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What follows is the harsh reality. Most pharmaceuticals treat only the symptom of
an illness, but do nothing to help the body cure the disease on its own. Additionally, if the pharmaceutical did effectively treat the symptoms if not the disease, but did nothing to exacerbate the disease, that would be fine.
Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case. A serious problem occurs when the
pharmaceutical taken for a disease actually makes the disease worse, while only "masking" its symptoms. Then, tragically, the disease that the body
might have, perhaps, cured on its own (or at least held in check!) now becomes a "chronic" disease resulting from the damage done (ironically!) by those self-same pharmaceuticals most would have considered to be their cure! Eventually, one becomes exceptionally unfortunate. Ones once treatable condition becomes a chronic "progressive" disease...
...Progressive (for the euphemistically challenged?) means one dies
"sooner", rather than "later." "Chronic", to recap, meant: one's going to die of this disease... sooner or later.
...To the point, I feel the common drugs prescribed for Crohn's disease fall into
the preceding wretched category...
In 1992, after decades of constitutional abuse, Crohn's Disease hit me with a
fervid and debilitating vengeance. Crohn's disease, for the uninitiated, is a serious illness regarding a chronic inflammation of all or part of the lower intestine.
Forgetting for a moment that I brought it, completely, on my 'un-enlightened' self, it presupposes great pain, general fecal incontinence, dangerous weight loss and a
necessary self-imposed confinement. Additionally, it causes fatigue, depression, pervasive weakness, and is a destroyer of life's quality. Such was the quality, and worse,
of my life.
When I first went to the Doctor regarding this condition, the GI
(gastrointestinal) specialist immediately and reflexively put me on a six week regimen of the steroid Prednisone and then followed this with large daily doses of the sulfa
drug, sulphasalazine. A testament to the toxicity of these dangerous prescription drugs is that I began eight full-years of a misery so complete, absolute, and progressive
that I began to wonder how life could be borne at all.
I was in hell. Note that past tense.
At about year seven of this constant and unending torment I started having
periodic bouts of partial bowel-blockage that would compel me to drive myself to the hospital emergency room, literally on the verge of screaming. Again there was more
Prednisone, only taking the edge off my continuing torture.
I was dying, I felt. My weight was in a downward spiral, I was constantly ill and
beset by sores, rashes, and open lesions. Moreover, my hopefulness was destroyed by a platoon of Doctors and specialists making every indication that everything that could be done was being done, short of inconclusive surgery to remove large sections of my bowel...
Driven to distraction, and curious that diet (except to do nothing special!) was
not even mentioned in the course of years of unsatisfactory treatment, I began to research my medical predicament on my own. I'm immediately shocked to discover that there is a whole other nutritional community out there that had much better information on my predicament than I had! It was common knowledge to every holistic MD, every herbalist, and even every giggling high school girl clerking the local health food store that Prednisone and sulphasalazine were, assuredly, bad for the gut in the short and long term.
This seemingly credible community advises that the 'Gut' is the first and most
important line of medical defense. A sick gut at any location is in fact made only worse by pain-killers and steroids! Also, they inform that relatively disease free guts were under constant attack by antibiotics, much too liberally prescribed, chlorine in the tap-water, and other needless environmental insults that our un-enlightened flesh is heir to.
These drugs make the individual sicker because, despite the fact that they can
reduce the trouble causing inflammation and make one feel a little better - they throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water. In fact, they make the disease worse.
In the first place they too blithely kill the very necessary good bacteria along with bad bacteria. In the second place the Prednisone suppresses the entire immune system
so the whole individual is vastly more prone to opportunistic disease and infection of all types...
The aforementioned 'good' bacteria is a symbiotic animal evolved to live with us -
in our gut - and it is the best defense we have against a plethora of parasites, toxins, and infectious microbes. The ever present Candida, for example, proliferates when
not held in check by the gut's good bacteria. Candida produces colonies of yeast that take up parasitic residence in the lining of the colon. These little bits of yeast
not only decrease the functionality of the affected gut and provide for more illness, they are also absorbed into the blood stream to take up residence in the liver, spleen, kidneys or even the vagina. These harmful disease germs, liberated by the prescribed drugs, are not good friends and neighbors.
