Dr. Steve Blake
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 Wanna B" Vitamins
That Might Not Be Vitamins
Many substances are referred to as vitamins. Many of these substances are clearly not vitamins, as they are not essential for life. Some, such as choline, may one day be called vitamins. While not essential for life, some of these substances may enhance health and disease resistance. Many of these "wanna B's" can be found in nutritional supplements.
CHOLINE
Choline is an essential nutrient that may not, strictly speaking, be a vitamin. Choline is synthesized in the body, but enough is not always made to meet needs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once one has become addicted to these substances, stopping could cause withdrawal symptoms similar to those with cocaine, such as: severe depression psychosis restlessness extreme feelings of agitation
You may think that you are safer and more frugal by snorting Ritalin and Adderall, rather than cocaine, but you are harming yourself in similar ways. You also run the risk of arrest for having and using these substances without a prescription. |
Anne Harrington
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 The first was an outgrowth of the discovery in the early 1970s of endorphins, substances in the brain that are chemically similar to opioids and that function as the brain's own natural "painkillers." In 1978 a report was published which suggested that placebo treatments for pain were mediated, at least in part, by these biochemical substances. When an opioid blocker called naloxone was used to block the body's opioid receptors (without telling patients this was being done), placebo responders stopped reporting relief of pain. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Drugs must go through rigorous clinical trials to assure they are safe and effective, because they are synthetic substances that disrupt natural enzyme systems in order to create a therapeutic result. In the last chapter I discussed possible safety risks posed by nutritional supplements. But the risks are few, especially compared with drugs. This is because vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, and so on are actually natural substances that support natural enzyme, antioxidant, and immune systems. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Bur Liebig also argued that other substances with the same essential constituents could replace animal excrement. "It must be admitted as a principle of agriculture, that those substances which have been removed from a soil must be completely restored to it, and whether this restorarion be effected by means of excrements, ashes, or bones, is in a great measure a martet of indifference. A time will come when fields will be manured wirh a solution . . . prepared in chemical manufactories."1 This last idea was revolutionary. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 The bottom line appears to be, at least according to the deep thinkers at the APA, if you use, abuse or experience withdrawal from one of the above substances, with the exception of pot or glue, you are suffering from a mental illness. What gets lost in the APA's psychobabble is not whether these substances chemically alter the mind. Illegal substances, as well as the now socially acceptable prescription psychiatric mind-altering drugs the nation swallows everyday, alter the chemicals in the brain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's the new European standard called Reduction of Hazardous substances. It means our products contain no mercury, cadmium lead or other toxic chemicals or heavy metals. As far as I know, we are currently the only consumer products company in the United States that has gone to the trouble (and expense) of manufacturing and selling RoHS-certified products.
Since these rules are not required in the United States, most retailers pay no attention to them and keep selling products made with mercury and other toxic substances. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 We also now know that fat cells, and the other cells that surround them, produce hormones and other potent substances that convince animals to stop eating. Little did you know it, but you are awash in these substances. But food and pharmaceutical manufacturers provide you with plenty of ways to ignore these warnings.
CALORIC TRADEOFFS
When primates share an environment with predators, as on the African savanna, they tend to form groups composed of several large males for defense and a lot of smaller females to bear offspring. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Things that enhance the power of your intention
Once you're free of the substances interfering with your power of intention, you can move on to enhancing your nervous system health with proper supportive substances. Here are the most important items to consider:
Raw foods: Raw foods really cleanse your nervous system and restore healthy brain function. Drinking raw food juices on a regular basis (freshly made in your own blender, not processed) greatly enhances clarity and the power of intention. Most spiritual leaders around the world follow diets based at least in part on raw foods. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Many of these substances are clearly not vitamins, as they are not essential for life. Some, such as choline, may one day be called vitamins. While not essential for life, some of these substances may enhance health and disease resistance. Many of these "wanna B's" can be found in nutritional supplements.
CHOLINE
Choline is an essential nutrient that may not, strictly speaking, be a vitamin. Choline is synthesized in the body, but enough is not always made to meet needs. In order to make choline, the body needs sufficient methionine, vitamin B12, and folic acid. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Modern scientific medicine depends on plants and animals as a source of chemical substances that might hold therapeutic benefit.
Ginkgo biloba. There is some evidence that ginkgo may have a positive effect on cognition and memory by promoting blood flow to the brain, but it is not proven or approved by the FDA. The mechanism of action of ginkgo is uncertain but it is thought by some to promote blood flow. As with many herbals, it difficult to know the composition of the substances that you're buying. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 Bioidentical, natural hormones are substances generally produced from plant products that closely mimic the body's own hormone production, both structurally and chemically. Examples of bioidentical hormones include: DHEA, natural progesterone, natural estrogens, natural testosterone, melatonin, hydrocortisone, human growth hormone, and pregnenolone. Hormones that have been chemically altered are termed synthetic hormones.
Synthetic hormones are not naturally occurring substances in the body. In fact, synthetic hormones are not found in any living forms. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Beyond the typical vitamins and minerals, there are many herbal remedies and other natural substances that have been around for thousands of years, which have been shown to have positive effects on human physiology. For the savvy, well-informed consumer, there are quality products available for a wide variety of health issues. However, there is also a deluge of supplements and herbal or natural substances that have been cleverly packaged and marketed by unscrupulous profiteers who seek to exploit people's demand for natural products. |
Jack Challem
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 Both subcutaneous and visceral fat secrete inflammation-causing substances that further harm the body.
Measuring Your Body Proportions and Belly Fat
How do you measure your belly fat? The simplest method is to stand naked in front of a mirror without sucking in your gut. If your belly sticks out from your chest (not counting your breasts, if you're a woman), you have too much belly fat.
