About the Book
Based on over 40 years of research and hundreds of leading studies, The Vitamin Cure is a comprehensive guide to improving overall health with vitamin and essential element therapies.
Modern medicine has done much in the field of acute conditions such as trauma, infections, burn, and bone fractures, but it has limited success in treating chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, and diabetes among others. At present, the root causes of most chronic diseases are still unknown, and the drugs developed by pharmaceutical companies to treat chronic diseases actually treat only the symptoms rather than causes. According to Dr. Monte Lai, a nutrient deficient diet and unhealthy lifestyle are by far the two most important environmental factors associated with the causes of a host of chronic diseases. The Vitamin Cure provides a comprehensive overview of how vitamin and essential element therapies are the key to treating and preventing many of the chronic conditions.
While the internet is chock full of health related information about vitamins and essential elements, it is difficult to sort through all available information to build a reliable knowledge base to improve health. The aim of this book is to provide readers with easily accessible evidence-based knowledge about vitamins and essential elements for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. The Vitamin Cure relies on a statistical method known as meta-analysis (combining data from multiple studies) that is currently the most reliable method for assessing the efficacy of vitamins or essential elements in preventing or treating chronic diseases.
The Vitamin Cure brings clinically proven remedies to light for any reader looking to improve overall health and prevent debilitating disease. This book contains five parts:
Part one contains a brief history of the discovery of each of the thirteen essential vitamins, namely, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B7, vitamin B9, vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin K. It also presents meta-analytic evidence of the efficacy of each vitamin in prevention and treatment of diseases, its recommended daily allowance and best food sources.
Part two covers essential elements, including the five essential elements, i.e., calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium and phosphorous, and the eight essential trace elements, i.e., iron, zinc, manganese, copper, molybdenum, iodine, chromium and selenium. It also presents meta-analytic evidence of the efficacy of each essential element in prevention and treatment of diseases, its recommended daily allowance and best food sources.
Part three explains important secrets for staying healthy. These include explanation of how sugar makes you fat, why patients with autoimmune diseases should not eat meat, and how exercise benefits the brain?
Part four provides meta-analysis evidence of which vitamins and essential elements should be taken to prevent and/or treat seventy-five chronic diseases and conditions. These seventy-five chronic diseases and conditions include lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, endometrial cancer, blood cancer, bladder cancer, glioma, diabetes, stroke, heart disease, cataracts, hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, hepatitis C, fatty liver disease, Parkinson's disease, sleep apnea, and others.
Part five summarizes clinically proven remedies for preventing and treating the seventy-five chronic diseases and conditions presented in Part four.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One - Vitamins
Chapter 1 - Vitamin A
Chapter 2 - Vitamin B1
Chapter 3 - Vitamin B2
Chapter 4 - Vitamin B3
Chapter 5 - Vitamin B5
Chapter 6 - Vitamin B6
Chapter 7 - Vitamin B7
Chapter 8 - Vitamin B9
Chapter 9 - Vitamin B12
Chapter 10 - Vitamin C
Chapter 11 - Vitamin D
Chapter 12 - Vitamin E
Chapter 13 - Vitamin K
Part Two - Essential Elements
Chapter 14 - Calcium
Chapter 15 - Potassium
Chapter 16 - Sodium
Chapter 17 - Magnesium
Chapter 18 - Phosphorous
Chapter 19 - Iron
Chapter 20 - Zinc
Chapter 21 - Manganese
Chapter 22 - Copper
Chapter 23 - Molybdenum
Chapter 24 - Iodine
Chapter 25 - Chromium
Chapter 26 - Selenium
Chapter 27 - Omega-3 fatty acids
Part Three - Secrets for Staying Healthy
Chapter 28 - How sugar makes you fat?
Chapter 29 - Why patients with autoimmune diseases should not eat meat?
Chapter 30 - Who's coming to the party? Free-radical, a persona non-grata
Chapter 31 - What are free radicals?
Chapter 32 - A personal story of hunting hydroxyl radical
Chapter 33 - What are antioxidants?
Chapter 34 - How exercises benefit brain health?
Chapter 35 - Why fruit and vegetables are good for health?
Chapter 36 - What is aging?
Part Four - Prevention and Treatment of Diseases and Conditions
Chapter 37 - Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 38 - Asthma
Chapter 39 - Atherosclerosis
Chapter 40 - Atrial fibrillation
Chapter 41 - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Chapter 42 - Autism
Chapter 43 - Autoimmune thryoid disease
Chapter 44 - Bladder cancer
Chapter 45 - Blood cancer
Chapter 46 - Bone fracture
Chapter 47 - Breast cancer
Chapter 48 - Cardiovascular disease
Chapter 49 - Cataracts
Chapter 50 - Cervical cancer
Chapter 51 - Cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia
Chapter 52 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chapter 53 - Chronic kidney disease
Chapter 54 - Chronic pancreatitis
Chapter 55 - Cognitive impairment
Chapter 56 - Colorectal cancer
Chapter 57 - Coronary artery disease
Chapter 58 - Depression
Chapter 59 - Type 1 diabetes
Chapter 60 - Type 2 diabetes
Chapter 61 - Dry eyes
Chapter 62 - Endometrial cancer
Chapter 63 - Eczema
Chapter 64 - Esophageal cancer
Chapter 65 - Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
Chapter 66 - Fatty liver disease
Chapter 67 - Fibromyalgia
Chapter 68 - Gestational diabetes
Chapter 69 - Glaucoma
Chapter 70 - Glioma
Chapter 71 - Gout
Chapter 72 - Grave's disease
Chapter 73 - Heart disease
Chapter 74 - Heart failure
Chapter 75 - Hemodialysis
Chapter 76 - Hepatitis C
Chapter 77 - Hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol)
Chapter 78 - Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Chapter 79 - Infammatory bowel disease
Chapter 80 - Kashin-Beck disease
Chapter 81 - Liver cancer
Chapter 82 - Lung cancer
Chapter 83 - Lupus erythematosus
Chapter 84 - Age-related macular degeneration
Chapter 85 - Male infertility
Chapter 86 - Melanoma
Chapter 87 - Metabolic syndrome
Chapter 88 - Migraine
Chapter 89 - Multiple sclerosis
Chapter 90 - Neural tube defects
Chapter 91 - Obesity
Chapter 92 - Oral cleft
Chapter 93 - Orthostatic hypotension
Chapter 94 - Osteoporosis
Chapter 95 - Pancreatic cancer
Chapter 96 - Parkinson's disease
Chapter 97 - Preeclampsia
Chapter 98 - Premature death
Chapter 99 - Prostate cancer
Chapter 100 - Renal cell cancer
Chapter 101 - Respiratory infections
Chapter 102 - Rheumatoid arthritis
Chapter 103 - Rickets
Chapter 104 - Schizophrenia
Chapter 105 - Sepsis
Chapter 106 - Sleep apena
Chapter 107 - Stomach cancer
Chapter 108 - Stroke
Chapter 109 - Tuberculosis
Chapter 110 - Venous thrombosis
Chapter 111 - Vitiligo
Part Five - Summary of recommended daily doses of vitamins and nutrient elements for prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions
