NEWSLETTER VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4

by Dr. Deborah Baker-Racine 2004-2005

WATCH OUT!! YOU COULD LOSE YOUR RIGHT

TO CHOOSE NATURAL HEALTH CARE!!!!!

The following letter was written by Dr. Johathan Wright, a very famous and concerned alternative physician from Tacoma WA. It is imperative you read this and act on his suggestions..or by August, 2005 you may not be able to choose natural supplements for your and your family's health care...

By Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.

You've taken supplements for years. You're out of vitamins C and E. You go to your natural food store, but you can't find the kind you want on the shelf. You ask a clerk to find them for you. She says you can't get your vitamin E as mixed tocopherols (the best natural form) anymore, and asks if you like your vitamin C in the 100- or 200-milligram size. The 1,000-milligram size, you say.

"Where have you been?" she asks. "Asleep since 2004? It's 2007 now! The types and sizes of vitamins you just asked for have been declared illegal by the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization!"

"Wait!" you reply. "This is America! Our president says we're fighting for American freedom -- and you're telling me that the World Trade Organization can dictate what size vitamin C I can take, and forbid me from taking mixed tocopherols?" The sales clerk sighs, and reaches for a piece of paper. "It's a little complicated," she says. "A few years back, the European Commission passed the European Food Supplements Directive ... "

You feel your blood pressure rising. "What does the European Commission and its directive have to do with me? If Europeans want bureaucrats to tell them what to do, that's their business. I'm a free citizen of these United States!"

"Now, now, dear, your blood pressure will go up, and you can't get calcium citrate, magnesium aspartate, CoQ10 or L-arginine or anything else natural to help regulate it anymore."

"What? This goes beyond the FDA's wildest dreams!"

"That's not a 10th of it, dear. While you were distracted by the war overseas for American freedom, here at home we lost our right to buy any amino acids at all. No arginine, no carnitine, no tryptophan, nothing. I can't sell you any essential fatty acids either. No DHA or EPA. And no beta-carotene, no mixed carotenoids, no MSM, no boron ... The list goes on and on."

"So what can I buy?" you ask. "Let's see ... those 100- and 200-milligram vitamin Cs. Vitamin B6 maximum 4.2 milligrams, vitamin B1, 2.4 milligrams. Oh, here's a better one: You can get niacin at 32 milligrams."

"Enough! I'm getting sick! How did this ever happen in these United States?"

"As I was saying, the European Directive ... ."

"I heard you. But what about America's Congress, America's President?"

"Oh, they signed us up for this in the 1990s, when they made us members of the World Trade Organization. According to the Congressional Research Service: 'As a member of the World Trade Organization, the United States does commit to act in accordance with the rules of the multilateral body. The United States is legally obligated to ensure national laws do not conflict with World Trade Organization rules.'"

"Our President and Congress send troops overseas to fight for freedom, but let the WTO tell us what to do with our vitamins? There must be something we can do."

"Actually, we did have a chance or two to reverse this in 2004, but it's going to be incredibly difficult now."

"But I really need my mixed tocopherol vitamin E. And my mother with congestive heart failure depends on CoQ10."

"I'm not unsympathetic, especially to your poor mother, dear." She looks all around, then lowers her voice. "I can give you some sources downtown." She whispers a few names. "But those people deal dangerous drugs! Now they're selling vitamins, too?"

"That's freedom in America in 2007, dear."

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More Great Information from Dr. Wright:

The Secret Life of Vitamin K

Well over four million Americans have hepatitis C, the most common chronic blood-borne infection in the U.S.

In fact, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop calls it an even graver threat to our public health than
HIV and AIDS.

But it's not just the staggering numbers behind this disease that make it so frightening; it can also be deadly, because hepatitis C sharply increases the risk of developing viral cirrhosis (a debilitating liver disease) and liver cancer.

Now a new study reveals that an increased intake of one vitamin may significantly help prevent liver cancer in patients with cirrhosis.

Hidden Protection

When researchers in the Graduate School of Medicine of Japan's Osaka City University began their study of vitamin K use among women with cirrhosis of the liver, their goal was to evaluate potential advantages in using vitamin K to prevent bone loss. But the final analysis of data reaped an unexpected benefit, as reported in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Osaka team recruited a group of 40 women with viral cirrhosis. Most of the subjects also had hepatitis C. The average age for the group was about 60. For two years, 21 subjects took a daily 45 mg dose of
vitamin K2. The other 19 women took a placebo. Of the women in the K2 group, only two developed liver cancer, while nine of the women in the placebo group developed cancer.

Larger studies will be needed to confirm any liver cancer preventive benefits of vitamin K2, but because of the length of the study, the researchers feel confident that K2 supplements may reduce the risk of liver cancer by as much as 20 percent in patients with viral cirrhosis.

The study also found that vitamin K2 supplementation helped prevent bone loss in women with cirrhosis of the liver.

Plenty of Benefits

"Do we really need to take a vitamin K supplement?"

Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., posed that question in his Nutrition & Healing newsletter, and provided this answer: "If there's a family history of osteoporosis, definitely. There's also enough preliminary evidence to say that if there's a family history of arteriosclerosis ('hardening of the arteries'), you probably should."

When I asked HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., about vitamin K, he told me that K intake also provides another kind of protection: "An old study from the late '40s showed that vitamin K was clearly helpful against tooth decay. But the biggest news more recently has been concerning vitamin K as a strong bone-builder. It seems to not only help with poorly healing fractures, but at the same time helps prevent excess calcium from getting deposited in arterial walls.

"The plant-based source of vitamin K (K1, or phylloquinone) seems to have no toxic effects in most any reasonable dose, but doesn't have the positivie effect on bones. But the synthetic form (K3, or menadione) has caused some liver toxicity and, rarely, a form of anemia when taken in high doses. There's also K2 (or menaquinones), but K1 and K2 are safe. As usual, it seems best to avoid synthetic forms, if possible. If the individual is on coumadin (blood thinner also used as a rat poison), he needs to talk with his doctor, as vitamin K can interfere with its effect."

Dr. Wright agrees that vitamins K1 and K2 are "very safe," and recommends 5 to 15 mg per day. Note that the K2 dosage in the Osaka study was quite higher than that. Nevertheless, the supplement was well tolerated by the Osaka subjects.

In the Garden

As for dietary sources of vitamin K, Dr. Spreen tells me that dark, leafy green vegetables, such as kale and carrot tops, are the best for vitamin K1. "The highest amounts of it are in chestnut leaves and fish meal. Spinach leaves, cabbage leaves and cauliflower are also right up there."

In addition to those sources, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, endive, and lettuce are also abundant in vitamin K1, as are olive oil and avocados. Vitamin K1 is converted into K2 in the intestine, but we get some amount of K2 in meat, liver and egg yolk, and fermented products such as yogurt and cheese. And these sources reveal the basic difference between K1 and K2; K1 comes from plant sources, and K2 from animal sources.

So if you enjoy a spinach, avocado and cheese salad with an olive oil dressing, by all means, indulge often and you'll be treating yourself to a variety of vitamin K benefits.

Sources:

"Role of Vitamin K2 in the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Women with Viral Cirrhosis of the Liver" Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 292, No. 3, 7/21/04, www.jama.ama-assn.org

"Vitamin K Might Prevent Liver Cancer" Serena Gordon,

HealthDayNews, 7/20/04, www.healthfinder.gov

"Vitamin K Found to Protect Against Liver Cancer"

NutraIngredients.com, 7/21/04, www.nutraingredients.com "Vitamin K: What's it good for?" Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Nutrition & Healing, Vol. 7, No. 7, July 2000

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