This yeast-leaking gut, or 'leaky-gut' - leaking everything, by the way -
makes the individual sick in other ways seemingly un-related to the distant problem in the bowels! Osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, fibromyalia, MS,
chronic-fatigue syndrome, and arthritis begin a long list of the diseases that can be caused by a 'leaky-gut' syndrome. That list just goes on and on.
It is no stretch, assuming that the list of diseases can in fact have this common
cause, that a healthy gut pre-supposes a healthy individual, and that a healthy gut is the first line of defense in a program of total health. As an aside to the reader, perhaps it is the bowel and not the cardiovascular system that should get the obsessive attention that the heart and lungs, surely, do.
Eventually returning to the hospital for the usual appointment, I confronted my
HMO doctor with this new information, and explained to him how it seemed to completely dovetail into my own, pretty vast, experience with what I must now identify as the
'Prednisone Lie'. Each of the six-times I had been placed on the steroid Prednisone, I was told that it would "beat back the Crohn's disease" and that after a
few weeks of "healing" (ha!) I could come off the dangerous steroid and the Crohn's would return... but it would "not be as bad." A lie, well meaning or no.
Well - I had noticed that after any of the subsequent Prednisone treatments that
the Crohn's disease would actually be worse! Sulfa drugs and steroids were making my disease more severe, was my experience. There was no "healing". There was no
'real' remission! I would anticipate the Prednisone for some small temporary relief, ignoring the probability that I would actually feel worse after the Prednisone. Was there not something else?
At this point I began to beg the Doctor for anything that might help. He looked me right in the eye, and, apparently oblivious to what I had told him, suggested a steroid enema..... I hung my head and walked out of his office. He asked me where I was going. Not breaking stride, I almost told him that maybe it was he that was in need of that steroid enema...
I've never been back to the doctor again regarding my Crohn's disease. That was
about eighteen months ago. Instead, I went on a campaign of intense research, open-minded evaluation, and 'what the hell' experimentation.
Now, I know that 'what the hell' experimentation is exactly what the medical
community uses as an excuse to demonize food supplements; however, I would not have had to 'experiment', at all, if more Doctors had not dug in their arrogant heels by
refusing to pursue cross-training in alternate nutritional disciplines. Good reader, I was driven to experimentation!
Searching the web, reading books on alternate medical methods, hanging out at the
local health food store, and trying all sorts of different herbal and dietetic regimens put my doctor's reluctance into an unsettling new light. I can understand how any
MD might be loath to have an association with many of the more far-out 'crystal squeezing' and 'aura examining' approaches. Most of these approaches are likely born of
arguable quackery. But I was very disconcerted to discover that some very mainstream advice my doctors should have been giving me - could have been giving me... they were not. All of these things that they should have been telling me would not compromise best practice, denigrate their science, or get them in trouble with an insurance company.
For example: My Doctors could have told me that sulpha-drugs killed the magical
little critters that produce vitamin 'K', out of whole cloth... another byproduct of their symbiotic process. Vitamin 'K' is essential for blood clotting. Vitamin 'K' is crucial for people with colitis or the more serious Crohn's. As I am a prone bleeder, which my doctors know, they should have been telling me to take a supplement for 'K' - like Alfalfa, a quality source. They said 'nothing' about Vitamin 'K'. This is hardly best practice, was not good science, and, it would seen to me, just the thing to get them in trouble with their insurance companies.
Another example. Everyone with a gut disease such as mine should take a supplement
of chromium polynicotinate daily to increase the number of insulin receptor sites. This is an easily implemented aid in sugar metabolism to facilitate a digestion system
already under extreme stress. This is not snake oil, good reader, this is science with citation. Not a word from my HMO Doctors though...
Still another example. Acidophilus should be taken daily to help replenish the
good bacteria that the sulpha-drugs wipe out so indiscriminately. Not one of the eight or ten doctors that I've had over the last eight years even mentioned one of these things. And believe me - I asked. More important, I listened.
I still have Crohn's disease, but it is now just a minor inconvenience when it
rears its ugly head. It is no longer the life threatening, agony inducing, and quality of life destroying condition that it had been for so much of the past decade... What
did I do?
I'll tell you what I did, but it would be irresponsible of me if I did not
tell you what I am not. I am not a doctor. I am a retired Army Helicopter pilot who can read, study, and keep an eye to a scientific approach... I have no special qualification... so consider this only as a good faith report from the field on an approach to Bowel disease that worked for one human being... me.
