Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 There have been several good scientific studies on the use of ginger in nausea of pregnancy and the more severe state called hyperemesis gravidarum (severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy). In these studies, ginger brought about a significant reduction in both the severity of the nausea and the number of attacks of vomiting in the majority of the patients. In all of these studies, there were no adverse effects on pregnancy and pregnancy outcome. In fact, in the most recent study of 70 women, there were three spontaneous abortions in the placebo group and only one in the ginger group. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Aloe vera stabilizes blood sugar in diabetics
Diabetic patients who take aloe vera for 3 months experience a significant drop in fasting blood sugar levels. They also exhibit lower cholesterol levels and slight improvements in total cholesterol. Numerous clinical studies have been published that demonstrate aloe vera's antidiabetic properties.
Diabetics are also likely to benefit strongly from aloe vera's blood enhancements (see below). |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 However, there are no scientific studies that support their benefit except one very small (20 persons) study of ginkgo biloba in patients with AMD, in which improvement in visual acuity was indicated in a preliminary report (recently reviewed [233]).
IV. DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
A. Overview
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a disease among people with diabetes that is considered to be the result of damage to the microvasculature of the retina. It is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in working age U.S. adults (20-74 years) [234]. |
| An Al was set because there were not enough scientific studies defining a requirement for vitamin D at the time of deliberation. The Al was based on maintenance of serum 25(OH)D levels in the absence of sunlight (i.e., wintertime) at or above 27.5 nmol/liter for most age groups. Dietary intakes of a group of apparently healthy adults were taken as being the amount needed. It is not surprising that following over 10 years of new research on vitamin D, many authors argue for a revision (upward) for dietary vitamin D recommendations [e.g., 4, 12, 22, 44, 60].
B. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Even though scientific studies are controversial on this subject, the practical results speak for themselves. Restricting the intake of coffee (both caffeinated and decaffeinated), black tea, chocolate, and caffeine-containing soft drinks
Dietary Recommendations
• Reduce the intake of alcohol, caffeine, salt, sugar, refined carbohydrates, and dairy products.
• Increase the intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, fish, soy, and healthy oils such as fish, flaxseed, and olive oils. will especially benefit those with fluid-retention symptoms. |
| Exercise
Specific exercises are conspicuously absent from scientific studies looking at the effects of exercise on PMS. In contrast, although mechanisms of action remain elusive, general regular physical exercise has been the subject of several controlled trials. In all of these, the results show that women who exercise regularly have less strong or fewer PMS symptoms.
Aerobic training (walking, jogging, swimming, cycling) appears more effective at reducing PMS symptoms than strength training (weight lifting). |
| Double-blind, placebo-controlled scientific studies attempt to find what works for as many people as possible, not what works best for an individual.
Even in studies where the placebo response is given credit, perhaps the belief that the mind can heal the body is the real explanation. The interaction between neurotransmitters, neurophysiology, the body's steroids, circadian systems, mood, and behavior plus plants and nutrients from nature may remain scientifically elusive, but, to the credit of women, we have instinctually come upon safe and effective natural solutions. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 They feed older animals instead of more sensitive young ones, keep sample sizes too low to achieve the statistical significance needed for proof in scientific studies, dilute the GM component of the feed, overcook samples, compare results with irrelevant controls, choose obsolete insensitive detection methods, limit the duration of feeding trials, and even ignore animal deaths and sickness. They've got "bad science" down to a science. |
Melody Petersen
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 And the moderating force that had kept scientific studies honest and impartial began to disappear.
In the late 1990s two European scientists, a husband-and-wife team from Denmark, set out to analyze the many clinical trials that had compared a new fungus-fighting drug called Diflucan with older medications. Almost all the studies had been paid for by Pfizer, which sold Diflucan, and taken together, they made the case that Diflucan was the better drug.
Pfizer advertised Diflucan to American women as the "neat" treatment for yeast infections. |
| Ioannidis, an epidemiologist who holds positions at Tufts University and at the University of Ioannina in Greece, said in 2005 that the conclusions of most published scientific studies are just plain wrong. In an essay, Dr. Ioannidis blamed the industrial quest for profit, the growing number of conflicts of interest among scientists, the small size of many clinical trials, as well as the manipulation of their design, for creating an era in medicine when most studies turn out to be fiction. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Much of the scientific evidence is preliminary and only has been verified by small scientific studies but is consistent with hundreds and thousands of years of traditional ayurvedic and Chinese claims and uses, so we tentatively give the benefit of any doubt to tradition.
