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Posted March 23, 2014: by Bill Sardi
If a news reporter asks the vitamin C experts at the Linus Pauling Institute today about how much vitamin C is needed to maintain health they are going to answer with the same nonsense that has polluted the minds of millions over the past 3-4 decades – only 200 milligrams a day and forget vitamin C pills, fruits and vegetables will do.
As one reads the latest discourse from the experts (“Myths, Artifacts, And Flaws: Identifying Limitation And Opportunities In Vitamin C Research,” Nutrients Volume 5, page 5161, 2013), who certainly must know more than the rest of us, after careful examination one begins to wonder if they live in the real world or just their world filled with test tubes and lab rats where they can create their own reality.
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Posted March 17, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Every day we read or hear about some biological threat, whether it be from a potentially deadly strain of the flu virus, a prevalent pathogenic bacterium in foods like Campylobacter in uncooked chicken meat; or a seemingly safe FDA-approved drug that has been found to be unsafe like aspirin that induces bleeding gastric ulcers and brain hemorrhages; or pollutants in the air or water like the endemic fungus that causes Valley Fever or chlorine that decontaminates our tap water but increases risk for colon cancer; or toxic heavy metals like mercury or lead in our dental fillings and roadways; or parasitic germs like H. pylori, Candida albicans or Streptococcus that are commonly harbored in our own digestive tract.
Then there is aging itself with all of the chronic diseases it brings with it – circulatory problems, insidious decline in vision from cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration, as well as fatty liver, excessive sugar levels and numerous malignancies.
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Posted March 11, 2014: by Bill Sardi
The world pays a steep price when its doctors turn a blind eye at nutritional medicine.
Imagine what eradication of polio would be like if it were treated nutritionally.
In 1988 the world set out to inoculate all the billions of people on the planet against the stomach virus known as polio. There were an estimated 350,000 new annual cases of paralyzing polio then which has now been reduced to just a couple hundred cases with a much larger world population. There are an estimated 10 million people walking today that would be crippled from polio if a polio vaccination program hadn’t been started. [World Health Organization] The indigenous wild-strain of the virus was mostly eradicated in 1999 [American Journal Epidemiology 2010] leaving the vaccine derived strain as the predominant form of the virus in circulation!
Despite such progress, total eradication of polio eludes modern medicine because it ignores nutritional medicine.
How did modern medicine almost totally eradicate polio but at the same time doom any possibility of abolishing it?
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Posted February 25, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Public health officials in California report a polio-like paralysis among as many as 25 children that has doctors perplexed. This nerve-paralyzing malady strikes after a brief illness and kids lose their ability to move their arms or legs.
Health officials say it definitely isn’t polio and they suspect it is caused by an enterovirus (stomach virus). Beyond that, doctors appear to be clueless. This story is making headlines worldwide.
So what could it be? Could it be a vaccine like the Swine Flu vaccine that caused a nerve paralyzing disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome in 1976? But Guillain-Barre produces a whole different set of symptoms.
Could it be something in foods that only attacks kids’ vulnerable immune systems? So far it’s not linked to any food common among those affected.
The very idea of a virus paralyzing kids by an unknown virus for which there is no known effective treatment is certainly scary.
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Posted February 24, 2014: by Bill Sardi
A recent editorial published in the Annals Of Internal Medicine said this about multivitamins: “We believe that the case is closed— supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.”
I’ve already addressed this absurd report. There are a number of hidden catch phrases in that statement, such as “well nourished.” Is anybody really well nourished in a processed food society that over-consumes carbohydrates and sugars and brain stimulant-laden foods? According to the US Department of Agriculture, most Americans aren’t getting an adequate supply of essential nutrients from their diet.
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Posted February 23, 2014: by Bill Sardi
In the relentless pursuit of competing on price for the food consumers’ dollar, food producers are not only ruining the taste and palatability of foods but also our health.
Take for example the current gluten-free craze. Where did this emanate from? Some say it is the hybridization of wheat.
More than $10 billion of gluten-free products were sold last year, according to a report in the New York Times. But there are only 1.8 million Americans who have celiac disease where the immune system attacks the small intestine and another 18 million people (~6% of the population) who are gluten sensitive.
The true celiacs might want to check their vitamin C intake levels. That might be the origin of their problems. As for the rest of us, should we be searching for gluten-free products before gluten sensitivity sets in?
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Posted February 15, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Examples of price gouging in medicine are growing.
There is now the $1000-a-day pill for Hepatitis-C that is curative if taken over a 9-month course ($270,000 cure) while natural remedies go ignored.
There is the $18,000-$35,000 surgical procedure (gastric bypass) to cure diabetes that can be accomplished by simple blood donation to reduce iron stores.
There is the revelation that sudden-death heart attacks are caused by a calcium plaque that suddenly ruptures inside a coronary artery, not as the result of cholesterol buildup, a falsehood that is used to sell billions of dollars of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Modern medicine hides evidence that economical vitamin C prevents that type of mortal plaque in heart arteries.
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Posted February 14, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Gretchen Reynolds, blog writer for the New York Times, should have done more homework before she penned a report that referred to a published report in The Journal of Physiology that errantly claimed resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trol) supplements undid the beneficial effects of physical exercise. That report had already been called into question in two subsequent issues of the same journal.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen claimed resveratrol reversed the positive effects of exercise upon blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. But at no time did the blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar/insulin levels fall outside the optimal range. There was not even a significant statistical difference, only a numerical difference in these numbers.
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Posted February 12, 2014: by Bill Sardi
It is often important to find the best form of a vitamin, mineral or herbal supplement in order to achieve the desired health benefits promised in scientific studies.
For example, there is a hidden plague of vitamin B1 (thiamin) deficiency which has arisen in an era when consumption of refined sugars and popular beverages (coffee, tea, alcohol) have increased – all which block absorption of thiamin even though it is fortified in foodstuffs. Benfotiamine, the fat-soluble form of thiamin, achieves superior results over water-soluble thiamin as it is absorbed regardless of the thiamin-blockers in the diet.
Another example is magnesium, a critically short-supplied mineral in the diet. The most economical magnesium supplement is mag oxide which is only 4% absorbed. It shouldn’t even be sold but naïve consumers like the lower price.
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Posted January 26, 2014: by Bill Sardi
The current ongoing anti-vitamin supplement campaign being played out in the news media will go to no end to misleadingly scare the public away from vitamin pills. This time it’s multivitamins during pregnancy.
In what amounts to a lot of double talk, investigators and news reporters alike issue warnings and then disclaimers that make one wonder if there was anything to be alarmed about in the first place.
The Daily Mail in the UK issues a headline report that says “Taking multivitamins can raise risk of a miscarriage,” and claims “32 per cent are more likely to lose their baby early-on if they had taken the supplements,” but end their report by saying “in the meantime, supplements should be taken in accordance with current clinical guidelines.”
Researchers said: “We found a modest but consistent increased risk of early fetal death in multivitamin users.” The reported increased risk was 32% but that is a relative number, not a hard number. In reality, less than 1 in 100 were at risk for a miscarriage who took multivitamins.
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