Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 You will learn the importance of detoxification diets and be introduced to organ-cleansing methods, such as enemas, colonics, and the liver flush. We also provide dietary, herbal, and supplement remedies for conditions such as candidiasis (overgrowth of the Candida albicans fungus) and parasites, two factors that impair the ability of the intestines to eliminate toxins, which ultimately disrupts sleep.
Step 3: Reset your body clock. The importance of balanced circadian rhythms will be emphasized in chapter 5, Reset Your Body Clock. |
Devra Davis
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 The public forms its judgment of the relative importance of its health needs on visual and emotional stimuli rather than by the process of thought. Infantile paralysis hits children and leaves very clear evidence of disease. . . . Cancer, too, moves silently and quickly. Its ravages, however, are less obvious because it kills rather than maims.15
Through the ASCC and other political and social ties, Little lobbied for the establishment of the U.S. National Advisory Cancer Council in 1937, a group that was headed by the surgeon general, Thomas Par-ran, and included such luminaries as James B. |
Tom Bohager
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 He was among the first to discover the importance of organically grown whole foods as he conducted research testing the reaction of all types of foods on the body's various systems. He found that raw ripe fruits, vegetables, and juices had the most healthful effects. Dr. Gerson believed that 80 percent of all disease could be eradicated by eliminating canned, frozen, and processed foods from the diet, foods completely devoid of enzymes. |
| My favorite is Conscious Eating, in which he talks about the importance of raw food, enzymes, enzyme therapy, and pH balance. In my opinion, this is one of the most thorough and balanced approaches to nutrition, health, and healing ever written. It is based on his experience and success in the clinic he founded and thus has real practical benefits.
ELLEN CUTLER, MD
Dr. Cutler, the "Enzyme Empress," as she is called by her patients, is the best-selling author of four books, an internationally recognized teacher, and an eminent public speaker. Dr. |
| However, though we may not be able to replace the enzymes we are specifically deficient in with supplements, we can supply the body with the energy and resources it needs to rectify the deficiency and achieve the balance that is lacking.
The importance of metabolic energy is perhaps better understood through the research of J.W. MacArthur and W.H.T. Baillie, who studied the life span of the Daphinia water flea. They concluded that the duration of the insect's life varied with the intensity of its metabolic needs. (Edward Howell, Enzyme Nutrition [New York: Avery, 1995] 22). |
| If our bodies are not in balance (for instance, the pH in our small intestines is too acidic) the enzymes we produce or consume may do us little good. The importance of pH will be discussed in more detail in chapter 3.
USING SUPPLEMENTAL ENZYMES TO IMPROVE HEALTH
As discussed, metabolic enzyme production (or the lack of it) plays a surprisingly important role in maintaining good health. Unfortunately, when metabolic enzyme production suffers there is no pill that can specifically make up for the loss or lack of these vital metabolic enzymes directly. |
| HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP
This book will help you appreciate the importance of enzymes and how vital they are in supporting optimal health. Once you truly understand this connection, you will have a potent tool to help you maintain your health and overcome common health issues.
In part 1, I will explain the vital contribution enzymes make to our overall health, vitality, and longevity. Chapter 1 describes the role of enzymes as the catalysts of life, explaining how they are produced and used by the body. Chapter 2 explains the link between enzymes and digestive health. |
Elaine Magee
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 The low incidence of diabetes in people who lost at least 5 percent of their initial weight underscores the importance of even small v/eight loss when trying to prevent diabetes, according to results from the Helsinki study. Obesity is the most notable modifiable risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes; in fact, more than 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.
2. Increase physical activity. Both weight loss and improved fitness have been associated with the reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes. |
| CALCIUM SYNERGY BOOSTS BONE MASS
Calcium is the mineral du jour when it comes to bone development; vitamin D seems to get short shrift, despite its importance to a strong skeleton. Vitamin D improves the amount of calcium that gets absorbed in the intestines and is required for normal bone growth. But that's only the beginning. Recent results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial, involving more than 36,000 women ages 50 to 79, taught us a few important lessons about calcium and vitamin D. Here's a quick summary:
More calcium helps only if you don't get enough. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| I'm cognizant of the importance of this tool. However, if I were a rape victim, I don't think anyone would praise a policeman or doctor for comforting me or motivating me with the sentiment: "Aren't you glad your rapist used a condom?"
