biased; I published Ms. Whalen's first two papers on the

topic (Caffeine

Induced Anaphylaxis: A Progressive Toxic Dementia; and

Caffeine Allergy:

Past Disorder or Present Epidemic?) in 2002. They remain

among the most read

articles at my website, www.doctoryourself.com. Her work

has subsequently

appeared in medical journals, including The Journal of

Orthomolecular

Medicine.

 

I recall my first pharmacologically memorable encounter

with caffeine. I was

in my teens, in London, and spotted a little old lady

(really) going down a

long flight of steps with a cane in each hand. It was the

classic Boy Scout

opportunity, for it truly looked as if she was going to

topple over any

second. I caught up with her (that being easy) and helped

her across the

street. Across the street turned out to be her hotel. She

graciously invited

me, the touring Yankee, to have coffee with her in the

hotel's elegant

sitting room. I had seen red-coated waiters and dazzling

silver tea services

in the movies, but this was the time I was living it live.

She turned out to

be a real hoot and a brilliant conversationalist. Hours

went by, and in that

time I downed eight cups of coffee.

 

I felt just great.

 

Back at my hotel that night, I went to sleep, sort of. It

was not long

before I awoke, my eyes opened wide. I tried to close them,

and they

instantly leapt open again. It was as if my eyelids were on

springs. This

went on for some time, as I lay there and figured out,

eventually, what

might have transpired.

 

I'd had about 1,000 milligrams of caffeine, that's what.

And it was working.

 

Caffeine, an alkaloid methylxanthine, is incredibly well

absorbed when taken

orally: ninety-nine per cent of it goes straight into your

body. It passes

easily through the blood-brain barrier. It would stand to

reason that any

drug that is a central nervous system stimulant; a skeletal

muscle

stimulant; a cardiac stimulant; that induces hypoglycemia

(1); and that

causes agitation, insomnia, altered mental states,

rigidity, tremors and

seizures would be more suspect. But, as Bart Simpson has

observed, " Nobody

suspects the butterfly. " In other words, the familiar is

often the last to

be fixed.

 

Nothing is more familiar than caffeine. Caffeine is

consumed worldwide at an

estimated 120,000 tons per year. A Medline search for

" caffeine " yields over

19,000 results; " caffeine toxicity " will bring up more than

900 journal

articles. One review paper, describing how caffeine causes

birth defects in

rodents, states: " Maternal exposure to caffeine induces

also long-term

consequences on sleep, locomotion, learning abilities,

emotivity, and

anxiety in rat offspring. " (2) One study indicated that

nine out of ten high

school students consumed caffeine, mostly from soft drinks.

(3) Another

paper recognized caffeine as a major cause of bedwetting.

(4)

 

 

We could go on and on about this, and Ms. Whalen does. That

is good. Citing

study after study, she builds the case from all directions.

Her book

provides a thorough 42 pages of medical references, plus an

additional 30

pages of recommended reading material. I like her writing

style, which

alternates between review textbook and tell-all memoir. The

author is almost

painfully honest as she narrates how she lost 27 years of

her life to

unrecognized caffeine-induced psychosis. And then she cured

it, not by

taking an exotic pharmaceutical drug, but by refusing to

take a common

dietary drug.

 

Caffeine is said to have a half-life in your body of three

to seven hours.

Not only does that vary among people, it also needs a

comment. Using five as

the average of three and seven, this means that 10 hours

after consumption,

25% of the drug is still in you. At least. Women on the

birth control pill

take twice as long to metabolize caffeine as women who are

not. And some

persons are vastly more sensitive to caffeine than others.

 

 

If you are going to use a drug, caffeine is certainly

better than nicotine,

cocaine or narcotics. Adults can freely choose to have

their blast of

caffeine in their morning coffee. But it's not just coffee

that's the

caffeine culprit. Tea, chocolate, many pain relievers, and

soft drinks

contain caffeine. An increasingly large number of children,

and I mean

little children, are having that same xanthine blast as Mom

and Dad. " Nearly

three-quarters of all children over the age of 6 months

regularly use

caffeine, " writes Jean Carper. (5) The Center for Science

in the Public

Interest has reported that about half of all children drink

soda pop; those

between ages six and eleven drink nearly a pint a day. 20%

of toddlers drink

soda pop, nearly a cup daily. And, of the seven best

selling soft drinks,

six have caffeine in them. (6)

 

Lendon Smith, M.D., frequently said that if your child

craves something,

it's probably not good for him. Caffeine is a stimulant,

not as powerful as

Ritalin or amphetamine, but a stimulant nonetheless. Where,

exactly, does

" just say no to drugs " begin? By law, nicotine use is

prohibited until age

18. Alcohol use is prohibited until age 21. There is never

a legal age for

dangerous street drugs, such as crack, PCP and heroin. And

yet I know of no

age restrictions on caffeine.

