A landmark paper from the Vitamin D Council asserts that a form of vitamin A, retinoic acid, can block the activity of vitamin D by weakly activating the vitamin D response element on genes. Since vitamin D levels are crucial for human health, that means it is essential to have the proper ratio of vitamin D to vitamin A in your body.
This means that vitamin A supplementation is potentially dangerous. Vitamin A production is tightly controlled in your body, the source (substrate) being carotenoids from vegetables in your intestine. Your body uses these carotenoid substrates to make
Read moreThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is running a criminal extortion racket designed to shift money from health supplement companies to the pockets of top FDA contractors. At least three different companies have been targeted for extortion by U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees.
The FDA extortion racket works like this: FDA employees use keyword-scanning software to scan the Web pages of natural health product and supplement companies. They look for terms like cancer, cures, treatment, remedies and other "forbidden" words.
FDA employees then review the
Read moreNOTE: "Altering the components will ruin the transgenic plants' efficacy as well as, through outcrossing and gene transfer, the plants' unique and innumerable curative abilities."
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India working on GM herbs, says Greenpeace
By Joe C. Mathew, 5 November 2008
NEW DELHI, India Even as the debate over safety and essentiality of genetically modified (GM) foods continues, Indian research institutes are trying to genetically modify some high-value medicinal herbs that are an integral part of ayurvedic medicine, a recent report
Read more(NaturalNews) The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) SELECT study (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial) for prostate cancer in men was halted this week after initial data analysis showed that selenium and vitamin E, taken alone or together for an average of five years, did not prevent prostate cancer. Since the goal of SELECT was to prove a 25% risk reduction, and since early data suggested such a result was unlikely, the trial was stopped. Furthermore, the researchers felt that there were non-statistically significant possible risks: "there were slightly more cases of
Read moreGM microorganisms are replacing chemical, synthetic methods to produce vitamins, flavors, enzymes, and other food additives. Proponents say GM microorganisms are easy to cultivate, don't require harsh chemicals, are environmentally friendly, and use less energy.
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The following is a transcript of a broadcast of The Health Ranger Show. You can find the downloadable audio of this program here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html
What is the biggest myth about nutritional supplements? You've often wondered about that haven't you? There is a lot of hype about supplements out there. There's also a lot of effort to discredit certain supplements like vitamin E. We will talk about vitamin E in a future show. This natural vitamin can be found in
A fifth of Indian herbal medicines sold on the internet contain potentially lethal substances, according to a new study in the United States.
The study at Boston university analysed 193 products and found that 20% of them contained lead, mercury or arsenic.
Herbal medicine has been used in India for thousands of years and is growing in popularity in the West.
The researchers said their findings showed that there should be stronger control of herbal supplements.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, lead researcher
Read moreA fifth of Indian herbal medicines sold on the internet contain potentially lethal substances, according to a new study in the United States
The study at Boston university analysed 193 products and found that 20% of them contained lead, mercury or arsenic.
Herbal medicine has been used in India for thousands of years and is growing in popularity in the West.
The researchers said their findings showed that there should be stronger control of herbal supplements.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
Read moreBig Pharma is constantly finding new ways to destroy the natural supplements market, in much the same way that the American Medical Association once sought to destroy the chiropractic industry (for which it was later found guilty of conspiracy in U.S. courts, by the way). The latest attack against vitamins comes from an FDA petition filed by Medicure Pharma, Inc., which has astonishingly asked the FDA to ban the sale of Vitamin B6!
Vitamin B6, of course, is a naturally-occurring nutrient found in numerous vegetables, nuts and whole grains. Its natural form is called
Natural health has been under increasingly heavy pressure from regulators, despite little or no evidence that natural health products cause any significant harm. By all accounts, natural health products are the safest products we put in our mouths—being safer than foods, and much safer than licensed pharmaceutical drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry is itself under pressure. It is struggling to develop new patented products that work, and consumers are increasingly opting to find other ways of managing their health—many naturally.
Two recent cases have emerged that have
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