If a diabetic experiences complications, it has been customary to place the blame on the diabetic for not keeping his/her "numbers" good. In other words, the diabetic is told, or made to feel, that he/she didn't try hard enough to maintain normal numbers; he/she is a bad diabetic; he/she is responsible for being a victim. |
| The new pills created to combat these "diseases" are so lucrative that risks for the patient are of only minimal importance.
Arthritis, chronic bowel syndrome, social anxiety disorder, baldness...the list of chronic diseases continues to grow, joining old-timers like diabetes, multiple sclerosis, allergies, Parkinson's disease, and asthma. The victims are the patients who have a need for relief of their symptoms and a cure. |
| They band together in "secret" groups to perpetuate these positions of importance and greed.
If you watch television or read newspapers and magazines, the glossy, professional advertisements that engulf you present one facet of the pharmaceutical corporations. Their advertisements would lead you to believe that pharmaceutical corporations are doing everything in their power to alleviate your suffering. They spend huge amounts of money on research and development; they support programs for the underprivileged and the elderly; they finance advocacy groups that "educate" the public. |
Anne Harrington
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 Health, Stanford University Like Holland, Spiegel believed passionately in the importance of offering patients opportunities to improve their coping skills and enhance their quality of life as they learned to live with their cancer diagnosis. His own approach to that professional task had its origins in an experimental form of psychotherapy undertaken in the 1970s in collaboration with an older psychiatric colleague named Irvin Yalom. |
Devra Davis
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| The medical profession should be better educated about the need for exhaustive case histories which carry the individual's jobs record in detail back as far as twenty-five years, about the urgency of checking medical suspicions of industrial cancer hazards against careful epidemiological studies of all workers in a plant, and about the paramount importance of impressing plant management with the seriousness of the problem. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The tiny blood capillaries, which have the thickness of one tenth of a human hair, are of particular importance to the body. Unlike the arteries, capillaries permit oxygen, water, and nutrients to pass through their thin walls to bring nourishment to the designated tissues. At the same time, they allow for certain cellular waste to return to the blood so that it can be excreted from the body. If the capillary network becomes congested for the reasons explained below, the heart has to pump the blood with greater pressure to reach all parts of the body. |
Devra Davis
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| Merton so elegantly showed us, that the human impulse to be seen as the first to do something of obvious importance sometimes inspires less than gallant behavior. From my conversations with each of them over many years, neither Doll nor Wynder was inclined to acknowledge the value of what the other had done. They engaged in sometimes subtle, sometimes not so subtle campaigns for public recognition of their work. |
| Public health importance should not be confused with statistical significance. You can have one without the other.
Where small numbers of persons or very rare events are involved, using the p-value alone may be plain wrong. In these situations, epidemiologists sometimes rely on "confidence intervals" that are calculated to show the values that are likely to have occurred. Basically a confidence interval lets us know the range within which a given result is likely to fall about 95 percent of the time. In other words, there's just a . |
| The environment is no longer a niche issue of radical chic, but a matter of broadly understood importance. Those of us who indict past failures have a duty to develop new solutions.
My parents, Brigadier General (retired) Harry B. Davis and Jean Langer Davis, shown at West Point, New York, three weeks before my father died of multiple myeloma in 1984.
Epilogue
Mother's Last
"What's the matter with her?" "There's nothing the matter with her. She's dying."
-ZORBA THE GREEK
Whenever someone calls your cell phone and asks if it's you on the other end, you know something's wrong. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 But the importance of omega-3 s for the brain hardly stops after infancy. Too little omega-3 s have been linked to both attention deficit disorder (ADD) and depression. Research at Harvard has shown significant improvement in bipolar depression with large doses of omega-3 supplements. And studies have strongly suggested that increased fish oil intake could reduce anger and hostility in alcoholics, troubled teenagers, and violence-prone prisoners.
