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I was never taught in school about the vital link between my body's intestinal flora and my ability to prevent serious illness. It wasn't known then that the trillions of organisms that inhabited the healthy gut (intestines) actually added life to the years and years to life. A whole lot of attention wasn't paid to the gut flora until Dr. C. Orian Truss, of Birmingham, Alabama, published his findings some fifteen years ago, on what has come to be known as the Yeast Syndrome. Slowly, the medical profession began to accept that perhaps the antibiotics and steroids prescribed so freely for so long were causing a very serious problem. Today your up-to-date practitioner that prescribes an antibiotic or steroid regimen concomitantly prescribes a course of pro-biotics to undo the damage of the original prescription. So, on the one hand, your doctor is prescribing an antibiotic to kill the bad bacteria, and on the other hand he/she is prescribing good bacteria in a pill (pro-biotics) to replace those good bacteria inadvertently killed in your gut Why is this gut flora so important? Each of you has approximately four pounds of micro-organisms living in your small and large intestines. This vast population of micro-organisms (the gut flora) far outnumbers the tissue cells that make up your body. This bacterial flora, when in balance, protects you against harmful bacteria, yeast, and viruses; stimulates the function of the entire digestive system; produces essential vitamins and regulates their levels; maintains the body's vital chemical and hormone balance; and performs a vast number of tasks necessary for maintaining high energy levels, proper immune function and for counteracting cancer-causing compounds. When the gut flora gets out of balance,serious health problems begin to occur. Unfortunately, it's not just antibiotics and steroids that create an imbalance in the gut flora. Excessive sugar, overt stress, and drinking chlorinated water are also major contributors. When this occurs, the only thing to do is repopulate the gut with pro-biotics to bring back the proper balance. You know you have a good balance when you have no symptoms. Then, what are those symptoms? The symptoms of gut floral imbalance arc common. They include frequent gas, frequent diarrhea or constipation, yeast (Candida) infections, chronic fatigue, poor immune response, bladder and vaginal infections, allergies, yeast dermatitis, and bad breath. If you are having or have had any of these symptoms, it would be wise to call me on our Health Help Hotline during customer service hours to build a program to re-stabilize your gut flora. Although many of us in the alternative medicine movement recognized the problem and be- came immediate advocates of pro-biotic therapy, about the only products to choose from were Lactobacilus acidophilus and Bulgarus cultures. In the last few years this has begun to change. As more has been learned, a greater variety of pro-biotic products has been seen on the market, some good and some not so good. I have personally tested four products, in the last three years, that I thought had great promise. I have a good product in my Vitalmins line called Lacto A & B, but I wanted a super product that could more quickly get results in my most difficult cases. I Flora is the product I finally selected. I was first attracted to I Flora because it is a remarkable all natural product that contains a wide variety of beneficial bacterial cultures. Secondly, I was not only attracted, but actually startled by its results. Considering that I had been running clinical trials on three other well-researched, highly advertised, and extremely expensive products at the time, my response becomes even more amazing. I Flora worked better than any other product I have tested, in less time, for considerably less money. Most good pro-biotic cultures contain two or three different cultures. I Flora works well because of the many different and beneficial cultures that it contains. The following cultures are found in all healthy gut flora. They are considered normal residents of the gut. Bifidobacteria consist of a number of different species. I Flora contains B. longum, B. breve, and B. bifidum. Lactobacilli are common occupants of pro-biotic cultures and have a history of effectiveness. I Flora contains L. acidophlus, L. rhamnosus, and L. salivarius. There are also cultures that are not always present, but are very helpful in normalizing the gut flora. These are considered transient micro-organisms, but should be considered just as important in a pro-biotic as the cultures that represent the normal residents. These cultures that are found in I Flora are Bacillus laterosporus, Bacillus subtilis, Lactobacillus sporogenes, and Streptococcus thermophilis. I usually use I Flora when a patient gets started on a program to stabilize and re-populate the gut, then I put them on the Vitalmins Lacto A & B, which is more than adequate for maintaining a balanced gut flora,and it is inexpensive. I Flora, sixty capsules, retails for $29.95. and because we can not have it made under our Vitalmins label we are only able to discount it to $24, but that is still a considerable savings. Our old Preventics standby under our own Vitalmins label, Lacto A & B, sixty capsules, retails for $13, $6.50 to Preventics customers. VANADIUM: A new product for
