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Questions
- What is
the Pauling Therapy?
- Why is
it called the Pauling Therapy?
- What are
the ingredients of the Pauling Therapy?
- Why were
these ingredients chosen?
- How much
of the Pauling Therapy should I take? What's the dosage?
- I have
had a coronary
by-pass operation/angioplasty/stents, etc
.
Is the Pauling Therapy safe for me?
- Why
doesn't my doctor / cardiologist know about the Pauling
Therapy?
- Why does
my doctor / cardiologist say that vitamins will do me no good?
- My
doctor says that taking high doses of Vitamin C is dangerous
and can cause severe "side effects!"
- Are
there any doctors out there who know about The Pauling Therapy
and would be willing to work with me on a nutritional cure?
- I can't
find a local doctor who will work with me on a nutritional
cure. What do I do now?
- Why
doesn't the Linus Pauling Institute endorse the Pauling
Therapy?
- My
doctor says that if I eat a well balanced diet, I don't need
supplements. And that all supplements will do is give me
"expensive urine."
Answers
1) What is
the Pauling Therapy?
The Pauling Therapy is a
nutritional supplement specifically designed to support your
body's natural ability to dissolve built-up plaque in your
coronary arteries and repair the damage done to them by
long-term mechanical and oxidative stress.
Research shows that occlusive coronary artery disease
(atherosclerosis) is a nutritional deficiency disease.
And, like any disease caused by poor nutrition, it can be
reversed by giving your body the nutrients it needs to correct
the damage caused by the deficiency.
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to get enough of these
heart-healthy nutrients from your diet. Nutritional
supplements are needed to help your body repair the damage
caused by years of improper nutrition and maintain a healthy
cardiovascular system.
The Pauling
Therapy is based on 300 years of scientific / medical research
and clinical experience. These studies were published in
well-respected, peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.
This information is NOT hidden, but neither is it well-known.
And, since nutritional science is not taught in most medical
schools, most medical doctors are not aware of this research.
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2) Why is it called the Pauling Therapy?
The Heart Technology formula was dubbed "The Pauling
Therapy" by our early customers (back in 1996) because the
formula is based on the research of Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr.
Matthias Rath. In fact, this is the only formula on the
market that is based on the discoveries of these 2 scientists
and those pioneers who preceded them.
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3) What are the ingredients of the Pauling
Therapy?
The ingredients of Heart Technology
include:
Vitamin A (Palmitate)
B-2 (Riboflavin)
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
Vitamin E (d-alpha tocopheryl)
L-lysine (amino acid)
L-proline (amino acid)
L-carnitine
(amino acid)
Stevia (herb)
This formula is
recommended for the prevention of Heart Disease.
The
ingredients of Ascorsine-9 include all of the same ingredients
of Heart Technology plus:
B-6 (pyridoxine HCL)
Folic
Acid
Vitamin K (phylloquinine)
Magnesium
Taurine (amino
acid)
Arginine
This formula is recommended for those
people who have active occlusive coronary artery disease
(atherosclerosis).
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4) Why were these ingredients chosen?
These ingredients were chosen because scientific research
has determined that these are the nutrients needed to support
your body's natural ability to dissolve built-up plaque in your
coronary arteries and repair the damage done to them by
long-term mechanical and oxidative stress.
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5) How much of the Pauling Therapy should I
take? What's the dosage?
For PREVENTION of
cardiovascular disease, Linus Pauling recommended at least
3000 mg of both Vitamin C and Lysine, along with at least 1000
IU of Vitamin E, at least the daily value of Vitamin A, and B-2.
(We added the amino acids Proline and Carnitine to the Pauling
Therapy because of research conducted after Dr. Pauling's
death.)
If you have NOT been diagnosed with Heart Disease, we
recommend you take at least 2 teaspoons of the Heart Technology
formula per day in order to keep your cardiovascular system
healthy. (FYI: Many people have Heart Disease and don't know
it!)
If you have NOT been diagnosed with Heart Disease
but have a family history of CVD, we recommend you take at least
3 teaspoons of the Pauling Therapy per day.
