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In This Issue
· A Word from Dave
· Ascorbic Acid vs Natural Vitamin C
· Camu-Camu - A Potent Immune System and Mood-Balancing Botanical Support
· Ingredients in C From Nature
· C From Nature
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 A WORD FROM DAVE....
Many people believe that the “nutrition” industry and the pharmaceutical industry are somehow diametrically opposed or separate powers. What many people do not know is that the vitamins that you take from your family-owned or chain nutrition store come from the same corporations, the same pharmaceutical companies- basically the same source. The ONLY true alternative and the only NATURAL healing comes from pure, unadulterated foods, plants, herbs, and other phyto- (land plant) and phyco- (sea plant) nutritional sources. Never has this been illustrated as well as it has been in the accompanying article. We at Purium Health Products strongly promote a whole food concept- knowing how much confusion surrounds the issue of vitamin C and ascorbic acid, we felt compelled to dedicate our Monday Morning Health Minute (MMHM) to this important subject, as well as to draw attention to what we believe to be the finest whole food source of vitamin C available on the planet- PHP’s C from Nature (for more information on this amazing product, see section below). We will also go further into detail on our weekly Consumer Education conference call.
Please join us LIVE on Wednesday evening- 6 pm PST/ 9pm EST- by dialing (212) 461 5800, hit pin code #8246 when prompted.
Dave Sandoval
Author of The Green Foods Bible
Founder of PHP
Ascorbic Acid vs Natural Vitamin C
The Functional Architecture of Vitamin C Complex
Since ascorbic acid is such a tiny portion of the natural Vitamin C Complex. any ascorbic acid product cannot possibly be natural. The reason is simple-to get sufficient quantities of ascorbic acid from nature, the other portions of the whole Vitamin C Complex would be so large as to make a single 500 mg "natural" ascorbic acid pill the size of a tennis ball.
Since there is no "natural" ascorbic acid, it is the combination of nutritive factors found in the whole Vitamin C Complex that do the healing, not the ascorbic acid. This was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of ascorbic acid, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi. In a letter to the editor of the esteemed journal Nature, July 14, 1936, p. 27, he wrote that when it comes to anti-scurvy and anti-hemorrhagic effects, there are "other substances of similar importance and activity that accompany ascorbic acid."
More important, when Szent-Gyorgyi tried to cure scurvy and other bleeding conditions, he found that "with pure ascorbic acid, we obtained no response.... Yet when red pepper or lemon or lime juice was used, the condition was readily cured." The reason for this is simple, the nutritive portions of vitamin C do the curing and healing, ascorbic acid simply performs the antioxidant function.
So we have it from the horse's mouth that ascorbic acid was not effective in curing the very conditions known to be vitamin C-deficiency diseases. This has been known since the early 1930s. But it is simple to reproduce ascorbic acid and sell it as vitamin C for big bucks. So the charade has continued all these years. The real need for ascorbic acid is to protect the healing nutrients in the whole Vitamin C Complex from oxidation.
What About the Vitamin C Diseases?
The integrity of blood vessels is dependent upon vitamin C and its natural bioflavonoid and organic copper components. People taking super doses of ascorbic acid still have pink toothbrush, still have brown skin on their legs from capillary fragility, and still suffer from arteriosclerosis subclinical scurvy, and other blood vessel problems because they aren't getting enough whole Vitamin C Complex.
A whole-food extract of vitamin C-rich foods will resolve these problems where ascorbic acid tablets routinely fail. Are these conditions common? In older folks they are becoming the routine. Clogged arteries, inflamed arteries, aneurysms, skin covered with patches of leaked blood that turns brown, bleeding gums and loose teeth, gum disease, bone problems including osteoporosis, and more are all symptoms of vitamin C deficiency. And they are universal-despite the fact that almost everyone takes enough ascorbic to sink a battleship.
