High cholesterol
Cholesterol is a wax-like fatty substance (lipid) found in the cell membranes of all body tissues. About 75 percent of it is synthesized by the body, with the rest being of dietary origin. Despite...
Category: Supplements and Vitamins
Fatty Acids
Many people regard fat as an adversary to their good health. It is true that excessive intake of certain fats can result in serious medical problems. However, not all fats are the same. In...
Enzymes
Enzymes are proteins that are catalysts for chemical activity. In fact, they are involved with nearly all of the biochemical reactions in your body. The molecules on which enzymes provide their reactions are called...
Complications of Diabetes
When you have diabetes, it is vitally important to take good care of yourself. When diabetes is not carefully managed, the resulting complications can be serious, as shown by the following list. · Diabetic...
Chloride
Chloride Electrolytes are molecules in your plasma – the liquid portion of your blood – that maintain either a positive or negative charge. These charges allow them to respond to messages from your nervous...
Minerals and Calcium
Minerals Many important bodily functions require certain minerals in order to operate correctly. Yet minerals, unlike vitamins, cannot be produced by our bodies. Therefore, adequate consumption of minerals is very important for your health....
Choline, Inositol and Vitamin C
Choline Choline is an important nutrient that plays a role in almost every bodily system. The important compounds acetylcholine and lecithin are derived from this B vitamin. Acetylcholine is believed to protect against certain...
Combining food with medication
The food you eat can affect the medication you are taking. You should be aware, for example, that grapefruit can increase the risk of side effects from a wide variety of drugs. The side...
Good fats and bad fats
This is possibly the most confusing topic in the field of nutrition, and the problem is made worse because in many cases, nutritionists, doctors and scientists really don’t’ know all the answers. Fats have...
Diet and Supplementation
Low stress diet Eliminate the stressors: By eliminating foods and substances which can irritate or create allergic responses, the body has a chance to recover and heal itself. For many diseases, especially the so...
Shingles
It is a very painful condition where a virus infects usually just one nerve and causes a painful rash on the skin supplied by that nerve. The rash often becomes infected, and sometimes after...
Prostate enlargement
The prostate gland surrounds the urethra, which in males is the tube taking urine from the bladder. With increasing age, the prostate gland can swell, restricting and then finally blocking the flow of urine....
Poor blood circulation in the legs
Blockages that can develop in the arteries supplying blood to the legs and feet causing aching in the calves or buttocks when walking, a painful burning sensation in the feet, especially in bed at...
Multiple sclerosis
The cause is unknown, but it may fit into the “autoimmune” group of diseases, where the body’s immune system attacks itself. The myelin sheath around the nerves and the brain is slowly destroyed, causing...
Migraine
This debilitating headache can destroy a person’s quality of life. It usually starts with an aura – jagged visions, unusual light, sounds or even smells and other unusual sensations. This is then followed by...
Insomnia
Difficulty in getting off to sleep or waking up soon after. Note that early morning waking can sometimes be an indication of depression. Doctors can • Prescribe sleeping pills. While these help people get...
Hepatitis
A viral infection of the liver. There are a number of different viruses whose names are identified by a different letter. Hepatitis A is caught through eating or drinking food with viral faecal contamination....
Heart attack
A heart attack feels like severe angina pain lasting more than 30-40 minutes and is often associated with sweating, nausea, faintness and a feeling of being unwell. It is caused by a total blockage...
Aneurism
Occasionally the pressure inside an artery can stretch the wall and a “blow out” (similar to what happens in a car type) can occur. The most common area for this to happen is in...
People should routinely take nutritional supplements
In this polluted, highly stressed modern world, with the quality of most food and the difficulty in eating a perfect diet, people should take nutritional supplements on a routine basis. There is much to...
Anticoagulants (warfarin) and vitamin K
Many people are taking anti-coagulants to reduce the risk of clots forming in the arteries, veins or in the heart. Doctors monitor a blood clotting test called the INR. In patients taking anti-coagulants it...
What supplements should NOT include
There are two ingredients frequently found in supplements which can build up in the body and have toxic effects and so should NOT be included in a routine vitamin/mineral supplement. These are vitamins A...
Arthritis
Osteoarthritis is simply a process where the protective cartilage that covers the ends of the bones wears away, exposing the bone which can also be damaged. Apart from a very few people who have...
High blood pressure (hypertension)
High blood pressure causes strokes, heart attacks, aneurisms, kidney failure and may other diseases. In most cases the cause is unknown. While drug treatment is frequently required, doctors stress the benefits of a healthy...
Stroke and Cancer
Most stokes develop from blockages in the arteries feeding the brain or from pieces of these blockages breaking off (emboli). The process is very similar to that in coronary artery disease and the action...
Nutrition and Supplementation for Coronary Heart Disease
Fruit and vegetables Fruit and vegetables contain many antioxidants and other protective nutrients. Research showed that women who had a high intake of fruit and vegetables had 20% fewer heart attacks than those on...
Coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease includes angina, heart attacks, and cardiac arrest. Many nutrients have been shown to reduce these, including vitamin E, alpha-linolenic acid, folic acid, vitamins C, B6 and B12, unsaturated fats, fruit and...
What are our choices for nutritional supplements?
Many modern scientists believe nutritional deficiency is a major cause of today’s chronic degenerative diseases (heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, emphysema). The aging process is accelerated. For most people it is...
Should everybody be taking nutritional supplements?
We now come to some vexing questions which are dividing the medical fraternity: • Should we all be taking nutritional supplements? • Is it necessary to take additional vitamins and minerals, on top of...
The magic of the human body
Our bodies are made up of many trillions of cells. All of these developed from the original cell created when our father’s sperm fertilized our mother’s ovum. This one cell divides into 2, then...