Tony Wypkema's supplement regimen
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I wrote: > > My ophthalmologist told me to be wary of the people working at vitamin and mineral > > stores, because he said they’re just trying to make money off of people. > > I suppose the doctors, pharmacists, and drug companies are all just > > doing their jobs out of the goodness of their hearts. THEY wouldn’t be > > trying to make money off of people, now would they?
Curt Finch replied: > certainly you are both right in a significant enough number of cases > that one should be wary when buying vitamins from the vitamin store > or buying services from a doctor
I agree. One always has to be skeptical when buying a product or service, no matter what the product or service is–especially because there is money to be made by the seller. However, I don’t recall any employees of natural medicine stores DENYING that I would benefit from the services of M.D.s. The store employees (as well as numerous natural medicine books and articles I’ve read) have cautioned me to seek the care of an M.D. if I have a serious medical condition (such as glaucoma), and have admitted that natural medicines by themselves may be insufficient treatment for a serious illness. My glaucoma specialist, on the other hand, crossed his arms defensively and angrily refused my request for him to keep me posted on news of complementary medicines for glaucoma. He DENIED the validity of the study that showed that vitamin E added to regular glaucoma medication improved visual fields in a majority of patients studied. He DENIED the validity of the study, reported in Glaucoma magazine, that showed that glaucoma patients taking 1,500 micrograms of vitamin B12 daily, and I.O.P.-lowering medication, had more improvement of visual fields, and less worsening of visual fields, than a control group over a five-year follow-up period. He DENIED the validity of the study that showed people with glaucoma who exercised four times per week (forty minutes at a time) for three months had measurable improvements in eye pressure. My previous ophthalmologist, when I asked him about marijuana, also defensively crossed his arms and angrily DENIED the fact that marijuana can lower eye pressure significantly, saying that the marijuana experiments on glaucoma patients had been abandoned many years ago. The denial of the benefits of natural medicine displayed by my two physicians is sympomatic of a larger phenomenon in the medical establishment. As more and more consumers turn to natural medicines for their health, the world’s medical establishment feels threatened and is conspiring to curtail the supply and use of natural medicine. In Canada, the dictatorial government is embarking on a sweeping campaign to take control over and even prohibit many natural medicines. For example, the government has recently BANNED the following natural medicines: melatonin, D.H.E.A. (D.H.E.A. is being seized by Canadian customs officials if they find people trying to import it into Canada), cayenne pepper in capsule form, eyebright (an excellent eye medicine), valerian, psyllium seed, lysine, hawthorn, goldenseal, tryptophan, kava kava, chromium picolinate, vitamin K, boron, and horsetail, among others. Canada is taking part, along with the United States, Germany and other member countries of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, to radically restrict–on a world-wide basis–the use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs in each member country, and to reclassify them as drugs. Under this draconian legislation, the dissemination of almost all natural medicines around the world, would be shifted to medical doctors, and the use of almost all vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs would require a doctor’s prescription! To read more about this frightening threat to your health freedom, and what you can do about it, see: http://www.arxc.com/politics.htm To read more about this frightening threat from an American perspective, (with details about the GATT) see: http://panda.uiowa.edu:4105/note-35073-536 To read more about this frightening threat from a Canadian perspective, see: http://www.naturallink.com/cchf/#anchor527284 Tony Wypkema Tony_Wypk…@Mindlink.BC.Ca
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Tony Wypkema wrote: > He told me to be wary of the people working at vitamin and mineral > stores, because he said they’re just trying to make money off of people. > I suppose the doctors, pharmacists, and drug companies are all just > doing their jobs out of the goodness of their hearts. THEY wouldn’t be > trying to make money off of people, now would they?