For
THERAPEUTIC use, Pauling recommended the highest amount of
Vitamin C your bowel would tolerate and doubling the
preventative dosage of all other ingredients. So, if you
have active Heart Disease (including Angina pain), we recommend
that you take 3 to 9 teaspoons of Ascorsine 9 per day.
Although we do not recommend it, we know of people
who have taken more than 9 teaspoons of the Ascorsine-9 per day
over extended periods of time and have suffered no ill effects.
Although we believe the Pauling Therapy is safe at high dosages,
we advise that you listen carefully to what your body is telling
you and drop down to a lower dose if you suffer any ill effects.
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6) I have had a coronary
by-pass operation/angioplasty/stents, etc. Is the Pauling Therapy safe for me?
It is unfortunate that most of our clients have gone
through everything the Heart Disease Industry can throw at them
BEFORE they discover the Pauling Therapy! (We say "unfortunate"
because preventing CVD, is obviously better than trying to cure
it.)
We have yet to receive a report of an adverse
reaction from someone on the Pauling Therapy with a bypass,
stent, etc. In fact, just the opposite is true. Many
people have told us that they were "going downhill" after these
operations, but after putting themselves on the Pauling Therapy,
feel much better (and have the numbers to prove it!).
You can read their stories by clicking on the “Customer Experiences” link.
Bypasses and stents have this nasty habit of collecting plaque
even faster than the original! Although we do not have hard and
fast statistics to back this up, putting yourself on the Pauling
Therapy should prevent plaque from ruining these expensive
investments.
We strongly recommend that you give the
Pauling Therapy a good try (at least 6 months) BEFORE undergoing
these procedures. Many of our clients tell us that they were
able to avoid the surgery their doctor said was "necessary and
life saving" simply by giving their cardiovascular system the
nutrition it needed to heal itself. Your body is very smart. It
knows how to heal itself. But it can't do that, unless you
give it the raw materials it needs to make the repairs!
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7) Why doesn't my doctor / cardiologist know
about the Pauling Therapy?
Up until recently,
medical schools offered no courses in nutrition. Because
of this, most medical doctors know little more than the general
public about the effect of nutrition on preventing or curing
disease. So, asking you doctor if taking a particular
supplement would be good for you makes about as much sense as
asking your plumber or electrician.
Doctors are not
gods. The don't know everything about everything.
They only know what they are taught. And if they are
taught nothing about nutrition, then they will know nothing
about nutrition. This is why many people put more faith in
the opinions of the clerk working in their local health food
store than they do in the nutritional advise they get from their
doctor.
Fortunately this is changing (although rather
slowly). More and more medical schools are adding courses
in nutrition. And more and more research is being done on
the relationship between good nutrition and good health.
The medical profession is finally (and perhaps somewhat
reluctantly) accepting the wisdom of their founder, Hippocrates,
when he said, "Let food be your medicine
and let medicine be your food."
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my Doctor / Cardiologist say that vitamins will do me no good?
We have three answers to this question.
Answer 1
Because your Doctor / Cardiologist is ignorant.
Allow me to quote from Dr. Matthias Rath's book Eradicating
Heart Disease:
"Vitamins belong to the most powerful
agents in the fight against heart disease. This fact has been
established by studies of thousands of people over many years.
Here are some important results of recent clinical studies:
Vitamin C cuts heart disease rate almost in half (documented in
11,000 Americans over ten years).
Vitamin E cuts heart disease rate by more than one third
(documented in 36,000 Americans over six years).
Beta Carotene (pro vitamin A) cuts heart disease rate almost
in half (documented in 36,000 Americans).
No prescription drug has ever been shown to
help prevent heart disease as effectively as the vitamins A, C
and E. These results and those of countless other studies are so
clear that ANYBODY QUESTIONING THE VALUE OF VITAMINS IN THE
PREVENTION OF HEART DISEASE MAY SAFELY BE CONSIDERED AS
UNINFORMED." [emphasis mine]
The 2003 combined
Third/Fourth Quarter issue (Vol 18, Numbers 3 & 4) of the
Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine contains a dozen, highly
detailed and thoroughly referenced papers that describe the
safety and therapeutic power of vitamins A, C, D, E, niacin,
B-6, B-12 and folic acid. This special issue is over 100
pages long and solidly refutes the notion that vitamins are
harmful and have no therapeutic effect.
