Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 References
1 Still CN. nutritional therapy in Huntingtons's chorea: Concepts based on the model of pellagra. Psychiatric Forum 1979;9:74-78.
2 Still CN. Sex differences affecting nutritional therapy in Huntington's disease: An inherited essential fatty acid metabolic disorder. Psychiatric Forum 1980-1981;9:47-51.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Prevalence
There are marked international, national, and local spatial variations in the incidence and prevalence of Parkinson's disease, suggesting that the environment or lifestyle play a key role in its etiology. It is rare under age 50. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Dharma Singh Khalsa, author of Food as Medicine, ghee is highly regarded in yoga nutritional therapy, where it is valued as both a nutrient and a preservative for food and medicine. In Ayurvedic medicine, ghee is believed to strengthen the ojas, our vital energy cushion at the root of our well-being and immunity.
Happy Cows, Healthy Ghee
Remember that in India, the cow is revered as a sacred being. There are no "factory farms" for cattle in India—all cows are "grass fed. |
| And according to yoga nutritional therapy, women can benefit from eating beets because they help replenish iron lost in the blood during the menstrual cycle.
The Heart-Healthy Benefits of Beets
Beets are an important dietary source of betaine and also a good source of folate. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 It taught a system of medicine that included nutritional therapy, natural dietetics, herbal medicine, homeopathy, manipulation, exercise therapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and stress reduction techniques.
Naturopathic medicine grew and flourished from the early 1900s until the mid-1950s. At that point in history, the conventional medical profession began to influence the health-care system in several ways. It abandoned some of its barbaric bloodletting therapies and toxic mercury dosing and replaced them with more effective and less toxic treatments. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Enteral nutritional therapy for induction of remission in Crohn's disease (review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 7, art. CD00542.
101. Griffiths, A. M. (2006). Enteral feeding in inflammatory bowel disease. Curr. Opin. Nutr. Metab. Care 9, 314-318.
102. Lochs, H., Dejong, C, Hammarqvist, F., Hebuteme, X., Leoj-Sanz, M., Schytz, T., van Gemert, W., van Gossum, A., Valentini, L., Lubke, H., Bischoff, S., Engelmann, N., and Thul, P. (2006). ESPEN guidelines on enteral nutrition: Gastroenterology. Clin. Nutr. 25, 260-274.
103. Su, C, Lewis, J. D., Goldberg, B. |
| One of the problems identified by even the proponents of nutritional therapy was that some of the diets were unpalatable or it was difficult for some patients to take the majority of their diet in the form of an oral formula. Improved nutritional status was considered one of the measures of success in many of the studies but nutritional status may not have been well described or was described in a variety of ways. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| In yoga nutritional therapy, bananas are considered a cleansing and rejuvenating food. worth knowing
The inner peel is rich in nutrients —either eat it directly, or scrape it and put it in your smoothie. mn Thp i cn Haalfhipct FnnHc nn Farth
Blueberries
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Mention blueberries around scientists, and you're sure to hear the name of Dr. James Joseph.
Joseph is lead scientist in the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. His special interest is what we should eat if we want to keep our marbles intact as we grow older. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Sex differences affecting nutritional therapy in Huntington's disease: An inherited essential fatty acid metabolic disorder. Psychiatric Forum 1980-1981;9:47-51.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Prevalence
There are marked international, national, and local spatial variations in the incidence and prevalence of Parkinson's disease, suggesting that the environment or lifestyle play a key role in its etiology. It is rare under age 50. The estimated annual cost of treating such patients in Canada is $500 million, while average monthly drug costs are some $1,000. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| If the patient is doing poorly, indicated by symptoms, nutritional deficiencies or elevated antibodies, more extensive medical nutritional therapy should be given by a knowledgeable dietitian [83]. This patient will also require closer monitoring for the development of the aforementioned nutritional, autoimmune and possibly malignant complications. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Angioplasty should be reserved for emergency situations (when someone is in the middle of a heart attack) or when medical and nutritional therapy have been attempted but failed to relieve the symptoms."2
Similarly, Dr. James Forrester and Dr. Prediman Shah of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have criticized the fact that cardiologists are so quick to intervene with angioplasty or bypass procedures. In their own research, they wrote: ". . . |
Bill Sardi
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 This opens the door for nutritional therapy that can help maintain collagen barriers and boost immunity.
