Trauma and wound healing

Trauma is a stressful event caused by either a mechanical or a chemical injury. Depending on its level, trauma can have serious short-term and long-term consequences. The role of healthy nutrition, both in promoting healing and in avoiding complications associated with trauma, has long been acknowledged in trauma recovery.

The body needs a certain amount of nutrients to maintain a constant, healthy state. This need is determined by the basal metabolic rate. Any external or internal trauma raises the metabolic rate, and greater amounts of oxygen and nutrients are required to supply enough fuel and amino acids for repair and recovery.

Energy expenditure may rise by 10 percent to 50 percent to support the intense metabolic workload (Omerbegovic M et al 2003). Protein and amino acid requirements increase to support formation of new tissues and proliferation of immune cells, maintain lean body mass (or muscle protein), and replace the protein lost to perspiration, bleeding, and excretion.
A positive nutritional balance is reflected in rapid healing of wounds, an efficient immune response, the absence of infections or sepsis (shock), and maintenance of a lean body mass. The following vitamins and nutrients may aid the healing process:
Vitamin A—5000 to 10,000 international units (IU) daily
Vitamin C—1000 milligrams (mg) daily
Zinc—50 mg daily
L-arginine—9000 to 18,000 mg daily
L-ornithine—1000 mg daily
Glutamine—1000 to 3000 mg daily
Bromelain—500 mg daily
Glucosamine —1500 mg daily
Aloe vera—follow label directions
Curcumin—800 to 1600 mg daily
Omega-3 fatty acids—1400 mg EPA and 1000 mg DHA daily

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What is Orthomolecular Oncology?

Orthomolecular medicine involves the treatment of disease with natural substances, endemic to the body, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other biological response modifiers. These are often used in enormous doses, to a drug-like intensity. But as they are not drugs, toxicity is largely avoided, and the body can respond in a more positive way. (A classic example of orthomolecular medicine is the treatment of diabetes with insulin). The practice of orthomolecular oncology was started over 25 years ago by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr Abram Hoffer. Inspired by some encouraging results in his work with nutrition in schizophrenia, and wanting to do more than just give spiritual counsel to his terminal cancer patients, he began to prescribe large doses of vitamins and minerals for them. To his surprise, these terminal cancer patients lived four times as long as expected, and a small percentage were cured.(1) In a Scottish study - the Vale of Leven Study, - inspired by Dr Pauling, similar results were produced with just 10 grams of oral vitamin C daily, after all conventional treatment had been abandoned. In this study 10% of terminal patients were actually cured.(2) Continue Reading >>

The Orthomolecular Link Between Vitamin E and the Heart

The correlation between a diet rich in Vitamin E and the heart has been analyzed and overanalyzed for decades now, and in one of the earliest incidences of using orthomolecular medicine in the treatment of a disease, the Shute brothers pioneered the idea of using doses of Vitamin E to prevent heart ailments; the vitamin, in the form of d-alpha tocopherol, is an active anti-oxidant that prevents the formation of free radicals which are known to increase the risk of cancer, cardiac ailments and other regenerative diseases.

Vitamin E prevents blood from clotting and thus improves circulation and prevents embolisms which give rise to strokes. Besides decreasing the amount of oxygen required by tissues and the amount of insulin needed to control diabetes, this vitamin also has properties that help keep prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease at bay.

Studies that deal with primary prevention of heart disease (in healthy adults) over the course of a few years have been known to have positive results, with most of those treated showing little or no signs of the formation of atherosclerotic plaque, the natural hardening of the arteries that begins from childhood and contributes to heart diseases and strokes. But those that deal with secondary prevention – in people who are known to have a history of heart problems – have not had conclusive results, probably because of the added effects of diabetes, smoking, and drugs being used to treat existent medical conditions.