Moreover, I'm not shilling for any health food companies or getting any
compensation for suspicious endorsements. Nor am I grinding any kind of personal axe.
Please give a try to as many of the following recommendations as you can. Check
them with your doctor if you want to; In fact I encourage that. I've listed them here in what I believe is some kind of importance, but if you only want to try ONE, do not
pass on the Bovine Colostrum. That was the corner-turner for me. It is supposed to be completely safe (I've come to understand), and is contra-indicated for nothing. That is to say you can take it with anything.
Drawn from mother's milk in the first 24 to 72 hours after the birth of the calf, one can even take it if they are lactose intolerant!
Colostrum is a miracle substance. It's that initial shot of colostrum in its
mother's milk that gets the newborn antelope or zebra from the surface of the savanna and, within minutes, running with its mother from the hyenas and lions! Without it,
it is barely be able to stand and would die almost immediately. Colostrum is a promoter of immune enhancing qualities facilitating natural chemical health mechanisms.
These mechanisms cover the anti-viral, the anti-bacterial, the anti-inflammatory, and the anti-fungal. Additionally, colostrum is a potent anti-oxidant. This is only the tip of the iceberg as regards what I must testify now to be some extraordinarily efficacious stuff!
This is not new information. Humans have long known the benefits of bovine colostrum as a quality promoter of natural health and real healing. The upper castes in India have been using the substance for thousands of years, and this is remembering the strong vegan contingent that India supports. In other words, even a vegetarian can consume it with a clear conscience. And don't worry about the calves getting shorted their share of colostrum. The calves are not effected the same way bees are not effected regarding their honey. There's always enough colostrum the same way there is always enough honey. Nature makes more than enough, naturally, but I digress. Let me get on with this list...
1. Colostrum - more on colostrum
The kind I take is called 'New Life' Colostrum. I chose this one because my
research indicated that I could have some assurance that I was actually getting what I was paying for. This should always be a concern when buying a consumable, as we
shall see... some of these vitamins, herbs, and supplements that are commonly bought (and that are discussed here) are many times not only worthless, they are harmful in
the aggregate and in the extreme! This practice is more insidious than one would imagine...
The aforementioned colostrum is purchased in gelatin capsules, which are taken on
an empty stomach to facilitate their release in the intestine, and so not be changed in the stomach by the stomach's acid. Unlike some of the harsher therapies I endured that required massive doses for weeks or months to see barely perceptible improvement, the colostrum worked, with me, overnight!
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, this reporter thinks that the garden variety
individual could expect at least a 50% and as much as a 70% improvement in their colitis or Crohn's, overnight! I say this based entirely on my own documented experience,
but I would additionally say that the garden variety Crohn's sufferer would see a 70% to 90% improvement in 72 hours. Yes! It happened to me!
A sample of one is not science, I know. Still, it happened to me.
Making no attempt to dispense medical advice that I am, admittedly, not competent
to give - one should have weaned themselves from the Prednisone and stopped taking sulphasalazine the day they start the colostrum. Three days are worth the test, and if
it (astonishingly) does not work for you, you can, sadly, go back to them. This reporter would predict that one would not, however. Prepare to be amazed!
Prepare to feel better physically. Prepare to have your depressions disappear
because Colostum safely promotes the production and enhances the longevity of seritonin and dopamine in the brain. Necessary for many other important functions, these are
also Nature's very own feel-good drugs. If you could buy them on the street they would be illegal. Colostrum helps the body make the stuff. And Instead of laying
around and drooling with the usual drug treatments for depression, eat colostrum and have the justified compulsion to get up and boogie! I did! I'd predict that you
would, too!
2. Flax seed - this seed, ground fresh in a coffee grinder is then eaten right away in something cold. This is another substance that heat degrades. This is a very cheap way to get the required amounts of the Omega 3 fatty acids (Twice that found in fish oil!). The research that I've done indicates that if healthy people ate three tablespoons of freshly ground flax seed every day, they might never develop any kind of bowel disease, MS, or cancer. This is because Omega 3 promotes good flora and fauna in the gut. One of these "good" bugs converts Omega 3 fatty acids into two of the strongest cancer inhibitors known to man. Plus it supports the structure and function of the Myelin sheath to combat MS.