 

If there were an age restriction on caffeine, it would have

to start even

before birth. Caffeine crosses the placenta, causing

overactive fetuses in

pregnant mothers. The developing baby gets as much as the

mother. Babies so

affected cry more and sleep less. Women who drink more than

a cup of coffee

every day are only half as likely to conceive as those who

drink less than a

cup a day. If women down more than two and a half cups

daily, then they are

nearly 5 times less likely to be able to get pregnant as

women who drink

none. (7) Furthermore, if a pregnant woman drinks 2 or 3

cups of coffee each

day, she is more likely to have a premature baby, or a

full-term infant with

low birthweight.

 

The list of troubles related to chronic caffeinism is very

long. I do not

think Ms. Whalen missed a one. From Anxiety, Anorexia,

Anaphylaxis and ADHD

to Schizophrenia, Suicide, Vertigo and Violence, Welcome to

the Dance's 123

compact chapters provide ample variety to keep the reader's

interest.

 

If you are an adult caffeine user and your life is fine, I

am not out to

change you. But if you or someone you care about is a

caffeine user and life

is a mess, read Ms. Whalen's book before things get any

worse. If a person

is psychotic, bipolar or suffers from obsessive compulsive

disorder, perhaps

the answer is not to take more drugs, but to take fewer.

Start by stopping

caffeine.

 

Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy - A Masked Cerebral

Allergy and

Progressive Toxic Dementia

 

by Ruth Whalen. (Victoria, B.C. Canada: Trafford

Publishing, 2005) 338 pages

plus index. Foreword by Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Review reprinted with permission of the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine,

Vol 20, 2005, in press.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, or to order Welcome to the Dance:

Caffeine Allergy - A

Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia

($33.95 plus S/H) you

may contact the author at ruth_w

 

References:

 

1. Cheraskin E, Ringsdorf WM Jr, Setyaadmadja AT, Barrett

RA. Effect of

caffeine versus placebo supplementation on blood-glucose

concentration.

Lancet. 1967 Jun 17;1(7503):1299-300. And: Cheraskin E,

Ringsdorf WM Jr.

Blood-glucose levels after caffeine. Lancet. 1968 Sep

21;2(7569):689.

 

2. Nehlig A, Debry G. Potential teratogenic and

neurodevelopmental

consequences of coffee and caffeine exposure: a review on

human and animal

data. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 1994 Nov-Dec;16(6):531-43.)

 

3. Valek M, Laslavic B, Laslavic Z. Daily caffeine intake

among Osijek High

School students: questionnaire study. Croat Med J. 2004

Feb;45(1):72-5.

 

4. Jalkut MW, Lerman SE, Churchill BM. Enuresis. Pediatr

Clin North Am. 2001

Dec;48(6):1461-88.)

 

5. Carper J. " Your food pharmacy. " Syndicated column, June

15, 1994.

 

6. Jacobson MF. Liquid Candy: How soft drinks are harming

Americans' health.

http://www.cspinet.org/sodapop/liquid_candy.htm Accessed

June 2005.

 

7. Wilcox A, Weinberg C, Baird D. Caffeinated beverages and

decreased

fertility. Lancet. 1988 8626-7:1473-1476, December 24/31.

 

(end of review)

 

EVEN TODDLERS DRINK SODA, and Plenty Of It

 

Excellent article posted at:

 

http://www.cspinet.org/sodapop/liquid_candy.htm

 

VITAMIN WARS, EPISODE THREE: The Fight Intensifies

 

Your access is to nutritional supplements will likely be

restricted in the

next few years.

 

The Doctor Yourself Newsletter has been discussing (some

would say harping

on) this looming health threat for years. If you still

wonder why, may I

recommend you watch a superb, free, online health freedom

documentary called

" We Become Silent. " The highly-professional, 28 minute

video includes some

exceptionally brilliant moments. My two favorites are the

famous Mel Gibson

SWAT-team arrest scene ( " Hey, guys, it's only vitamins! " )

and the FDA Deputy

Commissioner, while under interrogation about supplement

safety vs. drug

dangers, saying " Turn the camera off and we can talk. "

 

Watch " We Become Silent " right now at http://www.welltv.com

or

http://herballure.com/Special/WeBecomeSilent/QuickTime.html

 

UPDATES

 

Many of my readers have requested news updates on the

national (and

international) government anti-vitamin agendas. This has

already been done

by others, and I urge you to go to these links, do a Google

search for more,

and see for yourself.