But what about the antioxidant activity of ascorbic acid? The new super-role of antioxidants is being hyped to the public to sell chemicals labeled as vitamins. These are supposed to protect you from free radicals and serve as anti-aging products. Most people's cells are actually starved for oxygen. Huge doses of chemical antioxidants can make these conditions worse.
We have people who can't take a deep breath. Those who are constantly in a fog. And more that can't walk a block without fainting. Antioxidants (chemical Vitamin E, ascorbic acid, etc) taken to excess can make these conditions worse. The whole Vitamin C Complex improves oxygen assimilation in the blood. This relieves the heart and all the other blood cells that constantly need oxygenation.
It Can't Hurt-Or Can It?
Any substance that actively promotes disease in the human body cannot be considered a vitamin. Therefore, ascorbic acid is not a vitamin. Here are just a few things we have found associated with excessive ascorbic acid intake:
1. Ascorbic acid pills can speed up the process of hardening of the arteries. This was published in an Associated Press release (3-3-2000) from an epidemiological study presented at the American Heart Association.
2. Cancer thrives on glucose and ascorbic acid. Studies from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center showed that tumors do better in a high ascorbic acid environment..
3. Ascorbic acid is excreted via the kidneys in 24 hours. (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1990 June;44(6):447-60).
4. Five hundred mgs. of ascorbic acid daily can damage genetic material (DNA). (New York Times, April 8, 1998-quoting the journal Nature of the same month).
So, we have ascorbic acid antioxidant pills made for pennies and sold to the public in megadoses for big bucks that do not cure scurvy or its subclinical forms now afflicting legions of Americans. It can speed up the process of clogged arteries. Cancer thrives on it, and it protects tumors. Most of it is wasted and excreted via the kidneys. And it can cause oxidative genetic damage to your DNA. It can't hurt?!
Once again we are faced with the old adage that truth is indeed timeless. From the early 1920s and into the '30s when the discoverer expressed the failure of ascorbic acid to cure scurvy, right up to today when study after study shows that ascorbic acid is not the panacea we are taught to believe, we learn the same lesson. When you extract one component of food and give it at very high doses, you just don't know what you are doing to the system, and it may be adverse.
As for "natural" forms of ascorbic acid, there are none. Linus Pauling, the biggest proponent of ascorbic acid intake, cleared that up when he said, "Ascorbic acid is made from glucose (corn sugar) boiled with sulfuric acid. What is called rose hips (natural) vitamin C is the same pure crystalline ascorbic acid with a bunch of rose hips powder added. The "natural" ascorbic acid is out of the same barrel from Hoffman-LaRoche as the others, but with a pinch of rose hips powder."
What Real Vitamin C Will Do
When you look at the schematic of the whole Vitamin C Complex, you see that the bioflavonoid complexes, enzymes and organic copper, and the other nutritional factors like P, J, and K make up the bulk of vitamin C. The ascorbic acid (C6H8 806) is the protective wrapper. When the whole vitamin C complex is fed to the body, things really happen.
Blood vessels begin to strengthen. Collagen is more readily produced. Bones take up calcium and other minerals properly. Capillaries firm up and bleeding stops. Gums stop bleeding, teeth tighten, and the oxygenation of the cells becomes more efficient. This in turn allows for better circulation to the heart, more oxygenation of the blood, and resultant better heart function. All these changes, including a natural immune system enhancement, can be measured on lab and other tests. These tests will show nothing of the kind with the same consumption of ascorbic acid alone.