3. One small glass of red wine, once a day with a meal. That's one four ounce glass. Not two glasses because you're a big guy. Not an
eight-ounce glass. Not a couple of indiscriminate pulls from the bottle... a small amount of dry, dark Red wine facilitates the gut in a manner that complements the
colostrum. The reader can see how close to the top of the list wine is to get an idea regarding its effectiveness.
4. Bee products:
OK! It is at about this point in the essay where the reader may go,
"uh-oh," and begin to wonder if we're all going to join hands and start chanting or something. You know, begin to "channel the trans-dimensional warp
energies of the crystal squeezers..." I know I did. I thought bee products were so much 'New Age' crap... until I actually tried them. Then I discovered them to have
such a positively profound effect on me that I now see Shirley Maclaine in a whole new light!
Seriously, these bee products, seemingly, have magical properties. They certainly
have on me. This becomes understandable when one has even a quick look at their science. I'm going to talk about three: Royal Jelly, Bee Pollen, and Bee Propolis.
Royal Jelly - Not only a very good and usable vitamin supplement, it is also loaded with esoteric substances that enhance the immune system. These substances are found nowhere else on earth, and they cannot be synthesized in a laboratory. Additionally, royal jelly has acetylcholine in it, very effective in the treatment of MS as it protects the nerve's myelin sheath from further damage. Purchased freeze dried in capsule form is the most convenient, but it can also be acquired in a fresh form, mixed with honey. It can be used to sweeten things, of course, but never anything hot. Heat degrades the royal jelly.
Moreover, royal jelly is a positive attitude adjuster in a manner similar to
colostrum. For me it seems to enhance and complement the positive effects of the colostrum to achieve a real synergy with it!
Bee Pollen - Never buy a hard-pressed bee pollen tablet... the tablet is heated in
the process and the pollen is degraded. Order granulated bee pollen from a trusted WEB location, or get it at a quality health food store. Try to be assured that you are
getting what you pay for... anything 'good' has a sociopath trying to counterfeit it...
Mix the bee pollen with anything cold, or eat it raw like I do. Don't be surprised
if you have a minor spiritual epiphany, or maybe not.
Bee Propolis - Bees, as the reader well knows, live in tightly packed and
efficient communes with individual members flying out to all sorts of hazardous environments in busy search for their pollen. These environments are fraught with all
manner of biological hazard and fungal infestation, but these infections just don't seem to make it back to the hive. This meticulous housekeeping is achieved with a
substance that the bees make called - propolis. This substance actually keeps the bee hive more sterile than an operating room.
Not all bees search for pollen. Some of the bees are assigned to go to different
plants and trees to collect a cocktail of different substances that they turn into propolis as another result of their strange kind of bee alchemy. This propolis is
smeared over every square centimeter of the interior of the hive. All the bees brush up against this substance and so become immunized. This substance is antibacterial,
anti-fungal and enhances the general health and fastidiousness from individual bee to the entire hive.
Finally, with regard to Bee Products, if the reader is dietetically reactionary,
conservative, or reluctant to try them... consider that everybody's FAVORITE conservative, Ronald Reagan, swore by them as a major contributor to the excellent physical
health that he very likely still enjoys... forgetting for a moment the alleged difficulty he is having with Alzheimer's. Regardless, he still cuts wood!
5. Olive oil - Olive oil is one of the few fats that is good to consume. It is not in the same class as hydrogenated vegetable oil which the body treats like an ecological disaster - pasting the vicious substance on ones artery walls in the form of a thick plaque and leading to a HOST of other medical problems... Hydrogenated vegetable oil deserves a critical essay all its own.
Numerous people already appreciate olive oil consumed cold, as in a salad
vinaigrette; however, it is even more important to use olive oil for frying and baking because it is the only true mono-unsaturated oil (Omega 9). Poly-unsaturated oils
(Omega 6) like corn, soy and safflower, when heated, produce a toxin called lipid peroxide that causes CELLULAR DAMAGE. And don't be fooled by claims that canola oil is
mono-unsaturated. That is only partially true. This is because all vegetable food oils are a combination of mono unsaturated to poly-unsaturated oils at different ratios.