 

CAFTA

 

CAFTA stands for Central American Free Trade Agreement,

which makes the USA

even more susceptible to more supplement restrictions. Be

sure to read

http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/update07.13.05.htm

 

The US House of Representatives vote on CAFTA is expected

within days. CALL

YOUR CONGRESSMAN NOW and say " Vote NO on CAFTA. "

 

CODEX

 

The United Nations CODEX unit wants everyone on earth to

have

non-prescription access only to low dose supplements. Take

a look at these:

 

 

" Your dietary supplements: Under attack again "

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44713

 

A Physician's Summation of Vitamin Regulation:

 

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/dshea.htm

 

 

" Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1690686,00.html

 

 

ACTION

 

If you do not mind losing your access to your vitamins, you

can relax: all

you have to do is nothing.

 

But if you want to keep nutritional supplementation freely

available for

yourself, and particularly for your children and

grandchildren, there are

two things you need to do right away:

 

 

First:

 

WRITE, AND CALL, CONGRESS. A congressional directory is

posted at

http://capwiz.com/liberty/dbq/officials/ Tell your

representative, " There is

not even one death per year from vitamins. Vitamins

supplementation saves

lives and saves healthcare dollars. Do not limit my access

to vitamin

supplements! No to CODEX. No to CAFTA. "

 

Then:

 

WRITE TO YOUR NEWSPAPERS. Short letters to local papers

have the best chance

of being published.

 

Tell everyone, " There is not even one death per year from

vitamins. Vitamin

supplementation saves lives and saves healthcare dollars.

Do not limit my

access to vitamin supplements! "

 

Here is just one more big reason why we need supplements:

 

VITAMINS ENHANCE CHEMOTHERAPY

 

by Erik T. Paterson, M.D. (Creston, British Columbia,

Canada)

 

A recent article (National Post of Canada, 6 June 2005)

gave an interesting

account of problems with the use of supplements with cancer

therapy.

 

 

As far as the antioxidants are concerned, the article is

far from as

balanced as it would like the readers to believe. In low

doses, those

usually advocated by conventionally minded professionals,

there is little or

no value in the use of such substances. In high (remarkably

safe) doses they

can be highly valuable. For example, high dose vitamin C

given

experimentally to cultures of any type of cancer cells is

lethal to them,

but entirely harmless to similar cultures of normal cells.

 

In clinical practice, when prescribed by knowledgeable

doctors, high dose

vitamin C does not ever interfere with chemotherapy, helps

to protect

against the adverse (often enough lethal) effects of

chemotherapy, enhances

the efficacy of chemotherapy, and frequently induces

complete remission of

cancer (disappearance of all clinical signs of tumour)

where chemotherapy

cannot. The evidence for this efficacy of high dose vitamin

C is voluminous,

a good starting point being Hoffer, A. & Pauling, L.,

Vitamin C and Cancer:

Discovery, recovery, controversy, Quarry Health Books,

2000. But similar

research shows the value of the other antioxidant

supplements, but only when

given in high, but safe doses.

 

 

I am living proof that this works, having fallen ill with a

near lethal

Acute Mylegenous Leukemia nearly nine years ago. The

effects of the

chemotherapy nearly killed me. Once in remission (not cure)

I have kept

myself healthy with vitamin C 8,000 milligrams, niacin

3,000 milligrams,

vitamin E 1000 units, vitamins A and D (in Halibut liver

oil) and selenium

500 micrograms, along with other supplements all per day.

 

 

I advocate that people ought to READ, READ, READ but not

just journals with

a bias against the unconventional use of vitamins.

 

 

HOW TO FIND A DOCTOR NEAR YOU WHO OFFERS INTRAVENOUS (IV)

VITAMIN C

 

by a Doctor Yourself staff volunteer

 

Go here http://www.acam.org/dr_search/index.php and type CT

in the search

box. Click on the circle to the left of " Specialty " and

then click on

" Search. " In mid-June, 641 doctors with their contact

information appeared

in the search result. In order to narrow the search results

to your state,

now click on the circle to the left of " State (2 letters)

or Province " and

type your two letter state abbreviation in the Search box.

