Real Cause, Real Cure: The 9 root causes of the most common health problems and how to solve them - Softcover

Teitelbaum M.D., Jacob; Gottlieb, Bill

 
9781605292021: Real Cause, Real Cure: The 9 root causes of the most common health problems and how to solve them
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1605292028 ISBN 13: 9781605292021
Verlag: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent, 2012

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An eye-opening guide that boils down common health problems to nine simple causes and offers the relief readers have been searching for.

An expert in combining both traditional and alternative medicine, Dr. Teitelbaum explains that tackling nine wholly preventable causes is the key to long-term, real relief from nagging health concerns.

Real Cause, Real Cure unearths the underlying causes of more than 50 health problems, steering readers toward cost-effective, safe, and easy remedies to combat woes ranging from acne and food allergies to diabetes and cancer. Readers will discover how getting a full night's rest can combat heart disease, diabetes, depression, heartburn, weight gain, and chronic pain; how adding exercise to one's daily routine not only prevents an expanding waistline, but also wards off Alzheimer's, fibromyalgia, insomnia, and stroke; and how drugs taken to improve our health are a major culprit in why we keep getting sick.

This user-friendly guide takes the confusion out of personal health care so readers can enjoy a life free of needless prescriptions, doctors' offices, and irritating health issues.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, is a board certified internal medicine physician and researcher, widely recognized as an innovative leader in complementary health care, and medical director at the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers. He divides his time between Virginia and Hawaii.

Bill Gottlieb is author of The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy and the bestselling Alternative Cures, with more than 1.6 million copies sold. He lives in California.

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Real Cause #1

NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

OPTIMIZE NUTRIENTS, OPTIMIZE HEALTH

With one-third of adults being obese and two-thirds overweight, Americans don't look like we have nutritional deficiencies--we look like we eat too much food. But extra calories don't necessarily translate into extra nutrients.

A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that less than 5 percent of the study subjects got the government's Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for key minerals essential to health. In other words, fewer than one in 20 people were taking in the amount needed to avoid deficiencies, let alone the amount needed for optimal health and well- being. What's even more surprising, many of the study subjects worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland--one of the world's top nutritional research centers!

Why are so many Americans deficient in vitamins and minerals? There are several reasons.

RDH (Requirement for Daily Healing)

If you feel overwhelmed by the avalanche of acronyms the government uses to describe the adequate intake of nutrients, you're not alone. You've got your RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance), the government standard that's based on meeting the nutritional needs of 98 percent of the population. Then there's the AI (Adequate Intake), which applies to nutrients such as pantothenic acid that don't have enough scientific backup yet to set an RDA. And, oh yeah, there's the UL (Tolerable Upper Limit), which experts deem as the highest amount you can take without harm. And don't forget the DRI and the DV....

Actually, do forget about them. By definition, these intakes, allowances, requirements, and values are the lowest day-to-day intakes that will prevent deficiencies and a failure of the metabolic functions the nutrients support (such as the amount of iron needed to prevent anemia). These intakes are not aimed at achieving optimal health and well-being. They're so low that the RDA is sometimes called "Ridiculous Dietary Allowance."

So I recommend a different set of guidelines, which I call the RDH: Requirement for Daily Healing--the amount of each vitamin and mineral necessary to prevent and reverse disease and achieve glowing health. You'll find these optimal amounts accompanying each nutrient later in this chapter.

Too much sugar and white flour. Added sugar, which is devoid of vitamins and minerals, accounts for 18 percent of the calories in the average American diet. Another 18 percent come from white flour, which has been stripped of bran, the grain's nutrient-rich outer covering. This all means that more than one-third of the total calories found in the typical American diet provide minuscule amounts of nutrients.

Too much processed food. Processing usually strips food of its nutrients while often adding health-harming levels of energy-robbing sugar, artery- clogging trans fats, and cell-poisoning artificial chemicals.

Not enough nutrient-rich whole foods. In addition to eating too much of the wrong kinds of foods, we don't get enough of the right kinds. A report by the government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that only 33 percent of American adults eat nutrient-rich fruit two or more times a day, and only 27 percent eat nutrient-dense vegetables three or more times a day.

Too much modern life. Unrelenting stress, air pollution, nutrient-depleted soil, chronic use of antacids, and diets overloaded with refined carbohydrates and saturated fat all drain the body of micronutrients or block their absorption.

What's the end result of widespread vitamin and mineral deficiencies? In a word: disease.

THE TRIAGE THEORY

This state of disease due to nutritional deficiency is the basis of the pro£ded "triage theory" of world-class scientist Bruce Ames, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and inventor of the Ames Test, the standard method used to determine whether a chemical can cause cancer. The triage theory says that the body copes with micronutrient deficiencies by using available vitamins and minerals to ensure day-to-day survival. The result: The body's long-term needs are shortchanged, causing chronic diseases--specifically, the current plague of cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's.

"Scientists have been evaluating the wrong factors in setting the RDAs," said Dr. Ames in a recent interview. "They have been looking at adequate intake based on the acute but not the chronic effects of inadequate intake. So someone with an 'adequate' intake might seem perfectly healthy today-- but he's setting himself up for chronic disease because of an ongoing deficiency of micronutrients. We need to be 'tuned up' with vitamins and minerals throughout life. Anytime we're not, we pay the price in long-term damage.

"Nutritionists say, 'If you eat a good diet, you'll get all the vitamins and minerals you need," Dr. Ames continued. "Well, I eat a good diet--but I also take a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement for insurance. I don't think any diet can be optimum in every micronutrient."

The daily micronutrient deficiencies that are likely causing long-term problems? Dr. Ames compiled the following list, and it reads a lot like the label of a typical multivitamin/mineral supplement!

• Acetyl-L-carnitine
• Alpha-lipoic acid
• Biotin
• Calcium
• Choline
• Cobalamin (vitamin B12)
• Copper
• Folate
• Iron
• Magnesium
• Niacin
• Omega-3 fatty acids
• Pantothenate
• Potassium
• Pyridoxine (vitamin B6)
• Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
• Selenium
• Thiamin (vitamin B1)
• Vitamin D
• Zinc

"All You Get from Taking Supplements Is Expensive Urine"

One reason I emphasize nutrition as an essential part of your self-care and self-healing is because there are so many "official" voices telling you that nutritional supplementation is a waste of your time and money. In fact, while I was writing this book, the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee issued its findings after 2 years of work--and made almost no changes to its 2005 guidelines (a sure sign of an ossified bureaucracy). The executive summary of the report states, "A daily multivitamin/mineral supplement does not offer health benefits to healthy Americans."

I would fire those executives summarily! I find it hard to believe that they carefully examined the nutritional research that you'll find reported throughout this book. We urge you not to come to the same conclusion they did. And we don't think you will after perusing the rest of this chapter.

Some so-called experts like to confuse people by making the "urine" statement above. (The statement is so often made that if you Google the phrase "expensive urine," you'll produce more than 65,000 hits!) Well, the oft-heard statement ignores the fact that the same thing happens to vitamins and other nutrients in food, so I guess you don't need to eat, either! My response to those "experts" who repeat this nonsense? Stop wasting your time and money drinking water, which ends up in your urine! Very soon, you, the expert, will no longer be advising anyone about what's best for optimal health.

In the following sections, you'll find a nutrient-by-nutrient guide to the level of vitamin and mineral supplementation that can prevent these deficiencies and--most important--optimize your health. For each nutrient, we also present the diseases that can be prevented, and sometimes cured, by treating a deficiency.

This is one of the longest chapters in the book....

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Verlag
Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1605292028
ISBN 13 
9781605292021
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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