The ideal daily dosage of Vitamin E has been proved to be between 200 IU and 400 IU, with the American Heart Association warning people against taking Vitamin E supplements in levels greater than 1,500 IU per day, especially those who are on anti-clotting drugs since it’s an anticoagulant and increases the risk of bleeding. If you’re looking for your daily requirements of this powerful antioxidant, look no further than natural foods like vegetable oils, nuts, green leafy vegetables and whole grain cereals. There’s no need to take added supplements. A word of caution though – foods rich in Vitamin E are often rich in fat as well, so make sure you consult your doctor and dietician before you make any drastic changes in the way you eat.

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Orthomolecular Solutions to Heart Disease

ABSTRACT: Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) opens the door to eliminating the 20th century's epidemic of heart attacks, cardiac arrests and strokes. Although shunned by the researchers who receive the bulk of heart disease research funding, it is creating excitement among a growing number of investigators. In this article relevant bits of B6's history are presented to show how it can prevent heart attacks with almost no side effects from moderate amounts. This article will also integrate the effects of vitamin B6 deficiency with Mathias Rath and Linus Pauling's theory (blaming heart attacks on deficient vitamin C and excess Lp(a) and Bruce Lipton's histamine theory into a general theory of atherogenesis. Continue Reading >>
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Could you be as sane (or crazy!) as what you eat?

Could you be as sane (or crazy!) as what you eat? This new (and fiercely controversial) arm of psychiatry contends that even the ultimate mind bending horror of schizophrenia is nothing more than a problem of vitamins and minerals. Our Cosmo investigator takes a searching, objective look.

Joanie, a 28-year-old legal secretary, began to have temper tantrums directed at Tom, the man she'd been living amiably with for three years. During these outbursts, Joanne became physically violent, something she had never done before, once even chasing Tom out of their apartment with a butcher knife. These fits of rage would depart as inexplicably as they arrived, leaving Joanie distraught and sobbing. Shaken, particularly by the knife episode, she began seeing a psychiatrist. For several months, the analyst had Joanie explore her emotions about Tom, her parents, her job, her goals and expectations, but the puzzling rages continued. Joanie quit the psychiatrist and went instead to a clinic specializing in orthomolecular psychiatry, a new branch of medicine that treats mental disorders mainly through nutrition. In less than two weeks Joanie's devastating tantrums vanished and have not reoccurred. Continue Reading >>

Tips On How To Have A Healthy Heart

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what would it take to avoid a heart surgeon? How about a multivitamin with mineral pill and some omega-3 oil (canola-rapeseed, flax, fish)? Add a diet low in processed food and a good 'lifestyle' (don't smoke, control waist size, manage stress well, some exercise) and you will improve general health and help prevent heart disease. Continue Reading >>

Natural Healing

The patient's immune system and the immune system alone is responsible for healing and recovery from ill health. The use of drugs and vaccines represents an assault on the immune system. In some cases, the use of a particular drug might be a wise choice to speed healing and recovery for the patient, but the use of natural, orthomolecular therapies and substances (substances normally found in Nature) that can more effectively address the cause of the disease should be considered first because natural substances work in harmony with Nature. They aid and stimulate the body to truly cure itself, without the terrible millstone of drug side-effects.

The human body is predisposed to heal itself and to exist as a healthy, thriving organism. We inhibit that process by ingesting unhealthy foods, fouling our inner environment with toxins, and relying upon poisonous substances to treat disease conditions.

Unlike 'miracle drugs' and other 'drug breakthroughs', you will never see or hear anything from mainstream media about most of the therapies described here. The Big Three see to that, but you can still glean this information from the alternative health press, books, web sites, and at health expos. Some of these alternative therapies require high-tech equipment and specialized knowledge, but many, many others can be done at home without third party intervention or supervision. It's amazing, but true, that many of the most effective healing therapies (even for grave, life-threatening disease conditions) are simple things that you can do for yourself at home. You simply have to educate yourself and take responsibility for your own health. Continue Reading >>

Large study links poor vitamin D status with greater risk of dying over 8 year period

Readers of Life Extension Update will recall the June 24, 2008 issue which reported the finding of Austrian and German researchers that men and women with higher serum levels of vitamin D had a reduced risk of dying from all causes over a seven year period.