To obtain a copy
of this issue send US $20 to:
Journal of Orthomolecular
Medicine
16 Florence Ave.
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
M2N
1E9
Please include a 60-cent stamp for return postage.
Email: centre@orthomed.org
Website: http://www.orthomed.org.
Maybe you should buy two: One for you and one for your doctor.
We have on our computer over a thousand references on the
positive effect of specific nutrients on heart disease. If
your doctor / cardiologist is unaware of these studies, then he
or she is (by definition) ignorant. Feel free to email us
and we will send you the appropriate references so you can give
them to your doctor.
Answer 2
Your doctor / cardiologist says that vitamins will do you
no good because he or she is prejudiced.
Ignorance is
one thing. Prejudice is something else.
In medical
school doctors are taught to attack diseases in three ways:
1) Medicate it with drugs manufactured by the pharmaceutical
companies.
2) Cut it out by using surgical techniques.
3) Burn it out by
using radiation and toxic chemicals.
You will notice
that nutrition and prevention are absent from this list.
Doctors are actually taught in medical school that there is no
"proven" value in supplemental Vitamin C (or any other
supplement) for heart patients. They are taught this
despite the easy availability of knowledge to the contrary.
This, I must say, goes beyond ignorance and must properly be
called prejudice.
We are not mind-readers, so we can not
tell you for sure why your doctor / cardiologist is prejudiced.
What we can do, however, is supply you with some facts.
- Medical schools receive large financial grants from the
pharmaceutical industry.
- Over the past 50 years the medical industry has spent
enormous resources and utilized the combined intellect of
thousands of medical researchers trying to solve the great
problem of heart disease. Yet, despite this enormous
undertaking, CVD remains the top killer in the USA.
- $326,000,000,000 (yes, that's billion!) is spent annually
on treating heart disease (that's $652,000 every minute)
[American Heart Association]
- 30,000,000,000 is spent annually on Coronary Bypass
Operations.
- Survivors of Heart Attacks and Strokes frequently become
disabled and eventually end up in Nursing Homes.
$120,000,000,000 is spent annually on skilled nursing care.
- We estimate the cost of treating all current heart
patients in the USA with the Pauling Therapy at about $120
million annually (that's less than 1/2 of 1% of 326 billion!)
- If someone were to discover a simple and inexpensive
preventative and cure for cardiovascular disease, it would
threaten the livelihoods of every employee of a pharmaceutical
company, every investor in a pharmaceutical company, every
hospital employee, every cardiologist, every employee of a
cardiologist, every heart surgeon, everyone who assists in
heart surgery from the nurses to the anesthesiologist to the
person who sweeps the operating room floor. A simple and
inexpensive preventative and cure for heart disease would
cause such disruption to this "industry" that it would not be
able to survive in anything like its present form.
- Hospitals, cardiologists and drug companies can not make a
penny off of healthy people.
- Hospital administrators, cardiologists, and the CEOs of
pharmaceutical companies know that they can not make a penny
off of healthy people.
Let me be clear, I do not believe that there is some kind
of grand conspiracy going on or that everyone who works in the
heart disease industry is evil. Most people working in
this industry are good people who are simply ignorant.
There are some, however, who know better (or who should know
better). But I do not consider even these people to be
evil. If I had spent tons of money and 16 years of my
life leaning how to do coronary artery bypass surgery, I too
would want to reap a good return on the investment of my time,
money, and effort. I might not be very eager to learn
about something that would make my knowledge and skills
obsolete.
Part of the problem may be the scientific
method itself. Science writer Lynne McTaggart made the
following observation in her book, The Field:
"To be a revolutionary in science today
is to flirt with professional suicide. Much as the field
purports to encourage experimental freedom, the entire
structure of science, with its competitive grant system,
coupled with the publishing and peer review system, largely
depends upon individuals conforming to the accepted scientific
world view. The system tends to encourage professionals
to carry out experimentation whose purpose is primarily to
confirm the existing view of things, or to further develop
technology for industry, rather than to serve up true
innovation."
[HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 2002, p 13
(hardcover)]
Answer 3
Your doctor / cardiologist says that vitamins will do you
no good because he or she is stuck in the current Zeitgeist.
Webster defines Zeitgeist as: "the spirit of the time; the
general intellectual state or trend of culture and taste
characteristic of an era."
The medical zeitgeist of
this era is to drug, cut and burn. And, unfortunately, the
zeitgeist of an era changes very slowly.
"Modern medicine is not scientific, it is
full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising.
Doctors are not taught to reason. They are programmed to
believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the
leading doctors tell them. And over the past 20 years
the drug companies with their enormous wealth have taken
medicine over and now control its research, what is taught,
and the information released to the public."
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
(DoctorYourself.com Newsletter, Sept. 26, 2003,
www.doctoryourself.com)
When Kepler discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun,
he was ridiculed by his peers, religious authorities, and the
public in general because everyone "knew" that the Earth was
the center of the Universe. It was only long after
Kepler was dead that his view of the Solar System was accepted
as true.
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said:
"New thoughts and new truths go through three stages.
First, they are ridiculed. Next, they are violently
opposed. Then, finally, they are accepted as being
self-evident."
Max Planck, a mathematician and one of creators of quantum
physics said, "An important scientific
innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and
converting its opponents. What does happen is that its
opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is
familiar with the idea from the beginning."
It
is my fervent hope that we do not have to wait until all those
who cling to the old theories of preventing and curing CVD
have died before the Pauling Therapy (or something like it)
becomes part of the new zeitgeist.
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9) My doctor says that taking high
doses of Vitamin C is dangerous and can cause severe "side
effects!"
Your doctor has heard some myths about
Vitamin C and has not read the studies. Refer him to the
National Institute of Health study on the Safety of Vitamin C
published in the April 21, 1999 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association. This study concluded that
megadoses of Vitamin C does NOT cause: Hypoglycemia, Rebound
Scurvy, Infertility, or destruction of Vitamin B-12.
You can also refer her to the Physician's Desk Reference for
Nutritional Supplements which states that:
"Oral doses of up to 3 grams [3,000 mg]
daily of vitamin C are unlikely to cause adverse reaction.
The most common adverse reaction in those who take oral doses
greater than 3 grams daily are gastrointestinal and include
nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and flatulent distention."
[page 495, 2001 edition].
It is the experience of our clients that the adverse
reactions to taking doses higher than 3 grams per day (at
least up to 6 grams) can be avoided by increasing the dosage
gradually.
The following highly qualified and
experienced medical doctors have used megadose vitamin therapy
successfully for decades:
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
Ewan Cameron, M.D.
Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
Emannuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.
Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.
William Kaufman, M.D.
Thomas Levy, M.D.
William J. McCormick, M.D.
Hugh D.
Riordan, M.D.
Wilfrid Shute, M.D.
Evan Shute, M.D.
Lendon Smith, M.D.
Walt Stoll, M.D.
Carl C. Pfeiffer,
M.D., Ph.D.
Hans A. Nieper, M.D.
These doctors have the combined experience of hundreds of
years. They all attest to the safety and effectiveness
of Megadose Vitamin Therapy for a wide variety of disorders.
You might also ask your doctor about the "side effects" of
prescription medicines. There are over
100,000 deaths each year from pharmaceutical drugs in the USA,
EVEN WHEN TAKEN AS PRESCRIBED. [Lucian Leape, Error in
Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994,
272:23, p 1851. Also: Leape LL. Institute of Medicine Medical
Error Figures are not Exaggerated. JAMA. 2000 Jul
5;284(1):95-7.]
Compare 100,00 deaths per year from patent drugs to the number
of deaths from vitamins and amino acids: The American
Association of Poison Control Centers' Toxic Exposure
Surveillance System reported its result for 2002 in the
September 2003 issue (Vol 21, No 5) of the American Journal of
Emergency Medicine. The number of deaths reported for
vitamin or amino acid supplements was zero.
