Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / June 2004
Vitamins
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ERIC EMRY - 18 Jun 2004 06:34 GMT After reading this section, you will be shocked at how damaging synthetic vitamins can be to your body! Please take the time to read this entire section. If you do, you will never look at vitamins or your body the same way ever again! After reading this, please contact everyone you know and tell them about the serious effects that can happen when taking processed synthetic vitamins! Working together, we could improve the lives of millions of people!
According to Taber's Medical Dictionary, vitamins are essential for normal metabolism, growth and life of the body.1 They are indispensable for the maintenance of health. Up until now there has been some controversy regarding the necessity to supplement vitamins back into the diet. The Journal of American Medical Association concluded from a study that every individual should take a multivitamin everyday, thus ending that controversy.2
Research has proven that your body begins to pay the price as it tries to compensate for nutrient deficiencies. Eventually, poor nutrition can lead to devastating consequences. According to the U.S. Surgeon General3 many people who get cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other serious diseases, may have been able to avoid such illnesses if they had been receiving proper nutrition4 and exercise. Please do not make the mistake of thinking that your body is invincible. Your health is worth a billion dollars and it doesn't take much to give the body what it needs and deserves. Bottom line, getting the proper nutrients and micronutrients each day is critical to maintaining good health.
So now hundreds of supplement companies have looked to chemical derivatives and synthetic vitamins as a solution. The very logic of this seems irrational when you remember where vitamins come from. Vitamins are found in food, and just because current growing and processing methods have depleted the vitamins available from our foods, it does not mean that we should come up with new-fangled ways to get these micronutrients from some other source. Instead, we should look for a way to get more of the safe, effective vitamins that are available only from foods.
Let me explain by using vitamin C as an example. Ascorbic acid is often sold as vitamin C, and yet it is only a chemically derived fraction of the whole food vitamin. As it is found in food, vitamin C is a complete complex which is actually made up of ascorbic acid plus rutin, bioflavonoids, K factor and J factors - as well as other substances that no human experiment has been able to replicate. You must have all of these fractions in order for the Vitamin to be complete. In order for the body to absorb and use a vitamin, all of the parts of the complex must be present. That means that in order to use the fractionated form of the vitamin, the body must first supply the other parts of the whole food complex. If ascorbic acid alone is ingested, the body must complete the complex by robbing its own collagen tissue of the elements that are missing in the "vitamin C" you supplied.
This process is rarely complete and can even cause increased deficiencies. A published study by Doctors Vinson and Bose showed this to be the case. They found that vitamin C from citrus extract was absorbed 35 percent more than ascorbic acid. Their conclusion was that; "Although natural and synthetic ascorbic acids are chemically identical, citrus fruits contain bioflavonoids such as naringin and hesperidin as well as carbohydrates and proteins that might affect the bioavailability."5
Another study conducted at the University of Scranton found a "significantly greater effectiveness" of citrus extract than of synthetic ascorbic acid in slowing the progression of galactose cataracts. The citrus extract was 41 percent more effective.6
Likewise, other vitamins have been shown in study after study to be more effective in their whole food form. One study by J.A. Vinson and C. Hsu, published in Medical Science Research, found whole food vitamin E and vitamin A to be more bioavailable than isolated, synthetic forms of these vitamins. In the case of vitamin A, results showed the food base product was retained 9.4 times more than the synthetic form.7
Synthetic vitamins simply cannot measure up to the real thing. As of 1996, over 3,800 different compounds have been identified in foods as having nutritional significance.8 However, in a laboratory, twenty nutrients are about all that modern science can reproduce and put into a vitamin product.
Even more of a concern than the ineffectiveness of these synthetic vitamins is the harm that they can cause.
In the case of vitamin E, large doses of the fractionated form (alpha-tocopherol) pull vitamins and minerals from the bones. Supplementation of the synthetic, alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E showed harmful effects, including 18 percent higher incidence of lung cancer, more strokes, more heart attacks and an 8 percent increase in the overall death rate.9
Research also verifies that using just a fraction of vitamin A actually increases the risk of cancer. On the other hand, the whole food vitamin A, and foods containing vitamin A, has the opposite effect. The whole food form significantly reduces the risk of cancer.
A study done by Boston University School of Medicine and published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that synthetic vitamin A given to pregnant women increased the risk of birth defects, including such defects as cleft lip, cleft palate, heart malformations and nervous system damage.10 No such defects were noted from ingesting whole foods that contain vitamin A.
Fractionated vitamins actually produce a drug-like reaction in the body. They stimulate increased activity of nerve cells and increase blood sugar pickup. This brings a feeling of euphoria and can create a temporary increase in energy but long term damage to the body.