In reality, the whole Vitamin C Complex is concentrated food. Prime sources of organic foods condensed into vitamin C supplements are buck wheat, alfalfa, mushrooms, raw bone, carrots, rice bran, raw adrenal, yeast, and more... (see below)
Camu-Camu (Myrciaria dubia)
A Potent Immune System and Mood-Balancing Botanical Support
by Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Camu-Camu (Myrciaria dubia) is the name of a bush which grows in the Amazonian rain forest of Peru. The Camu-Camu bush produces a fruit with the same name which contains powerful phytochemicals with health benefits, including the amino acids serine, valine, and leucine, and more Vitamin C than any other known plant in the world. The camu-camu fruit has a surprising range of therapeutic effects. Many people have stopped using large dosages of synthetic Vitamin C because they find that Camu-Camu is energizing, mood-lifting and highly effective in strengthening the immune system.*
Although the number of milligrams of Vitamin C, which Camu-Camu contains, is low compared to the milligrams in synthetically derived Vitamin C tablets, it has more natural Vitamin C than any known botanical on the planet, the effects on the human body are incomparable. Because of its food form, with bioflavanoids and other phytochemicals, clinical evidence suggests that it is far more effective, milligram for milligram, than synthetic Vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Camu-Camu is very well known and prized in Japan but is almost unknown in the U.S. Nevertheless, the Peruvian government expects that it will become a major export when its amazing properties are discovered in the United States. It is preparing for the expected large increase in demand by making Camu-Camu seedlings available free of charge to communities of native people who are rain-forest dwellers for them to plant and to tend. It takes four to five years for the Camu-Camu bush to bear fruit. The growing popularity of this wild rainforest fruit is contributing to the sustainable development of the Amazon River basin and helping the forest dwellers to maintain their traditional way of life.
Some of the extraordinary medicinal properties of this Amazon rain forest fruit are described by Gary Null, Ph.D., a nationally known nutritionist and researcher, (1996). The camu-camu fruit has a surprising range of health-promoting effects. Camu-Camu helps to strengthen the immune system, maintain healthy gums, eyes and skin. Some extraordinary properties of this Amazon rainforest fruit are described by Gary Null, Ph.D., a nationally known nutritionist and researcher. In his Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing, (1998), Null lists disease conditions and the herbs that have been found effective for their health promoting properties in reference to specific organ/system weaknesses and problems. In discussing the holistic treatment of depression, he lists 19 plants containing chemical compounds with mood-balancing properties, in order of potency. Camu-Camu is no. two on his list.* Anecdotally and in clinical experience, Null’s assessment of Camu-Camu has proven to be correct although the Camu-Camu fruit as such has hardly been studied at all, apart from clinical experience there is only indirect inferential evidence from scientific studies on the effect of Vitamin C. it appears to provide nutritional support for the brain to optimize its own mood balancing chemistry. Additionally, published research suggests that Vitamin C supports an increased serotonin level in the brain. Some health care practitioners have reported that Camu-Camu has same day mood-balancing effects. There are no side effects, such as photo-sensitivity or gastrointestinal problems, and it can be used safely in combination with pharmaceutical antidepressants.* There have been no reports of its interference with the effectiveness of any pharmaceutical drugs.
All forms of the herpes virus dormant at the base of the spine and become active when the immune system is stressed beyond its ability to respond effectively against pathogens. Common stressors include emotional upsets, other illnesses, prescription drugs, insufficient rest, poor diet, menstrual periods, vaginal yeast infections, and too much sunlight on the skin. Genital herpes is usually transmitted sexually.
The principal anti-viral pharmaceutical medicine is Acyclovir® which has unpleasant side effects in some people. The herpes virus takes a number of different forms and is widespread today as a public health problem in the United States. More than 50% of the U.S. population gets cold sores, which is the result of the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1). Many people also suffer from shingles, which is a remanifestation of the chicken pox virus in adulthood in a new form.
The Epstein-Barr virus is a common form of the herpes virus which may linger in the body for years, raising the total viral load which the body must combat. Yet another form of the herpes virus is genital herpes which is caused by the herpes simplex virus 2. In total, more than 80% of the U.S. population suffers from some kind of herpes infection. Null lists 19 plants which contain anti-herpetic phytochemicals. The plant with the largest amount of these phyto-chemicals is Camu-Camu.*
Health care practitioners report that a premium quality Camu-Camu has provided very effective nutritional support for putting shingles into remission, cutting the expected time for reduction of symptoms in half, by supporting the body’s natural defenses. Users report that “cold sores,” resolve in one day, genital herpes will often resolve in 48 hours, and the Epstein-Barr type of chronic fatigue will show some improvement in one or two weeks. Camu-Camu may also be taken on a daily basis to provide highly effective support the body’s immune defenses against the herpes virus when it is lies dormant in the body.