"Clearly omega-3 fatty acids are essential to good brain health," says my friend Daniel Amen, M.D. |
| New research is showing its importance in preventing cancer. We now know that it's essential for bone strength. Sex hormones are made from the stuff. Populations that don't get much sunlight are at greater risk for multiple sclerosis. And now new research is pointing to the fact that physical performance— especially in older folks—is significantly affected by their vitamin D status. This might not be much of a problem except for the fact that more than 25 percent of the population—probably more—is vitamin D deficient.
Let me explain. |
| University of Washington Medical Center and a great practitioner of integrative, holistic medicine, has written eloquently on the importance of iodine in the diet for a number of different conditions. "There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine," he says.
Miller points out that Japanese consumption of iodine through seaweed is many, many times that of the United States, and that the health comparisons between the two countries are disturbing. |
| One super antioxidant that has special importance to people with asthma is selenium (see Desert Island Cures, page 313). A number of studies have reported low selenium levels in people with asthma, and O one study—in the American Journal of Respiratory rjj and Critical Care Medicine—reported that study ^ participants with the highest intakes of selenium % m were only about half as likely to have asthma as 1/1 those who consumed the least. (Not much selenium was needed for the positive effect—under 100 meg. |
| A large body of scientific research has demonstrated GPC's importance for the brain. "I continue to be fascinated by GPC's capacities to salvage function in the damaged brain, to sharpen mental performance even in people who are healthy, and to give new vitality to the aging brain," Kidd says.
I'll tell you one of many examples that demonstrate the scientific validation of this remarkable nutrient. One set of trials involved a fascinating phenomenon called scopolamine amnesia. |
Anne Harrington
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| Having been finally persuaded of the importance of psychological factors in the genesis of hysteria, he saw no reason to hesitate further simply because Bernheim had been first to see the situation clearly. French medicine needed a strong rebuttal to the Church's views on Lourdes, and he was in a position, on behalf of his profession, to provide one. And so Charcot wrote "The Faith Cure" ("La foi qui guerit"), and arranged for it to be published simultaneously in English and French in 1892, one year before his death.
The article began by setting out its assumptions. |
| His importance to the history of mind-body medicine, however, is less as a real philosopher and more as a symbol of modern errors, a foil against which modern champions of one or another story of mind-body integration express their nostalgia for a fantasized premodern past when we all were whole and integrated, mind and body.5
A theoretical interlude
I have been using the word "story" freely in my remarks so far, but what do I mean by this word? "Story" is, of course, part of common speech, where it often has a suspect status, certainly to those people who value their science. |
| A story ends, often with a final event that implicitly affirms the importance of certain values. Certain actions lead to good outcomes ("Cinderella married the prince"), and other actions lead to bad ones
("Cinderella's stepmother and her ugly daughters lived the rest of their days under a cloud of shame and disgrace"). The best stories leave us with a sense of satisfaction for this reason.
Good stories, however, are not just talk. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Aveeno clearly recognizes the importance of UVA protection or they wouldn't be using avobenzone in their Continuous Protection sunscreens above. |
Devra Davis
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| The terms we use to depict cellular derangements reflect the vital importance of order. The path from normal, to dysplastic (meaning literally out of order), to neoplastic (meaning newly disordered cells), to cancer is not simple but appears to be fairly direct. When magnified, cancerous cells, or those likely to become cancerous, present as modern-day equivalents of Hippocrates' disorderly, menacing crab, or karkinoma.
Today, when a Pap smear uncovers an abnormality, the deviant cells can simply be taken out, long before cancer has a chance to arise. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The Bioenergetic importance of Body and Organ Cavities Modern science has shown how your physical body is awash in energy in many different forms, such as electrical pulses, vibrations and pressure waves, and sound energies of various frequencies. For instance, your brain produces different types of low-frequency electtical energy in the form of alpha, beta, delta, theta, and gamma waves. Traditional medicine can describe these energies, but it cannot explain them. |
Bottom Line Health
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| It means checking every time they come in for a visit, and helping patients and their families understand the importance of taking medicine."
Although the study was not designed to show the repercussions of not taking drugs as prescribed, there were indications that patients who followed drug therapy instructions had a better survival rate. "This is consistent with the results we see in randomized trials," she says.
WAKE-UP CALL
"There were suspicions about inconsistent use of heart drugs," Newby says, "but it's always a surprise when you see numbers like these. |
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