One of the latest studies was on Vitamin C as synthetic ascorbic acid. It was found to thicken the walls of the arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. Researchers from the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention found that of the 573 men and women studied, those who regularly took vitamin C pills as Ascorbic Acid alone developed an inner artery wall layer 2.5 times thicker than that of people who did not take synthetic supplements.11 With all this evidence to support whole food vitamins, why do you think companies continue to make and market the "cheap imitations"? The answer: Because they are cheap. However, while these companies may save money and make more profit, there is no way the synthetic forms can match the effectiveness and health promoting qualities of a whole food vitamin. The human cell recognizes and can use for fuel, repair and function, only natural, whole food complexes.
Whole food vitamins do not rob precious nutrients from the body, but supply the individual cells with the nutrients they need to flourish. For greatest gains in terms of health, take only whole food vitamins. When evaluating a vitamin supplement, you can simply read the label. Rather than multi-syllable, unpronounceable chemical names, you should find the names of foods listed as the vitamin sources. The Greatest Vitamin in the World formula lists the vitamin and then has an asterisk that refers you to the fruit and vegetable blend used as our vitamin base. This is your way of knowing that you are getting the best possible absorption and retention of your vitamins.
Remember, next to the name of any vitamin, if you don't see a name of a food or an asterisk leading you to a place on the label that tells you the food source of the vitamins, you are more than likely looking at an inexpensive, processed vitamin that is stripped of all other compounds that are normally present with vitamins that are found in fruits and vegetables. If you see the name of a food referenced to the vitamin, be excited to know that you are getting vitamins direct from the whole food and, therefore, you are also getting the essential precursors, enzymes, activators, antioxidants, and micronutrients (essential compounds) that are naturally found with vitamins. These essential compounds make it much easier for the body to absorb and utilize the vitamins you are taking! Your body deserves to be given the right vitamins that are essential for your good health!
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Patty Walker - 18 Jun 2004 16:16 GMT I've always heard that Centrum was more complete, from A to Zinc.... Beside being a marketing ploy, surely you aren't suggesting that your Miracle Vitamin will help Tinnutus!
> After reading this section, you will be shocked at how damaging synthetic > vitamins can be to your body! Please take the time to read this entire [quoted text clipped - 186 lines] > nutrition and our body so we can all live a longer and healthier life. That > is my personal goal, and the goal of this amazing company! William Nunn - 19 Jun 2004 00:39 GMT > I've always heard that Centrum was more complete, from A to Zinc.... > Beside being a marketing ploy, surely you aren't suggesting that your [quoted text clipped - 229 lines] > That > > is my personal goal, and the goal of this amazing company! is this some scientology stuff?
Jim Chinnis - 19 Jun 2004 02:16 GMT "William Nunn" <nopenope> wrote in part:
>is this some scientology stuff? No. It's spam--an advertisement.
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Richard A. - 23 Jun 2004 05:56 GMT I'm taking about 50 vitamin pills a day, 3 bottles lined up for each day..morning..noon and evening. I'm taking ginko and about every pill you have heard of that supposed to be good for T and many more. I've been taking them steady for almost 2 years. The pills are definately helping to counter act the oxidative stress on my 50 year old body but they have not eliminated my T. The thing that is helping to 'cure' the T problem for me is Solaraze non-steroid anti-inflammatory gel. Ask your your dermatoligist for a couple tubes and use it twice a day on your outer ear..if you get a reaction prepare yourself for months of years of battle. My T is less and my hearing is getting better..I'll get a new audiogram in August. The thing about vitamin pills..ginko etc..they are good for you and maybe good for T to a lesser degree..but I think T is primarily rooted in inflammation caused by mutant cells in or around the ear..and the pills just don't have enough jolt to kill off that problem. Cheers, Richard
Peter Larsen - 26 Jun 2004 18:51 GMT
> I'm taking about 50 vitamin pills a day, 3 bottles lined > up for each day..morning..noon and evening. In my opinion the main result is undue kidney and liver stress. More than 10 times the recommended daily dosage is likely toxic, at least with the fat soluble vitamins.
> I'm taking ginko I found a small dosage helpful for some time a couple of years ago. I have also said repeatedly in this newsgroup that I consider it a very potent medication that should be used with some care. I have not even considered mixing it with my current hypertension medication - simply because some of the effects seem to be similar - and considering the recent major health warnings regarding it my policy and respect for its potency seems to have been wise.