Another way is to measure your waist, but don't use your belt size. Men tend to wear their belts below their waists, leading them to think they're thinner than they really are. |
Anne Harrington
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| Indeed, it had been found that one could take the relevant cells and substances out of the host body and put them in a petri dish with some toxin or foreign agent, and they would still move smoothly into action, just as they would under normal (in vivo) conditions.
During the late 1970s, however, a series of challenges emerged to this consensus understanding of the immune system. |
| In 1978 a report was published which suggested that placebo treatments for pain were mediated, at least in part, by these biochemical substances. When an opioid blocker called naloxone was used to block the body's opioid receptors (without telling patients this was being done), placebo responders stopped reporting relief of pain.55 Was there then a real biochemistry to placebo responses—and, by extension, to the power of positive thinking—just as Cousins had predicted? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Take particular note of the number of black squares; each signifies a multihazard site—a combination of hazardous, toxic, and/or Superfund-classified substances and chemicals found at the locale. You might blink twice to think how foolhardy it would be for anyone to live smack in the heart of 14211 in the East Ferry neighborhood of Buffalo—it's just that toxic. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| It held that there were these essential organic substances naturally present in our bodies that in some cases, because of dietary deficiencies or health issues, needed to be supplemented. All you had to do was take a little pill each day to ensure that your body had all the "Recommended Daily Allowances" needed for good health. It was hard to ignore something that sounded so good for you. It became easy and popular to pop a pill to maintain good health. |
| Addiction is not limited to the most common substances like illicit drugs, alcohol or tobacco. We are a society awash in many forms of addiction including prescription and over-the-counter drugs, food, television, the Internet, pornography, sex, gambling, shopping and even our very lifestyles. Stay with me and I'll prove my point.
Escape into the Unknown
The core of addictive behavior is the desire for escape. Addiction moves people from one state of mind to another. The addiction controls your motivation and desire; it directs your state of mind or your mindset. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| By the time scientists fully recognized autoimmunity and its umbrella of diseases in the 1970s, lead was already on its way to being understood as one of the most noxious substances on earth. Asking the question of whether it could also promote autoimmune disease was pushed aside by the pressing scientific effort to understand lead's role in impairing neural development in children. |
| Islet cell antibodies are produced when the body's immune system fails to recognize insulin-generating islet cells produced by the pancreas as natural to the body and attacks them as if they were dangerous foreign substances, suddenly decreasing the body's ability to produce the insulin that helps cells absorb glucose. High levels of islet cell antibodies show that the body is destroying the islet cells in the pancreas.
Tests developed in the mid-1990s found that a combination of two newly recognized autoantibodies—GAD65 and IA-2—could also predict type 1 diabetes over time. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 One of the best of those natural substances is 5-HTP.
Depression Is Not a Prozac Deficiency
The term 5-HTP stands for 5-hydroxytrypto-phan, and it's the stuff out of which your body makes serotonin, one of the major players in a group of neurotransmitters—chemicals that transmit information in the brain. Though depression is complicated and undoubtedly has many precipitating factors, it's widely accepted that neurotransmitters are deeply involved, especially serotonin. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| However, there is also a deluge of supplements and herbal or natural substances that have been cleverly packaged and marketed by unscrupulous profiteers who seek to exploit people's demand for natural products. Yet many of these miracle supplements are marketing creations with absolutely no proof of benefit. In some cases they can be harmful to your health. A product marketed as natural does not mean it is safe.
Beyond the extensive research compiled to bring you this information, I have also consulted with and interviewed two of the top professionals in the health and fitness industry. |
| Today, vitamins are defined as a group of natural substances found in plants and animal tissue essential in small amounts for metabolic processes. The key word here is essential, which means the human body must have it. Conversely, the definition of a supplement is something added to complete a thing or to make up for a deficiency. Covering what was essential for the diet and what needed to be added to the diet, the term "vitamin supplement" was coined. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Bacteria that are exposed to regular supplies of the poisonous antibiotic substances will, therefore, try to become immune to the poisons. To survive such assaults, bacteria have their own sophisticated defense strategies, which are in a way similar to ours when we need to defend ourselves against invasive bacteria or viruses. One possible way for bacteria to evade an antibiotic attack is to mutate their genes. As a result, the bacteria become resistant to the active ingredients of a drug, which subsequently renders the drug ineffective. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| While not essential for life, some of these substances may enhance health and disease resistance. Many of these "wanna B's" can be found in nutritional supplements.
CHOLINE
Choline is an essential nutrient that may not, strictly speaking, be a vitamin. Choline is synthesized in the body, but enough is not always made to meet needs. In order to make choline, the body needs sufficient methionine, vitamin B12, and folic acid. Consequently, choline is sometimes needed in the diet. Lecithin (phosphatidylcholine) contains about 13 percent choline by weight. |
Sue Palmer
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 British toxicologist Vyvyan Howard points out that additives are tested by food companies one at a time, and little is known about how they react in combination: 'A number of these substances are related very closely to transmitter substances in the brain, which is the way nerve cells talk to each other. If you interfere with that, you interfere with brain function.' But establishing whether this is the case, and then the exact nature of each additive's contribution, will be difficult and could take decades. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The taste buds for bitter taste are very developed and can detect even the slightest trace of bitter-tasting substances. We have this facility because bitter foods may contain alkaloids and can be poisonous. If toxins build up in the blood the body requires a bitter- tasting antidote or medicine that purifies it and restores its balance. Blood-cleansing herbs or teas generally taste very bitter. The human body accepts chocolate, coffee, tea, and beers, which are of predominantly bitter taste, only after our persuasive mind or added sugar manages to override the taste barrier. |
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