The ratio of mono to poly with olive oil is about 9 to 1 -- making it a true mono-unsaturated oil at 90 percent. The ratio of mono to poly with canola oil is 6 to 4, So
technically it can be called a mono-unsaturated oil at 60 percent; however, that 40 percent of the canola oil available to turn into the aforementioned toxin, is a BIG 40
percent. Next the true poly-unsaturated oils soy and corn are at a mono to poly ratio of about 3 to 7, making them, at 70%, VERY toxic when heated. Now consider safflower
oil at a ratio of 1 to 9, an oil with a whopping 90 percent of its content available for toxin production! Throw in some PCBs and free radicals, and the reader is on the
way to crank-case oil!
Never eat cottonseed oil! Homo Erectus was never meant to eat cotton. Besides, it
is necessary to soak cotton with several times the amount of insecticides as most crops, especially any other 'fiber' crops. Yet the cotton seed is allowed to slip through
without meeting the more rigorous toxicity standards that food crops have to meet. Yet, inexplicably, it does wind up in our food.
One might wonder! What if one uses canola oil cold, before the poly-unsaturated
oil (Omega 6) is turned toxic by cooking heat. Well -- the problem now is in order to fully utilize the all important Omega 3 in our diet, we want as close to a ratio of 4
to 1 as possible. That's 4 Omega 6 to 1 Omega 3. Because the cheap Omega 6 is found EVERYWHERE, the average American diet is an out of whack ratio of 20 to one. One begins
to see that one wants to make a concerted effort to eliminate poly-unsaturated Omega 6 from their diet -- so, flatly, use OLIVE OIL for everything!
6. Tap Water - Stop drinking it or cooking with it. Use Distilled water for these things. Tap water is really only clean enough to bath in, anymore. Tap water has become such a noxious cocktail of animal hormones, hormone mimics, antibiotics, fluorine, and chlorine that it could be the eventual death of us all. A "death" presently indicated by E-coli 157, created by over-use of antibiotics, and which no synthetic drug on Earth can kill.
7. Chromium Polynicotinate - mentioned earlier, is taken at a dosage of 200 micro-milligrams daily. Buy a good brand in a health food store or a trusted location on the Web.
Avoid brands that have D[1] calcium phosphate - it blocks the use of several other key vitamins - or calcium carbonate - it contains Lead!
Like it does in 'Tums' and some other antacids, the carbonate prohibits the acid
in the stomach that is required for some vitamin use and mineral absorption. The human body does not absorb the calcium in 'Tums' like the ads say. The stomach acid that is required for the body to utilize the calcium is neutralized by the carbonate, rendering the calcium useless to the body. In another time and place one might say that getting the necessary calcium via a Tum's tablet is a rank obfuscation - a lie by another name.
Most people with digestion problems suffer from too little acid anyway, not too much, especially as the sufferer gets older. Tums may be a detractor to health. I've sworn off of them completely, and I'm not looking back. But then, I don't get indigestion anymore, anyway.
8. Acidophilus - mentioned earlier. I've found the non-dairy forms to be the best.
9. Garlic - Kyolic Garlic is pretty good. And isn't it interesting how sulpha drugs are harmful to the gut, but sulfur FOODS like garlic and onions are natural antibiotics that sooth and help heal the colon?
10. Alfalfa - also mentioned earlier, it supplies vitamin 'K' and chlorophyll, which promotes real healing.
11. Tea - Green Tea, rich in anti-oxidants, or slippery elm tea... pau de' arco tea. All good stuff.
12. Sugar - OK - this is a tough one. Never use Saccharin, Equal or refined sugar. The hazards of these substances is well known and well documented. Refined sugar, thought safe as mothers milk and discovered today (?), might even be labeled as a hazardous food substance - right up there with the dreaded MSG (monosodium glutemate). Refined sugar is too much, to fast, to soon and causes a pancreatic freakout of insulin production every time it's consumed.
Use, rather, zero calorie and glycemic zero 'Stevia' extract. It can be found at
numerous locations on the Web. It is a great substitute for 'Equal' because it's natural.
The reader is reminded that Saccharin, Equal (aspartame) or refined sugar - like
aspirin, hydrogenated vegetable oil, Pepsid AC - and a thousand other ubiquitous everyday items that seem innocuous - are not harmless at all. They are not found in nature, so they put a huge strain on a confused liver and digestive system that for two million years of evolution on the Serengeti plains as a hunter/gatherer, never saw anything remotely close to a Tylenol or a Twinkie.
