Re: Children with autism are nutritionally starved......

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I would love to try some samples for my family. Pills

are fine (kids are 9 and 13). Thanks!

Davia Mazur

9630 NW 39th Court

City, FL 33024

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McAfee, MD, FAAFPFamily PracticeSacramento, CA

 

As a typical physician in the United States, I received

rather

traditional medical training from a western medical

perspective.  The

emphasis was on medicines, surgery, aggressive (but

appropriate) treatment of

illnesses (such as cancer and heart disease).  I was

fortunate to attend a

high quality medical school, but the crucial issue of

prevention of disease

through nutrition was never properly emphasized.  In

fact, my training in

nutrition was remarkably limited.  It seemed to have

little relevance to my

other classes or to my patients.  During the subsequent

years in my medical

practice “out in the real world” I grew very skeptical

of the whole field of

nutrition.  The national vitamin scene was (and still

is) in chaos. 

Each nutrition “expert” had different recommendations

of how much of each

vitamin to take, whether to add other supplements (such

as Echinacea, gingko

biloba, etc.), and so forth.  With no consensus to be

found, with each

“expert” quoting articles which contradicted the other

experts’ articles, and

with no discernible benefit that I saw in any of my

patients, I grew very

disillusioned about the whole subject and I simply

ignored it.  That was a

cop-out, but it seemed reasonable at the time.

 

Several attempts eventually changed my perspective

completely.  First,

more and more patients were asking me about vitamins. 

Second, I recognized

that the fruits and vegetables we buy in the store,

except for a very short

period of time each year, are not at all vine-ripened

(you could almost use some

of them as baseballs!).  Some sort of nutrient

supplementation therefore

seemed reasonable if not outright essential.  Third,

and most important of

all, my wife and I had a child with autism.  If you

ever want to see a

picky eater, watch an autistic child at the dining

table!  As is typical of

a huge percentage of children with autism, (our

daughter) had a very

limited selection of acceptable foods.  However,

’s situation was

worse than most: she was virtually not growing.  At the

age of 10 years

old, she weighed about 47 lbs.  We were within one

month of flying to the

Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati to admit her for

treatment, including having a

permanent feeding tube put in her stomach so we could

give her liquid food at

night.  It was an agonizing, horrible time for our

family.  And I was

faced with the critical question of whether to give her

nutritional supplements

– and if so, what kind.  Although it had already become

important to me as

a physician, the question was no longer just a

professional concern.  The

issue had taken on flesh and blood in the gaunt body of

my own daughter.  I

could no longer run from the “chaos”.  I had to

discover the true facts and

find something for my daughter that wasn’t just

someone’s favorite

gimmick.  It had to work!

 

To make a long story short, I found out that, although

there is chaos among

the recommendations of the vitamin “experts”, there is

no chaos about whether or

not vitamins work: they don’t.  Plain and simple.  When

you look at

the major medical studies in reputable medical

journals, the evidence is very

convincing.  There are some scattered studies showing

minimal benefit with

certain strengths of certain vitamins, but even these

studies show no

consistency in dosages or results.  Vitamins as a

supplement are a big wash

out.  Why?  The answer is actually very simple.  Back

in the year

1912, two researchers, named Drs. Hopkins and Funk,

made a very strict rule that

if you can match a specific nutrient deficiency with a

specific known disease,

then you can call that nutrient a “vitamin”.  For

instance, since a

deficiency of thiamin caused beriberi, thiamin was

called vitamin B1. 

Other matches include vitamin C & scurvy, vitamin D &

rickets, vitamin A

& night blindness, etc.  This rule was called the

“vitamin theory”, and

it has defined vitamins ever since.  But there is a

problem: if you can’t

match a specific nutrient to a specific disease, then

you cannot call that

nutrient a vitamin, no matter how crucial or healthy

that nutrient might

be.  It turns out that there are approximately 10,000

individual nutrients

in each fruit and vegetable (F & V).  These include

antioxidants, food

enzymes, and other phytochemicals.  Yet, as of today,

there are only 13

names vitamins (A, C, D, E, K, and the B complex

consisting of 8

vitamins).  Compare that to the 10,000 nutrients in

whole food.  And

the most recent vitamin named was vitamin B12 in 1948. 

