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Posted December 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Most multivitamins are poorly formulated, weakly dosed and unbalanced and are missing key nutrients to maintain health and there is no conceivable way they would meaningfully reduce disease-related mortality rates. The authors of the study said: “in most cases data are insufficient to draw any conclusion.” And ironically, if multivitamins were in fact found to reduce death rates, they would be declared drugs by the Food & Drug Administration!
The study concedes the multivitamins under analysis didn’t even raise blood levels of vitamin E, C, selenium or zinc. The only multivitamin data analyzed among women provided only five nutrients and authors of the report said “it could be argued there are no data on a true multivitamin for women.”
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Posted December 12, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Hepatitis C is ineffectively and agonizingly treated with interferon injections. An oral medication for Hep C has just been approved by the FDA. But this viral monster can continue its attack on the liver until a liver transplant is needed.
The medical literature clearly points to vitamins and herbal supplements are being effective against HEP C. Doctors ignore this evidence.
Recently someone sent an e-mail inquiring which dietary supplements a person might take, based upon published studies, to combat HEP C. Here is how I responded, with abstracts of scientific reports posted below.
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Posted December 11, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Just seven months ago National Eye Institute researchers claimed fish oil “doesn’t seem to help macular degeneration,” a sight-robbing eye disease that plagues adults in their senior years.
So how could another newly published study produce exactly opposite results? In fact, fish oil didn’t just slow down the insidious progression of this eye disease, it restored vision to every patient placed on high-dose fish oil. It was therapeutic and curative, not just preventive.
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Posted November 24, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A parade of anti-dietary supplement news reports are being aired in what appears to be another orchestrated effort to unfairly demean natural health products that are safer than tap water, table salt and aspirin.
The hidden agenda appears to be an effort to soften the public’s support for dietary supplements so they can be over-regulated by the Food & Drug Administration, negating the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 that kept dietary supplements from being classified as drugs. The FDA has been trying to do that since the 1970s.
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Posted October 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Dr. Paul Offit, known as a developer of vaccines and critic of alternative medicine, has taken to the street to lambast alternative medicine practitioners and dietary supplements on TV and radio. His book is getting lots of attention from the news media, but no reporter is giving Dr. Offit’s critics a chance to rebut his poorly substantiated claims.
A quick read of the 170 posted Amazon.com reviews of this book (as of Oct. 16, 2013) is a lesson in itself. What is startling is the percentage of those who posted favorable reviews (nearly 7 in 10 give the book 4 or 5 stars) when there are so many good texts that have taken modern medicine to task over the arrogant position it holds scientific high ground.
Some texts worth reading: a biting critique of evidenced-based medicine is TARNISHED GOLD by Steve Hickey PhD and Hilary Roberts PhD. Also, CONFESSIONS OF A MEDICAL HERETIC by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD, and MEDICAL NEMESIS by Ivan Illich, are classics.
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Posted September 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A nutraceutical company in Italy has sponsored a successful study of INOSIDEX, its combination inositol + lipoic acid product, that produced a dramatic reduction in insulin resistance (inability of insulin to enter cells and produce cell energy) and reduced blood serum insulin levels among postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome (diabesity).
Probably for proprietary reasons the doses of these two nutrients, which are available as dietary supplements in the USA, are not disclosed in the published study. However, a prior study employed 2 grams (2000 milligrams) of inositol in a similar group of females. Generally, lipoic acid is used in doses of 100-600 mg by diabetics.
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Posted September 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Today’s health news headline emanating from Great Britain is that childhood asthma rates have soared for the past 50 years, doubling over that time. About 1.1 million British youngsters and an additional 4.2 million adults have asthma – with 1400 asthmatics dying annually.
This means something that began happening in the 1960s continues today with devastating consequences. It has to be environmentally induced, not naturally occurring. This means a long standing epidemic can exist within a modern human population and the medical community appears oblivious, even powerless to understand or stop it.
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Posted September 14, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The one-way trip has been scheduled. The lift-off from Earth is scheduled for a date in 2022 with arrival on the planet Mars seven months later in 2023. Over 200,000 venturesome planet colonists have already applied for the 40 who will be selected and trained as the first interplanetary travelers. The precarious 210-Earth day trip will cost an anticipated $6 billion to prepare for, totally privately funded, which includes landing of pre-habitation supply pods and rovers that will set down a selected colonization site on the surface of Mars beginning in 2016.
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Posted September 11, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Investigators at Tufts University display striking images of the human brain when it is deficient in vitamin B12. Brain scans show fluid-filled spaces at the center of a shrinking B-12 deficient brain – literally holes in the brain.
A prior study showed that high-dose B vitamins (800 mcg folic acid, 20 mg vitamin B6, 500 micrograms of vitamin B12) slows the rate of shrinkage in the human brain, and more demonstrably reduces (by 7 times) shrinkage of grey matter in the brain.
This study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, is more striking because of the photographic images of a shrinking brain accompanied by mental tests which confirms loss of thinking ability as the brain shrinks in size.
Lack of absorption of dietary and supplemental vitamin B12 due to progressive inability to produce stomach acid is cited as a growing concern. Therefore, it may be that widespread H. pylori infection, which is prevalent in more than half of the US population, could be a parallel facto as H. pylori shuts down production of stomach acid.
Another concern is that the most often used anti-diabetic drug, metformin, depletes the body of vitamin B12. Metformin use has been associated with declining mental function. ©2013 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted September 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You can read the abstract of their report for yourself, as published in the Molecular Aspects Of Medicine journal, published online August 29, 2013. University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers say estrogen imbalance promotes breast cancer. DNA adducts are formed, which is a piece of DNA bonded to a cancer-causing chemical.
These researchers say “the dietary supplements resveratrol and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) can act as cancer preventing agents by keeping estrogen metabolism balanced.” These are inexpenstive and could prevent “many of the prevalent types of human cancer,” they say.
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