If the reader feels they must continue to use sugar, as I most certainly do, then
use a sugar with a low glycemic number like fructose or Tupelo honey. I don't mean to insult the reader's intelligence, but let me explain a little bit about the glycemic
numbers, how they pertain to sugar, and like Paul Harvey, a little bit of the rest of the story...
The lower the glycemic number of the sugar article, the less insulin has to be
arduously manufactured by special bodies on the pancreas to deal with it. Insulin, remember, maintains a thin range of the level of raw sugar in the blood... the lower
that glycemic number, the better. Less is definitely more. And hear it first here... insulin makes you fat!
Low glycemic fructose is number 32 on the official scale while 'mother's own'
refined white table sugar is at an astonishingly hefty 92! Any wonder why your kid is bouncing off the walls with hyper activity or is sitting around lethargically getting fat? Both are due to the same substance. A reaction to that is to give that hyper active kid more drugs to cool them out, and put the fat kid on an unnecessary diet, but that's a digression and a whole other paper...
The rest of the story? The reader must use caution in a sugary subterfuge of real
corporate chicanery. An evil trick the 'wholesome' juice manufacturer (like Ocean Spray) will employ is to advertise the health benefits of "100% Juice"
sweetened with fructose. The only problem is that the sweet substance that they are using is a cheap concentrated grape juice which still has a high glycemic value of close to 90. In other words, Ocean Spray's 'fructose' is almost as bad as table sugar, even though it is still, technically, 100% juice.
13. Multiple Vitamins/Minerals - Taking a quality Multiple Vitamin or Mineral is essential. A vegetarian multivitamin is what I would recommend. It's hard to trick Vegetarians about supplements where the rest of the population is easily tricked.
This writer hesitates to even mention the proceeding for two reasons: the first
reason concerns the cognitive dissonance most people suffer when they begin to realize that what they have trusted well before is causing them harm now, and has always been causing them harm. Most people, understandably, aren't willing to try to wrap their minds around that. Most people won't want to hear what I would try to tell them.
I understand completely. It is very upsetting to find out that the trusted and
popular major corporation has, in actuality, been lying to the reader, cheating the reader, and causing the reader physical harm. It does that in full knowledge of what is
being done, the harm that it will cause, and the consequences of its action - which can be dire... but it goes, blithely, on, regardless. Allow a small digression...
Consider our reactionary program of three strikes to life imprisonment for the
hapless individual, and that the third strike is for stealing a felonious 'cupcake'... Judgement is swift, immediate, and harsh! Match that against a major corporation
like GE (you remember, they're the bunch that 'brings good things to life') They're blessed with a bizarro program of 37 strikes and then continue to remain, arrogantly, at bat!
Check the record! GE is always towards the top of the list in the amount of
environmental complaints filed against it. i.e. causing sickness to people and facilitating harm to the environment. They are infamous for paying people off, dragging righteous lawsuits out for years, and paying pollution fines over and over (because it is cheaper to pay the fine than to be in lawful compliance... regardless that people are being made ill). No one from GE ever goes to jail, though... That ballgame just plays on...
The second reason I don't like to bring it up is that it raises my blood pressure
when I think about all those wasted years that I depended on products like Centrum, One-a-Day, and even the Flinstone's Multiple Vitamins, like they were safe, sure, and
quality products. They were not. I get depressed thinking about the millions of people throwing their money away, and actually harming themselves taking these products,
thinking that they were getting much more utility from them. They are not.
Here's the skinny, good reader, why most if not all of the vitamins and minerals
that one gets at the grocery store are nearly useless. Go get your Theragram, Centrum, One-a-Day or Flintstone's bottle, a magnifying glass, and get prepared to do a
little label reading. We'll go supplement by supplement.
Vitamin 'E'- Your trusted grocery store vitamin is likely a *synthetic* form
called dl-alpha tacopheryl. The "l" portion in the "dl" cannot be used by the human body, is in fact a synthetic substance foreign to ones liver…
forgetting that you're throwing money away. Always buy the slightly more expensive (natural) form 'd' - alpha tacopheryl, or even better, Natural Mixed Tacopheryl Sure,
you spend a few pennies less for the 'DL', but the body doesn't want to use it! What's the point? ...Corporate profits?
