Over the Counter Natural Cures (2 page)

Nutrient logic has been saving lives throughout history.

For thousands of years, diseases like scurvy, pellagra, beriberi, and rickets ravaged millions of people. In the early 1900s, Nobel Prize–winning scientists—people who believed in nutrient logic and had a flare for the scientific method—discovered that these pandemic killers were caused
by rampant nutrient deficiencies, not infectious agents. The simple act of filling the nutritional void with select nutrients (not drugs) cured millions of people—inexpensively! Not a single prescription was required. Scurvy was eradicated with vitamin C (from citrus fruits), pellagra with niacin (from nutritional yeast), beriberi with thiamine (from rice bran), rickets with vitamin D (from sunshine), and more recently, cholera with salt, sugar, and water, and congestive heart failure caused by Keshan disease with selenium (from liver).
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Today, you can use nutrient logic to stave off major diseases while at the same time warding off wrinkles, conquer depression, increase vitality, and even get your “bedroom energy” rockin'—all in as few as thirty days!

But there's still more. Make sure you're sitting down. Nutrient logic could save billions of wasted dollars that Americans spend on symptom-masking prescription drugs every year!

YOU MIGHT BE DYING FOR NUTRIENT LOGIC

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, up to 90 percent of Americans are nutrient deficient—lacking essential nutrients required for proper metabolic harmony.
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This malnourishment stems from over-use of prescription drugs, sugar, artificial flavors, preservatives, fast food, or some combination of these. These environmental factors deplete our bodies of lifesaving nutrients. The end result has been a ghastly epidemic of illness.

Armed with little more than “symptom-masking drugs,” Western medicine is powerless. You see, only nutrients can overcome a nutrient deficiency, not drugs. But, as the
Journal of Family Practice
reported, physicians have little or no training in the proper use of nutritional supplements. And the study of proper nutrition was removed from the medical school curriculum over ninety years ago!

Even worse, low-cost nutritional supplements don't interest major pharmaceutical companies. Nutrient logic is buried in an avalanche of prescription-drug hype. Subsequently, more than 200,000 patients die annually from using prescription drugs as prescribed by their doctors.
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And because we are not adhering to nutrition logic, illness continues to proliferate.

I abandoned my career as a drug-design chemist because I grew so disgusted with Big Pharma's blatant willingness to ignore nutrient logic as a viable and inexpensive alternative to drugs. Since then, my goal has been to advise consumers about safe, natural, and inexpensive supplements that can help them finally become healthy.

The big problem is that nutrient logic isn't profitable for big pharmaceutical companies. I've witnessed Big Pharma investigate and prove the value of these nutrients using state-of-the-art technology. But rather than offer this information to the masses, pharmaceutical companies cover it up and try to mimic these substances and their actions with synthetic and often expensive drugs. Historically, these companies often fail to create drugs as powerful, safe, and effective as their natural counterparts.

For too long, these supplements—and many others you'll discover in this book—have been missing the limelight they deserve. Filling a nutritional void with disease-beating nutrients is of no interest to Big Pharma and supplement hucksters hell-bent on profits. Subsequently, most people have been unaware of the vast benefits of curcumin, ALA, hawthorn, and other supplements—until now.

I don't work for Wal-Mart or any other retailer mentioned, and none of them have funded this book or my website in any way. I am a consumer health advocate, and I simply want to help you “live young” by showing you how to apply nutrient logic to your daily life. Love it or hate it, the convenience of mass retailers has become a part of everyone's daily life.
Therefore, in the case of
Over-the-Counter Natural Cures
, anyone can and should leverage this convenience for vibrant health.

APPLYING NUTRIENT LOGIC

Nutrient logic is most effective when you stick to a perfect diet. But who can do that all the time? I'll be damned if I can find healthy food (all-natural healthy fats, protein, and low-glycemic carbs) when traveling. And I'm not about to give up my morning coffee, the occasional glass (or bottle) of wine, or the occasional dessert. And I know I'm not alone.

You probably balk at the idea of choking down nasty vegetable juices, adhering to taste-like-garbage diets, or becoming a twig-and-herb-eatin' hippie. You no doubt want practical methods to apply nutrient logic to your normal life. The solution is nutritional supplements.

Americans spend more than $6 billion every year “guessing” what the right supplement might be. And the truth is that if you have to guess which nutrients are right for you, you probably aren't taking the right ones. You're likely to be using overpriced, ineffective, and even dangerous products. Meanwhile, you could be overlooking the “right supplements” like curcumin, ALA, or hawthorn. Let's look at each of these as an example:

• Cancer Letters
  , a journal of cancer research, called curcumin an
  “
  age-old treatment for an old-age disease.”
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  The active ingredients in curcumin have been shown to fight leukemia and lymphoma, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma, lung cancer, melanoma, neurological cancers, and even sarcoma. Rather than offer patients curcumin as the first line of defense, they are swiftly put on dangerous and expensive chemotherapy.
  