Click on

" Search " . The results will be doctors in your state who

offer Chelation

Therapy and these doctors are also usually trained and

offer intravenous

vitamin C. Contact the doctor of your choice in the search

results to verify

he or she offers vitamin C IV treatment.

 

Note: Doctor Yourself does not maintain a database of

physicians, and does

not provide addresses, referrals or recommendations.

 

How to Get Intravenous Vitamin C Given to a Hospitalized

Patient

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

 

Intravenous vitamin C is available from Merit

Pharmaceuticals, 2611 San

Fernando, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Telephone: In California:

800-696-3748;

Out-of-State: 800-421-9657. If you know of other sources,

please let me

know.

 

ANY DOCTOR CAN SUPERVISE INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C

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

 

CANCER, DIET, AND DOCTORS

 

by James Burnett, Doctor Yourself volunteer in Mission,

Texas

 

A recent study printed in the Journal of Clinical Oncology

(March 1, 2005)

stated that the researchers were surprised to find that

colorectal cancer

patients who had individual nutritional counseling had a

better quality of

life and a reduction in symptoms and suffering.

 

There were three groups of colorectal cancer patients in

the study; the

number of patients was not given. One group ate a " normal "

diet, one group

ate a high protein liquid supplement in addition to the

normal diet and one

group ate a diet with individual nutritional counseling.

The patients who

had the individual nutritional diet counseling had less

nausea, vomiting and

diarrhea then the other two groups.

 

The researchers may have been surprised but those of you

who are familiar

with the positive impact proper nutrition can have on the

body are not in

the least surprised.

 

I am surprised at the doctors' lack of knowledge about the

effects of proper

nutrition. Apparently during their College of Medicine

studies so much time

was taken on the study of drugs that there was little time

left for the

study of nutrition. How sad. Even doctors themselves think

it is shocking

that physicians were so clueless about nutrition.

http://www.mercola.com/2005/apr/16/nutrition_cancer.htm

 

Sometimes it is up to the patient to help the busy doctor

become aware of

what is going on in the field of orthomolecular/natural

health material.

Print out some of the information found on the Doctor

Yourself web site,

including a brief bibliography and give it to your busy

doctor " to read in

your spare time " and see what happens. I gave my oncologist

several studies

about 5 weeks ago and am waiting for his reaction at my

next appointment

with him.

 

More information about the value of nutrition in the

treatment of cancer is

available at the following websites:

 

Gerson Therapy http://www.doctoryourself.com/mgerson.html

 

The Greson Miracle

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy2.html

 

Nutritional Cancer Therapy

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

 

Dr. Hoffer's Articles

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

 

Cancer http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer.html

 

Nutritional Therapy for Cancer

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

 

Overview of Some Nutritional Approaches to Cancer

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_2.html

 

Vitamin C Versus Cancer

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

 

Megavitamin Treatment of Cancer

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

 

DRY SKIN

 

By Robert, Doctor Yourself volunteer in Tennessee

 

I had dry skin for many years, particularly in the winter.

My back was rough

and scaly, my wife would apply cream to my back after my

showers in an

effort to relieve the dryness and I had various back

scratchers to use for

relief. It was a minor but annoying condition. I read on

the Internet that

evening primrose oil often helps relieve dry skin

conditions and I decided

to give it a try. A year ago I bought a bottle of 100

evening primrose soft

gels (500 mg each) for $4 at a large discount store. I

started taking one

soft gel every three or four days (twice a week). My back

soon started

itching less. I still take two evening primrose oil soft

gels a week and the

skin on my back has returned to normal hydration. It is

smooth instead of

rough, it has normal skin moisture content and there is no

itching.

 

Recently I saw an article that explains why evening

primrose oil worked for

me. " Evening Primrose, Black Currant and Borage Oils: These

contain the

essential fatty acid gamma linolenic acid (GLA), which is

useful for

treating arthritic pain. These are the exception to omega-6

fats that are

necessary to have in your diet. It is reasonable for many

to take these as a

supplement, particularly if you struggle with dry skin in

the winter, as

this is a strong indicator that you are deficient in these

fats. "

http://www.mercola.com/2005/jan/12/anti_inflammatory.htm.

 

Dry skin can be caused by many conditions such as lack of

omega-3 fats in

the diet, dehydration or a thyroid condition. A search at

http://www.mercola.com for " dry skin " produces almost 200

hits. The Mercola

site is commercial and perhaps some of the information

encourages purchase

of their products. However, a thoughtful evaluation of

information on

commercial sites is prudent. (More on this topic next month

in the Doctor

Yourself Newsletter.)