The Camu-Camu fruit has a surprising range of medicinal effects as measured both by traditional use and by quantity of a variety of phytochemical compounds which experimentally have demonstrated therapeutic effects. Dr. James Duke, retired chief botanist for the U.S.Dept.of Agriculture, pre-eminent New World tropical botanist, and author of many botanical books, including the popular Green Pharmacy, lists some of these effects in his Ethnobotanical website, based on amounts of various phytochemicals which Myrciaria dubia contains. In a comparative study of hundreds of botanicals, ranked in order of effectiveness for various health conditions, Camu-Camu was ranked among hundreds of herbs as follows:
- antimutagenic - No. 4;
- anti-viral -No.6;
- anti-oxidant - No.4;
- asthma - No.1;
- atherosclerosis - No.1;
- cataracts - No.1;
- colds - No.1;
- depression - No.2;
- edema - No.1;
- gigivitis-peridontal disease-No.1;
- glaucoma - No.1;
- hepatitis - No.1;
- infertility - No.1;
- migraine-cluster headaches - No.1;
- osteoarthritis - No.1;
- Painkiller - No.1;
- Parkinson's disease - No.1*
This is only a partial listing. For a complete list, see Dr. James Duke’s Ethnobotanical database, www.ars-grin.gov/duke/. There is a disclaimer on his website which warns that the information he provides is not meant to claim that any herb can diagnose, prevent, or cause any disease condition which hw mentions. And Dr. Duke urges the readers of his website to seek out a health care professional for treatment of illness.
* These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and the information given here is for educational purposes only. This product is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure any disease.
References:
Dr. James Duke’s Ethnobotanical database: www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
Null, Gary. A Woman’s Encyclopedia of Natural Healing, Seven Stories Press, New York, N.Y., 1997.
The Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing,. Kensington Press, New York, N.Y., 1998
The Power of the Amla Berry
In this issue of Healthy Living, we’ve been stressing the importance of supplementing your diet with nutritional antioxidants. Among the most important of these is what many experts believe to be the very best source of vitamin C on Earth, amla berry (Emblica officinalis).
Sourced from: The Doctors’ prescription for Healthy Living / Volume 7, Number 3
Long revered in ayurvedic medicine, this plum sized fruit, native to India, is packed with whole food vitamin C and naturally occurring bioflavonoids. It is revered for its anti-aging and immune enhancing properties, and many of the great Ayurvedic tonics are based, in part, on amla. In fact, research has shown that only 8.7 mg of natural vitamin C complex from amla is equivalent to 100 mg of the most commonly used synthetic ascorbic acid. This is due to the rich phytochemical co-factors present in amla.
We recommend daily supplementation with amla berry. It is a prime anti-cancer supplement, but so much more. In a recent review of published articles on amla, extracts or the whole fruit were shown to be useful for elevated cholesterol, diabetes, as an additive treatment in cancer therapies, and as a powerful antioxidant. In particular, we are impressed by its multifaceted tumor inhibition potential, as demonstrated in the July 2002 issue of the International Journal of Oncology.
REFERENCES
Khan, M.T., et al. “Identification of pyrogallol as an antiproliferative compound present in extracts from the medicinal plant Emblica officinalis: effects on in vitro cell growth of human tumor cell lines.” Int J Oncol,2002;21(1):187-192.
Herbal Healing with Acerola
By C.D. Hubbard, published Jul 03, 2008
Acerola is also known as Antilles Cherry, Barbados Cherry and Cereso. The Latin name of Acerola is Malpighia species and it is part of the tropical cherry family. The Acerola is a bushy tree that grows to be 10 to 15 feet tall. The Acerola tree is native to the West Indies and southern Texas southward to northern South America.
