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Editor’s note
December 2024
From zinc in infections, to vitamin D in joint replacement, to B3 in COPD, fatty acids in cancer…the reports have flooded in this month about researchers discovering the benefits of interventions with supplements.
In almost all these reports, the investigators are finding deficiencies in acute clinical problems. They are alarmed and startled.
Here’s what the University of Wuerzburg had to say: “In conclusion, we found an alarmingly high rate of vitamin D deficiency in patients scheduled to undergo rTJA”. This is surgery needed to repair a failed joint replacement – hip, knee, shoulder. Sometimes this is due to infection, not just bone weakness – both impacted by D. This finding (see page 48), begs the question: if vitamin D levels were adequate, would patients require joint replacement in the first place, let alone repair? Vitamin D deficiency is frequently seen in patients scheduled for a replacement.
Then we have zinc deficiency and the potentially fatal hospital-acquired lung infection “caused by” Acinetobacter bacteria. Researchers at Vanderbilt University point out that nearly 20% of the world’s population is at risk for zinc deficiency, which can impair immune function and is a major risk factor for pneumonia – and that elderly and critically ill patients are particularly at risk. Trying to correct this when things have gone critical is fraught with problems, not least of which is causing a copper deficiency. But how are they “allowed” to get zinc deficient in the first place?
Because their primary care physicians are not trained in nutrition and their patients are decades into lack of nutrients.
That story is matched by University of Copenhagen work using massive doses of nicotinamide riboside, a form of vitamin B3, to reduce lung inflammation in COPD patients. Research had ALREADY shown an association between low niacin levels and risk of COPD. People with highest niacin intake have the lowest odds of developing COPD (page 44).
We’ve had “alarming” findings, now Prof Samantha Kleinberg describes as “startling” her team’s discovery that 90% of pregnant women are missing key nutrients – even folate, one nutrient that is always highlighted in pre-natal chats. This Journal of Nutrition study reports that iron, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium, vitamin C and vitamin A are all in short supply (page 41).
And if you thought pre-natal multi supplements were the answer, there’s bad news there as well. A US study checked 47 different prenatal vitamins (32 non-prescription and 15 prescription products) bought from online and local stores and found that fewer than 50% had adequate choline and iodine, while others contain harmful levels of toxic metals (page 9).
From Roger Williams (biochemical individuality) to Bruce Ames (Triage Theory), William Kelley (metabolic typing), Derrick Lonsdale (B3 deficiency) and more, it has been
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shown over and over again that a major cause of disease and dysfunction (that inevitably turn chronic) is the long-term under-supply of nutrients needed for optimal function, repair and regeneration.
Using a vitamin or a mineral like a drug to help fix a problem is fine and dandy, but how many cases could be prevented if doctors could provide early nutritional screening of every patient on their list? No time? Send them to us.
IV vitamin C and cancer: why we dubbed the trial “pathetic”
University of Iowa researchers say that adding high-dose, intravenous (IV) vitamin C to chemotherapy increases the overall survival of patients with late-stage metastatic pancreatic cancer by eight months.
Welcome news, but simply not good enough. The researchers congratulating themselves on “phenomenal” progress have merely confirmed findings first elucidated – by Pauling and Cameron among others – in the ‘70s and ‘80s. And once again, they have ignored the truly “phenomenal” PUBLISHED results of pioneers like Dr Nicholas Gonzalez. Read the report – and our response, on page 8.
RFK not a “vaccine denier”
As expected, the pushback from Big Pharma and the processed food industry has begun, as US president-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert Kennedy to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
The US spends more, pro rata, on medical care than any other country in the world – and is the sickest. The amount is north of $1.5 trillion! In 2023, US health care programs accounted for 50% of federal spending. Spending on the miliary? 13%.
You would think the country would welcome the changes to food and drug policies that RFK proposes. But vested interests are digging for anything to discredit him.
The most common attack is that he is a “vaccine denier”. He’s not. All he’s been doing is pointing out that vaccines – particularly the COVID shots – are nowhere near as “safe and effective” as the industry-government propaganda keeps insisting. He wants them more effectively tested. “Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinovac made an extraordinary USD 90 billion in profits on their COVID-19 vaccines and medicines in 2021 and 2022”, according to the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. Drug companies see vaccines as their major future source of income, given the ongoing failure to come up with new blockbuster drugs.
It’s fair to say we in GBR are beyond excited to see if RFK can tame the junk food industry AND the excesses of Big Pharma…who’ve we got who could do that for us?
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