Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 About twenty microns wide, on average. To appreciate just how small the average human cell is, imagine marking off one inch on a piece of paper. If you laid average-size cells side by side, you would be able to fit 1,270 into that inch.12 If you are like most people, you can hardly conceive of anything so small. So it comes as a shock to think that a cell, which seems so incredibly tiny as to be almost nothing, is intricately structured and massively crowded. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 Simvastatin reduced the total cholesterol by an average of 25 percent and the LDL "bad" cholesterol by an average of 35 percent, while raising the HDL "good" cholesterol by an average of 8 percent.
But as with all drugs, simvastatin has side effects—some of which may counterbalance its good effects. For example, simvastatin reduces the levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in the body. This can be deleterious to the heart, which relies on CoQ10 to keep its mitochondria (tiny cellular energy factories) in high gear. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The average American consumer uses close to 100 toxic chemicals before she even leaves the house in the morning. Many of those chemicals are encountered in the morning during showering, shaving, skin care, hair care and application of cosmetics. Other chemicals are encountered in breakfast foods, including bacon, sausage, processed milk, breads and other processed foods. By the time the average consumer leaves their home in the morning, they've already poisoned their liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 In addition, the average American gets slightly more than seven hours of sleep per night. In one study, it was stated that in 1910 the average person in this country slept nine hours per night. If this is accurate, it means most Americans are sleep deprived.
Adaptogens can help in this case, but more sleep is also required. A job sitting at a desk all day long and a regular lack of physical exercise can contribute to sleeplessness, obesity, insulin resistance, and poor circulation. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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| Simvastatin reduced the total cholesterol by an average of 25 percent and the LDL "bad" cholesterol by an average of 35 percent, while raising the HDL "good" cholesterol by an average of 8 percent.
But as with all drugs, simvastatin has side effects—some of which may counterbalance its good effects. For example, simvastatin reduces the levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in the body. This can be deleterious to the heart, which relies on CoQ10 to keep its mitochondria (tiny cellular energy factories) in high gear. |
Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD
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Study 3: The Effect of Neurotransmitter Precursor Lozenges on Symptoms of Neurotransmitter Deficiencies
The study examined the effect of taking neurotransmitter precursor lozenges called CraniYums over a six-week period on twenty-three associated symptoms of neurotransmitter deficiencies. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| The Schumann resonance frequency ranges from about 5 to 50 hertz, with an average frequency of between 7 and 10 hertz. That average just happens to match the alpha range of human brain waves, so there is wide speculation, and growing evidence, that the Schumann resonance affects the human brain. The heart also is tuned closely to this range of frequencies.
The late New Zealand scientist Neil Cherry was among the most well-known of researchers who studied both the Schumann resonance and extremely low frequency (ELF) waves in relation to human health. |
| To appreciate just how small the average human cell is, imagine marking off one inch on a piece of paper. If you laid average-size cells side by side, you would be able to fit 1,270 into that inch.12 If you are like most people, you can hardly conceive of anything so small. So it comes as a shock to think that a cell, which seems so incredibly tiny as to be almost nothing, is intricately structured and massively crowded. |
Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD
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| Average Change in Serotonin and Dopamine
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Dopamine average Percent Change With Neurotransmitter Lozenges
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Male Male with Female Female with placebo active ingredients placebo active ingredients
Study 3: The Effect of Neurotransmitter Precursor Lozenges on Symptoms of Neurotransmitter Deficiencies
The study examined the effect of taking neurotransmitter precursor lozenges called CraniYums over a six-week period on twenty-three associated symptoms of neurotransmitter deficiencies. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Average total cholesterol was 137 mg/dL, and average LDL was 77 mg/dL. After twelve years, the end of the formal study, I could report that seventeen of the eighteen original patients had experienced no subsequent coronary events since the start of the research. (One noncompliant patient had required bypass surgery.) And more than twenty years later, as I noted in Chapter 6, these patients continue to flourish.
To the best of my knowledge, the twelve-year report on my patients represents the longest follow-up study in the medical literature of arrest and reversal of coronary heart disease. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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| Simvastatin reduced the total cholesterol by an average of 25 percent and the LDL "bad" cholesterol by an average of 35 percent, while raising the HDL "good" cholesterol by an average of 8 percent.
