Wonderful Catmint

Catmint is easily grown in any garden soil.  It does not seem to need as much water as other members of the mint family.  Dividing plants in Spring is a good way to increase your number of plants, or you can grow it from seeds.

Certainly most cats enjoy this plant, but mice and rats are said to be deterred where it is planted.

Catmint grows tall and as such makes a lovely border in your garden.

From the medicinal use point-of-view, catmint is a well known and extremely effective remedy for colic. Harvest the flowering tops when the plant is in full bloom, usually early in the morning.


Known as a carminative, tonic, diaphoretic, refrigerant, it is a very mild emmenagogue, specially, can be somewhat stimulating, and also an antispamodic, and nervine.  It can also ease a virus with cold or flu, and ease fretfulness.

Because this and other mints encourage perspiration it is a good tea for fever, while encouraging sleep.

Catmint is one of the most highly recommended herbs for children's colic. It is helpful too for restlessness,  and nervousness.

Making an infusion is the best way to use this herb.  Using freshly boiled pure water, add one ounce of the herb to one pint of water.  A child's dose is 2 teaspoonfuls given often to relieve pain and gas.

More here - Medicinal Mint

Now for my comment -
Mainstream articles sometimes irk me for various reasons.  One reason I find distressing is a "study" done by people who do not have a working knowledge of herbs.  They seem always to conclude that generally they do not work.

Media reports of the same study repeated until you are sick of hearing it also make it nothing more than a talking-head blabbering about what they are told to read during the news cast.

Herbal Remedies No Help for Colicky Babies
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/25564

Read my comment and those of several others, including my homeopathic colleague Dana Ullman.

	gayle eversole, dhom, phd, mh, crnp, nd - Mar 28, 2011 Articles such as this continually amaze me. First of all the bias against natural remedies is blatant. Secondly the caliber of the article is mediocre when I compare it to standards established by Health News Review along with my own standards honed during my education at various levels. Thirdly, as an advanced nursing practitioner and a person considered to be an expert in natural health, I have been helping parents and babies with colic for decades, using very simple herbal remedies. While this may all go away, the episodes are stressful for the parents and the infants as well. This attitude is rather dismissive. And I think we know how stress harms health. I'd suggest that the researchers try to interview someone with an extensive knowledge of herbs, natural remedies, their application and effects in the next study. After all, before all the GE pharmaceuticals, herbs were the basis of the National Formulary, and toxic acid reflux drugs were not given out with glad hands in deference to a few grains of acidophilus.
	Dr. Jacob R. Raitt - Mar 28, 2011 Just personally believe that the test was incomplete for the range of herbs used in these studies.
	K. Vilain - Mar 28, 2011 Why is there no information on the pooled results of the 8 trials deemed to have acceptable methodology? That is the outcomes of interest here. I see no evidence of what the title of the article implies. Were the 8 studies negative? Was meta-regression done?
	dana ullman, mph - Mar 28, 2011 One of the co-authors of this review of research was E. Ernst who has a known hyper-bias against alternative treatment modalities. I personally do not believe anything he writes.

Fl - A Difficult Halogen for People to Understand

UPDATE: 28 March, 2011
As more people move to add sea vegetables to their diets to help aid protection from radioactive fall out, be aware that hijiki is very high in arsenic.

Seaweed and toxins

Title: Halogenated Compounds from Marine Algae
Authors: Maria Teresa Cabrita ¹, Carlos Vale ¹ and Amélia Pilar Rauter ²
Affiliations: ¹ IPIMAR, Av. de Brasília, 1449-006 Lisboa, Portugal E-Mails: cvale@ipimar.pt (C.V.); tcabrita@ipimar.pt (M.T.C.)
² Centro de Química e Bioquímica/Departamento de Química e Bioquímica da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Ed C8, Piso 5, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; E-Mail: aprauter@fc.ul.pt (A. P. R.)
Abstract: Marine algae produce a cocktail of halogenated metabolites with potential commercial value. The structure exhibited by these compounds goes from acyclic entities with a linear chain to complex polycyclic molecules. Their medical and pharmaceutical application has been investigated for the past two decades, although other properties like antifouling are not to be discarded. Many compounds were discovered in the last years but the need for new drugs keeps this field open as many algae species are poorly screened. Apart from the biotechnological potential, the ecological role of marine algal halogenated metabolites has somehow been overlooked. This new research field will provide valuable and novel insight into the marine ecosystem dynamics as well as a new approach to understanding biodiversity. Furthermore, understanding interactions between halogenated compounds production by algae and the environment, including anthropogenic or global climate changes, is a challenging target for the coming years. Research has been more focused on macroalgae than on phytoplankton. However, phytoplankton is a very promising material as the bottom link of the marine food chain with very quickly adaptation to environmental changes, which undoubtedly has consequences on the secondary metabolism. This paper summarizes current knowledge and revises recent progress and presents trends on the role of marine algae as producers of halogenated compounds.
Keywords: marine algae; halogenated compounds; biotechnological applications; ecological role