That’s 51 years

ago!  Many attempts since then to make a new match have

failed.  So a

“multi-vitamin” supplement will actually only give you

about 0.1% of the 10,000

nutrients found in whole F & V.  That’s essentially

nothing.  If you

take vitamins, you are basically taking 51 year-old

technology and are ignoring

the major advances in nutrition since WWII.  No wonder

vitamins don’t

work.  A good analogy is an orchestra: how can you

expect to play

Beethoven’s 5th symphony with only a flute and a

cello?  You need the whole

orchestra, with its breadth and variety of instruments,

to make good

music.  In the same way, how can you expect you body’s

complex organ system

to derive any benefit from 13 arbitrary nutrients, when

your body was designed

to run on whole food?  In that light, vitamins as such

don’t even make

sense.  What’s worse, they can be bad for you (as many

large studies

showed).  Why?  Because your body runs well only when

it is in

nutritional balance.  The 13 vitamins are good for you,

but only in their

proper ratios.  Back to the orchestra analogy: what

happens if you like

flutes and therefore put 5 extra flutes in the

orchestra?  The music sounds

horrible.  Everything is out of balance.  Or consider a

two-cycle

chainsaw engine.  It runs on a gas/oil mixture with a

ratio of 40 parts gas

to 1 part oil.  The oil is critical to maintaining a

healthy engine. 

But what happens if you double the amount of oil (make

a 40:2 ratio)?  That

isn’t much extra oil; yet you get black smoke as

exhaust.  The engine runs

horribly.  You truly don’t want too much of a good

thing.  In the same

way, you don’t want too much vitamin E, A, etc. And

nobody knows the correct

amounts.  Give your body good food with its perfect

ratios, and your body

will run wonderfully.  Try and second-guess the amount

of any single

nutrient and you might be throwing a wrench in your

engine.

 

But if vitamins were not the solution, then what should

I give my daughter

?  Well, all the articles recommended a diet rich

in fruits and

vegetables as the answer.  The best medical studies

(and I’ve read them)

would consistently have such quotes as “… one of the

most consistent findings in

dietary research is that those who consume higher

amounts of fruits and

vegetables have lower rates of cancer, heart disease

and stroke” (and a better

immune system and healthier growth and development, for

that matter).  I

could list a bunch of such quotes.  So just tell her to

eat more

F & V?  But that was exactly my problem: my daughter

simply wouldn’t do

it!  So what was I to do?

 

When the answer finally came, I wish I could say that I

was smart enough to

have found it.  In truth, it actually found me.  I was

simply in the

right place at the right time.  At about this time a

patient and colleague

asked me to look into Juice Plus+, a nutritional

supplement he had come

across.  I was at first skeptical (as usual), since it

sounded just like

just one more gimmick.  However, I was quite impressed

as I did my

research.  JP+ takes whole servings (not token amounts)

of vine-ripened,

pesticide-free, organic fruits and vegetables, cools

them to 34º (heat would

destroy the nutrients), mega-juices them, and then

removes the salt, sugar and

water.  The resulting powder is put into capsules for

adults and large

children, and into chewables tablets and gummies for

younger children. 

There are 7 fruits (apples, oranges, peaches,

pineapple, papaya, cherries and

cranberries), 8 vegetables (broccoli, spinach, cabbage,

kale, beets, carrots,

parsley and tomatoes) and two grains (oats and barley

without any gluten). 

Try getting your child to eat that variety every day.

What is amazing about this

supplement is that it is literally, not figuratively,

just food!  In fact,

it is tax free in California since the government isn’t

allowed to tax

food.  I don’t have to worry about what “stuff” my kids

are getting. 

They are simply getting the nutritional equivalent of

17 servings of F & V

every day.  And vine-ripened at that – in season and

out of season. 

This turned out to be the perfect answer to our problem

with .  We

still encourage her to eat as many F & V as she can

manage, but the worry is

gone about her nutritional status. (And she finally

started to eat more

quantities of her limited list of foods.  So she is

finally starting to

grow in stature.)  For those who haven’t experienced

such a dramatic

concern about their child’s health, it’s hard to

imagine my sense of

relief.  I have now put everyone in my immediate and

extended family on

Juice Plus+; and they all report feeling stronger and

healthier.  Their

occasional viral illnesses are much more mild and last

about 2-3 days rather

than the usual 6-7.

 

It is crucial that you have to have a certain amount of

good old-fashioned

common sense, when dealing with the subject of

nutritional supplements. 

