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COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
What is it? I've heard
about it on TV commercials selling a drug and I sort of knew that
something was named that, but what is it and what can be done.
Here is the article COPD
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The Healing Power of Vitamin C
Vitamin
C was intensively studied for over 70 years by the
medical profession. Most of what was found in terms of
the healing power of this vitamin has never been broadly
published.
If
the general public were made aware of what proper
supplementing with vitamin C could do, and people took
the correct amounts to meet their individual needs, the
sales of many drugs and medications would drop like a
stone and the overall health and well-being of the
population would skyrocket.
There are some wonderful benefits you can realize by supplementing with
the correct amount of vitamin C. Here are the first few:
In a
double-blind study of elderly patients hospitalized with
severe bronchitis, those given 200 mg a day of vitamin C
improved to a significantly greater extent than those
who were given a placebo [Definition: a substance
containing no active drug.]
When
bruises (where skin turns blue to purple-colored that
may turn yellow to dark brown over a few days) occur
often and from minor, often unnoticed impacts,
supplementing with 100 mg to 3,000 mg a day has shown to
reduce bruising.
Vitamin
C levels in the eye decrease with age. People who
supplement with vitamin C develop far fewer cataracts,
with doctors often recommending 500 to 1,000 mg a day as
part of a cataract prevention program.
As a
result of 21 closely monitored trials it was found that
using 1,000 to 8,000 mg of vitamin C a day reduced how
long the common cold persisted and the severity of
symptoms by an average of 23%.
Sorbitol
is a type of sugar that can collect in the body and
damage the eyes, nerves and kidneys of people with
diabetes. People who are diabetic appear to have low
vitamin C levels. 2,000 mg of vitamin C a day lowers
sorbitol in people with diabetes.
Glaucoma
is an eye condition where there is additional pressure
within the eye. It leads to loss of side vision, blurred
vision, blind spots, seeing halos around lights, poor
night vision, and if untreated, blindness.
Supplementation with 2,000 mg a day can significantly
reduce pressure within the eye. Much larger amounts are
sometimes given.
23
controlled trials showed that vitamin C supplementation
produces greater benefit for children than for adults.
The review also found that a daily amount of 2,000 mg or
more was better that 1,000 mg at reducing how long cold
symptoms remained in children.
The
finest and most effective vitamin C that will nourish
the cells of your body is a food, is not man made chemicals
like ascorbic
acid. A whole food vitamin C is needed, that means that it is an actual food and recognized by
the body as a food... NOT a chemical substitute.
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and find out more by clicking the following link: Vitamin
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What
You Can Do to Boost
the Effectiveness of Vitamin C
In
numerous studies, vitamin C has been shown to protect
against infection, the common cold, and support a
healthy cardiovascular system, when taken correctly.
It's
important to know how much to take and how often to take
it.
The
following excerpts are from studies done using ascorbic
acid or ascorbate,
two common forms of "vitamin C".
"Higher
levels of vitamin C can be protective against damage
to blood vessels, and greatly reduce death rates in
the elderly."
"Blood
levels [of vitamin C] increase substantially with a
larger dose and these higher amounts are excreted more
quickly."
"A
1,250 mg dose raises blood levels more than a 200 mg
dose for the first six hours. Larger doses provide an
even bigger increase in blood levels in the first six
hour period."
"For
the second six hour period, these and even higher
doses give similar blood levels."
How
can this be? How can you take a 1,250 mg dose (or even
two, three or four times this amount) or as little as a
200 mg dose and have virtually no vitamin C in the blood
after six hours? There is a reason:
"Vitamin
C has a short half-life in the blood."
A
"half-life" is the amount of time it takes for
half of the vitamin C to be depleted from the blood
stream. The half-life of vitamin C in the blood is 30
minutes.
This
means that every 30 minutes there is only one-half of
the vitamin C left!
As
an example, say you start with 1,250 mg of vitamin C in
your blood stream. In 30 minutes you have only 625 mg
left. After 30 more minutes you have only 312 mgs. In
another 30 minutes you're down to 156 mg (that's after
only 1 hour and 30 minutes).
If
you continue reducing by half every 30 minutes, six
hours after you took the initial amount of 1,250 mg of
vitamin C, the amount left in your blood stream is
less than 0.5 mg. Basically there is nothing left.
"Taking
an oral dose will raise blood levels for only a few
hours."
"The
benefit of a single dose is short lived. If high
levels of vitamin C provide protection against the
common cold, then a single multi-gram dose of vitamin
C would have little more effectiveness than a 500 mg
dose."
"In
the prevention of colds and other diseases, if a
single dose of vitamin C raises blood levels for about
six hours or one quarter of the day, the person is
unprotected for the other three quarters of the
time."
"Five
100 mg doses taken at intervals through the day would
raise average blood levels more than a single one-gram
dose."
excerpted
from Ascorbate, The Science of Vitamin C
by Dr. Steve Hickey & Dr. Hilary Roberts
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Headaches
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Sidebar:
The Question of Vitamin B-12
Vitamin B-12 is necessary in human health for the formation of proteins and red blood cells, and for the functioning of the nervous system. It is vitally important in maintaining the health of the outer sheathing (protective covering, also called the myelin sheath) that surrounds nerve cells.
Vitamin B-12 also participates in a variety of cellular reactions to release energy from carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
Vitamin B-12 is found only in animal products; meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products. Most people's diets do not contain sufficient B-12, and so, over the years, the amount of B-12 diminishes in the body until there is an actual deficiency of this important vitamin.
Absorption of vitamin B-12 from food occurs in a unique way. Vitamin B-12 is released from food by digestion, especially by stomach acid. The vitamin B-12 binds with a special protein that is secreted by the mucous membrane of the stomach called the "intrinsic factor."
The resulting complex travels to the last section of the small intestine, called the ileum. Ileum cells then absorb vitamin B-12. Absorption is very poor unless the "intrinsic factor" is present.
As the body ages it often produces lower quantities of both stomach acid and the "intrinsic factor," thus reducing the amount of B-12 that can be absorbed from the diet.
The vitamins and minerals in food are constantly being used to create and support the life processes in the body and must be replenished from time to time.
Because the body's reserves of B-12 continues to drop as our body ages, doctors often recommend B-12 shots each month for older people.
As most people don't like shots, they often supplement what they need with vitamin pills, capsules, drinks, etc. Most of these contain a form of B-12 called
cyanocobalamin, which is not usable by the body.
A very small percentage of cyanocobalamin is converted into methylcobalamin and stored in the liver. As the body ages, it becomes less and less able to convert cyanocobalamin to
methylcobalamin, so use methycobalomin for real results you can feel.
There is no upper limit to the amount of B-12 that you can safely take without any side effects. The WSN Nerve Support Formula contains the methylcobalamin and other B vitamins you need to nutritionally support your body's nervous system.
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