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1. An Apple A Day
Keeps the Doctor Away?
2. The Problems with Vegetarianism
3. Foot Neuropathy
4. The Healing Power of Vitamin C
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An Apple A Day Keeps the
Doctor Away?
Why does an apple a day keep the doctor away? ...helps with weight loss? Reducing risk of cancer, heart disease and stroke? Read here... Dr Price’s Total Health Tip #2:
Apples
The Problems with
Vegetarianism
A short video on some issues with vegetarianism.
Then next week, there will be a video on the problems with being a meat eater. Remember, people
need DIFFERENT plans for their body type.
Vegetarianism
Foot Neuropathy
This is the most prevalent type of neuropathy, and one of the first
indicators of a problem.
Read about Foot
Neuropathy
The
Healing Power of Vitamin C
Vitamin
C was intensively studied for over 70 years by the
medical profession. Most of what was found in terms of
the healing power of this vitamin has never been broadly
published.
If
the general public were made aware of what proper
supplementing with vitamin C could do, and people took
the correct amounts to meet their individual needs, the
sales of many drugs and medications would drop like a
stone and the overall health and well-being of the
population would skyrocket.
There are some wonderful benefits you can realize by supplementing with
the correct amount of vitamin C. Here are the first few:
In a
double-blind study of elderly patients hospitalized with
severe bronchitis, those given 200 mg a day of vitamin C
improved to a significantly greater extent than those
who were given a placebo [Definition: a substance
containing no active drug.]
When
bruises (where skin turns blue to purple-colored that
may turn yellow to dark brown over a few days) occur
often and from minor, often unnoticed impacts,
supplementing with 100 mg to 3,000 mg a day has shown to
reduce bruising.
Vitamin
C levels in the eye decrease with age. People who
supplement with vitamin C develop far fewer cataracts,
with doctors often recommending 500 to 1,000 mg a day as
part of a cataract prevention program.
As a
result of 21 closely monitored trials it was found that
using 1,000 to 8,000 mg of vitamin C a day reduced how
long the common cold persisted and the severity of
symptoms by an average of 23%.
Sorbitol
is a type of sugar that can collect in the body and
damage the eyes, nerves and kidneys of people with
diabetes. People who are diabetic appear to have low
vitamin C levels. 2,000 mg of vitamin C a day lowers
sorbitol in people with diabetes.
Glaucoma
is an eye condition where there is additional pressure
within the eye. It leads to loss of side vision, blurred
vision, blind spots, seeing halos around lights, poor
night vision, and if untreated, blindness.
Supplementation with 2,000 mg a day can significantly
reduce pressure within the eye. Much larger amounts are
sometimes given.
23
controlled trials showed that vitamin C supplementation
produces greater benefit for children than for adults.
The review also found that a daily amount of 2,000 mg or
more was better that 1,000 mg at reducing how long cold
symptoms remained in children.
The
finest and most effective vitamin C that will nourish
the cells of your body is a food, is not man made chemicals
like ascorbic
acid. A whole food vitamin C is needed, that means that it is an actual food and recognized by
the body as a food... NOT a chemical substitute.
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What
You Can Do to Boost
the Effectiveness of Vitamin C
In
numerous studies, vitamin C has been shown to protect
against infection, the common cold, and support a
healthy cardiovascular system, when taken correctly.
It's
important to know how much to take and how often to take
it.
The
following excerpts are from studies done using ascorbic
acid or ascorbate,
two common forms of "vitamin C".
"Higher
levels of vitamin C can be protective against damage
to blood vessels, and greatly reduce death rates in
the elderly."
"Blood
levels [of vitamin C] increase substantially with a
larger dose and these higher amounts are excreted more
quickly."
"A
1,250 mg dose raises blood levels more than a 200 mg
dose for the first six hours. Larger doses provide an
even bigger increase in blood levels in the first six
hour period."
"For
the second six hour period, these and even higher
doses give similar blood levels."
How
can this be? How can you take a 1,250 mg dose (or even
two, three or four times this amount) or as little as a
200 mg dose and have virtually no vitamin C in the blood
after six hours? There is a reason:
"Vitamin
C has a short half-life in the blood."
A
"half-life" is the amount of time it takes for
half of the vitamin C to be depleted from the blood
stream. The half-life of vitamin C in the blood is 30
minutes.
This
means that every 30 minutes there is only one-half of
the vitamin C left!
As
an example, say you start with 1,250 mg of vitamin C in
your blood stream. In 30 minutes you have only 625 mg
left. After 30 more minutes you have only 312 mgs. In
another 30 minutes you're down to 156 mg (that's after
only 1 hour and 30 minutes).
If
you continue reducing by half every 30 minutes, six
hours after you took the initial amount of 1,250 mg of
vitamin C, the amount left in your blood stream is
less than 0.5 mg. Basically there is nothing left.
"Taking
an oral dose will raise blood levels for only a few
hours."
"The
benefit of a single dose is short lived. If high
levels of vitamin C provide protection against the
common cold, then a single multi-gram dose of vitamin
C would have little more effectiveness than a 500 mg
dose."
"In
the prevention of colds and other diseases, if a
single dose of vitamin C raises blood levels for about
six hours or one quarter of the day, the person is
unprotected for the other three quarters of the
time."
"Five
100 mg doses taken at intervals through the day would
raise average blood levels more than a single one-gram
dose."
excerpted
from Ascorbate, The Science of Vitamin C
by Dr. Steve Hickey & Dr. Hilary Roberts
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Sidebar:
Vitamin D3 and Your
Nerves
Vitamin
D3, also known as Cholecalciferol, is essential in many body functions,
including helping the body absorb calcium to form and maintain strong
bones, maintaining a healthy heart, and more importantly, supporting
healthy nerves.
Vitamin D3 is produced naturally by our bodies when exposed to sunlight,
and is the most common and readily absorbable form of vitamin D.
It is found in many foods, such as eggs, fish, milk (with vitamin D
added), and animal fats. The vitamins and minerals in food are
constantly being used to create and support the life processes in the
body and must be replenished over time.
The majority of us remain indoors to work. Additionally, as we age, it
becomes harder to replenish the supply of vitamin D in the body
naturally. This leads to deficiencies that cannot be fixed with food
alone.
Minimum amounts of at least 15-20 micrograms (mcg), or 600-800
International Units (IU) of vitamin D are needed a day. Since these are
the minimum amounts, they may not meet the real needs of your body.
The Nerve Support Formula contains the vitamin D3 in combination with
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