The one-fifth of people consuming the most potassium were 35% less likely to die from coronary heart disease than the one-fifth of people consuming the least.

The top one-fifth consumed an average of 3363 mg of potassium per day versus 1720 mg per day for the bottom one-fifth.

The one-fifth of people consuming the most sodium versus the one-fifth consuming the least were:

• 42 percent more likely to have cardiovascular disease


• 55 percent more likely to have a stroke of any kind


• 104 percent more likely to have an ischemic stroke (2X as likely).

The top one-fifth consumed 6523 mg of sodium per day versus 2322 mg per day for the bottom one-fifth. Read the entire article | Email this article

Drug and alcohol problems are the result of biochemical glitches. They are not caused by a lack of will power and cannot be solved with talk therapy. Prescription drugs such as Prozac cannot correct these problems either. I believe the exact same thing is true for anxiety and depression.

In this audio clip, you will hear Dr. Julian Whitaker describe the research of American biochemist, Dr. Roger Williams.

He found that "alcoholic" rats could be cured of their desire for alcohol with large doses of nutrients.

You will then hear Dr. Whitaker interview Joan Mathews Larson, PhD whose son committed suicide about 30 years ago after returning from talk therapy.

Dr. Larson committed her life to finding a better way, and came across the research of Dr. Roger Williams.

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High or low histamine levels in the body can cause problems notes Joan Mathews Larson, PhD in this video clip.

Symptoms of High Histamine levels (causing brain to fire neurotransmitters too fast) include:

• Compulsive Drive (Type A)
• Impulsive• High libido (high sex drive)
• Cries easily, prolific tears
• Gets by on 5-7 hours sleep
• May get diagnosed as manic
• Their minds race
• Unable to focus
• Difficult to relax and go to sleep

Symptoms of Low Histamine include:

• Tires easily
• Loss of initiative, lackadaisical
• Low libido (sex drive)
• Irritable, tends towards high anxiety and panic
• Can stand a lot of pain
• Ears may ring
• Paranoid, may hear voices
• Food or chemical sensitivities
• Pear-shaped figure

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Here is an amazing before and after picture of a woman named Mary treated for long-term depression with a nutritional approach at Joan Mathews Larson PhD’s clinic in Minneapolis, Minnesota called Health Recovery Center.

Here is what Dr. Larson says.

“I want to leave this impression as we talk about antidepressants.

“Here is a picture, and I think a picture is worth a thousand words.

“Here is a woman who had been for a long time going from place to place… 14 years.

“And her father was a medical doctor.

“And he was somewhat alarmed when she said she wanted to go to [Dr. Larson’s] Health Recovery Center, but then, looking at the whole picture, he said she was going to die anyway, and so it really did not matter.

“She truly had many drugs given to her, and was a great fan of 12-Steps [Talk Therapy] for a long time.

“This is a picture of Mary 6 months later.

“So in every one of the clients that you treat, there is a Mary waiting to be released.”

—Joan Mathews Larson, PhD, speaking at a conference on Sept 27, 2007

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Pyroluria can cause life-long anxiety and depression as noted in this video clip of Joan Mathews Larson, PhD. Read the entire article | Email this article

For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.

In this video clip, she tells how a deficiency of vitamin B6,, pyrodoxine, can cause extreme anxiety, nervousness, confusion, and melancholy.

She also notes that old large doses are required, and if you don't take enough, nothing happens. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD says that the standard mantra that psychiatrists tell schizophrenic patients is, "You will never get well. You will never get off medication. And you will never finish high school."
To me, this is exactly what modern medicine does with blood pressure, with cholesterol, with diabetes, and often, with anxiety and depression.
They tell people, "You will have to take these drugs for blood pressure... cholesterol... etc. every day for the rest of your life."
As noted in the 1993 book "Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense, an evaluation by scientists", doctors become the unwitting salesmen for drug companies.
They assume they have been given the scientific facts, when instead, much of the research is nothing more than propaganda for the drug companies. Read the entire article | Email this article

Doctors get NO training about nutritional treatments in medical school, and almost NO training about nutrition notes Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD.
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Doctors are more interested in the method than the results says Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD in this audio from a speech he gave in 2005.
Thus, they ignore nutritional therapies because they don't like the method, but they never consider the results. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD talks about a father, who was a doctor, who cured his 12-year-old son of schizophrenia in 1960 using Dr. Hoffer's nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD tells stories of people recovering from schizophrenia with niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Janet Downing, a mother, tells how she successful treated her 25-year-old son of schizophrenia using Dr. Hoffer's nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin.
Although her son had been diagnosed 10 years earlier, the treatment worked from the first dose. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD tells the story of a 56-year-old woman with schizophrenia who was successfully treated with niacin, and her partner was also successful treated even though he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia for a long time.
The drugs the woman had been put on caused her to gain 25 pounds, and made her feel dizzy.
She commented that the treatment, that is, the drugs, were worse than the disease. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD states that with proper nutrition, shelter, respect and nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin, 90% of newly diagnosed schizophrenics will recover versus 0% who are given drugs alone.
And yet, modern psychiatry has failed to realize this and continues to believe that schizophrenics will NEVER get better.
This is exactly the same as modern medicine failing to realize that nutritional therapies are effective for blood pressure, for cholesterol, for depression, for anxiety, for sleep problems, and for alcohol and drug addiction.
However, because medical school does not teach doctors about nutritional therapies, and only teaches them to use drugs, they have failed to recognize this. Read the entire article | Email this article

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD took large doses of niacin for 57 years (1952 - 2009) and lived to be 92-years-old.

Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, also took large doses of niacin and lived to be 93-years-old.

In this audio clip, Dr. Hoffer talks about a woman who is 111-years-old who had been taking niacin for 41 years, and who attributes her longevity to niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this video clip, Jonathan Wright, MD, a pioneer in natural medicine, tells how about 40 years ago, two patients opened his eyes to the fact that natural treatments work, and made him realize that there was a big gap in his medical education.

Note: This is similar to the story that psychiatrist, Daniel Amen, MD, tells, in that he said he used to only give drugs to his psychiatric patients, but then when he gave stronger and stronger drugs to his young niece with behavioral problems, and they did not work and caused her to gain weight, he gave her some natural supplements that he had heard about from a colleague, and they worked great. (The link to this story is shown below.)

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American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how psychiatrists often tell patients they will never get well, and the best they can do is to manage their symptoms with drugs.

She notes that this is not a helpful message.

But she also warns people not to go home and throw their drugs out or they will end up in the hospital because you will experience drug withdrawal, so it needs to be done carefully. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how conventional psychiatrists are more likely to get rich because you have to keep going back to them to get your drugs, whereas with Orthomolecular Medicine, you get well. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how tells about her public flip-out that was all over the evening news. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how Orthomolecular Medicine explains things in terms of nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how she started reading to figure out what was wrong with her, and realized Orthomolecular Medicine might correct what was wrong with her. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how with Orthomolecular Medicine she has been well for 11 years, with no episodes of depression, and no episodes of mania. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how the drug industry has a profit motive to tell you natural medicine does not work, and to tell you that Orthomolecular Medicine does not work. Read the entire article | Email this article

American Actress, Margot Kidder, tells how she was cured of manic-depression with Orthomolecular Medicine, that is using vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids -- things that are naturally present in the body to treat and cure disease.

In the audio clip, she tells how you have the right to be treated with natural medicine rather than drugs, and that they cure is out there. Read the entire article | Email this article

Eighteen ounces (18 oz) of Orange Juice raised HDL levels by 21% in one month, from 60 mg/dL to 78 mg/dL (1.56 mmol per liter increased to 2.03 mmol per liter) according to a study published in 2000.

HDL levels seem to be key to preventing heart disease, NOT the lowering of LDL which the statin manufacturer's would like us to believe. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Everything in nature including every bone, tissue, nerve and organ in your body is made up of naturally-occurring substances and nothing else."

"So why does modern medicine fail to consider these same substances as the very tools for restoring an ailing body to its original, healthy condition?"

"It seems the most elementary kind of reasoning to me and it makes me wonder why anyone would try to develop unnatural medicines
[ synthetic drugs ] in the first place."
-- Jonathan Wright, MD, author, researcher, doctor has been practicing and teaching about nutritional therapies for the prevention and treatment of disease for 40 years, http://www.tahoma-clinic.com Read the entire article | Email this article

The greater the reduction in LDL cholesterol in statin users who were also given the cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia (ezetimibe), the greater the acceleration of atherosclerosis according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"We found an unexpected paradoxical relationship of a greater degree of atherosclerosis progression in patients with larger, [ Zetia-induced ] ezetimibe-induced reductions in LDL cholesterol level," the researchers noted.

"The use of [ Zetia ] ezetimibe led to a paradoxical increase in the degree of atherosclerosis in association with greater reduction in LDL cholesterol, an effect we hypothesize may stem from unintended biologic effects of this agent," they concluded.

But that's not all.

Even though LDL levels were lower in the statin plus Zetia (ezetimibe) than the statin plus niacin group, during a 14 month period there were:

• 3 times as many heart attacks in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group (3 vs 1)


• 5 times as many cardiovascular deaths in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group (5 vs 1), and


• 7 times as many total deaths in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group (7 vs 1), and


• more than 3 times as many heart bypasses performed in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group (3 vs 0)

Do not be fooled by some advertisement that says, "This drug lowers 'bad' LDL cholesterol." It is irrelevant! The ONLY thing that matters is if it lowers your TOTAL risk of death.

Do not be fooled by whether or not a drug lowers some number on a piece of paper, that is, some marker, such as LDL cholesterol, blood pressure or blood sugar.

