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Vitamin D Boosts Your Health All Around?
Vitamin D is not "just a vitamin," but rather the only known substrate for a potent, pleiotropic (meaning it produces multiple effects), repair and maintenance seco-steroid hormone that serves multiple gene-regulatory functions in your body.
There are only 30,000 genes in your body and vitamin D has been shown to influence about 3,000 of them. Receptors that respond to the vitamin have been found in almost every type of human cell, from your brain to your bones. And researchers keep finding health benefits from vitamin D in virtually every area they look.
Can vitamin D help you prevent cancer, fight colds and the flu, help prevent obesity, tackle depression, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis? Yes, yes and yes!
In fact, researchers have calculated that simply increasing levels of vitamin D could prevent diseases that claim nearly 1 million lives throughout the world each year, as the widespread vitamin D deficiency seen today is fueling an astonishingly diverse array of common chronic diseases.
Walt Edwards, Ph.D. - Dr. Health
B12 Deficiency Is Very Common
The common picture of a B12 deficient patient is an elderly person with pernicious anemia. But B12 deficiency may be caused instead by food-B12 malabsorption. Food-B12 malabsorption is the inability to release B12 from food or its binding proteins. Unlike pernicious anemia, it's more likely to be associated with mild, preclinical B12 deficiency.
B12 deficiency is common in elderly patients. One study revealed a prevalence of 12 percent among elderly people. Other studies, focusing on those who are in institutions or who are sick and malnourished, have suggested a higher prevalence of 30 percent to 40 percent. Unfortunately, B12 deficiency is often unrecognized because the clinical manifestations can be very subtle. In fact, one of its manifestations—mild memory loss—can mimic the early stages of dementia.
Food-B12 malabsorption is caused primarily by atrophic gastritis. More than 40 percent of patients older than 80 years have gastric atrophy that can be related to h. pylori infection.
Vitamin B12 fuels many of your body's most important functions, literally from your head to your feet. Among them:
- proper food digestion and absorption
- healthy nervous system function
- formation of red blood cells
- proper circulation
- healthy immune system function mood regulation
- mental clarity, concentration, mental function
Your body was simply not built to function without a sufficient supply of vitamin B12 throughout its lifetime. The importance of insuring you are getting adequate B12 is high priority to good health. The only efficient way to assure good absorption is the sublingual under the tongue with at least 2000 mgh per tablet which you can take more than once per day.
More About Vitamin C
According to Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (who won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his discovery of vitamin C), "health" occurs when there is an ample flow and interchange of electrons in your cells. Impaired or poor electron flow and interchange equals "disease", and when the flow and interchange ceases entirely, your cells die.
Oxidation, caused by free radicals in your body, involves the loss of electrons. Antioxidants counter the disease process caused by oxidation (loss of electrons) by supplying electrons. Vitamin C is a major antioxidant, and according to Dr. Levy, perhaps the most important "electron donor" to maintain optimal electron flow in your cells.
Using vitamin C to combat infectious diseases is not new, yet conventional medicine can be quite resistant to the idea, as this case report shows. Even when the man was on his death bed the hospital was still unwilling to give him intravenous vitamin C, despite the fact they had absolutely nothing left in their own toolkit! However, it was successful in breaking his fever and the patient survived.
The best way to prevent flu or colds is to keep your overall health and immunity strong. That's why you'll see recommendations for making sure you dress warmly, get plenty of rest, and drink plenty of fluids. Good hand washing is another great preventive measure, but there is a ton of evidence that shows another sure-fire way to lower your chances of catching a nasty cold or debilitating flu—and it's not one that you see discussed often.
Prevent cold and flu viruses from invading your body by taking glycerol monolaurate, better known as monolaurin! It is a fatty acid derivative that is naturally found in breast milk. Monolaurin works by destroying the fatty coatings that allow viruses to latch onto your healthy cells. Without those coatings the viruses quickly die. Laboratory tests show that glycerol monolaurate or monolaurin kills influenza, herpes and several other viruses! If you are around folks who have a cold or flu or you feel like you're coming down with a cold or flu, reach for monolaurin. For those individuals who have heard about olive leaf extract for viruses can select the monolaurin product that contains olive leaf extract. We have both as well as homeopathic selections.
Lower your stress
Yes, it's that simple. Stress reduction can help keep you from catching nasty viruses. And hard science backs this claim up. Sheldon Cohen, Ph.D., is a leading expert on the stress-illness connection. Dr. Cohen recently told National Public Radio, "We know quite a bit about stress and infection. We've been doing research in that area for 25 years." He has performed several studies of his own, and they all have come to the same conclusion—the lower your levels of stress and the better your attitude, the more likely you are to fight off infection. In one study, he asked 400 healthy adults about how stressed out they were. He then exposed them to nose drops containing cold viruses. About 90% of the stressed subjects (versus 74% of those not under stress) caught a cold.
Did You Know?
Coenzyme Q10 is best known for cardiovascular protection. It is one of the most important supplements I take daily, as well as Vitamin D. Dr. Whitaker recommends 60-120 mg for the general population. Recent tests in Japan have supported the use of CoQ10 to also reduce exercise-induced muscular injury in athletes. If you have cardiovascular problems, or use cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, he suggests you take 200-300 mg daily.
Probiotics: The most important thing you can do to support your immune system is to take a good probiotic. Probiotics are healthy bacteria that aid digestion. If the number of probiotics in your gut is low, then you'll have a hard time digesting your food. The waste products from your food will also sit around in your gut longer and that leads to gas and bloating. Using supplements like I-flora by Sedona Labs and Ultimate Digest Support can do wonders for your digestion.
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Thought For The Day:
Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed confidence in your ability to work through them. Where there is tiredness or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience and renewed strength. Where there is fear, I wish you love and courage!
Contact Dr. Health:
Walt Edwards, Ph.D.
29820 Ellensburg Avenue
PO Box 283
Gold Beach, OR 97444
541-247-7077
walt4health@gmail.com
MEDICAL HERBALISM:
The Science Principles and Practices of Herbal Medicine
Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques.
With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.
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