From 3 March, 2009 -
In the periodic table of elements one finds the halogen family at an atomic weight of 9.

The halogens are five non-metallic elements found in group 17 of the periodic table. The Halogens are: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Astatine. The term "halogen" means "salt-former" and compounds containing halogens are called "salts". All halogens have 7 electrons in their outer shells, giving them an oxidation number of -1. The halogens exist, at room temperature, in all three states of matter:

Solid- Iodine, Astatine
Liquid- Bromine
Gas- Fluorine, Chlorine

Fluorine is the most electronegative and reactive of all elements, and this property is one of the reasons why it easily displaces Iodine. Iodine is critically necessary for health.

The fluoride ion is highly toxic. Los Alamos National Laboratory recommends that no one be exposed to more than 1ppm Fl- in any 8-hour time period. Cumulative exposure to Fl- may result in the hardening of the Pineal Gland, is considered to be the electro-magnetic foci of the human body, and the gland that is directly involved with the production of melatonin. Vitamin B12 is also a substance that seems to be related to health of the Pineal gland.

Fluoride Excess is cumulative and there is a danger of ingesting fluoride in any so called "natural form" as is found in the current trend for Pink Himalayan Salt, which is known to contain many other heavy metals, some not at all necessary for human health.

People who live in areas where the drinking water has a naturally high fluoride level may consume too much fluoride—causing a condition called fluorosis. Fluoride accumulates in teeth, particularly permanent teeth. Chalky white, irregular patches appear on the surface of the tooth enamel. The patches become stained yellow or brown, causing the enamel to appear mottled. The teeth may also become pitted.

Fluoride also accumulates in bones. Rarely, consuming too much fluoride for a long time results in dense but weak bones, abnormal bone growths (spurs) on the spine, and crippling due to calcium accumulation (calcification) in ligaments.

(Some of the material found in this post on Fl- comes from the Merck Index and Merck Manual)

Fluoride in salt, water, pharmaceuticals, dental products, pesticides and herbicides, chemicals used in war and any other form continues to cause a myriad of health problems.

See also
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/salt-may-be-health-scam.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/02/melatonin-offers-protection-from.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/pregnancy-and-nutrition.html
and other posts related to Fluoride via the search window.

7 Tips for Women to Stay Naturally Healthy

By Maureen Denard

It’s not often that we stop to analyze why, but a woman’s health is watched more carefully than that of a man, probably because she undergoes many more physical and psychological changes over the course of her life – puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause – they all change a woman’s physical and mental makeup significantly, and because of this, if she doesn’t take care of her health, she’s bound to lose it along the way at some point or the other. There are many easy ways for women to stay naturally healthy, and a few of them are outlined below:

·         A healthy diet: As with any health-related list, this one too starts by emphasizing the importance of a good diet, one that includes more of fruits, vegetables, wholegrain foods, legumes like lentils, beans and peas, and less of fat, complex carbohydrates and sugar. You are what you assimilate from what you eat, remember this at every stage of your life and you avoid unseemly weight gain and unexpected disease.

·         Regular exercise: A healthy diet is augmented and enhanced by an active lifestyle, one which includes regular exercise. Half an hour a day for five days a week is enough, the key is to be as regular as you can.

·         Breastfeeding: A woman’s greatest blessing is that she can carry life inside of her on the journey to motherhood. And with breastfeeding being not just a way to bond with your child but also a surefire way to keep cancer, depression and a host of other diseases at bay, you can bet God sure was in a good mood when he created a woman.

·         Independence: Most of a woman’s sorrows and pains in life come about because she is dependent on the men in her life – be it a father or a husband or a son or a significant other, dependency only creates shackles that chafe and burn, until you’re so bruised that it seems the scars will never fade away. The key to independence is the solid foundation of education upon which you can build a profession which gives you both emotional and professional satisfaction. With financial independence, you’re also free to choose your own path should that of a spouse go a different way, one which you’re not prepared to travel for any reason. 