 

If you have dry skin, consider taking some evening primrose

oil. It's cheap,

safe, and convenient. It may solve your dry skin problem,

too.

 

THE NEED FOR HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN THERAPY

 

by Bo Jonsson, M.D.

 

The statement that a well balanced diet is enough for

optimal health is

problematic. In this area people in general often have a

great interest.

This is less so within health care, a fact which may

promote patients to

choose complementary or alternative treatment. Knowledge

from conventional

and complementary medicine needs integration if medical

service shall be

credible in the field of diet.

 

For supplements, pharmaceutical drugs and other measures,

knowledge is

needed about effects and side-effects. To get a

comprehensive view all pros

and cons need to be weighed together.

 

In his short comment (1), Becker states that two recent

meta-analyses (2, 3)

have flaws, but still claims that the results without a

doubt speak against

positive effects! Contradictory results need critical

analysis. One of the

meta-analysis (2) included studies with so different

treatments and

populations that the work deviates from basic criteria for

meta-analyses

(4). Bringing together studies with unequal antioxidants

with large

differences is like mixing apples and pears. In the other

meta-analysis (3)

the material was dominated by ill patients or populations

in risk groups.

The authors mention that there are different forms of

vitamin E, but then

ignores this fact. A recent review claim a clearly better

safety for

high-dose vitamin E (5).

 

Problems with intervention studies

 

Epidemiologic studies are criticised for their doubtful

value (6), but so

are randomised treatment studies (7). A common explanation

for unsuccessful

interventions have been that a well-composed diet contain

more healthy

nutrients in a natural complex than supplements with single

nutrients. But

there are other problems with intervention studies.

Millions of dollars have

been used for research where patients have been given

single antioxidants in

inadequate doses. Two British researchers maintain that

most treatment

studies with vitamin C have not considered that ascorbate

in high-dose has a

half-life in plasma of only 30 minutes (8). Therefore, in

treatment

ascorbate 100mg five times a day may be more effective than

1,000 mg once

daily.

 

When using essential nutrients it is important to clearly

differentiate

treatment of illness from prevention of the originally

described deficiency

diseases, which may not be so common in Sweden today (9).

But separate

nutrients act and participate in large numbers of different

biochemical

processes.

 

Is a well-composed diet enough?

 

For decades it has officially been asserted that a

well-composed diet

provide necessary nutrients in sufficient amounts. Good

food is, together

with other lifestyle factors, important for the

individual's total health.

However, several factors lead us to question if a

well-composed diet is

enough for optimal health.

 

The concept recommended daily allowance is generally

associated with the

idea that all humans have the same need for different

nutrients. In medical

research an implicit assumption is often that an imagined

average individual

may represent a group, or all humans, irrespective of the

distribution

within a population. However, in clinical practice we treat

individuals

which are all different (except identical twins). In

reality we never meet a

human being identical to an average individual. To give a

good treatment for

separate patients evidence and guidelines need

supplementing with individual

or personal knowledge. One hundred years ago Garrod wrote

about chemical

individuality (10) and coined the concept " inborn errors of

metabolism "

(11). Half a century later Williams used the expression

biochemical

individuality (12, 13). His hypothesis was that there is a

considerable

variability in the need for separate nutrients among

different individuals

as well as among other animals. Patients respond

individually to

pharmacological drugs, and an understanding for the

importance of genetics

in this respect is becoming more dispersed (14). Knowledge

generated from

research on the human genome supports individualisation of

recommendations

for food and nutrients (15).

 

Vitamin reports have been ignored

 

Positive reports about the effects of high-dose vitamins

have since long

been ignored by the medical establishment instead of being

further examined

scientifically. One hundred years after Garrod's paper (10)

Ames published a

review explaining how fifty diseases may benefit from

higher doses of

vitamins (16). The principal explanation is the importance

of vitamins in

enzymatic reactions.

 

There is an old knowledge about relationships between the

chemistry in our

environment and the nutritional status in our bodies.

Toxins, artificial

fertilizers, cultivation techniques and refining of foods

affect the

nutrients in different ways. The nutritional value of food

may have

deteriorated according to some studies. In the UK minerals

in fruits and

vegetables were found to decrease between the 1930's and

the 1990's (17,

18). Data from the US also show a deteriorated nutritional

value in

vegetables (19). These studies have limits, but this does

not make the

problem less important. Ecologically grown vegetables may

in some respects

be more nutritional compared to non-ecological (20).

Similarly, meat from

wild animals has been found to be healthier compared to

meat from

domesticated animals bred on concentrated feed (21).