Long-Standing Evidence
For thousands of years, ayurvedic and Chinese physicians, practitioners, and laypeople have observed the health-promoting benefits of adaptogens. Some of the practitioners documented their actions and reported on the efficacy and safety of the herbs. |
Melody Petersen
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| The regulators found that the companies were making claims that were not backed by scientific studies.
In 1999, for instance, Pharmacia claimed in an ad aimed at physicians that Detrol worked more selectively on a patient's bladder than on her salivary glands. To doctors, this claim was important. It implied that Detrol was better at causing a dry bladder than a dry mouth, which is a frequent side effect of the pill. But the FDA pointed out that Pharmacia's study on selectivity was not even done on humans. Instead, it was a study on cats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The mainstream media, which repeatedly demonstrates astonishing ignorance on issues of nutrition and health, also seems to have very little ability to interpret scientific studies and reach reasoned conclusions about what those studies do or do not prove.
Was the vaccine study another example of corrupt science?
Besides, this entire discussion is based on the idea that we can trust the research in the first place. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 In modern times, scientific studies have confirmed many of the traditionally held beliefs about green tea. It seems that every few months another scientific study confirms the healthful potential of green tea that was first recorded by a Chinese emperor more than 4,000 years ago.
Some of the most exciting research involves the link between green tea and the prevention of cancer. Additionally, green tea eases the adverse effects of cancer therapies, such as radiation and chemotherapy. |
Devra Davis
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 While science prides itself on being open and free and vital to democratic societies, scientific studies on matters of tobacco and industrial hazards have been anything but.
Under the guise of protecting trade secrets and in the name of national security, public access to scientific research has been a guarded enterprise. As a Chinese proverb notes, a way of looking is a way of not looking.
U.S. Army Captain Robert Kehoe, on assignment for the Office of Strategic Services, June 1944, to interview leading German scientists, accompanied by a senior German researcher, possibly Ferdinand Flury. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The company selling this food supplement lists dozens of scientific studies, including ones on people, indicating that the product can improve natural killer (NK) cell activity. This is particularly interesting in CFS because immune activation is one of the mechanisms forwarded by some to explain the sick feeling, fatigue, and soreness characteristic of CFS. I'll go into this hypothesis in more detail in the next chapter but need to touch upon NK cell function here. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Caffeine and Theophylline Content of Foods and Beverages
Product (One Serving)
Caffeine
Theophylline
Coffee (brewed)
60-160 mg
Omg
Coffee (instant)
30-120 mg
Omg
Coffee (decaffeinated)
1-5 mg
Omg
Soft drinks
40-70 mg
Omg
Black tea
20-90 mg
3-4 mg
Oolong tea
10-45 mg
3-1 mg
Green tea
6-30 mg
3-1 mg
Tea (instant or iced)
10-45 mg
3-4 mg
Chocolate (per ounce)
1-15 mg
Omg
Hot chocolate
2-20 mg
Omg
Caffeine has been shown in scientific studies to enhance cognitive performance, particularly for reaction time, spatial relationships, and certain aspects of memory. |
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 HERBALISM
Ginkgo: Ginkgo can be taken as a tea or tincture two to three times a day; most scientific studies use standardized extracts once or twice a day. Ginkgo has few reported side effects, although care should be exercised for those who are also taking anticoagulant and antithrombotic drugs as there may be an added risk of bleeding.
Coleus: Coleus contains a compound called forskolin that may be helpful in lowering the pressure inside the eye, which is of primary importance when treating glaucoma. Coleus is not easily available, and standardized extracts may be even harder to find. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Almost all of the scientific studies conducted on the thousands of drugs and treatments applied by medical doctors throughout the world included the placebo effect. Although the placebo effect is a purely subjective response by the patient or the subject being tested, it somehow became an essential factor for medical research to be considered objective and reliable. Nevertheless, the placebo effect, which represents the body's own healing mechanism, has never been the subject of research. After all, you cannot patent the placebo healing response and make money from selling it. |
| Many scientific studies have found that blueberries and cranberries are beneficial in fighting UTIs by blocking or prohibiting the growth of bacteria. Cranberry juice has traditionally been known to clear up a bladder infection or urinary tract infection within one to two days. Take two to three ounces of juice three to four times per day, about Vi hour before meals and just before going to sleep.