"B" Vitamins - I'm always a little suspicious if none of the
"B" vitamin forms are listed. So if the B-12 vitamin is in the cyanocobalamine form then the rest of the B vitamins are probably OK. However for treatment of MS
methylcabalamine B-12 is superior.
Calcium - Avoid the suffix carbonate and "bone calcium". Calcium citrate
is the preferred form, although there are many other good forms: amino acid chelated, asporotate, chromate GTF et. al..
Magnesium - Avoid oxide. Use citrate etc. in accordance with Calcium above.
Chromium - Avoid picolinate. The latest research indicates that picolinate could
have some adverse side effects. Use polynicotinate (the preferred form) or asporotate, et. al..
Potassium - Avoid chloride. Use as in calcium above.
Selenium, copper, manganese - Use as in calcium above.
Phosphorus - If your multiple vitamin contain any appreciable amount of phosphorus
it is no good. There is already abundant phosphorus in even a poor diet, and too much phosphorus throws off a delicate calcium balance otherwise regulated by the body.
Still reading your bottle? How many of the inferior forms did you find? Do you
feel betrayed? Feel very betrayed.
Returning to the subject, most conscientious young women are going to try to avoid
the bone weakening disaster of osteoporosis, and well they should. They are not going to get the job done; however, by taking a grocery store multiple vitamin, copiously consuming any kind of dairy product, or by eating any amount of 'Tums'. They are throwing their money down the toilet, virtually, and are even causing themselves physical harm...
Calcium carbonate (remember the 'bad' suffixes?), the variety of calcium found in
TUMS is not 'something your body needs anyway'. In order to absorb calcium at all (and it's necessary to have it in the proper form, remember) the body must utilize
copious amounts of stomach acid. The required acid has been neutralized by the carbonate; however, so the calcium cannot be absorbed. The only thing that IS
absorbed from the carbonate is the Lead... and is that 'something your body needs anyway'? I think not... This deceptive, misleading, and plainly fraudulent
practice is rife in the food industry. Any wonder why this writer gets so angry and depressed and, up until just recently, was so ill? Consider now, the much, but
inexplicably, lauded dairy industry!
14. Dairy - OK - at last and finally, we come upon the most successfully campaigned razzle-dazzles of all time. It's a cruel, dirtily fought campaign of bald faced lies, clever obfuscation, and crass influence peddling. Behold the men behind the marketing who knowingly and inaccurately pontificate that "Milk does a body good" while they ponder the "power of cheese..."
Dairy is an idiotic way to expect to get calcium into your bones because most
calcium delivered to the body in animal protein (like milk or cheese) causes the kidneys to flush that calcium from the overall system. Even large quantities of calcium
arriving in this manner makes little difference because animal protein (Milk!) actually leaches calcium out of the bones at the same time that it's supposed to be trying
to put it in.... Still doing a body good?
Conversely, even small amounts of calcium in vegetable form (soy products,
broccoli and other crusiferous vegetables) has a very high percentage of that calcium getting right where it needs to be. Spinach (Popeye was right!) does as advertised.
So the dairy industry gives pause and has us beg the question. Why consume a food
like milk that is not good for you (lactose intolerance, bad cholesterol, homogenization atomizing the fat into perfect little plaque scales to plug up the reader's arteries... don't get me started, milk is its own paper...). After a very young age milk is more indigestible and is an overall detriment to health. Never drink milk again, and never look back.
So. Got milk? I sincerely hope not...
That's more than enough regarding my struggle with and my personal relief from my Bowel disease. It is a relief that I hope I was able to share with you if you are a fellow sufferer. At least, one in ten of you are.
Truly, I was living a hell on Earth until I discovered colostrum. In turn, the
nutritional community that turned me on to Colostrum has turned me on to a host of other quality-of-life enhancing substances that I can take with a lot more safety (and a
lot more effectively) than Prednisone or sulphasalazine. Absolutely, these new nutritional substances have been a true turn-around and an even truer corner turner for me!
I understand that old cliche "A new lease on life", like I never had
before. In fact it's no longer a cliche. I have that new lease. I think the suffering reader can too.
I also have a new appreciation for irony. How -IS- it that the eight or ten
doctors attending me (that I suffered so plainly in front of for almost a decade)... how could they fail to even hint at relief that I had to find by myself and so miserably on my own... HOW!
The implications of that are puzzling, disappointing, and -not- a little
worrying...
Read on...
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