Globally seen,

deficiencies of minerals as iodine, iron, magnesium,

selenium and zinc are

often described

 

A poorly balanced food intake is common also in Sweden.

Food may be poor in

important nutrients and contain too much sugar, fats and

white bread. The

order of meals is often bad. Certain groups in the

population have more of

these problems.

 

Disease, stress, physical activity and light affect our

needs for nutrients

in ways which need more investigation.

 

Nutrients are not uncommonly affected by drug therapy.

Examples are effects

of statins on coenzyme Q10 and antibiotics on the

intestinal flora with

consequence for the nutritional uptake (22).

 

Comments

 

An evaluation of nutritional status is warranted for most

patients. People

in general are today more positively interested and expect

something more

than stock answers to questions on nutrition and health.

Lack of knowledge

as well as uninterested and negative attitudes among

doctors and other

nursing staff may contribute to the fact that patients

increasingly choose

complementary and alternative treatment. Knowledge from

conventional and

complementary medicine must be integrated if health care

shall make a

reliable contribution in the field of food. Sweeping

alarming reports about

risks with natural nutrients will probably not increase the

trust from

people in general.

 

(Jonsson BH, Dalén P, Arfors KE. Lakartidningen The lack of

interest within

health care for the effects of nutrients must be ended.

(article in

Swedish). Journal of the Swedish Medical Association, 2005

(20) May

18;102:1559-60.)

 

References:

 

 

1. Becker W. Stora vitamindoser kan vara riskabelt!

Läkartidningen

2005;102:728.

2. Bjelakovic G, Nikolova D, Simonetti RG, Gluud C.

Antioxidant supplements

for prevention of gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic

review and

meta-analysis. Lancet 2004;364:1219-28.

3. Miller ER III, Pastor-Barriuso R, Dalal D, Riemersma RA,

Appel LJ,

Guallar E. Meta-analysis: high-dosage vitamin E

supplementation may increase

all-cause mortality. Ann Intern Med 2005;142:37-46.

4. Lipsey MW, Wilson DB. Practical meta-analysis. Thousand

Oaks: Sage, 2001.

5. Hathcock JN, Azzi A, Blumberg J, Bray T, Dickinson A,

Frei B, et al.

Vitamins E and C are safe across a broad range of intakes.

Am J Clin Nutr

2005;81:736-45.

6. von Elm E, Egger M. The scandal of poor epidemiological

research. BMJ

2004;329:868-9.

7. Altman DG. Poor-quality medical research. What can

journals do? JAMA

2002;287:2765-7.

8. Hickey S, Roberts H. Ascorbate. The science of vitamin

C. Morrisville,

NC: Lulu Press, 2004.

9. Becker W. Vitaminbrist mycket ovanligt i Sverige.

D-vitamin till barn för

att undvika rakit. Läkartidningen 1997;94:2936, 2939-40.

10. Garrod AE. The incidence of alkaptonuria: a study in

chemical

individuality. Lancet 1902;160:1616-20.

11. Garrod AE. Inborn errors of metabolism. Lancet

1908;172:1-7.

12. Williams RJ, Beerstecher E, Berry LJ. The concept of

genetotrophic

disease. Lancet 1950;255:287-9.

13. Williams RJ. Biochemical individuality: the basis for

the genetotrophic

concept. New York: Wiley, 1956.

14. Müller M. Pharmacogenomics and drug response. Int J

Clin Pharmacol Ther

2003;41:231-40.

15. Stover PJ, Garza C. Bringing individuality to public

health

recommendations. J Nutr 2002;132:2476S-2480S.

16. Ames BN, Elson-Schwab I, Silver EA. High-dose vitamin

therapy stimulates

variant enzymes with decreased coenzyme binding affinity

(increased Km):

relevance to genetic disease and polymorphisms. Am J Clin

Nutr

2002;75:616-58.

17. Mayer A-M. Historical changes in the mineral content of

fruits and

vegetables. Br Food J 1997;99:207-11.

18. Thomas D. A study on the mineral depletion of the foods

available to us

as a nation over the period 1940 to 1991. Nutr Health

2003;17:85-115.

19. Davies Dr, Epp MD, Riordan HD. Changes in USDA food

composition data for

43 garden crops, 1950 to 1999. J Am Coll Nutr

2004;23:669-82.

20. Worthington V. Nutritional quality of organic versus

conventional

fruits, vegetables, and grains. J Altern Complement Med

2001;7:161-73.

