Nutritional Supplements

This classic compendium has been significantly updated to put the facts you need at your fingertips so you can live a longer, healthier and better life. With 20% new material, this comprehensive guide to vitamins and their health effects has the most up-to-date information to empower and enlighten readers.
Discover:
How to maximize the effectiveness of your vitamins supplements and avoid problems by taking them in the right combinations
New anti-aging vitamins and supplements that will keep your skin and body healthy and young-looking
The latest research on how to fight off illness and stay healthy with the help of immune system-boosting vitamins and supplements
The art of personalizing your dietary regimen to fit your lifestyle, your health profile, and even your job
Natural alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Viagra, Prozac, and Valium
The science behind nutraceuticals, homeopathy, and aromatherapy, and how to find the best practitioners in these fields
Healing regimens for heart patients, stroke victims, diabetics, and arthritis sufferers
Insight on the new wonder supplement—CBD—and its many benefits
New warnings about dangerous drug interactions and "miracle cures"
With extensive sections on herbal teas and tinctures, beauty aids, diets, salt and sugar intake, and new ways to boost your energy level, fertility, and sex life, this book has everything you need to know to use vitamins to improve your health and wellness.

Almost 75 percent of your health and life expectancy is based on lifestyle, environment, and nutrition. Yet even if you follow a healthful diet, you are probably not getting all the nutrients you need to prevent disease. In What You Must Know About Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs and So Much More, Second Edition, Dr. Pamela Smith explains how you can restore and maintain health through the wise use of nutrients.
Part 1 of this easy-to-use guide provides the individual nutrients necessary for good health, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, fatty acids, amino acids, and beneficial substances such as CBD oil and cocoa. Part 2 then offers personalized nutritional programs for people with a wide variety of illnesses and disorders. Whether you want to maintain good health or you are trying to overcome a medical condition, What You Must Know About Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs and So Much More can help you make the best choices for the health and well-being of you and your family.
● Explains the need for and benefits of proper nutrition in easy-to-understand language
● Thoroughly describes the function and cautions of each recommended nutrient
● Offers the latest nutritional information for your most common health disorders
● Suggests optimum dosages and most effective supplement forms where appropriate
● Provides tips for increasing the body’s absorption of vitamins and minerals

Since its initial publication more than twenty years ago, millions of people have turned to Prescription for Nutritional Healing for answers to their holistic health questions. Of the guide's many invaluable sections, one of the most frequently referred to is the A- to-Z reference that lists and explains the most commonly available types of nutrients, food supplements, and herbs. This handy, portable edition makes it easy for readers to have that information at their fingertips. Drawn from the newly revised Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Fifth Edition, it includes:
Recent scientific discoveries about vitamins B12, D, E, and more
Current data on natural supplements like tryptophan (now back on the market)
The newest information on herbs, such as tumeric, valerian, saw palmetto, St. John's wort, licorice, and kava kava
Up-to-date research on the benefits of alternative healing and preventive therapies
Today, more people than ever are embracing nonmedical alternatives to a wide range of health issues. Whether one is looking for relief from a specific ailment, or simply looking to achieve and maintain optimum health, Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements quickly provides access to everything needed to design a complete nutritional program.

This book will help you select more absorbable, potent and safe nutrient formulations that can protect you from the degenerative effects of nutrient deficiencies in the food you eat. It will help you protect your health from the disease process if you have been consuming nutrient deficient foods, even if you feel you eat a generally “healthy” diet. Also, knowing the origins of your supplement ingredients is critical to determine just how effective your supplements really are. Many thousands of people are taking supplements of poor quality. Chances are, those supplements may be doing more harm than good, creating inflammatory conditions due to the biological incompatibility of synthetic vitamins and the non-absorbable types of minerals used by manufacturers who want to cut production costs. Nutrient deficiencies are one of the major causes of many degenerative diseases millions of people suffer from today, and that includes deficiencies due to poorly formulated supplements. You get what you pay for in the way of price and nonabsorbability. Mixing synthetic vitamins and finely ground, poorly absorbable mineral elements and forming them into tablets with toxic binders and excipients does not constitute a healthy supplement, but are cheap to produce and leave much room for profit margins of the manufacturer and chains of distribution. If you wish to have truly effective supplements, the ingredients in those formulations must contain whole food, enzyme-active substances in the mix, and one or more combinations of formulations must contain the full range of all known essential nutrients found in whole foods. The ongoing debate over whether supplements are good for you or bad could be quickly settled if this little tidbit would be brought out into the open. Finally resolve your questions about ingredients on your supplements’ labels and confidently select your supplements, knowing they are truly effective, safe and nourishing. Use this reference manual and feel the difference.