Considering the effectiveness of Vitamin Therapy, it would
seem that:
"The number one side
effect of vitamins is
failure to take enough of them."
Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D.
www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc2
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10) Are there any doctors out there
who know about The Pauling Therapy and would be willing to
work with me on a nutritional cure?
We are happy to report that there are. We maintain a referral
list of physicians who are knowledgeable and sympathetic to
the nutritional approach to treating heart disease. To find
out if there is a Pauling Therapy doctor near you, send us an
email by clicking
rayellis@saveyourheart.com and we will send you the list.
If that list doesn't include a doctor near you, we
recommend you check out The American College for the
Advancement in Medicine website at
www.acam.org.
Founded in 1973, the American College for Advancement in
Medicine (ACAM) is a not-for-profit medical society dedicated
to educating physicians and other health care professionals on
the latest findings and emerging procedures in
preventive/nutritional medicine. You can search for local,
enlightened doctors on the ACAM website by clicking on "Doctor
Search" (on their home page) and typing in your City and
State. (If you live in a small town and get no hits, put in
the nearest larger towns/cities until you get some hits.) If
you find a doctor using this service, it would be really nice
if you mentioned to ACAM that you were referred to them by
this website.
You could also try to educate your own doctor about the
root cause of heart disease and how it can be treated with
proper nutrition by referring him to this website or by
printing portions of this website and handing them to your
doctor. You could insist that your doctor read them and
respond. If your doctor responds with something like, "We know
the nutritional approach will not work," you could cite the
studies that show that the nutritional approach does work. Or
you could ask your doctor to cite a study that shows that
Vitamin A, B-2, C, E, lysine, proline, carnitine or Coenzyme
Q-10, in the proper dosage, has NOT been helpful to patients
with heart disease (We know of no such studies!). We are
aware, however, that most people don't want to go
"head-to-head" with their doctor.
And, of course, you don't need a doctor's permission to put
yourself on the Pauling Therapy. Many (if not most!) of our
clients have put themselves on the Pauling Therapy despite
their doctors opinions (or they just didn't tell him). You
might ask yourself the following question, "Has my doctor
proposed a therapy that will fix the underlying CAUSE of my
heart disease, or is she treating only my SYMPTOMS?"
Allow your doctor to treat the symptoms if, in your
heart-of-hearts, you really feel you must, but don't forget to
address the underlying cause of the disease (improper
nutrition) by, at least, giving the Pauling Therapy a try!
Taking the Pauling Therapy every day is no more likely to
interfere with the traditional treatment of heart disease than
eating a nutritious diet would.
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11) I can't find a local doctor who
will work with me on a nutritional cure. What do I do now?
It would definitely help to remember that your doctor
works for you (not the other way around!). This is still
true even if you have insurance. It is also true that it
is YOUR body (not the doctor's). You, therefore, have
the final say as to what is done (or not done) to your body.
Think of it this way: If your house needed some
serious plumbing work done, would you call in a plumber, hand
him your credit card, and then let him do whatever he wanted
without consulting you first? Somehow, I don't think so!
Most likely, you would let the plumber size up the situation,
then you would discuss with her the various solutions that
could be applied to fix the problem. YOU would decide
what to do (or not do), NOT the plumber.
In this
example, it is perfectly clear who has the power to make the
final decision. Why is it any less clear when dealing
with a doctor? Is your body less yours than is your
house? Is the doctor any less a subcontractor than is
the plumber? If you feel like you have less power to
make decisions about your health than does your doctor, it can
only be because you have given away your power. You are,
of course, free to give this power away (it is yours to
give!). However, if you don't like feeling subordinate
to your doctor, here are some suggestions.
First, you
need to establish yourself on an equal footing with your
doctor. You can do this by educating yourself.
Knowledge is power. All good doctors respect knowledge.
If your doctor is behaving Paternalistic/Maternalistic towards
you, it is because he thinks he has more knowledge than you
do. So, read everything you can find. Your doctor
respects science, so bring her books and papers written by
physicians and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Second, you need to clearly communicate your wishes to your
doctor. It's possible your doctor will have no objection
to giving the nutritional approach a "therapeutic trial."