21. Cordain L, Watkins BA, Florant GL, Kelher M, Rogers L,

Li Y. Fatty acid

analysis of wild ruminant tissues: evolutionary

implications for reducing

diet-related chronic disease. Eur J Clin Nutr.

2002;56:181-91.

22. Pelton R, LaValle JB, Hawkins EB, Krinsky DL.

Drug-induced nutrient

depletion handbook (2nd Ed). Hudson: Lexi-Comp, 2001.

 

HEPATITIS links:

 

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

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

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

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

http://www.orthomed.com

 

 

FLUORIDATION:

 

http://www.theomnivore.com/Water_Flouridation.html

 

 

" Many published studies that had conclusions favoring

fluoridation were

later found unsupported by their raw data. There is

evidence that

fluoridation increases the incidence of cancer, hip

fractures, joint

problems, and that by causing fluorosis it damages both

teeth and bones.

Other medical problems may also occur, including

neurological damage. . .

Fluoridation of municipal water should cease. " (Joel

Kauffman, PhD,

Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of

Sciences in

Philadelphia, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Volume 10 Number

2, Summer 2005)

 

READ DR. KAUFFMAN'S COMPLETE PAPER FOR FREE:

http://www.jpands.org/vol10no2/kauffman.pdf

 

FAST FLUORIDE FACTS

 

www.FluorideAction.net

 

1) Fluoridation is unethical. It violates the individual's

right to choose

one's own medicine.

 

2) Fluoridation is ineffective. There is little difference

in tooth decay

between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.

 

3) Fluoridation is dangerous. Fluoride is toxic and

accumulates in the body;

it makes our bones more brittle, as well as increasing the

risk of bone

cancer in young boys.

 

4) Fluoridation is unnecessary. Our youngsters (and all of

us) are already

getting too much fluoride.

 

5) Fluoridation doesn't make sense. Even the CDC now

concedes that the

(intended) benefit of fluoride is topical, not from

ingesting fluoridated

water.

 

6) Fluoridation is a waste of taxpayers' money. The money

would be better

spent on targeting vulnerable children with better

education, better diet

and better dental services.

 

7) Fluoridation is a diversion of the real problems. For

example, 80% of

dentists won't treat kids on Medicaid. Dentists should be

treating our kids

with care, not our water with toxic fluoride chemicals.

 

Dr. Paul Connett, paul, 315-379-9200

http://www.fluoridealert.org

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF HAPPY-HOME HINT OF THE MONTH:

 

ENURESIS (BEDWETTING)

 

If you have a bedwetting child, try immediately changing

his or her diet in

two major, clinically proven ways:

 

1. No caffeine

 

2. No junk food

 

Medical research supports such action. Pediatric urologists

" recommend a

treatment program for children with monosymptomatic

nocturnal enuresis that

includes removal of caffeine from the diet. " (Jalkut MW,

Lerman SE,

Churchill BM. Enuresis. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2001

Dec;48(6):1461-88. PMID:

11732125)

 

See also: Edelstein BA, Keaton-Brasted C, Burg MM. Effects

of caffeine

withdrawal on nocturnal enuresis, insomnia, and behavior

restraints. J

Consult Clin Psychol. 1984 Oct;52(5):857-62. (PMID:

6501671)

 

Robson WL, Jackson HP, Blackhurst D, Leung AK. Enuresis in

children with

attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. South Med J. 1997

May;90(5):503-5.

(Pediatric Nephrology Service, Children's Hospital,

Greenville, SC)

 

" ADHD children at age 6 were 2.7 times more likely than

controls to have

nocturnal enuresis. " (PMID: 9160067)

 

 

Egger J, Carter CH, Soothill JF, Wilson J. Effect of diet

treatment on

enuresis in children with migraine or hyperkinetic

behavior. Clin Pediatr

(Phila). 1992 May;31(5):302-7. (Hospital for Sick Children,

London,

England.)

 

" Nine children were subjected to a placebo-controlled,

double-blind

reintroduction of provoking foods. Six children relapsed

during testing with

incriminated foods; none reacted to placebo. Enuresis in

food-induced

migraine and/or behavior disorder seems to respond, in some

patients, to

avoidance of provoking foods. " (Randomized Controlled

Trial: PMID: 1582098)

 

For more information:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_feingold.html and

especially

 

http://www.feingold.org

 

READERS SAY:

 

SPIDER BITE AND VITAMIN C

 

" I think I was bitten by a Brown Recluse recently(due to

the size, etc of

the spot formed). I started to panic, and then thought, " I

know what to do.