My personal opinion is that it gently works as a tinnitus "softener", but thinking back I will rather ascribe that effect to its slight bloodpressure reducing effect than to any major virtue of it, i.e. assert that people who find that gingko biloba reduces their tinnitus should get themselves an "overall bloodcirculatory checkup" and that they may be likely to get a much better reduction of perceived tinnutus by addressing any blood pressure anomalies that may or may not be detected in such a checkup.
> and about every pill you have heard of that supposed to be good > for T and many more. I've been taking them steady for almost 2 > years. The pills are definately helping to counter act the oxidative > stress on my 50 year old body How have you determined this to be the case?
> but they have not eliminated my T. Sorry, I don't mean to disrespect you, but you do seem to convey that you have tried whether various additives and medications would "eliminate" your perceived tinnitus, found that they don't and not done what common logic suggests: go back to some reasonable approximation to WHO recommended vitamin intake. Allow me to suggest that the financial benefit in so doing could be major and that an equally large total health increase is equally likely.
> The thing that is helping to 'cure' the T problem for me > is Solaraze non-steroid anti-inflammatory gel. Two things - or perhaps three really helped me: 1) a job in open air and countryside silence for slighly more than half a year, i.e. a reduced noise load for an extented period and 2) a regulaition of a moderate hypertension, the possible third is getting physically more fit as a secondary consequence of 1).
> Ask your your dermatoligist for a couple tubes and use it twice > a day on your outer ear..if you get a reaction prepare yourself > for months of years of battle. Why?
> My T is less and my hearing is getting better.. How can you claim to know what cause and effect mechanism that worked?
> I'll get a new audiogram in August. What an audiogram can tell you is what your hearing threshold is, simply said "how bad your hearing is". What it can not tell you is how good your hearing is, because it says nothing about what the brain can or can not derive based on the signal conducted to it via the aural nerve.
> The thing about vitamin pills..ginko etc..they are good for Depends on various concerns, it certainly is not "that simple".
> you and maybe good for T to a lesser degree.. Depends on various concerns, it certainly is not "that simple".
> but I think T is primarily rooted in inflammation caused > by mutant cells in or around the ear.. Tinnitus is most likely to be caused by noise inflicted hearing damage, it basically appears to be a recovery symptom. Other possible reasons have been mentioned in this newsgroup, To one of them I can say that it is my perception that tinnitus causes muscular tension in the neck, not vice versa, but also that relaxation tends to ameliorate perceived tinnitus.
It might be about breaking a circle in a way similar to the Edgar Cayce cure for migraine, a much ridiculed one: a laxative. This because a true classic migraine arrests peristaltic movement leading to temporary constipation. It is because of this that some migraine medications are non-oral. Edgar Cayce's claim is that that constipation causes pressure on abdominal nerve centers that cause a migraine. Please remember that a true classic migraine is a "fairly simple" blood flow disorder. I can'¨t comment on the relevance or effect of the Cayce suggestion, simple and cheap ergotamine does it for me when required.
> and the pills just don't have enough jolt to kill off that problem. Please reduce your disrespect for your own body's self repair mechanisms by a relevant number of orders of magnitude. It is not easy to discount that the gel may influence bloodflow, but tinnitus per se is an inner ear, or "deeper" issue, it is not an outer ear issue, and it is unavoidably required to consider the placebo effect when making cause and effect statements.
The brain will constantly rebuild itself and adapt to changes in task and conditions, but it needs time. What I think has helped you is what has perhaps been what has helped me: time to heal and time to adapt to what cannot be healed.
> Richard Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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Peter Larsen - 26 Jun 2004 19:13 GMT
> After reading this section, you will be shocked at Looks like a pyramid scheme to me.
> Please check out the different buttons located on this website. I did just that. You offer way to many money for referrals. Oh, you also violate the stated antispam policy on your site by spamming a usenet newsgroup, a support group even. You appear to be a fraud and a quack.
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Richard A. - 29 Jun 2004 22:39 GMT Hey Pete, Could you cite me any of these vitamin toxcitiy studies you're alluding too. I'm not talking about the obivious ones like vitamin A. When I say I'm taking 50 pills, that includes things like 3 calcium, 3 vitamin C 500 mg, etc. etc. I have a bookshelf full of recent vitamin books, tell me where I'm going wrong..specifically. My hearing is graudually improving, I use to have turn the TV volume up to at least 60..now its down to 40. My tinnitus is reducing, it's not gone but it is much less. I will get a new audiogram in late August so I can compare the graph to my 2 previous ones. And the proof will be in the pudding and that will be the pudding. Where or what is your pudding? Thanks for the input. Cheers, Rich
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