hypoglycemics & diabetics The research has shown that Vanadium, as Vanadyl Sulfate, mimics insulin. When given in a comprehensive program of supplementation, diet, ant exercise it often results in a patient's ability to eliminate oral or injectable insulin. I have been using Vanadyl Sulfate with my many Diabetic patients for years, but have always considered it a specialty product, and therefore never considered it for inclusion in the Preventics line. Lately, I have been inundated with Diabetes patients, and after looking again at the rapidly increasing prevalence of this disease, I have concluded that it would be beneficial to offer a Vanadyl Sulfate product to my Preventics customers. I am also delighted to announce that I am able to have that product made under the Vitalmins label, so I am able to sell it at a full 50% off suggested retail. Vanadyl Sulfate comes in 25mg capsules, 120 per bottle. This is a $l5 product that Preventics sells under our Vitalmins label for $7.50. Beating colds and flu First, I take Preventics C-l000 (Vitamin C) every day. This is the most important thing you can do to measurably reduce the number of colds you get and also reduce the severity of a cold should one occur. The formula I recommend for C intake is one grain (1000 mg) per day for each fifty pounds of weight. Therefore, a one hundred pound person would take two grams of C each day. Vitamin C alone will greatly reduce the number and severity of colds. However, it doesn't completely eliminate colds. There are times when you get chilled, spend time with someone with a particularly virulent cold, or just get “that feeling” that a cold is coming on. For me, “that feeling” is a feeling of being a little cold and chilled. It is a particular feeling I associate with the onset of a cold, and I have found that virtually everyone I question can also identify a special “feeling” just before they start to come down with cold. This is the time to take extra action. If you wait, it will be too late. The Vitamin C I prefer when I get “that feeling” is our C-l000, and because it is a one thousand milligram tablet. I have to take fewer of them, and I like that. I think you will find this works as well for you as it has for me and many of my patients. Many of my patients keep a few extra Vitamin C tablets at work for such times. Remember that Vitamin C denatures very quickly. Make sure your emergency stash of C is not more than six weeks old so you are getting good potency when you need it. Start taking extra C immediately after you get “that feeling.” I begin taking two or three grams every twenty or thirty minutes. I continue taking C at that level until I feel that the symptoms have subsided, or until I feel gassy, as if I will get diarrhea if I take any more. At that point. I am done taking C for that day. The next day I stay on that same dosage. I will split the amount into four doses and take them for my meals and before bed. After a day or two, I begin reducing dosage until I get back to my regular dosage. This usually takes about ten days. During this time I also take an extra Preventics Zinc Chelate Plus or a Preventics Zinc Lozenge. Zinc really aids the immune system, and I take two extra Zinc supplements a day for a week, then I reduce it to one a day for the second week. At the third week I discontinue it. Remember, from past newsletters, that Zinc is important to consider in all conditions that affect the skin or immune system. If you are unable to catch the “cold” exactly when you get that “I'm going to get a cold if I don't do something” feeling, and you end up with one, all is not lost. Some of the latest literature has been very positive in this area. You can greatly reduce the severity of a full-blown cold by adding to the above program. The product to add is Preventics Zinc Lozenges. Zinc Lozenges are made to be sucked on like candy. They dissolve in your mouth slowly and you can suck on as many as ten a day for short periods of time without creating any imbalance problems with other minerals. You should not take this kind of dosage for more than a couple of weeks. Lastly, I always keep a bottle of Preventics Colloidal Silver in the pantry for occasions like this because it is such a good anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal agent. As soon as possible I take a tablespoon. Thereafter, I take a teaspoon in the morning and one in the evening for a week. As you may recall from past newsletters, Colloidal Silver is very useful against most infections, and can even be used topically. Many patients who are particularly susceptible to colds have told me that this program has helped them reduce colds from three or four a year to one every five or ten years. That is a lot of avoided misery. Misperceptions about Ester-C I had an unsettling experience last month while talking with one of my customers, one of you, on the telephone. The subject finally got around to Vitamin C, and this very educated and knowledgeable person stated that they no longer gave their family our C-l000, because the research published on Ester-C showed that it was better. Now, it wasn’t a matter of cost, because when I asked what she was paying, it was more than twice as much. Quality was her issue, and she wanted her family to have the very best. I could certainly relate to that because that is how I feel about the supplements I give my family and patients. I suspect most of you feel the same way. Savings is great, but you don’t sacrifice quality for price (and with Preventics you don’t have to). Well, after thinking about this I decided to address it directly. because I bet she isn’t the only one that has been misled. Yes,I said misled. The Ester-C advertising is very misleading. They only compare their product to research done on ascorbic acid, and that comparison looks really good. They never compare their product to other buffered vitamin C preparations, because the re- search shows no significant differences, and they don’t want you to know that. The constant referrals to research that compares Ester-C to regular vitamin C refers to ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is technically vitamin C, but in truth it isn’t even found in nature. Ascorbic acid is such an irritant that most people can’t even take small amounts without getting an irritated stomach. Nature buffers the vitamin C you get in your food, and so does Preventics. Our C-l000 is a Calcium ascorbate vitamin C. That means it is buffered just like the vitamin C you get from your food, and for that matter, just like Ester-C. Is Preventics vitamin C-10OO better than Ester-C? No it’s not. Nor is Ester-C better than Preventics vitamin C-l000; It Just costs more than twice as much. I provide my patients, family, and you, my customers, with the very finest products I can have made, and then I cut the price as much as possible. When necessary I carry other vitamin companies’ products and discount them as well, to be sure you always get the best. If you have questions about quality, buzz words like organic and natural, etc., please don’t hesitate to call me during our customer service hours so I can help. |
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