Does every cancer patient need treatment?
It is widely believed that cancer begins years in advance of symptoms or detection. By the time cancer can be detected by any means, it is usually too large and has often spread too far to mount an effective defense against it. |
| Six of the 32 patients experienced partial tumor regression and one of the six cases (given 390 mg of coenzyme Q10) no longer had a lump detectable by touch in her breast one month after initiation of nutritional therapy. Another patient also responded well to high-dose CoQIO therapy. [Biochemical Biophysical Research Communications 199: 1504-08, 1994]
Folkers continued his research using CoQl 0 among cancer patients. Numerous metastatic tumors in the liver of a 44-year-old patient "disappeared. |
| It's all part of the silent treatment that oncology gives to nutritional therapy.
Confront your doctor about these issues and he/she is likely to start talking about new treatments that are now available. Any decline in lung cancer mortality is likely to be attributed to improved treatment.
However, smoking in the United States is at an all-time low, with the lowest number of cigarettes (378 billion) reportedly sold since 1951, even though the population has doubled in size since then. |
| The prevalent public prejudice, not to tell smokers how to prevent lung cancer via nutritional therapy because it will encourage smokers to continue to puff on cigarettes, is an untenable position. Smokers don't easily put a halt to their habits, there are no truly successful anti-smoking programs, so we continue to lose lives prematurely. Lung cancer is totally preventable in more ways than one.
Case presentation: Lung cancer disappears
Joan is a 62-year-old woman living in Hawaii, a longtime smoker, who began having fainting spells. She was later diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2001. |
| Instead, thanks to a neighbor who suggested Joan's son investigate nutritional therapy, a regimen of dietary supplements was taken to coincide with radiation treatment. Joan began taking flaxseed oil, IP6 rice bran extract, resveratrol, hyaluronic acid, and Haelan, a fermented source of soy. Initially the radiation treatment was very painful, and it resulted in a collapsed lung and pneumonia. Joan had to be hospitalized. Things were looking very glum. Her son had run out of alternatives to try. |
| Her son now tries to tell other lung cancer patients of their success with nutritional therapy, but they stand in disbelief. This is another example of the new choices cancer patients have at their disposal today, which are likely more effective and less problematic than conventional cancer therapies.
A biochemical cure ... 165
Does any treatment work? ... 165
Brachytherapy: radium seed implants... 166
The Watchful Wait... 166
Age is a factor in treatment decisions... 167
Questions to ask your doctor... 167
Prostate cancer care ... 169
Hormonal therapy... |
Marshall Editions
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 HERBALISM
The line between potential alternative treatments for high cholesterol and ^^ij \ nutritional therapy is often blurred. Many of the remedies listed below
Y*N f~7 are considered to be foods more than herbs, and the dosage \1 1/ recommendations are often to simply increase the amount included in ^ ' the diet. When it come to high cholesterol, the old adage "let thy food be they medicine" undoubtedly rings true.
Garlic: To control high cholesterol, garlic should be considered as a first choice in herbal 516 therapy. |
Jack Challem
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 Tell your doctor that you would like to try some type of nutritional therapy and ask him or her to monitor you during the transition.
Multivitamins
Principal use: To reverse moodiness, irritability, impatience, anger, and depression. Multivitamins are a good all-round mood and mind enhancer.
What else you should know. A high-potency multivitamin (described in the previous section) can have a powerful and positive effect on mood—even if you think you are already even-tempered and normal. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 After a careful review of her case, I ordered a more comprehensive blood work up, and started her on a regimen of nutritional therapy including L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10. Kathryn felt hope for the first time in months.
Ejection Fraction
Ejection fraction (EF) measures the 1 amount of blood volume pumped from the heart with each heartbeat. Normal ejection fractions are about 50 to 70 percent, meaning that the left ventricle in normal hearts "ejects" about 55 to 75 percent of the blood with each beat and the rest just "sloshes" around. The lower limit of normal is 50. |
| I frequently face this finding when I employ nutritional therapy. Patients often report a marked improvement in their physical symptoms: less shortness of breath, less fatigue, less ankle swelling, more energy, better sleep, and increased appetite. It's confusing, since there's no "hard evidence" of improved cardio dynamics using echocardiographic evaluation; for example, there may not appear to be any increase in ejection fraction, although one would expect it.