The drug companies have convinced doctors and patients alike that if a drug lowers cholesterol... or blood pressure or blood sugar, that is must be good for you.

This is not true!

Studies going back to the early 1970's found that while oral diabetes drugs lower blood sugar, they caused more problems than they solved.

A 2004 study of blood pressure drugs in older women found that while these drugs lowered blood pressure by 10-15 points lower than women taking no blood pressure drugs, women taking the drugs were MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease in seven out of the eight ( 7 of 8 ) drug groups than the "no drug" group!

Yes, really.

In fact, women who had been given a diuretic plus a calcium channel blocker were 2.4 times MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease than women taking no blood pressure medicines at all, even though the systolic pressure of the women taking this drug combination was 11 points lower (138 mm Hg in the drug group vs 149 mm Hg in the "no drug" group)!

This is another example showing that the number on a piece of paper is irrelevant!

It does not matter whether or not a drug lowers LDL cholesterol or blood pressure or blood sugar or any other marker.

The only thing that matters is whether or not it lowers your total risk of death.

Please do not fall for this advertising nonsense!

Ignore LDL Cholesterol

Dr. Rodney A. Hayward says we should IGNORE LDL cholesterol ignore

Researchers quoted in the January 17th, 2008 cover story in BusinessWeek titled "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good", said that they research suggests that we should IGNORE LDL cholesterol altogether.

"[C]urrent evidence supports ignoring LDL cholesterol altogether," University of Michigan's [Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School] was quoted as saying in this BusinessWeek article. Read the entire article | Email this article

There were fewer heart attacks, fewer heart bypasses performed, fewer cardiovascular deaths, and fewer total deaths during a 14 month period in statin users given extended-release niacin compared to those given Zetia (ezetimibe) according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The final dose of extended-release niacin was:

• 2000 mg in 75% of patients


• 1500 mg in 3% of patients


• 1000 mg in 12% of patients


• 500 mg in 10% of patients

In rare cases, niacin can cause liver problems.

This is more common with extended-release niacin than regular niacin.

This is because extended-release niacin (or time-release niacin) is roughly the equivalent of double the dose of regular niacin as noted by Dr. William Parsons in the 1993 book Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense. An evaluation by scientists. Read the entire article | Email this article

There were 86% fewer total deaths in 14 months in statin users given extended-release niacin compared to those given Zetia (ezetimibe) according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There was one (1) deaths in the niacin group during the 14 months versus seven (7) deaths in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group.

Two of the deaths in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group, and one (1) death in the niacin group were non-cardiovascular, however, they don't say what they were.

Since statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs which artificially lower cholesterol have been found to increase the risk of cancer, suicide, accidental death, and congestive heart failure (with statins), these two deaths may or may not be relevant.

Since they did not say what these people died from, it feels to me like they are trying to hide something.

I am trying to find out what these other people died from. Read the entire article | Email this article

There were 67% fewer heart attacks in 14 months in statin users given extended release niacin compared to those given Zetia (ezetimibe) according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There was one (1) heart attack in the niacin group versus three (3) heart attacks in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group. Read the entire article | Email this article

There were 100% fewer heart attacks in 14 months in statin users given extended release niacin compared to those given Zetia (ezetimibe) according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There were no heart bypasses (0) performed in the niacin group during the 14 months versus three (3) heart bypasses performed in the Zetia (ezetimibe) group. Read the entire article | Email this article

Studies have shown that arginine reduces body fat in growing rats.

Here is the first piece of anecdotal evidence showing that this is probably true in humans as well.
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Supplementing the diet with the amino acid L-arginine reduces body fat and increases muscle in diet-induced obese growing rats, in genetically obese diabetic rats, and in growing pigs without increasing body weight notes a new study published in the Feb 2009 issue of issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

Arginine-fed rats had one-third less body fat, one-third more brown fat, and 6-9% more muscle according to a new study published in the Feb 2009 issue of issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

Growing rats fed arginine gained 40-70% less weight according to a new study from the Feb 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition.

Here is the fifth video highlight from this paper.
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Arginine reduces weight gain by 40 percent in rats on a high-fat diet, and by 60 percent in rats fed a low-fat diet according a new study published in the Feb 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

Arginine reduces body fat in diabetic fatty rats notes a new study published in the Feb 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Available evidence shows that physiological levels of arginine and nitric oxide (NO) promote fat oxidation and decrease fat synthesis…" notes a new study published in the Feb 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Read the entire article | Email this article

"[C]urrent evidence supports ignoring LDL cholesterol altogether," says the University of Michigan's [Dr. Rodney] Hayward as quoted in the cover story in BusinessWeek from January 17th, 2008 titled "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?" Read the entire article | Email this article

"I now see it as myth that everyone should have their cholesterol checked," [says Dr. Howard Brody, professor of family medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.] as quoted in the cover story in BusinessWeekfrom January 17th, 2008 titled, "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?" Read the entire article | Email this article