Talk to your doctor about his basic approach to health and
healing.
Ask her how the proposed treatment protocol will address the underlying CAUSE of the problem. At the end of all
this discussion, you need to hammer out a "deal" with your
doctor that both of you can live with. Sometimes it is
helpful to offer to sign a release form stipulating that you
will not sue the doctor if you are harmed by the nutritional
therapeutic trial.
If you and your doctor can not
agree on a treatment protocol, and you don't wish to find a
new doctor, then you have only two options:
1) Sit
down, shut up, put yourself in the hands of your doctor, and
resign yourself to your fate, or
2) Put yourself on the
Pauling Therapy! You don't need a doctor's permission to take
vitamins and amino acids!
"If you want something
done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes
your health care."
Dr. Andrew Saul
www.doctoryourself.com
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12) Why doesn't the Linus Pauling
institute endorse the Pauling Therapy?
Short Answer
Because the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI) has a policy of
not endorsing any product.
Long Answer
The LPI of today is not the same LPI that existed when Linus
Pauling was at the helm. The original LPI was
established by Dr. Pauling in 1973 and was based in
California. Two years after his death in 1994, the new
LPI was established at Dr. Pauling's undergraduate alma mata - Oregon State University.
The original LPI was noted
for innovative, cutting-edge research into the causes and
cures of occlusive cardiovascular disease - research worthy of
a two-time Nobel prize winner. Dr Pauling's motivations
in forming the LPI was to pursue research that was difficult
or impossible to do in a university setting. It is
ironic, therefore, that the institute he founded was subsumed
back into the university system after his death.
Since
that time the LPI has engaged in research that is - shall we
say - less than innovative. Most notably, they have
failed to conduct prospective, double-blind, clinical trials
of the Pauling Therapy - trials that Dr. Pauling was
organizing before his death. The next logical,
scientific step toward the nutritional control of most heart
disease was simple left to wither on the vine.
The
closest the new LPI comes to recommending the Pauling Therapy
is the following statement that can be found on its website:
"We currently do not know how much vitamin C is required
to achieve saturation of cells and tissues in children, older
adults, and diseased or stressed individuals. The Linus
Pauling Institute's recommendation of at least 200 mg/day for
generally healthy adults takes into account the currently
available epidemiologic, biochemical, and clinical evidence,
while acknowledging the extremely low toxicity of vitamin C
and the incomplete information regarding optimum intake.
It should also be noted that the Linus Pauling Institute's
recommendation is strictly directed towards prevention of
disease in healthy individuals, not treatment of disease.
Thus, individuals suffering from certain diseases may require
substantially larger amounts of vitamin C to achieve optimum
body levels and derive therapeutic benefits, an area that was
of great interest to Linus Pauling and needs to be further
explored."
The new LPI offers no explanation of why
they have not "further explored" this area that "was of great
interest to Linus Pauling," especially since they state that,
"Our mission is to determine the function and role of
micronutrients, vitamins, and phytochemicals in promoting
optimum health and preventing and treating disease; to
determine the role of oxidative and nitrative stress and
antioxidants in human health and disease; and to advance
knowledge in areas that were of interest to Linus Pauling
through research and educational activities."
Having
read several biographies of Dr. Pauling, we do not think he
would be very happy with the state of affairs at his namesake
Institute!
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13) My doctor says that if I eat a
well balanced diet, I don't need supplements. And that all
supplements will do is give me "expensive urine."
Your doctor is not in possession of the facts. According
to an April 25, 2002 National Cancer Institute press release,
"70 percent of all adults and children in the U.S. do not eat
the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables
a day for good health." This, in spite of decades
of well-funded, intense mass education efforts by the U.S.
government and health related not-for-profit organizations to
get people to eat more fruits and veggies.
Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, has been quoted as saying,
"300,000 Americans die annually from poor nutrition choices."
[DeRose, D. J., The WellnessWise Electronic Journal, Vol 1,
No. 8; September 3, 1995. http://www.lifetalk.net]. So,
according to Dr. Foege, you can die from not having "expensive
urine."