• Alpha-lipoic acid, or ALA, is a natural and safe alternative to pricey and potentially dangerous procedures like face-lifts. If you don't have ALA in your diet, wrinkles come on like gangbusters. But when you add ALA to your diet, it activates an antiwrinkle agent within your skin cells known as AP-1. Working in unison, AP-1 and ALA promote the digestion of damaged, wrinkle-inducing collagen. This helps get rid of unsightly wrinkles. The same anti-inflammation action of ALA protects against heart attack, stroke, and even the dangers associated with type 2 diabetes.
  Readers Digest
  called ALA the “pill that could stop aging.”
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• Hawthorn (an herb that's been used for thousands of years) has proven a safe and effective method for keeping your blood, heart, and arteries in tip-top health. Hawthorn destroys potentially deadly blood clots on contact. It works by preventing excess platelets from building up in the arteries while releasing tension from the arterial walls. Studying the benefits of hawthorn, results published in the
  American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
  showed that the supplement could be used successfully to treat heart failure, hypertension, angina, and cardiac arrhythmias.
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  You can get hawthorn at any retail store for about $10.00 per month. And most exciting, users can rest easy knowing that they won't suffer from any of the nasty side effects common to its toxic, chemical cousins aspirin and Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate).
  

Most people don't realize just how easy it is to find these lifesaving supplements. You can obtain all the nutrients you need for vibrant health from natural sources. And since these supplements aren't designed by high-paid chemists in laboratories, you can buy them cheaply and easily, too.

Like anything worthwhile, your health takes work. So maximizing the benefits of nutrient logic depends on good—although not perfect—lifestyle habits. You won't have to gag on veggie juice or eat your body weight in twigs and berries. But you will have to abide by five simple lifestyle habits that will preserve your health while helping your supplements work harder for you.

Once you know the right nutrients are out there, just waiting for you, you may want to head right down the road to Wal-Mart. But let me warn you—navigating the supplement maze can be tricky when you go it alone. It's loaded with scams, shams, and flimflam designed to take more out of your wallet. So I'm going to guide you through the maze.

THE SUPPLEMENT MAZE

Anyone can sell supplements, even your Aunt Helga. This explains the maze of good and bad, honesty and corruption, well-meaning promoters and all-out hucksters. Supplements that shouldn't cost more than $10.00 often carry slick labels, false claims, and a sixty-dollar price tag. Feeling discouraged is easy when you're faced with a dizzying array of contradictory advice and expensive “solutions.” How can you find the “right” supplements for yourself in all this chaos?

THE “RIGHT” SUPPLEMENTS

It may be hard to believe that you can find the “right” supplement at Wal-Mart or practically any other retailer. Advancements in natural product chemistry and manufacturing have made it easy for supplement companies to produce and distribute scientifically sound, inexpensive supplements. The “right” supplement is just around the corner.

Now that you know where to find the “right” supplement, you need to figure out which supplement is best for you. Of course, you'll want
supplements that match your specific health needs, but any supplement you buy should also meet certain scientific, health, and safety criteria.

 

• The right supplement should be backed by science and years of successful use.
  
• The right supplement is not adulterated with fillers such as sugar (dextrose), artificial flavors, soy or vegetable oil, and preservatives.
  
• The right supplement has verifiable purity via a certificate of analysis (COA) to prove that it doesn't have any adulterants.
  
• The right supplement is manufactured under good manufacturing practices (GMP) approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
  
• The right supplement provides the proper natural form of a plant, herb, or nutrient, as warranted by science. All too often, supplement formulations use incorrect and inferior isolates or ratios—or even
  synthetic mimics
  (Franken-Chemicals) of nature—to replace essential nutrients.
  
• The right supplement targets a specific action (like reduction of inflammation-causing molecules) to elicit a positive reaction (reduced risk of heart disease).
  
• The right supplement won't interfere with commonly used drugs or cause risky interactions.
  
• And finally, the right supplement should help you feel vibrantly healthy within thirty days.
  

 

That's a lot to think about. But you don't have to worry about all of these variables. I've done it for you. This book contains ten lifesaving supplements that already meet these criteria. I've tested each one myself with the latest chemistry techniques to verify purity!

Each supplement mentioned in my book will come with free access to its certificate of analysis (COA)—obtained and paid for by me from an independent lab—so you can verify for yourself that it is pure and contains the ingredients it should. A COA certifies the safety of ingesting a supplement based on state-of-art quality-control methods. These methods can cost as much as $1,000 per supplement when testing for bacteria like
E. coli
, heavy metals like mercury, and various fungi, while at the same time measuring and verifying the amount of active ingredients and identifying any unknown adulterants. And since I've already paid for each independent COA, each one of them is yours free, courtesy of buying this book, which means you don't have to spend your own money to make sure that these supplements are safe for you and your family to swallow.

I'm also going to teach you about each and every action and reaction, potential interactions, and how to use each of these supplements safely. Applying what you learn will help you feel great in thirty days. And remember: you'll be able to find each of these supplements on the shelves of your local retail store…for less than $10.00 per month.

Despite the occasional joke, this book has a serious purpose. Something crazy is happening to the health of the world: drugs. They're eroding our quality of life, yet everyone assumes that's normal. So much that we wear our prescriptions as a badge of honor. Yet, we're sicker than ever. This books teaches that taking prescription drugs as vitamins for every health problem is not normal, no matter how accepted.

In each chapter, I'll start by telling you exactly what you are going to learn, usually in a fun and entertaining format. All stories are true, no matter how funny, sad, or outlandish. I do know that humor can't survive on its own frail metabolism, so I've backed every bit
of it with science. Each chapter is loaded with scientific proof that brings a new health message: anyone can use the right supplement to live young without the risk and expense associated with today's pill-popping culture.

 

 

 CHAPTER 1