certainly you are both right in a significant enough number of cases that one should be wary when buying vitamins from the vitamin store or buying services from a doctor — _______________________________________________________________________ | Curt Finch Phoenix Net-Tek LLC c…@pnk.com 512-795-0709 | | finger me for pgp key. | ———————————————————————–
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Tony Wypkema <Tony_Wypk…@Mindlink.BC.Ca> wrote: …………….. >I agree. One always has to be skeptical when buying a product or >service, no matter what the product or service is–especially because >there is money to be made by the seller. >However, I don’t recall any employees of natural medicine stores DENYING >that I would benefit from the services of M.D.s. The store employees (as >well as numerous natural medicine books and articles I’ve read) have >cautioned me to seek the care of an M.D. if I have a serious medical >condition (such as glaucoma), and have admitted that natural medicines >by themselves may be insufficient treatment for a serious illness. >My glaucoma specialist, on the other hand, crossed his arms defensively >and angrily refused my request for him to keep me posted on news of >complementary medicines for glaucoma. >He DENIED the validity of the study that showed that vitamin E added to >regular glaucoma medication improved visual fields in a majority of >patients studied. >He DENIED the validity of the study, reported in Glaucoma magazine, that >showed that glaucoma patients taking 1,500 micrograms of vitamin B12 >daily, and I.O.P.-lowering medication, had more improvement of visual >fields, and less worsening of visual fields, than a control group over a >five-year follow-up period. >He DENIED the validity of the study that showed people with glaucoma who >exercised four times per week (forty minutes at a time) for three months >had measurable improvements in eye pressure. >My previous ophthalmologist, when I asked him about marijuana, also >defensively crossed his arms and angrily DENIED the fact that marijuana >can lower eye pressure significantly, saying that the marijuana >experiments on glaucoma patients had been abandoned many years ago. >The denial of the benefits of natural medicine displayed by my two >physicians is sympomatic of a larger phenomenon in the medical >establishment. As more and more consumers turn to natural medicines for >their health, the world’s medical establishment feels threatened and is >conspiring to curtail the supply and use of natural medicine. >In Canada, the dictatorial government is embarking on a sweeping >campaign to take control over and even prohibit many natural medicines. >For example, the government has recently BANNED the following natural >medicines: melatonin, D.H.E.A. (D.H.E.A. is being seized by Canadian >customs officials if they find people trying to import it into Canada), >cayenne pepper in capsule form, eyebright (an excellent eye medicine), >valerian, psyllium seed, lysine, hawthorn, goldenseal, tryptophan, kava >kava, chromium picolinate, vitamin K, boron, and horsetail, among >others. >Canada is taking part, along with the United States, Germany and other >member countries of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, to >radically restrict–on a world-wide basis–the use of vitamins, >minerals, amino acids and herbs in each member country, and to >reclassify them as drugs. >Under this draconian legislation, the dissemination of almost all >natural medicines around the world, would be shifted to medical doctors, >and the use of almost all vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs >would require a doctor’s prescription! >To read more about this frightening threat to your health freedom, and >what you can do about it, see: >http://www.arxc.com/politics.htm >To read more about this frightening threat from an American perspective, >(with details about the GATT) see: >http://panda.uiowa.edu:4105/note-35073-536 >To read more about this frightening threat from a Canadian perspective, >see: >http://www.naturallink.com/cchf/#anchor527284
Yes, I don’t see why other powers can’t prevent governments from so automatically rendering support to the egomania and ignorance of the medical profession. On the other hand, it bugs me that an increased portion of the public seems to want to defy the laws of probability in figuring they can solve much of their health problems by running out in fields of weeds to find remedies. How much do they do it because they feel there is much hope there, and how much because of sheer frustration with the stinking behaviors of the medical profession. Where does all the reasoning on health care come in in what are supposed to be sophisticated, developed nations? Why can’t agribusiness or some other nonmedical source of interested wealth usurp some of the economic and other power that medicine currently has over university and other bioscience research funding and protoscientific thought, which are now so controlled by the medical machine? What we need is some of our surplus scientists conscripted into an army of applied science authorities, though not given government weaponry, who are idealistic in their own fields and resistant to greed, egomania and Hippocratic brotherhoods — to continually slap down the ignorant and dogmatic medical control freaks on the one hand, and continually stick pins in the balloons of the wishful-thinking medicinal=weed-eaters on the other. Why else did the brain evolve? Ray
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I wrote: > > After starting a comprehensive vitamin and mineral therapy, my pressure > > stabilized at a lower level and the small visual field damage that had > > shown up in both eyes in three consecutive field tests > > cleared up–an occurrence that my doctor claimed should have been > > impossible and had no explanation for!)