VITAMIN C! " I took many grams without ever coming close to

bowel tolerance.

By the next morning, the bite site was much improved. A

week later, I have a

nickel sized area that looks like a fading bruise with a

small spot in the

 

middle. Thank you for having a web site where I can learn,

learn, learn! "

 

READERS ASK:

 

MEDICAL SCHOOL

 

" Is there any medical school program that offers an

orthomolecular-based

education? I have not been able to find one in the United

States. "

 

If there is a medical school with an orthomolecular-based

curriculum, I am

certainly not aware of it. I think the only way to find out

would be to

contract schools and ask them flat out. If anybody finds

one, please let me

know at drsaul (Applies to accredited

MD-degrees only,

please.) I'd be interested in seeing replies you may

receive.

 

MORE FREE HEALTH RESOURCES!

 

Two more full-text papers from the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine now

online for free reading:

 

UPPER LIMITS FOR NUTRIENTS: A Critique

 

http://www.malterinstitute.com/NAS%20article%202000.htm

 

PREVENTING POSTPAFRTUM DEPRESSION

 

http://www.malterinstitute.com/ppd_1.htm

 

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THE REAL DRUG WAR IS VIOXX

New statistics reveal a mounting death toll from the

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UNSTRESS YOUR LIFE, Part Five

 

by John Mosher, PhD

 

Biology Professor Emeritus, State University of New York

 

WHIPPING THE HORSE

 

Have you taken notice that there are natural cycles? We can

see these cycles

in action even in our own bodies. One might sum up this

fact by saying there

is the cycle of REST and ACTIVITY. If you were to observe

an animal such as

a dog or cat you would notice that they have periods when

they are active

and times when they rest or sleep. Through out the day the

animal has

periods of rest and activity. Do you follow this natural

cycle? Or is your

life one of go all day long into the night with no definite

periods of rest?

 

It has been my observation that we tend to override the

healthy natural

tendency to rest from time to time by using stimulants such

as coffee or

various other prescription or non-prescription substances.

The mind may want

what the body does not want! So the mind in charge whips

the body, just as a

relentless driver might whip a horse beyond its endurance

until it drops.

Therefore it is important to recognize the natural cycles

of rest and

activity. If your horse (body) gives out, what have you

gained?

 

When I was growing up on a farm, I noticed that the older

men would work at

a relatively slow steady pace and take frequent rests. The

younger and

inexperienced men would tend to work fast and intensely and

be tired out

long before the older men were. One day when I was about 10

years old my

grandfather pointed this out to me. He said, " Watch how the

older men will

get more done and be working long after the younger men are

exhausted. " He

was right. The older men had learned that by pacing

themselves and resting

occasionally they could get as much as, if not more, work

done without

unduly stressing the body. My grandfather and my father

were great

proponents for working SMARTER and not HARDER.

 

Another thing: I never observed coffee breaks on our farm.

There was coffee

at breakfast and maybe green tea at the noon meal but water

was drunk

through out the rest of the day.

 

Most of my grandfather's work on the farm involved horses.

He always rested

the horses each time he came to the end of a row of crops

he was

cultivating. He would stop the horses in the shade of the

hedge row. The

horses would stamp their feet and blow their lips then hang

their heads and

close their eyes. My grandfather sitting on the cultivator

would nod with

his eyes closed for a minute or two. Then, he'd turn the

team into the next

row where the horses plodded on to their next short rest.

 

I asked Grandpa once why he didn't use a whip on the horses

and make them

finish the job faster. He said, " Why, that kind of

treatment would soon ruin

a good horse and eventually would kill them. "

 

I have read statistics claiming that most stress is self

generated. To me,

that means the mind is whipping the horse: the body. I

guess grandpa's

comment about ruining a good horse by whipping it could

apply to us. It

seems that many a good body has been damaged and even

killed by the

relentless driving and whipping by the desires of the mind.

By returning to

the wisdom of nature and following the cycle of REST and

ACTIVITY and

practicing relaxation techniques saves our bodies for a

longer happier

healthier life.

 

The mind can get any idea or desire. If the mind is put in

charge it can

ruin the body. So often the mind wants what the body does

not want. The body

wants to follow the natural cycles. The mind and

mind-created ego might

follow anything. If what the mind is trained to follow is

consistent with

the harmony of nature, then you will enjoy a happier,

healthier life.

 

(Counselor and professor of biology John I. Mosher, PhD, is

the author of

several articles at the DoctorYourself.com website, all

easily searchable.)

 

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