I recently came across an article called ‘Heart Attack in Dogs’ from a website called petplace.com. This site is founded and run by veterinarians for pet owners. The article makes some assertions like, “It is very unusual to identify a myocardial infarction(heart attack) in a dog.” And, “When sudden death occurs in a pet, there [...]

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This is an excerpt from Getting the Most Out of Your Vitamins and Minerals by Jack Challem. This is the last in a series of four reasons offered by Mr. Challem
Reason#4: Vitamin and mineral supplements can help you achieve optimal health.
In 1968, Linus Pauling coined the phrase “orthomolecular medicine” to describe  a relatively natural means [...]

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This is an excerpt from Getting the Most Out of Your Vitamins and Minerals by Jack Challem. This is the third in a series of four reasons offered by Mr. Challem
Reason#3: If “free radicals” cause disease, then “antioxidant” vitamins and minerals are logical-and natural- way to protect yourself.
Scientists have known about free radicals for decades, [...]

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This is an excerpt from Getting the Most Out of Your Vitamins and Minerals by Jack Challem.
Reason#2: You can use vitamins and mineral supplements to “vaccinate” yourself against an unnatural environment.
Most of us live in an environment that is, to one degree of another, unnatural and contaminated. Our bodies must endure air and water [...]

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“Reason #1: Odds are you don’t get enough vitamins and minerals from your diet. And those that you do get probably aren’t used all that efficiently”
“We’ve all known people who seem healthy regardless of how they abuse their bodies-and those who do everything right but still have difficulty achieving real health. The late [...]

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“The question is not whether you should take vitamin and mineral supplements. It’s how you can make the most of them to improve your health and live a longer, fuller life.”
” Twenty years ago, people who took vitamin and mineral supplements were often considered eccentric, if not downright wacky. And most doctors knew as much [...]

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Lysine is an essential amino acid.  Amino acids are molecules that your body fuses together into long, often intricate chains to make proteins.  We break down the proteins we eat into their constituent amino acids and build those into our own proteins.  Some of these amino acids we can synthesize in our own bodies and [...]

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” A person can ‘catch’ a cold in two ways, explains Sherry Lewin, Ph.D., in Vitamin C: Its Molecular Biology and Medical Potential. One can occur when a person is exposed to low-temperature conditions. There is good reason, besides not shivering, for adding clothing on cold or windy days. Under such conditions (stresses), the [...]

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“The human body has a magnificent array of immune system defenses to combat infections. They all, however, require large amounts of vitamin C to perform optimally- that is, to prevent an infection from taking hold, or to fight an already existing infection.   It is doubtful that the amount of vitamin C obtained from an ordinary [...]

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“Vitamin C is found universally in the plant and animal kingdoms. Plants readily produce vitamin C from the simple sugar glucose. Virtually all vertebrates and invertebrates produce vitamin C internally from glucose. Smaller animals characteristically manufacture it in the kidney, while larger animals manufacture it in the liver. One of the oddities is that a [...]

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