Research shows that blueberries contain high concentrations of antioxidant compounds with medicinally beneficial properties. |
| There are no scientific studies that appeared in medical journals (search Medline) that can back the claims made for any of their products, including Ambrotose. The only "research" that exists is the one promoted by the company and its affiliations. As of July 2007—Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General has charged Mannatech, Inc., its owner, Samuel L. Caster, and several related entities with promoting an illegal marketing scheme that encourages consumers to believe that its products are effective against many serious diseases. |
Bill Sardi
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 Finally, recent modern scientific studies vindicate vitamin C as a potent weapon against cancer cells, yet modern medicine inexplicably ignores its irreplaceable role in cancer prevention.
Linus Pauling era
The validity of the use of high-dose vitamin C to treat cancer has almost solely been pegged to research conducted by Drs. Ewan Cameron of Scotland and Nobel laureate Dr. Linus Pauling in the mid-1970s. But there were both animal and human studies dating back to the 1930s which revealed unusual reports of remissions and prolonged survival associated with vitamin C therapy. |
Ron Garner
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 Two separate scientific studies found the rubella (German measles) vaccine, introduced in 1979, to be the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also called Epstein-Barr Virus). In children, the virus can stay in their systems for years and can be passed on to adults through casual contact.
The pertussis (whooping cough) death rate decreased by more than 75% before the vaccine was introduced.
In the U.S. in 1984, among all children between the ages of 7 months and 6 years who contracted pertussis, 46% had been vaccinated against the disease. |
Melody Petersen
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| The problem was that scientific studies had not been able to prove that the benefits of such screening outweighed the possible harm, which includes the danger of diagnosing and prescribing medications to students who are not mentally ill.
The pharmaceutical industry had long been involved in promoting Dr. Shaffer's work. For example, at the press conference in 2000 at which Dr. |
Devra Davis
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| While people may think of the ACS as a foremost supporter of research, in 2005 it reported spending less than
10 percent of its nearly billion dollar budget on independent scientific studies.18
• The life-saving test for cervical cancer, called the Pap smear, was not put into widespread use until more than a decade after it had been proven to prevent this disease, because of fears that it would undermine the private practice of medicine. These delays led to unnecessary surgery or death for millions of women. |
Ron Garner
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| Several scientific studies have linked high levels of phytoestrogens to many hormonal problems, including early puberty in girls.31
When we understand how such foods are grown, processed, chemicalized, and promoted to the public, these hormonal side effects should not be too surprising. Excess estrogen, or xenoestrogens, in the body can produce a myriad of undesirable symptoms. |
Mark Lynas
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 Shelley's poem, which today evokes the Middle East, may summon to mind Italy, Spain, Turkey or Greece in the four-degree world. scientific studies exhibit near-unanimity in projecting drier climates with far hotter temperatures for the Mediterranean fringe of Europe. One recent modelling exercise, conducted by scientists based in Sweden and Finland, projects rainfall declines across the entire area - with up to 70 per cent of summer rainfall disappearing. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 All of this has been illustrated by several scientific studies that I discuss in this book. Before you take that pill, consider taking charge of your health by making informed decisions and smart changes in your lifestyle. In some cases, however, you may need medications to prevent or treat a disease or to help you with troubling symptoms or disabilities. In those cases I want you to know as much as you can about the risks and benefits. I hope this book helps you do that.
To your health! |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Melatonin is best known for its hypnotic or sleep-inducing powers (see "The Role of Melatonin," page 17), but numerous scientific studies have shown that melatonin is a powerful antioxidant as well. And because melatonin is produced within the brain, it does not have to contend with the blood-brain barrier.
Melatonin is a highly effective scavenger of hydroxyl radicals and per-oxyl radicals, another type of toxic free radical. In fact, melatonin has been shown to be more effective in scavenging hydroxyl radicals than other well-known antioxidants, such as glutathione. |
Jack Challem
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 We are not exaggerating—the effect has been demonstrated many times in scientific studies.
Specifically, boosting your consumption of high-quality protein and fiber is central to reducing your blood-sugar levels and appetite. We'll provide you with specific food suggestions here and in other chapters. Several individual foods and condiments also have remarkable benefits
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