Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 For some of those who experienced severe constipation after taking the drug, their feces would become so impacted within their bowel that the bowel wall perforated, leading to potentially fatal infections inside the body.6 The other side effect, ischaemic colitis, is like a heart attack happening in the bowel, and the blood simply stops flowing to it. Sometimes it fixes itself, sometimes the bowel tissues dies, and in rare cases so, too, does the patient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cathcart told a friend, "When you get an illness, start taking vitamin C until you get to bowel tolerance." bowel tolerance is when you reach the level of vitamin C intake where you are sitting on the toilet and you have diarrhea.
What you find is -- and Dr. Cathcart repeatedly saw this -- if you have a minor illness, you can probably take three times the vitamin C that normally would cause you to hit bowel tolerance. If you have a major illness, you might not even be able to hit that level. Dr. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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| For some of those who experienced severe constipation after taking the drug, their feces would become so impacted within their bowel that the bowel wall perforated, leading to potentially fatal infections inside the body.6 The other side effect, ischaemic colitis, is like a heart attack happening in the bowel, and the blood simply stops flowing to it. Sometimes it fixes itself, sometimes the bowel tissues dies, and in rare cases so, too, does the patient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Cathcart told a friend, "When you get an illness, start taking vitamin C until you get to bowel tolerance." bowel tolerance is when you reach the level of vitamin C intake where you are sitting on the toilet and you have diarrhea.
What you find is -- and Dr. Cathcart repeatedly saw this -- if you have a minor illness, you can probably take three times the vitamin C that normally would cause you to hit bowel tolerance. If you have a major illness, you might not even be able to hit that level. Dr. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The maximum burn-rate of vitamin C can be determined by increasing intake to bowel tolerance. To be in dynamic flow, one would need doses totalling half or more of the person's normal bowel tolerance level. The actual minimum daily requirement for optimum health could vary in the range of 100 mg to over 20 g (20,000 mg), depending on the individual. Because vitamin C is excreted quickly, the supplement should be divided into four or more daily doses. If the person developed an illness, the bowel tolerance level might also change quickly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| He could not hit bowel tolerance. He got up 400 grams, 500 grams a day, and 600 grams. At the end of the week he got a telephone call. The person on the phone asked, "Are you okay?" And he said, "Yes, why?" And the person said, "Because your two friends are dead. They got Legionnaires' disease, and it killed them." But he lived. He was fine. He could not hit bowel tolerance, but that is the power of vitamin C.
In other words, the more illness, the more your body needs repairing, because vitamin C is needed to build connective tissue. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Likewise, bowel disorders—Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease—were farmed out to the gastroenterologists.
By the early 1970s autoimmunity was finally an accepted precept—and yet there was no one standing on the mountaintop, looking down at these various specialists' fiefdoms and seeing how the roads leading to them intersected or asking what the common biological origins or treatments for these diseases might be.
Certainly no one was asking what triggered these diseases. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| To be in dynamic flow, one would need doses totalling half or more of the person's normal bowel tolerance level. The actual minimum daily requirement for optimum health could vary in the range of 100 mg to over 20 g (20,000 mg), depending on the individual. Because vitamin C is excreted quickly, the supplement should be divided into four or more daily doses. If the person developed an illness, the bowel tolerance level might also change quickly.
Dynamic flow is the closest humans can get to restoring their physiology to the way it was before they lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 We believe that daily bowel usage is essential for asthmatics. You may ask: 'Why is improved bowel function so important to an asthmatic?' It is well recognised by naturopaths, nutritionists and dietitians that when the body eliminates excessive toxins, the liver and other organs function more efficiently. Indirectly this improves the body's metabolism and so builds up the immune system. This is a basic principle of good health. Just remember the maxim 'We are tomorrow what we eat today'. If you eat a diet that is high in grains, fruit and vegetables? |
| Numerous herbal and homeopathic proprietary lines, such as nux vomica, lycopodium and china, are available from health food stores to improve bowel function, but do avoid using laxatives on a long-term basis. Your aim should be to achieve daily bowel function naturally, not through medications.