Considering what I detailed above, vitamins just don’t

make sense any more, and

the best medical research show that they don’t work

anyway.  Given what we

now know about the vast number of nutrients found in

whole fruits and

vegetables, it behooves us parents to encourage our

children to eat as many

F & V at possible.  And, because almost none of us or our

children

achieve the recommended number of 5-9 servings of F & V

each day,

supplementation with Juice Plus+ is definitely the way

to go – for better health

and peace of mind.

 

As a physician, I am interested in the research behind

the claims of

nutritional companies.  I am not satisfied with empty

claims or fancy

jargon.  I am not impressed when vitamin companies or

sales representatives

quote someone else’s research rather than their own.  I

want to see real

research using that company’s supplements in real

people, published in

reputable, peer-reviewed medical journals.  There’s a

lot of phony,

fly-by-night research that leads many people down some

strange paths. 

That’s not good enough for me, for my family or for my

patients.  If the

supplement is good, then prove it to me.  Take that

supplement and study

what it does for people, not in petrie dishes or in

rats.  If the company

is too scared to do that, then I won’t trust my life or

the lives of my family

of my patients to their products.

 

However, that creates a major problem for the

supplement company:  if

they do a medical research study on their own

nutritional product in real

people, and it shows either no benefit, or even a

detriment, then they have

destroyed their own business.  In other words, if the

study is a flop, then

they lose all credibility, and no one will buy their

product.  Competing

companies will publicize those bad study results, and

the supplement company

will be out of business overnight.  So there is very

little incentive for

any company to research their own product.  It’s easier

for that company to

put out some vitamin E tablets (as an example) and

claim “research has shown

that vitamin E is important to the body”.  The claim is

correct in

general.  But how do we know that their vitamin E

preparation: (a) is the

right dose, ( will make me healthier; © won’t hurt

me, or (d) will even be

readily absorbed?

 

That is one of the reasons I have been so impressed

with Juice Plus+. 

They are so confident about their fruit and vegetable

whole food supplement,

that they have actually had research done at major

universities by independent

professors and/or labs that have no stake in JP+

whatsoever.  They gave

their own supplement to real people and measured the

effects, knowing that they

could be studying themselves out of business.  That

takes guts!  I

have never seen a supplement company do that before. 

And the results have

all been positive, without exception.  I will summarize

some of the more

important studies that led me to endorse the product

and put everyone in my

family on it.

 

Bioavailability study:  They gave JP+ capsules (the

standard 2 fruit

and 2 vegetables capsules daily) to healthy

participants for 28 days. The

rationale for the study was to make sure that the

nutrients in JP+ are

bioavailable, i.e. readily absorbed by the body.  It’s

useless to give

supplements that the body can’t absorb.  (I have

actually had patients see

semi-intact vitamin tablets come out in their stools!) 

After 28 days the

blood levels of various nutrients were compared to the

blood levels before the

study started.  The results were impressive.  By the

end of the study,

the following changes were noted in the blood:--

Beta-carotene (precursor to

Vitamin A)     +510%-- Alpha-carotene (related to

Vitamin A)      +119%-- Lutein/Zeaxanthin (crucial

to the eye)      +44%-- Lycopene (far more potent

than Vitamin A or E) +2046%-- Alpha-tocopherol (Vitamin

E)       +58%-- Lipid peroxides (level of

rancid fat)      Down 75% (undetectable in 1/3 of the

people)Lipid peroxides are byproducts of normal

metabolism in everyone,

young and old, and the only antidotes to them are

antioxidants. Lipid peroxides

are literally like rancid mayonnaise in the blood

stream.  As such they are

toxic and damage cell structures including DNA.  They

also lead to

oxidation of LDL cholesterol (the bad form of

cholesterol), which causes

atherosclerosis, (hardening of the arteries) which, in

turn, leads to heart

attacks, strokes, etc. Atherosclerosis actually starts

in childhood, not in

adulthood(70% of children have early atherosclerosis by

age 12 and virtually

100% of people have some atherosclerosis by age 21).  A

75% reduction is a

tremendous improvement in preventive health. The fact

that it became

undetectable in 1/3 of the people essentially shows

complete protection against

oxidized (rancid) fat in the blood for those people. 