We must keep in mind that L-carnitine, coenzyme Qjq, and D-ribose promote energy to cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Review Article: nutritional therapy in Alcoholic Liver Disease. Stickel F; Hoehn B; et al. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2003 August 15, 18(4):357-373.
Among the nutritional therapies that benefit alcoholic patients are thiamine and folate supplements, branched-chain amino acids, metadoxine and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe).
S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine: Its Role in the Treatment of Liver Disorders. Lieber CS. American Journal ofClinical Nutrition, 2002 November, 76(5): 1183S-1187S. |
| Then you have to take orthomolecular nutritional therapy, intravenously or with intramuscular shots, along with oral supplements of all the nutrients."
Dr. Hodes credits clinical ecologists with having made a major contribution in the treatment of people with Alzheimer's disease when they recognized the importance of four- to five-day diversified food-rotation diets. In a food-rotation diet, you eat a variety of foods and no one food more than once or twice a week—thus eliminating the food allergens to which you are generally "addicted. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Because of their rich array of disease-fighting antioxidants and phytonutrients, they are often prescribed in yoga nutritional therapy to help fight cancer and heart disease," he says.
Kiwis Have Twice the Vitamin C of Oranges
I'm not surprised. A study conducted at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, evaluated the nutritional value of twenty-seven different fruits to determine, ounce for ounce, which provides the most nutrition. The results? Kiwifruit, with an index of 16, was found to be the most nutrient dense of all fruits. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Women with a history of anorexia, bulimia, obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, chronic gastrointestinal disease, or extreme diets may need more individualized education and nutritional therapy. Vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic diets are not necessarily inappropriate as long as certain parameters are monitored. These include regular physical exams and prenatal checks, appropriate weight gain, and laboratory testing. Even women that have done well or seemingly well on these diets prior to pregnancy may not do well when pregnant or nursing. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Instead of nutritional therapy, they will often suggest medication to suppress the symptoms of ADHD: i: is estimated that more than two million children take drugs like Ritalin on a daily basis. While medications may be necessary in a few cases, parents should cultivate a he ilthy wariness of giving them to their children. The long-term effects of ADHD medicaions are not yet well known, and there are signs that the drugs can retard growth and leac to substance abuse or emotional problems later in life. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 There is good reason to believe that nutritional therapy (combined with chelation therapy in selected cases) could save millions of lives and greatly reduce the cost of health care. Because of the high stakes involved with heart disease, these alternative approaches deserve serious research funding.
Summary of Recommendations for Treating Angina Pectoris
• Diet: Avoid refined sugar, caffeine alcohol. Consume whole foods, emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes. Consume fish and other low-fat animal foods in moderation.
• Magnesium injections in selected cases. |
| On the contrary, nutritional therapy may increase the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of some of the medications used to treat CHF. Although there are not as many research studies on nutrients as there are on drugs, the material that has been published about nutrients is straightforward and convincing. Unfortunately, as is often the situation with natural substances, most doctors are unaware of just how much more they could be doing for their patients. Millions of individuals with CHF are therefore being deprived of potentially lifesaving treatments. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| For many eye disorders, an early diagnosis can mean effective treatment. nutritional therapy is important in the prevention and the treatment of cataracts. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Governments on behalf of the people of Canada must take the initiative to finance studies to show the effectiveness of nutritional therapy and Nutrition as a method of disease prevention. Industry cannot finance nutrition research because their shareholders demand profits. Nutrients cannot be patented and therefore there is no way to recover the costs of the research. Insurance companies, governments and citizens are the people that pay medical bills and they are the ones that can benefit from lower health care costs. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Yet modern medicine is willing to use vitamin therapy regularly in certain instances, such as using a magnesium IV to lower blood pressure and prevent seizures in pregnant women—but this is not thought of as nutritional therapy.
On the other hand, we practice nutritional therapy regularly. Take the case of Joan, a thirty-one-year-old investment banker. Joan had a fair complexion and was quite attractive, but when we first met her, she looked somewhat pasty and puffy in the face.
Joan had lived a life full of allergies. She was always vigilant. |
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