Dairy foods have a high protein content as well as containing essential vitamins and minerals, particularly calcium. However, research has indicated that eating dairy foods from cows tends to lead to over-production of mucus in the respiratory passages of some people, which obstructs their breathing. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 When used for constipation, it decreases the passage time of the bowel content through increase in the volume of the stool. It also lowers serum-cholesterol levels. Psyllium also reduces postprandial blood sugar elevation.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
PLANTAGINIS OVATAE SEMEN AND TESTA
¦ Constipation
¦ Diarrhea
¦ Raised levels of cholesterol
Psyllium is used for habitual constipation and disorders where easy bowel movements with a loose stool is desirable (e.g. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Olive Oil Decreases Risk of Colon and bowel Cancer
Dr. Michael Goldacre—who researched diet and disease at the Institute of Health Sciences and published his results in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health—says that olive oil may have a protective effect on the development of colon cancer. And researchers at Oxford found that a diet rich in olive oil was associated with a decreased risk of bowel cancer.
Dr. Mark Houston, director of the Hypertension Institute at St. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So many people are chronically dehydrated, it's no surprise that millions of people suffer from diseases of the large intestine and bowel like Crohn's Disease and Irritable bowel Syndrome.
Likewise, water is important for healthy skin, lubricating it and keeping it soft and supple. Without water, all tissues in the body become crippled at the cellular level; they begin to shrivel and lose their ability to function properly. They are unable to do the basic things that every cell needs to do to survive, which is to take in nutrients and excrete metabolic waste products. |
Jack Challem
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 Inflammatory bowel Syndrome
What Is Inflammatory bowel Syndrome?
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two types of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease have similarities, and often it is difficult to distinguish between the two. As a general rule, ulcerative colitis is an inflammation limited to the wall of the colon (bowel). Its symptoms include abdominal cramps, fever, and bloody diarrhea. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 A study of thirty-seven human volunteers found that green tea increased the regularity of bowel movements. At the beginning of the study, only half of the volunteers reported regular bowel movements, but the number increased to more than 80 percent after twelve weeks of a diet supplemented with green tea polyphenols.8 Animal studies have shown similar improvements in intestinal digestion after ingesting green tea, indicated by a noticeably reduced odor from the feces. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why some people get explosive diarrhea, because it stimulates the receptors in the esophagus and small bowel. Others may develop irritable bowel, or if they have irritable bowel, it makes it a lot worse. If they have reflux, it makes that a lot worse. The thing about the cardiac conduction system glutamate receptors is this may explain the rise in sudden cardiac death.
What you see in almost all these cases is low magnesium. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 What you probably don't know is that the faster food moves through your lower bowel, the more antihunger hormones in your intestinal cells beam up to your brain, telling you not to eat. I bet you think a gastric bypass (stomach stapling) works by making a person's stomach smaller, right? Wrong. It works by increasing the speed with which food arrives at your lower bowel by putting a short circuit in your intestines that stimulates high levels of antihunger hormones. Even one or two days after gastric bypass, most patients completely lose their previously insatiable desire for food. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid ameliorate the acute symptoms of many diseases," Cathcart wrote.
In several published papers, Cathcart argued that the amount of ascorbic acid a person can ingest orally without producing diarrhea was a good measure of how sick he or she was. His theory was that the amount of vitamin C needed to reach the level of bowel tolerance increases considerably the more toxic the illness. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Practices are designed into Juice Feasting to move toxins out quickly through support of the organs of elimination (lymph, blood, skin, liver, kidney, and bowel), thus reducing or eliminating the discomfort that can be associated with cleansing and healing.
Personal hygiene: Enemas and colonics are often helpful. Most of the toxins you release are going to come through your bowel. You are well advised to use an enema each morning for the first 14-21 days of a Juice Feast, as this is the time that the majority of the significant cleansing occurs. |
Mark Sircus
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 Chlorella's cleansing action on the bowel and other elimination channels, as well as its protection of the liver, helps keep the blood clean. Clean blood assures that metabolic wastes are efficiently carried away from the tissues. Chlorella gets its name from the high amount of chlorophyll it possesses.
