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Posted November 28, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Since the 1970s when Drs. Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron first utilized intravenous vitamin C to prolong the survival of cancer patients by four-fold, a war has ensued between modern medicine and vitamin C advocates. Mayo Clinic doctors set out to disprove Pauling and employed single-dose oral vitamin C which did not reach sufficient blood concentrations to transiently produce hydrogen peroxide to selectively kill cancer cells. Finally, 28 year later, National Institutes of Health researchers conceded that intravenous vitamin C does indeed kill cancer cells. More recently Drs. Hilary Roberts and Steve Hickey of Manchester, England conclusively showed that even oral doses of vitamin C if taken at frequent intervals could achieve concentrations that can kill cancer cells.
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Heart doctors are circling the wagons in defense of digoxin which has now been found to increase the relative risk for death from any cause by 41% among patients being treated for atrial fibrillation (fluttering heart muscle in the top chambers of the heart). About one in six patients taking digoxin for an abnormal heart rhythm will die from the drug rather than their heart rhythm disorder over a 5-year period says the report published in the European Heart Journal.
Digoxin (digitalis), first approved for heart failure in 1998, was originally derived from the herb foxglove and used traditionally since the late 1700s.
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Posted September 24, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Comment: without a proven cure for Alzheimer’s disease, clinicians should move vitamin B1 (thiamin) to their “A” list of potential remedies. Coffee, tea, alcohol, sugar, all block B1 absorption. Fat-soluble B1 (benfotiamine) was developed for this very purpose. Accompanying signs of B1 deficiency would be nystagmus (lateral eye twitches), chronic diarrhea, fibromyalgia-like symptoms, heart failure, greying of hair, diabetic complications in eyes and kidneys. — Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted September 8, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Recall the data claiming beta carotene should not be consumed by smokers because of a slight increased risk for lung cancer.
Here in the study below we get a clearer picture where vitamin D is protective against lung cancer but beta carotene, the precursor to vitamin A, then results in a diminishment of that effect. So it would only be high-dose beta carotene that would pose this problem. Initially, the smoker/beta carotene lung cancer problem was identified among smokers in Finland, a country at a northern latitude where vitamin D levels would be low.
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Posted September 4, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Comment: Postmenopausaal women don’t have cholesterol/heart disease, they have calcium/heart disease. As their bones wither with the loss of estrogen, calcium is lost from bone and deposited in arteries.
The largest increase in cardiovascular risk is immediately following the onset of menopause. Measuring cholesterol, C-reactive protein, insulin resistance, amounted to measuring incorrect markers of disease, not disease itself. Women’s arteries stiffen due to calcifications. Calcium represents ~50% of arterial plaque, cholesterol about 3-20%. This is why supplemental calcium also increases the risk for mortal heart attacks.
You have to ask yourself, if doctor’s don’t know this, why are they treating your mother? Vitamin D is an anti-calcifying agent, not an anti-cholesterol agent. It appears this study was intentionally designed to fail.
Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted August 19, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Due to an inherited gene mutation, humans lost their ability to internally produce vitamin C many generation ago and are totally dependent upon dietary or supplemental sources of vitamin C to avert scurvy, a state of frank vitamin C deficiency that produces symptoms of hemorrhage (eyes, skin, kidneys, etc.), fatigue, irritability, weak bones, poor immunity, etc.
On the other hand, most animals produce their own vitamin C internally, either in the liver or kidneys via an enzyme called gulonolactone oxidase that converts blood sugar to vitamin C (ascorbate). Only fruit bats, guinea pigs and primate monkeys do not synthesize vitamin C naturally and are in the same predicament as humans.
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Posted July 20, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Vitamin K, that essential but often avoided “blood clotting” vitamin that we consume in green leafy vegetables is generally not included in multivitamins and avoided by the many thousands of patients taking blood thinners. The “often-avoided” category speaks for the ongoing insanity within modern medicine.
About 1% of the adult population is affected by atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm (rapid disorganized heartbeats) that affects the top chambers of the heart. Atrial fibrillation increases the risk for a stroke by five-fold and accounts for about 15% of 700,000 strokes in the U.S. annually.
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Posted June 26, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine plods along, with blinders on in regard to nutritional medicine, feeling its way in the dark and never really investigating the origins of disease in the light of vitamin and mineral shortages.
Aspirin-induced asthma is one such example. Aspirin-induced asthma is a severe inflammatory disease, which affects patients after ingestion of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen). And it can have deadly consequences if you experience a closure of your breathing pipes. Modern medicine says it has no clue why aspirin can provoke a sudden and severe invasion of white blood cells (eosinophils) that block the upper and lower airways. Despite treatment, that someone should die of sudden asthmatic closure of their wind pipes is appalling in this era of modern medicine.
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Posted June 6, 2012: by Bill Sardi
1912 was a monumental date in human history – a Polish scientist, Casimir Funk discovered the first vitamin, vitamin B1. But that date is underplayed in history book while the date of the discovery of the first magic bullet miracle drug, 1928 for penicillin, is hallmarked as possibly the greatest advancement in modern medicine. True, penicillin reduced death from infectious disease and humans lived longer. But chronic disease was ignored. Over time medicine began to treat diseases as if they were drug deficiencies rather than seek their true origins, oftentimes rooted in nutrient shortages.
While processed foods removed essential nutrients, food fortification then corrected many, but not all, of these deficiencies. For example, there is still no recommended daily intake level for essential omega-3 and omega-6 oils decades after it was determined that fish oils seemed to eradicate many common health problems in the Eskimo population. Lutein appears to be essential for the human visual system, but a recommended daily intake level is not even being considered.
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Posted April 27, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Doctors often call these idiopathic disorders, that is, “conditions arising spontaneously from an obscure or unknown cause.” Modern medicine says it doesn’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, cancer, migraine headaches, and many other maladies. Could there be a common cause?
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