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1.Defining Food Supplements - The Story Of Dr. Royal Lee of Standard Process
2. Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) 
3. L-Carnitine & Heart Health 

"We need to shift our focus from treating disease to generating health..."  Hippocrates (AMA"The Father of Medicine")

Defining Food Supplements - The Story Of Dr. Royal Lee of Standard Process

Due to Royal Lee's success early on with his engineering company, he had time to research foods that were rich in the natural vitamin complexes. In an undated article, probably early 1950s, titled "What Is A Vitamin", he defines a vitamin this way: "It is a complex mechanism of biological "wheels within wheels," and consists of enzymes, co-enzymes, antioxidant protective factors and trace mineral activators, as well as the known vitamins themselves." Interestingly enough you can only find such a complex in raw food or a supplement made of a raw food concentrate.

Today, in the health-food arena we hear a lot about eating raw foods. A few lines down in the above quoted article Lee had this to say about cooking: "The enzyme activity is of course destroyed by heat or pasteurization temperatures. A vitamin that has been subjected to such crude treatment, we feel, is as much of a vitamin afterwards as a watch can remain a watch after it has been smashed with a hammer. Chemically it is still the same, but not functionally."

While these statements may seem profound, really they are just an unaltered observation of what is in food that is vital. Lee's genius in his inventions and in his supplements was the ability to duplicate what was needed and find out ways to deliver this as a product without messing things up.

In the Beginning

Having identified various foods that were rich in the natural vitamin and mineral complexes, he began to work on procedures for concentrating and preparing these foods as supplements in a way that would retain their vital factors.

In 1929 he developed a product he called Catalyn that was rich in the B and C complexes. He had great success with this on ill and mortally ill family members. He expanded Catalyn with other whole food concentrates rich in E complex, A complex etc. It was marketed locally with great success.

Lee decided he should make Catalyn broadly available, and so he took it to a large pharmaceutical company. They were not interested as it was not approved by The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, a subgroup controlled by The American Medical Association.

Lee developed the machinery to concentrate raw whole foods on a large scale basis and started production. He was unaware that he would later run into tremendous resistance from the FDA to the marketing of his supplements. The extent of the drug empire that existed in Lee's time and controlled the FDA, AMA, etc. is well described in Morris A. Bealle's 1949 exposé book entitled The Drug Story. 

Compare and See for Yourself. Fortunately today, thanks to Lee and many others, great nutrition is available but it still has to be sought out.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mike Spearman
Spearman Better Health Center
1279 N. Berendo St.
Los Angeles, CA. 90029
(323) 663-1066

Genetically Modified Foods (GMO)

For those living in California, remember to vote on Prop 37 which would require the labeling of Genetically Modified Food.  Here is a video on this on our Right to Know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWBYMuOe7aQ 

L-Carnitine & Heart Health

The following paragraphs have been excerpted from "Metabolic Cardiology" by Stephen T. Sinatra, MD 

“Like CoQ10, L-Carnitine belongs to a group of vitamin-like nutrients. They are similar to vitamins in that they are not only obtained from the diet through food sources, but they are also made in the body. Since CoQ10 and carnitine synthesis may diminish with age, relative deficiencies may develop over time. This is one reason that it may be important to get L-carnitine both in the diet and in supplemental form.

The principle function of carnitine is to facilitate the transport of long-chain fatty acids across the inner mitochondrial membrane to begin the process called beta-oxidation. In fact, L-carnitine is the only carrier that can do this and, for this reason, its abundant presence in the cell is an absolute requirement for life. Another important function of the carnitine shuttle is the removal of excess acyl units from inside the mitochondria. This capability of carnitine is important because excessive acyl units that accumulate inside the mitochondria disturb the metabolic burning of fats. Other crucial functions of carnitine include the metabolism of branched chain amino acids, amonia detoxification, and lactic acid clearance from tissue. 
I've been delighted to discover that the addition of L-carnitine has had a very positive--and measurable--impact on many of my patients with heart disease. Over the years I have had great results using CoQ10 and, while approximately 85% of my patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) found CoQ10 alone to be effective, I was really concerned about the 15% whose lives were still severely limited by their symptoms, despite CoQ10. What was wrong?

I was excited to find that, for many of these refractory patients, the addition of L-carnitine to their nutritional and medical programs seemed to provide an additional boost in energy. It was this challenging patient population that demonstrated to me the efficacy of CoQ10 and carnitine in combination. 
They say a picture is worth a thousand words---and I agree! When these treatment resistant folks came in with better color, breathing easier, and walking around the office with minimal difficulty, I was nothing short of amazed! It was as if the L-carnitine provided the power pack to work in synergy with the CoQ10. “

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