But as with all drugs, simvastatin has side effects—some of which may counterbalance its good effects. For example, simvastatin reduces the levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in the body. This can be deleterious to the heart, which relies on CoQ10 to keep its mitochondria (tiny cellular energy factories) in high gear. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Childhood iodine deficiency can cause an average lowering of intelligence quotients by 13 points.
More severe iodine deficiency can result in hypothyroidism. Symptoms of hypothyroidism (low levels of thyroid hormones in the blood) include dry skin, swellings around the lips and nose, mental deterioration, and a slow basal metabolic rate.
Summary for Iodine
Main functions: thyroid functions. RDA: adults, 150 meg.
Toxicity: low toxicity, excesses may cause a rise in | jj thyroid stimulating hormone. Tolerable upper intake level is 1100 meg for adults. |
Bill Sardi
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 Average dietary consumption of vitamin E is less than 10 mg per day, so most children and adults run short of the recommended 15 mg dietary intake.
In discussions about vitamin E and its role in breast cancer, readers need to pay careful attention to specifics, namely differences between breast cancer prevention, treatment and use with chemotherapy.
There is evidence that vitamin E plays a key role in protecting breast tissues and may be a strong preventive agent. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 One important and different kind of meta-analysis used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain FDA reviews of every clinical trial—published or unpublished—of SSRIs between 1987 and 1999. On average, placebos were 80% as effective as the SSRIs. According to Marcia Angell, the former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, the difference between treated and untreated groups "is very unlikely to be of clinical significance. |
| Another way of appreciating this problem: in 1988 the average number of annual visits to a typical ED was about 18,000; by 1998 it was 26,500. In ten years, the ED had 45% increase in patients! One can only imagine the problems this increase created. What ever is going on in EDs, we already know two things: they are more and more frequently utilized, currently accounting for one in ten of all outpatient visits, and they are becoming much more crowded.
How many of these visits were really emergencies?
As it happens, emergency rooms have two separate roles within the health care system. |
| In 1998, the median income for physicians specializing in family practice and general internal medicine was, respectively, $130,000 and $140,000, compared to an average of $160,000 for all physicians—and a high of $240,000 for surgeons (see chapter 3).2 The income gap between primary care physicians and all other physicians is widening. In 2004, specialists earned almost twice the income as did primary care physicians.3
"It's obvious," commented Fran, "that when it comes to money, your family is right! We are not real doctors! |
| Yet we know that average survival after surgery is about eight years, which is presumably longer than those who received no transplant.45
There were about 14,000 kidney transplants (8,000 from cadavers, 6,000 from living donors) in 2001. Among transplant surgeries, kidneys are the only one for which good alternate therapy exists. Thus, our question is: Do kidney transplants work better than renal dialysis? The answer is an unqualified "yes." For those with transplants there is a 68% reduction in the long-term risk of death compared with those on the waiting list who never receive a transplant. |
| But almost all of that
157 reduction—92%—came before 1950. The average rate of decline from 1900 to 1950 was .22 per thousand, after which it became almost negligible, .at 04 per thousand. Both sexes experienced this decline, which for females leveled off around 1950, while the rate for males actually showed a slight increase from 1960 to 1970.3
The real decline in mortality has come at the beginning of life, especially in the first year. In 2002, infant (that is, first year) mortality was 7 per 1,000.4 It wasn't always so low. Consider this dramatic illustration. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Athletes may be at risk for iron deficiency. The average requirement for iron may be approximately 30 to 70 percent higher for those who engage in regular intense exercise.
Infants under one year of age may be at increased risk of iron deficiency if they drink cow's milk. Cow's milk consumed at this age has been associated with small losses of blood in the stool. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Institute of Medicine recommends monitoring infants under one year of age for anemia if they drink cow's milk. |
| If carbohydrates cannot be burned for energy, they may be stored as body fat. An average of 76 percent of the magnesium in whole wheat is removed in the refining process and none is added back. About 70 percent of the magnesium in brown rice is lost in the conversion to white rice.
