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Posted June 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You read Dr. Paul A. Offit’s denunciation of vitamin pills in The New York Times (Don’t Take Your Vitamin, June 8, 2013) and you have no doubt left in your mind – the vitamin pill makers must be hiding thousands of dead bodies. Why beta carotene increased the death rate among smokers in Finland in 1994 and that fact was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
In all, Dr. Offit refers to five published studies, which in his mind, prove vitamin pills unequivocally represent death in a bottle, might as well have a skull and crossbones printed on their labels and the public should be warned away from them.
Only for Senator Proxmire in the 1970s bending to the demands of vitamin fanatics that vitamin pills now remain beyond the reach of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), says Dr. Offit. Why the FDA would like to wrap their hands around those irresponsible vitamin extremists that peddle thousands of unproven potions and pills if they were permitted to do so, claims Dr. Offit.
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Posted June 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A hidden plague in modern society has been described in an earlier report. Not a true nutrient deficiency by lack of dietary provision or poor intake but rather by impaired absorption has lulled modern medicine into assuming beri beri has been conquered.
Yet it appears large portions of human populations in developed nations suffer from a shortage of thiamin, vitamin B1 due to use of vitamin-blocking medications, overconsumption of refined sugar and beverages that impair B1 absorption – alcohol, tea and coffee.
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The disclosure by a popular Hollywood actor that his throat cancer was likely caused by transmission of the human papilloma virus (HPV) during oral sex has led to a resurgent call for sexually active young people to be vaccinated against HPV. HPV also leads to cervical cancer in females. Only a small percentage of young women have undergone vaccination against HPV. Led by vaccine companies, an effort for States to coerce or mandate students in schools via legislation to be vaccinated against HPV is evidence of fascism in modern medicine.
What goes unsaid is that the vaccine only protects against two virulent strains of HPV while there are over 30 viral strains transmitted during sexual contact. Vaccines are ineffective on that score alone.
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Inquiry: I have wart on my finger, knee and inner thighs. Please help me find a remedy.
Reply: warts are skin growths that emanate from papilloma virus infection.
Warts may be a sign of weak immunity and should prompt supplementation with vitamins D and C and selenium and zinc.
There is evidence that topical application of vitamin D3 is effective, as is topical vitamin A. Vitamin A & D ointment is widely available in drug stores.
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with development of warts. Alcohol depletes zinc and vitamin A.
Zinc deficiency is prevalent among individuals with warts. Topical zinc sulfate is also reported to be effective. I wouldn’t be surprised to find zinc oxide, commonly used as a sunscreen agent, works well. Oral zinc therapy is also reported to help quell warts.
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Posted June 5, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A man wrote me years ago that he took a trip to the Caribbean and laid out in the sun and never got sun burned. He was taking an antioxidant formula for the eyes that provided 50,000 international units of beta carotene (~32 milligrams).
While the topical sunscreen industry promotes their SPF-rated products, orally consumed pigments (carotenoids beta carotene, lutein, lycopene, astaxanthin) interally protect skin from sun damage and sun burn (erythema). This is well documented in the medical literature but internal sun protection is not widely practiced. It is easier to lather on sun screen lotion.
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Posted June 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine doesn’t consider Vicki Oliver’s experience to exist except to explain it away as a possible placebo effect.
Vicki Oliver, 74-year old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, plagued with years of battling what she was first told was ulcerative colitis and then later by another physician as Crohn’s disease, likely had been dealing with a common vitamin deficiency disease that now plagues modern societies.
Vicki’s life had been taken over by daily bouts of abdominal cramps followed by urgent trips to the bathroom. Bowel movements were frequent, up to 20 times a day. Vicki’s only relief came when she would stop eating altogether. If she wanted to travel outside her home, she had to forgo food consumption.
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Posted May 31, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A newly proposed recommendation by a world standards organization (CODEX) could reduce the amount of eleven essential vitamins by 20-to-60 percent compared to the currently used Recommended Daily Value. This standard would then be widely affixed to food and dietary supplement labels to inform consumers whether they are consuming adequate amounts of nutrients to meet their needs.
The newly proposed recommendations would reduce the daily requirement for vitamin C from 60 to 45 milligrams, zinc from15 to 12 milligrams, of vitamin B12 to 6 to 2 milligrams and vitamin D from 10 micrograms (400 units) to 5 micrograms (200 units). In all, the daily recommendation for eleven of 14 essential nutrients would be reduced, and none increased.
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Posted May 25, 2013: by Bill Sardi
While dietary supplement usage in the US military is widespread, it is largely self-guided and does not come from top-down medical command. Many medical advisories issued by US military health authorities consist of warnings of misuse and potential side effects rather than guidance for proper usage. This problem may emanate from training by medical personnel in exclusively in pharmacology but not in nutricology.
The leading categories of dietary supplements used by US military personnel are body building, weight loss and performance enhancement products, with magazines serving as the chief source of information about these “nutriceuticals.” Some of these are considered “high risk” dietary supplements.
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Posted May 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The announcement was too slick. The news media rolled it out, heralding 37-year old Angelina Jolie’s bravery in disclosing her decision to have her breasts prophylactically removed solely based upon detection of a mutated BRCA gene that posed a high future risk for breast cancer maybe two or three decades in her future.
It was coordinated with simultaneous press releases from Ms. Jolie’s female breast surgeon at the Pink Lotus Breast Center and an appeal before the Supreme Court by a biotechnology company to uphold its patent application involving the BRCA gene.
Was this serendipity or a well-orchestrated public relations campaign to persuade fearful women to undergo needless care? Is the Supreme Court ready to rule against the applied-for BRCA-gene patent by a biotech company in the face of hordes of women who may feel the highest court in the land is insensitive to their fears?
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Posted May 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
When radio listeners, like the 5 million-strong Coast-to-Coast nighttime radio audience, hear an interview with a so-called authority on essential oils and he casts a convincing pall over the idea of taking one of the most popularly used dietary supplements, fish oil, there are sure to be millions who pause before they put the next fish oil capsule in their mouth.
The expert is Brian Peskin, an MIT graduate in electronic engineering, who mixes a lot of pseudoscience and straw-man arguments to falsely brand fish oil supplements as ineffective, even potentially dangerous.
Like many of us, Mr. Peskin has his own product to peddle – a plant-based multi-ingredient formulation of sunflower, safflower, pumpkin, evening primrose seed oil along with coconut oil. (Not wanting to lead naïve consumers to his website that disseminates factitious information, his website will not be divulged.)
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