The study, which included 3,258 patients scheduled for coronary angiography, was reported in the June 23, 2008 issue of the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Now, in the August 11/25, 2008 issue of the journal, researchers in the U.S. report the results of a significantly larger study involving healthy men and women which found a similar association. The study is the first, to the authors’ knowledge, to examine the association between vitamin D levels and mortality in the general population.

For the current study, Michal L. Melamed, MD, MHS, of the Bronx’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with researchers from Johns Hopkins University evaluated data from 13,331 participants in the Third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES III). Serum 25-hdyroxyvitamin D levels were measured between 1988 and 1994, and subjects were followed through 2000.Over the 8.7 year median follow-up period, 1,806 deaths occurred, including 777 from cardiovascular disease, 424 from cancer, and 105 due to infectious causes.



Participants with the lowest serum vitamin D levels were found to have the greatest risk of dying from any cause over follow-up. Among those whose levels placed them among the lowest 25 percent of participants at less than 17.8 nanograms per liter, there was a 26 percent higher risk of dying compared with those whose levels were in the top 25 percent. Continue Reading

THE VITAMIN C FANATICS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG

By Bill Sardi
Labeled as “health fanatics” and “vitamin whackos,” the users of mega-dose vitamin C pills are about to be vindicated. No more hiding their vitamin C pills from their doctors. No more condescending glances from their friends when they say they are taking a few grams of vitamin C every day. According to newly revealed science, the belittled mega-dose vitamin C users may be purchasing the cheapest and most effective health insurance one can buy.

The prevalent belief is that vitamin C is an essential nutrient but excessive amounts consumed from mega-dose vitamin pills produce expensive urine since excesses are excreted. This flawed idea emanates from studies conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1996. [Proceedings Natl Acad Sci 93:14344-8, 1996] Ever since then physicians, pharmacists, dietitians and other health practitioners have echoed the same mistaken chorus --- you’re wasting your money by taking mega-dose vitamin C pills. Continue Reading >>

Orthomolecular Medicine - For Health and Mental Illness

Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. The term "orthomolecular" was first used by Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. This paper first described the theoretical foundations for what was later to become a specialty within complementary medicine.

The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic factors are central not only to the physical characteristics of individuals, but also to their biochemical milieu. Biochemical pathways of the body have significant genetic variability in terms of transcriptional potential and individual enzyme concentrations, receptor-ligand affinities and protein transporter efficiency. Diseases such as atherosclerosis, cancer, schizophrenia or depression are associated with specific biochemical abnormalities which are either causal or aggravating factors of the illness. In the orthomolecular view, it is possible that the provision of vitamins, amino acids, trace elements or fatty acids in amounts sufficient to correct biochemical abnormalities will be therapeutic in preventing or treating such diseases.Want to learn more? The following essays give a more detailed overview of the nature, efficacy and history of orthomolecular medicine. Continue Reading >>

Orthomolecular Treatment of Cancer

Between 1978 and March, 1999 I have seen over 1040 patients suffering from cancer who came to me for nutritional and psychiatric counseling. This is no longer a surprising combination as it was when I first started to practice psychiatry in 1952. I attended my first annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Los Angeles, in 1952. I did not meet another psychiatrist there with a PhD in Biochemistry. Since then many more scientists with the double degrees have become active in this field but of these very few actively pursue this particular combination. Orthomolecular theory and practice drives these two together. I have retained my interest in the biochemistry and clinical aspects of nutrition combining this with my education in medicine and later in psychiatry. The recovery of my first patient in 1960 from terminal bronchiogenic cancer of the lung arose from this coalescence of these two disciplines. Continue Reading >>

Linus Pauling

When Linus Pauling died on Aug. 19, 1994, the world lost one of its greatest scientists and humanitarians and a much respected and beloved defender of civil liberties and health issues.

Because of his dynamic personality and his many accomplishments in widely diverse fields, it is hard to define Linus Pauling adequately. A remarkable man who insistently addressed certain crucial human problems while pursuing an amazing array of scientific interests, Dr. Pauling was almost as well known to the American public as he was to the world's scientific community. He is the only person ever to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes — for Chemistry (1954) and for Peace (1962). Continue Reading >>

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Why stress is aging?