 

 

 

2. DNA Study:  JP+ capsules were given to people for 80

days.  Average age 68.  The amount of damage to DNA was

measured at

the start and at the end.  Background: normal

metabolism

creates oxidants (a.k.a. " free radicals " ) that damage

cells by a

destructive process called " oxidation " .  The current

estimates are

that between 2 to 3 billion oxidants are produced in

each active cell of the

human body every day. Of those, about 10,000 oxidants

damage each cell’s

DNA daily.  That's a lot of injury. It takes

" anti-oxidants " (i.e.

nutrients from fruits & veggies) to neutralize the

oxidants and thereby

protect the DNA.  The expectation would therefore be

that a good nutrient

supplement should be able to show some amount of DNA

protection in people

(not just in test tubes).  Here are the results of the

JP+

study:                      

DNA damage before supplementation   13.24

units                      

DNA damage after 80 days of JP+   4.41 unitsThat's a

3-fold

improvement -- a phenomenal number.  It is DNA damage

that leads to many

cancers and degenerative diseases. This result suggests

a great reduction in the

risk of getting any of these diseases.

 

3. Immune Study:  Same group of people as in the DNA

study. 

Bioavailability was measured again, and the nutrients

absorbed well.  This

study focused on the effect of JP+ on the immune

system.  Important

background: the two main forms of immune cells are T

cells and B cells. T cells

are the master cells and protect against infectious

diseases and cancer (e.g.

they are the cells that decrease so much in AIDS).  The

B cells produce the

antibodies, which attach to infecting organisms. 

Interleukins are the

chemicals that help orchestrate the immune response to

infection.  Here are

the study

results:            

-- B cell proliferation decreased.  This is actually

good.  B cells

tend to inappropriately proliferate as you age.  Too

much B cell activity

can lead to auto-immune diseases (the overactive B

cells mistakenly make

antibodies against your own body's organs -- like

" friendly fire " in the Gulf

War killing our own allies).  Too many antibodies

actually make the immune

system dysregulated.  Measly you want fewer, more

precise antibodies as you

age. There are also more complicated reasons why this

is a good

result.            

-- Overall T cell activity increased significantly. 

What's more, " Natural

Killer " cells also increased significantly. This is

also good.  In fact

this is great.  NK cells are pre-programmed to seek out

and destroy

abnormal cells including cancer cells.  This increase

in NK activity means

improved protection.   These are the " foot soldiers " of

the immune

system.   The stronger they are, the

better.            

-- Interleukins increased significantly.  They are

central to the proper

regulation and performance of your immunity.  They do

such things as

attract Natural Killer T cells to sites of

infection.             

Overall, the results of this study are remarkably

impressive, but not

surprising.  Every bit of research I have seen in the

medical literature

has promoted the benefits of fruits and veggies for

their contribution to health

and disease prevention.  This fact should surprise no

one.   But

to see the strength of the immune response to JP+ is

quite encouraging.  It

shows that the JP+ product really does provide the

benefits of whole food

nutrition in supplement

form.             

Other research has been done (such as a weight loss

study which showed that

people taking JP+ lost twice the weight and gained more

than twice the amount of

lean muscle mass as those who didn't take JP+), but the

above study results

represent the highlights.  As a physician, a husband

and a father, I have a

responsibility to know exactly what it is that I am

recommending to the people

who are special to me. And I need to know with

certainty that my recommendations

will help, not hurt, those people.  I have seen my

family's health improve

substantially (e.g. my four daughters each had the

common cold last week, and it

lasted only 2 days in each of them -- and that is

typical for us

nowadays).  And I have seen some amazing results in

some of my sickest

patients (e.g. my leukemia patient who underwent a bone

marrow transplant at

UCSF, or my patient with chronic asthma and fungal

disease of the lung).  I

could go on and on with stories, but that would belabor

the point.  The

fact is that everyone can benefit from improved

nutrition, and JP+ is the most

readily achievable way I have ever seen to accomplish

that goal. Eating more

whole, uncooked, vine-ripened fruits and veggies is

ideal, but often impossible

given the typical American lifestyle.  Supplementation

in some form is

essential, but you have to be careful about what is

being sold to you.  As

for me and my family, we will put our faith in

something that makes intuitive

sense, is easy, is affordable, tastes great (kids love

the gummies and

chewables), and has the most impressive research I have

ever seen to back it up.

 

For more info on Juice Plus+, you can visit my

website below.  If you would like free samples of the

Juice Plus+ vitamins,

please just respond to this email give me your mailing

address, and I will send

them to you.  Thanks for wanting to try these wonderful

products!!! 

 

Saraf

www.jphealth.net/valerie

 

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