Acerola is one of the richest food sources of vitamin C although the vitamin C content of the fruit varies depending on the climate, location, season and ripeness of the fruit. Acerola has carotene content comparable to that of carrots and also supplies potassium, niacin, magnesium, pahtothenic acid, vitamin B1 and vitamin B2.
Did you know that the vitamin content of the Acerola fruit is at its highest before it ripens, while it is still green? Did you know that the Acerola fruit is harvested while it is green because of the vitamin content being richer?
Acerola is used primarily for its vitamin C content but it is also a source of other vitamins and minerals like provitamin A that intensifies the antioxidative effect of vitamin C. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient and must be supplied by the diet. Vitamin C is a natural antihistamine, antioxidant and detoxifier.
It is also a natural chelating agent that indirectly protects the body from the effects of pollution and heavy metal exposure. Vitamin C is necessary for the formation and maintenance of collagen which is a primary protein of the skin and connective tissues and is necessary for a healthy adrenal gland and liver function.
Did you know that vitamin C helps the body fight off stress?
The vitamin C in Acerola treats conditions by acting outside cells rather than inside them. This prevents the shedding of viruses to general circulation and provides a high concentration of antioxidants needed to transport necessary nutrients into the cell. Therefore, Acerola is useful for treating many different conditions because of the high dosages of vitamin C it contains.
* Note: The material in this article is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. All recommendations herein contained are believed to be effective but since the actual use of herbs by other individuals is beyond the author's control, no expressed or implied guarantee as to the effects of their use can be given nor liability taken. *
Rose hip
Rose hips are the edible and nutritious fruit of the beautiful deciduous rose, a perennial member of the most extensive genus of classified plants. The dog rose hips are said to contain the highest amounts of vitamin C of all the varieties, with 10 to 50 times that of an orange. In England, during the second World War, the scarcity of citrus products led to a nationwide effort to harvest and process the nutritional hips of the dog rose. The dog rose hips, abundant in the countryside, provided the populace with adequate vitamin C to prevent the onset of the deficiency disease known as scurvy.Rose hips are an abundant natural source of vitamin C. Used regularly as a tonic or food supplement, these compact, nutritious hips will help build the body's defense against colds and flu, catarrh, sore throats, and chest infections. Rose hip tea, taken following a course of antibiotic therapy, will help re-establish the beneficial bacteria in the digestive system. (The natural balance of intestinal flora may have been disrupted or destroyed by the action of antibiotic drugs.) Rose hip tea can also soothe the nervous system and relieve exhaustion.
C From Nature:
Most people know vitamin C is one of the most important nutrients to help build our immune system. What most people do not know is that most vitamin C is synthetically manufactured, does not resemble the powerful nutrient that occurs in foods, and may actually do as much harm as good.
This is why PHP has gone to every point of the globe to find nature’s most potent source of the vital nutrient. Vitamin C is abundant in rare fruits from South America, Europe, and India. These fruits are not only loaded with naturally occurring vitamin C but contain every vital co-factor necessary to ensure its rapid absorption.
It is time to reject chemically composed, sugar sweetened, artificial nutrients, and tap into the powerful combination of natural Acerola, Camu-camu, Rose Hips, Citrus Bioflavonoids, and Amla that we call "C From Nature." Available in vegetarian capsules.
INGREDIENTS:
Acerola: The fruit of the Acerola Cherry tree can contain up to 400mg of vitamin C per gram of fresh berry compared to 5mg in a peeled orange.
Camu-camu: Native to the Amazon River Region, Camu-camu has over 100 times the amount of vitamin C per gram than an orange.
Rose Hips: Has 60 times more Vitamin C than citrus fruit and is very rich in Bioflavonoids, which are vital to build and strengthen your body.
Citrus Bioflavonoids: These substances, found in citrus fruits, have been shown in numerous studies to treat diseases of the blood vessels and the lymphatic system.
Amla: This ancient Indian berry is a source of vitamin C that is 12 times more assimilable than synthetic ascorbic acid.
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