But even if you did eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and
veggies per day, it would be no guarantee that you are getting
all the nutrients you require. Let's take vitamin E as an
example. Although the U.S. Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for
vitamin E is 30 IU, there is general consensus among nutrition
experts that at least 100 IU of vitamin E (and probably 400 IU
or more) per day is required to prevent most heart disease. It
is literally impossible to obtain 100 IU of vitamin E per day,
even from the most perfect diet.
To demonstrate this,
Dr. Andrew Saul, challenged his nutrition students to create a
few days of "balanced" meals, using the food composition
tables in nutrition textbooks, to achieve 100 IU of vitamin E
per day. They could use any combination of foods and any
plausible number of portions of each food. After much trying,
they could NOT do it! And this is for just one nutrient!
[Andrew Saul, PhD., Antioxidants: What They Are And What They
Do, Harvard Health Letter. Feb 1999; 24(5)]
It would
seem the reason for this is a decline in the nutritional value
of the food we eat over the past 50 years. A recent analysis
of a range of staple foods in Canada including potatoes,
tomatoes, bananas, apples, onion, broccoli, etc., was
commissioned by The Globe and Mail and CTV news. The analysis
found that:
"Over the past 50 years, the potato has
lost 100% of its Vitamin A, 57% of its Vitamin C, 56% of its
iron, 28% of its calcium, 50% of its riboflavin, and 18% of
its thiamin. All seven of broccoli's nutrients declined,
notably calcium, which fell 63 per cent, and iron, which
dropped 34 per cent."
The story is similar for the 25 fruits and vegetables that
were analyzed. Phil Warman, professor of agricultural
sciences at Nova Scotia Agricultural College, blames the
profit motive, "The emphasis is on appearance, storability and transportability, and there has been much less emphasis on the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Crops are bred to produce higher yields, to be resistant to disease and to produce more visually attractive fruits and vegetables, but little or no emphasis is placed on their vitamin or mineral content."
Tim Lang, a professor at the Centre for Food Policy in London,
England, agrees, "You would have to eat
eight oranges today to get the same amount of vitamin A your
grandparents got from a single orange."
Cathy
Bakker, a graduate student in vegetable physiology at the
University of Guelph, has done research showing that the more
fertilizer used, the lower the vitamin C content of broccoli.
To conduct the analysis, The Globe and Mail and CTV
examined food tables that were prepared by government
researchers in 1951, 1972 and 1999, and compared the nutrients
available from 100 grams of the given food. The results were
almost identical to similar research conducted in the United
States and Britain. The U.K. research was published in the
British Food Journal, a peer-reviewed, scientific publication,
while the U.S. data have been published only in
alternative-health journals. [Andre Picard, The Globe and
Mail, July 6, 2002, with a report from Avis Favaro, CTV News.]
This report gives new meaning to the words "empty
calories." This is the reason why the same person can be both
obese and malnourished. There are two solutions to this
dilemma:
1) produce all your own fresh food using heirloom
fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, grains, and legumes
organically grown in nutrient rich soil under ideal conditions
in your own greenhouse all year long, or
2) take nutritional
supplements.
Frankly, the first solution appeals to
me very much, but until I have the money to make it happen,
I'll be making my urine expensive by taking supplements.
And if all this isn't enough to convince your doctor of the
value of supplements, have him read his own medical journal.
The Journal of the American Medical Association recommends
that everyone take a daily multivitamin. In a two-part article
entitled Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention in Adults, R.
H. Fletcher and K. M. Fairfield said that,
"(S)uboptimal intake of some vitamins, above levels causing
classic vitamin deficiency, is a risk factor for chronic
diseases and common in the general population, especially the
elderly." [2002; 287:3127-3129 & 2002; 287:3116-3126].
So, according to the American Medical Association, one of the
risk factors for chronic disease is not having "expensive
urine."
"The continued use of
supplements represents a true public health breakthrough on a
par with clean drinking water and sanitary sewers, and can be
expected to save as many lives."
Dr. Andrew Saul
www.doctoryourself.com
Weird Fact: USDA Food Stamps can be used to buy doughnuts, but
can not be used to buy vitamins.
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