Get UNSTUCK from your Mind and Learn How Cholesterol Can Help!

In this Newsletter:

1.     Naturopathic Philosophy Highlight Fun Facts: Food as Medicine: Eating the Rainbow, How to Scare People with Vitamins

2.      Check out my answers and blog on Dr. Oz's Sharecare.

3.      Updated Link Resources on my homepage

4.      Radio For Your Body-Mind-Soul:

·         Body/Mind Dr. Northrup discusses the How to Get UNSTUCK from depression with Dr. Gordon.

·         Mind/Soul Michael Neil discuss Accidental Success and another way to unstick from the mind chatter

5.      Book of the week: Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey out of Depression

·         Dr. James Gordon's book portrays his clinical and personal experience with clinical depression and provides a holistic model on how to get one's life back.

6.      A New Functional Test For Heart Health Status--in your own home!

7.   My Latest Blog on Low Cholesterol & Brain Function

Bonus Reads:

More information on Food as Medicine (Dr. Hyman)

Dr. Hyman explains using your fork to eat the rainbow:

Red Group

(tomatoes, pink grapefruit, watermelon)

These contain the carotenoid lycopene, which helps rid the body of free radicals that damage genes. Lycopene seems to protect against prostate cancer as well as heart and lung disease. Processed juices contain a lot of the beneficial ingredients. One glass of tomato juice gives you 50 percent of the recommended lycopene.

Yellow/Green Group

(spinach greens, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, yellow corn, green peas, avocado, honeydew melon)

These are sources of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. These are believed to reduce the risk of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. Lutein is a yellow-green substance that concentrates in the back of your eye. It may also reduce atherosclerosis.

Orange Group

(carrots, mangos, apricots, cantaloupes, pumpkin, acorn squash, winter squash, sweet potatoes)

These contain alpha carotene, which protects against cancer. They also contain beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A. It protects the skin against free-radical damage and helps repair damaged DNA. Beta-carotene is also good for night vision. It's important to note that these beneficial nutrients can be received from other foods, too. For instance, vitamins found in dairy products and meat. But it's not as beneficial because you get high calories and fat along with it.

Orange/Yellow Group

(pineapple, orange juice, oranges, tangerines, peaches, papayas, nectarines)

These contain beta cryptothanxin, which helps cells in the body communicate and may help prevent heart disease. In addition, a single orange contains 170 percent of the recommended daily vitamin C. It's interesting to note that the skin of an orange is high in a protective fat that has been found to kill cancer cells in humans and animals, which highlights the fact that two-thirds of all drugs come from the plant world.

Red/Purple Group

(beets, eggplant, purple grapes, red wine, grape juice, prunes, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, red apples)

These are loaded with powerful antioxidants called anthocyanins believed to protect against heart disease by preventing blood clots. They may also delay the aging of cells in the body. There is some evidence they may help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Green Group

(broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, Chinese cabbage or bok choi, kale)

These contain the chemicals sulforaphane and isocyanate and they also contain indoles, all of which help ward off cancer by inhibiting carcinogens. It's a fact that ten percent of the population - like George Bush Sr. - doesn't like broccoli. But it is important in diets because of the beneficial chemicals it contains.

White/Green Group

(leeks, scallions, garlic, onions, celery, pears, white wine, endive, chives)

The onion family contains allicin, which has anti-tumor properties. Other foods in this group contain antioxidant flavonoids like quercetin and kaempferol.

Hyman, M. Eat Your Medicine: Food as Pharmacology. October 15, 2011.

Scaring People with Vitamins. (Orthomolecular.org)

(OMNS, Oct 20, 2011) Recent much trumpeted anti-vitamin news is the product of pharmaceutical company payouts. No, this is not one of "those" conspiracy theories. Here's how it's done:

1) Cash to study authors. Many of the authors of a recent negative vitamin E paper (1) have received substantial income from the pharmaceutical industry. The names are available in the last page of the paper (1556) in the "Conflict of Interest" section. You will not see them in the brief summary at the JAMA website. A number of the study authors have received money from pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Amgen, Firmagon, and Novartis.

2) Advertising revenue. Many popular magazines and almost all major medical journals receive income from the pharmaceutical industry. The only question is, how much? Pick up a copy of the publication and count the pharmaceutical ads. The more space sold, the more revenue for the publication. If you try to find their advertisement revenue, you'll see that they don't disclose it. So, just count the Pharma ads. Look in them all: Readers Digest http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n11.shtml , JAMA, Newsweek, Time, AARP Today, NEJM, Archives of Pediatrics. Even Prevention magazine. Practically any major periodical.

3) Rigged trials. Yes, it is true and yes it is provable. In a recent editorial, we explained how trials of new drugs are often rigged at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n20.shtml . Studies of the health benefits of vitamins and essential nutrients also appear to be rigged. This can be easily done by using low doses to guarantee a negative result, and by biasing the interpretation to show a statistical increase in risk.

4) Bias in what is published, or rejected for publication. The largest and most popular medical journals receive very large income from pharmaceutical advertising. Peer-reviewed research indicates that this influences what they print, and even what study authors conclude from their data. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n02.shtml .

5) Censorship of what is indexed and available to doctors and the public. Public tax money pays for censorship in the largest public medical library on the planet: the US National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE/PubMed). http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml. See also: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n05.shtml.

Don't Believe It?

How well were these pro-vitamin, anti-drug studies covered in the mass media?

• A Harvard study showed a 27% reduction in AIDS deaths among patients given vitamin supplements. (2)
• There have been no deaths from vitamins in 27 years. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml
• Antibiotics cause 700,000 emergency room visits per year, just in the US. (3)
• Modern drug-and-cut medicine is at least the third leading cause of death in the USA. Some estimates place medicine as the number one cause of death. (4)
• Over 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. If in a hospital, a patient can expect at least one medication error every single day. (5)
• More than 100,000 patients die every year, just in the US, from drugs properly prescribed and taken as directed. (6)

Andrew Saul. How to Make People Believe Any Anti-Vitamin Scare. October 20, 2011.http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n12.shtml. This article may be reprinted free of charge provided 1) that there is clear attribution to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and 2) that both the OMNS free subscription link http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html and also the OMNS archive link http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml are included.

New Functional Test for Measuring Blood Lipids:

Vitalchoice just introduced a new blood test to measure heart risk. It looks like a promising test that patients can do on their own and be guided by a practitioner. Read more here.

NEW! Omega-3 Blood Test. Our Vital Omega 3 and 6 HUFA Test Provides the Most accurate measures of omega-related heart risk and guides diet choices. October 11, 2011. http://newsletter.vitalchoice.com/e_article002234332.cfm?x=bk6V2Bw,b1h0JlRD

Excerpt from Cholesterol to the Rescue:

You Really are a Fat Head! (And that's good!)

Approximately 25% of your cholesterol is located in your brain and your retina is approximately 60%. In fact, Low Density Lipoprotein (the "bad cholesterol") is actually a transport mechanism to the eyes and omega fatty acids have been shown in various studies to assist in neurotransmission and neurotransmitter production in the brain.

What happens when the body's brain and eye's don't get the necessary precursor, cholesterol, to function? Read on for an eye and brain changing blog.....