In addition to its role in activating thiamin, magnesium is needed by an enzyme that controls the first four steps of aerobic energy production. Deficiency of magnesium can slow down this energy-producing cycle. |
Bill Sardi
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| In a telephone survey of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, the consumption of plant estrogens was found to have little or no effect upon cancer risk with the average intake of less than one serving of tofu per week. [Am J Epidemiology 154: 434-41, 2001] Possibly much higher consumption is required to exhibit a protective effect. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Fifteen minutes of summer sun in a bathing suit makes an average of 20,000 IU of vitamin D— 100 times the adequate daily intake. Since vitamin D is stored for long periods, this may be enough vitamin D to last for 100 days. UVB does not penetrate glass, so time in a closed car is not helpful.
Sunlight exposure provides most people with their entire vitamin D requirement. Young adults and children can make all of the vitamin D they need by spending just a few minutes in the sun three times a week. |
| On the average, American women take in 24 extra grams of protein per day. This extra protein results in an extra need for dietary calcium estimated at 140 mg per day. The consumption of excess protein is thought to increase the amount of acids that must be neutralized by blood buffers. Calcium can be depleted when it is used to neutralize the acids in blood that result from burning excess protein. If the extra calcium is not available in the diet, then it may need to be removed from the bones. This increases the risk of osteoporosis. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Since this bill was passed over three years ago, Medicare has been legally required to pay an average of 60 percent more than the VA pays for the same prescription drugs. Most other countries in the world, which receive their prescription drugs from the same source as Medicare, also pay the lower rates. The Medicare drug plan, devised by the pharmaceutical industry and approved by lawmakers benefiting from it, will earn the pharmaceutical companies over 1.5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years; all paid for by the taxpayers who finance the Medicare program. In other words, all U.S. |
| With the exception of Kapha types, the average adult can safely include about 3.5 tablespoons of coconut oil per day in their diet. It will not make you fat. But, start out with a low dose until you find out how the breakdown of yeast affects you. Apart from its internal benefits, when applied to the skin, coconut oil will protect from sunburn, drying, chapping and harmful germs. |
| For this reason, athletes consume a much larger quantity of prescribed drugs than the average person does. The thymus gland, which activates lymphocytes and controls energy supplies, may actually shrink in size and leave the body weak and debilitated as a direct result of over conditioning the body and stressing the mind.
Exercise According to the Doshas
Exercise is best done according to one's capacity and psycho-physiological body type. |
| On the average, approximately 9 liters (9.5 quarts) of fluid enter the jejunum (upper part of the small intestine) each day, a major portion of which is composed of digestive juices. The small intestine absorbs approximately 7 liters (7.4 quarts), leaving only 1.5 to 2 liters to move on to the large intestine. The absorptive function of the small intestine is brought about by an intricate array of cells within its lining (intestinal folds and villi) that absorb and secrete salts and nutrients as well as water in order to maintain normal salt and water balance within the body. |
Jack Challem
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 My fasting blood sugar was down to 84 mg/dl, and my HbAlc (a snapshot of average blood-sugar levels over a six-week period) was a respectable 5.2 percent. By this time, I had become interested in fasting insulin, and mine was good at 8.4 mcIU/ml. (I suspect that my insulin levels had previously been much higher.) My intraocular eye pressure had decreased and was now 15 mmHg in both eyes—normal!
In 2003,1 began bicycling three mornings a week. Up to that point, I had been pretty much a couch potato except for an occasional long walk or hike. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| The average American diet provides:
(a) An abundance of vitamin E.
(b) Just enough vitamin E to prevent heart disease.
(c) Less than optimal amounts of vitamin E.
(d) Plenty of vitamin E if enough fruits and vegetables are eaten.
44. Natural vitamin E is:
(a) dl-alpha-tocopherol.
(b) Mixed tocopherols from food.
(c) SRR-alpha-tocopherol.
(d) All of the above.
45. Enriched white flour, compared to whole wheat flour, has:
(a) No vitamin E.
(b) Two percent of the vitamin E.
(c) The same amount of vitamin E.
(d) Twice as much vitamin E.
46. Vitamin K is:
(a) Water soluble. |
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