Chlorella contains more chlorophyll per gram than any other plant. Chlorella can speed up the rate of cleansing of the bowel, bloodstream and liver, by supplying plenty of chlorophyll. |
| When there is an obstruction in the bowel additional caution is required because the main route of elimination of oral magnesium is through the bowel.
Magnesium supplementation is known to interact with many different pharmaceutical drugs and it is wise to know what these are when treating our patients. Certain drugs will increase the loss of magnesium in urine. Thus, taking these medications for long periods of time may contribute to magnesium depletion. On the other hand many antacids and laxatives contain magnesium. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| After one week, all patients were cured of diarrhea, four had improved bowel regularity, and three reported increased energy.
Researchers concluded that aloe was able to rebalance the intestines by "regulating gastrointestinal pH while improving gastrointestinal motility, increasing stool specific gravity, and reducing populations of certain fecal microorganisms, including yeast." Other studies have shown that aloe vera juice helps detoxify the bowel, neutralize stomach acidity, and relieve constipation and gastric ulcers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Cathcart repeatedly saw this -- if you have a minor illness, you can probably take three times the vitamin C that normally would cause you to hit bowel tolerance. If you have a major illness, you might not even be able to hit that level. Dr. Linus Pauling showed that there is a linear response between the amount of vitamin C in a macrophage and the activity of that macrophage.
The more you get in, the more active it is, the more it is able to kill what is needed. You begin to say, "Oh yes, macrophages are really doing a major job" when you get illness. So Dr. |
| He could not hit bowel tolerance, but that is the power of vitamin C.
In other words, the more illness, the more your body needs repairing, because vitamin C is needed to build connective tissue. Any time you get major damage in your body, you have to rebuild your connective tissue. Vitamin C is needed for that. It is there to make your immune system work properly. It is even in your brain as an enzyme. It is used for that, too.
Mike: What about the form of vitamin C?
Dr. Liers: Yes, I think that is important. I use buffered vitamin C. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In this disorder, your bowel lacks enough of the chemicals that break down the sugar lactose, which is found in milk products. A test will allow your doctor to diagnose this insufficiency. Incidentally, many people have experienced an isolated episode of food-related IBS after eating several hand-fuls of sugar-free candy quickly. Aspartame, the chemical with the brand name NutraSweet that is found in many candies and sodas, is non-nutritional and is not absorbed into your body. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In the only controlled trial of CHM for bowel disorders, 116 patients with IBS were randomly assigned to receive traditional CHM with an individualized treatment, a standard formula of twenty herbs used in CHM, or a placebo for fourteen weeks of treatment. Both the herbal treatments were better for IBS symptoms than the placebo, but the individualized CHM was not better than the standard fixed formula.9 This study was well designed and conducted and offers promising results for CHM treatment of IBS, but I would like to see another replication study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Another notable point concerns how many bowel movements a person should really be having each day, because a lot of people are chronically constipated and they don't realize it. Some people think having two bowel movements a week is perfectly normal, and that's absurd. You need to be having two a day in order to be healthy, and if you're having any less than two a day, then you need some additional fiber in your diet. Fiberzon is one of the best ways to get that fiber into your diet. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, suggest that increased activities of the glutathione peroxidase, catalase, and quinone reductase enzymes in numerous organ systems of animals, including the skin, bowel, liver, and lung, is "one of the possible mechanisms of cancer chemopreventive effects associated with green tea."4
Another anti-cancer benefit of green tea is its ability to block the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines from the nitrites and nitrates in processed meats that would otherwise increase the risk of stomach cancer. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| When you are stressed, going from one time zone to another, undergoing an operation, experiencing a viral or bacterial infection, or just arguing with your spouse, dramatically increase your intake of vitamin C to bowel tolerance, which usually occurs at 6,000 to 10,000 mg per day. Typical daily dose: 500-1,000 mg twice a day
Magnesium Most adults become profoundly deficient in magnesium, a mineral essential for muscle contraction and nerve conduction. |
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