Saul Schonfeld asked: > What are the specifics of your program?
Here are the specifics of my progam. I take the supplements as soon as possible after meals : – three or four 1,000 mg. calcium ascorbate capsules, in divided doses – one 500 mcg. chromium capsule – one vacuum-dried Standard Process Spanish black radish pill per meal (for proper functioning of the ileocecal valve) – two 1,000 mcg. vitamin B12 pills, in divided doses – one 100 mg. pantothenic acid pill – one 25,000 i.u. beta carotene capsule – one 400 i.u. vitamin E capsule – one 30 mg zinc pill – one pill containing 250 mg of calcium and 250 mg. of magnesium – one 1,235 mg. phosphatyidyl choline capsule every second day – one 1,000 mg. Nature Pure Concentrated Fish Body Oil capsule every second day (each of which I’m told by the distributors contains only one i.u. each of vitamins A, D and E. Don’t overdose on these vitamins, as they are fat-soluble and can build up to toxic levels in the liver. Most kinds of fish oil capsules contain lots of vitamins A and D.) – one Nu-Life multi-vitamin and mineral one-a-day pill, each of which contains: Beta carotene: 10,000 i.u. Vitamin A: 2,500 i.u. Vitamin D3: 400 i.u. Vitamin E: 100 i.u. Vitamin C: 150 mg. Vitamin B1: 50 mg. Vitamin B2: 50 mg. Niacin: 50 mg. Niacinimide: 50 mg. Vitamin B6: 50 mg. Vitamin B12: 75 mcg. Folic acid: 1 mg. Pantothenic acid: 50 mg. Co-enzyme Q10: 0.2 mg. Calcium: 125 mg. Magnesium: 75 mg. Zinc: 10 mg. Iodine: 0.1 mg. Manganese: 3 mg. Potassium: 50 mg. Chromium: 75 mcg. Selenium: 75 mcg. Molybdenum: 50 mcg. Vanadium: 25 mcg. Rutin: 10 mg. PABA: 50 mg. Bee Pollen: 50 mg. Betaine Hydrochloride: 20 mg. Glutamin Acid Hydrochloride: 30 mg. Also I take: – one 1 mg. melatonin pill per night (two if I have trouble sleeping) In addition, I just started these daily supplements around January: – two 500 mcg. n-acetyl cysteine capsules – one 250 mg. quercitin capsule – one-quarter teaspoon of spirulina, mixed into food – two teaspoons of ground flax seed, or flax seed oil, mixed into food I suspect that the vision loss I had may have been caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1, rather than glaucoma, though, because 1) at the time I didn’t have a good diet, 2) I had vision loss near the center of my field of vision, while glaucoma field loss is normally (but not always) at the periphery and 3) I found that in the book The Encyclopaedia of Blindness and Visual Impairment, published in 1991, authors Jill Sardegna and T. Otis Paul, M.D., wrote: "A deficiency of vitamin B1, thiamine, affects the OPTIC NERVE, which carries the electrical impulses to the brain, thus interrupting or interfering with the message. This condition, referred to as nutritional AMBLYOPIA, produces scotomas, or blind spots, in the field of vision. Thiamine supplements can often correct and restore vision lost to B1 deficiency." My ophthalmologist maintained that the blind spots were due to glaucoma, rather than nutritonal amblyopia, but I’m skeptical about his assessment, because he (like most M.D.s) knows little about nutrition. He told me to be wary of the people working at vitamin and mineral stores, because he said they’re just trying to make money off of people. I suppose the doctors, pharmacists, and drug companies are all just doing their jobs out of the goodness of their hearts. THEY wouldn’t be trying to make money off of people, now would they? Tony Wypkema Tony_Wypk…@Mindlink.BC.Ca
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