Readers of Life Extension Update may recall the November 29, 2004 issue which described an association between emotional stress and shortened telomeres, a marker of cellular aging. Now, in research published in the May, 2008 issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity, a team at the University of California, Los Angeles report that they may have discovered why.

Telomeres are caps at the ends of chromosomes (the genetic material of the cell) that contribute to their stability. Each time a cell divides, telomeres lose length. Telomeres also lose length in response to chronic stress. Shortened telomeres in white blood cells known as lymphocytes have been associated with HIV, osteoporosis, heart disease and aging. An enzyme within the cell known as telomerase helps prevent telomere shortening and maintains the cells' ability to continue dividing.

For the current investigation, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine professor of pathology and laboratory medicine Rita Effros and colleagues studied lymphocytes from healthy male and female donors between the ages of 25 and 55. The cells were treated with varying concentrations of cortisol, the hormone released by the body when under stress, or with DMSO (as a control). Continue Reading

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Reduced serum vitamin E predicts physical decline in older individuals

The January 23, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association published the finding of Benedetta Bartali, RD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues that having reduced serum levels of vitamin E, an indicator of poor nutrition, is significantly associated with a decline in physical function among men and women aged 65 and older.

The current study included 698 participants in the Invecchiare in Chianti (InCHIANTI) study of risk factors contributing to physical function decline among aging men and women living in Tuscany, Italy. Examinations of the participants were performed upon enrollment from November, 1998 through May, 2000 and tests of physical function, including walking speed, chair rises, and standing balance, were conducted. Fasting blood samples were evaluated for serum concentrations of folate, vitamins B6, B12, D, E (alpha-tocopherol), and iron. Reassessment of physical function occurred at three-year follow-up examinations which took place between 2001 and 2003. Continue Reading

Clinical trial to test vitamin C against non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, are initiating a trial to test the effects of high dose vitamin C in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The study will be the first to test the effects of the vitamin when administered intravenously to NHL patients.

A team led by Daniel Monti, MD, who is the director of the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson, plans to enroll twenty patients for whom standard non-Hodgkin lymphoma therapy has been unsuccessful. Trial participants will receive varying doses of intravenous vitamin C three times per week while being monitored for disease progression. Continue Reading

Nutrition and Your Mental Health

Nutrition and Your Mental Health

What does nutrition have to do with mental health? You might be surprised to find out the truth behind what happens when a person has a nutritional deficiency.

Nutritional deficiencies can cause all sorts of psychiatric symptoms including apathy, low energy, irritability, insomnia, low energy, agitation, fatigue, concentration problems, aches and pains, weight changes, including weight loss or weight gain. Sound a lot like the symptoms of depression? The truth is the average American diet of fast food is low in vital nutrition that you need for your body to function correctly.

This isn't to say that all depression is caused by bad nutrition but it's certainly a contributing factor in many cases and poor nutrition will always make depression worse. Antidepressant drugs also do not correct nutritional problems. So if your depressed because of nutritional problems an antidepressant will only partially cover up the problem and you body still won't function correctly.




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Time to take on time

To significantly reduce disease, we must slow the aging process, according to a team of experts who published their conclusion online in the British Medical Journal on July 8. In an article entitled, “New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century,” Professor S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his associates suggest that the current focus on preventing and curing individual diseases will become outmoded as people in developed countries live longer and develop the multiple chronic illnesses that come with aging.
“The change in strategy we are calling for requires a systematic attack on aging itself,” they write. “Evidence in models ranging from invertebrates to mammals suggests that all living things, including humans, possess biochemical mechanisms that influence how quickly we age and that they are adjustable.” Due to a greater life expectancy in developed countries, the increased incidence of diseases related to aging has resulted in a dramatic rise in health care costs. Dr Olshansky and colleagues note that if an extended life span is combined with health, it could result in a number of economic, social, and other benefits, which they call “the longevity dividend.” They propose increased funding for studies that will increase our knowledge concerning the relationship of aging to such diseases as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and most cancers, in addition to research into the processes that control aging itself. Continue Reading