·         Grooming: You feel inside the way you think you look outside, so go all out to look as beautiful as you think you can be. It’s not the cosmetics that are important, but the way you identify and augment your strengths and play down your weaknesses. Keep yourself well groomed, no matter how old you are, and you tend to remain young at heart for life.

·         A zest for life: Too much optimism could make you reckless, too much pessimism could make you a coward, but the right amount of both makes you a realist who knows that life only happens once. So make the most of happy moments and brush away the sad ones instead of letting them get you down, and you’ll find that both your emotional and physical wellbeing improve.

·         Me time: A woman plays multiple roles over the course of her life, sometimes taking on more than one simultaneously. But besides a daughter, a mother, a wife, a friend, or a girlfriend, find time to be yourself. When you know you have your corner to retreat to and recoup your strength in when life throws too many punches at you, you don’t worry too much about the next round that you have to fight. You know you’ll get out there and give it all you’ve got.

This guest post is contributed by Maureen Denard, who writes on the subject of Online MSN Degree . Maureen can be reached at: denard12.maureen@gmail.com.  

Fiddling Around

Ferns are special plants.  Older than dirt, mysteriously reproducing without flowers while thriving in shade, seemingly bereft of the sunshine that most plants seek, they bring a quiet beauty to a woodland area.  Emerging fern fronds appear after winter as tightly coiled “fiddleheads”.  The intricately fashioned fiddleheads encourage us to stop and examine their beauty in this early moment of spring.

Polystichum acrostichoides

Many different ferns are found naturally in Georgia.  In the metro Atlanta area alone, I have found more than 20 different ferns in my small travels.  Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is one of the most common and one of the few evergreen ones.  It would be gorgeous in my woods all winter if the deer wouldn’t take to sleeping on it.  The fuzzy golden knobs of new growth are formed at the end of the year, and they wait quietly at ground level, protected by the previous year’s fronds.

The other common evergreen fern is Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron), a very petite and upright fern with a dark brown or black rachis (the rachis is the midrib of the fern blade).  When I first began to notice the different ferns, I thought that Ebony Spleenwort ferns were baby Christmas ferns because they were small and usually found near Christmas ferns.  Ebony Spleenwort can be remarkably tolerant of sun – we sometimes find them in the edges of old fields.  Both types of ferns are tolerant of drier conditions than most ferns.

Asplenium platyneuron

A couple of other fairly common ferns are Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) and New York Fern (Thelypteris noveboracensis).  In the wild we often find them near each other on moist streamsides.  New York Fern is an especially good spreader, and the soft, dried fronds are sometimes used by birds to build nests.  A favorite identification trick to distinguish these two is to look at the bottom area of the frond: if the pinnae (the smaller “leaves” on the stem) taper off until they are small at the bottom, it is a New York Fern; we like to say that New Yorkers burn the candle at both ends.  Lady Fern pinnae are much wider at the bottom; it also comes in two forms: red stemmed and green stemmed.  Here is an emerging frond from a red stemmed one.

Athyrium filix-femina

By the way, if you are unfamiliar with the unique terminology associated with the parts of a fern, click here for a good picture with details.

The maidenhair ferns are a beautiful and unusual find in the woods.  Northern Maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) is the one we usually see.  Transplanted ones thrive in my yard – I have not had as much luck with the Southern Maidenhair (Adiantum capillus-veneris) and I suspect my soil conditions are not right.  The twisty, curly fiddleheads are almost cartoonish in form but always unfurl beautifully:

Adiantum pedatum new fronds

Adiantum pedatum

Here is another fern with contorted new growth, Broad Beech Fern (Phegopteris hexagonoptera).  You would think I’d stood on my head to take this picture:

Phegopteris hexagonoptera

Many ferns have their spores on the back of the frond (or on the back of some of the fronds); these are the parts that are capable of developing into new ferns.   The ferns I have described so far have this arrangement.  This site linked here has great explanations and pictures about how ferns grow from spores.

Polystichum acrostichoides

Dryopteris marginalis

However, some ferns create separate “fertile fronds” that only contain the spores and look quite different from the non-fertile fronds.  Netted Chain Fern (Woodwardia areolata) is one of them and so are Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis), Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) and Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), all of which thrive in wet conditions in my area.

Osmunda regalis

Woodwardia areolata

Botrychium virginianum

Some “grape ferns” also are quite at home in my yard.  In addition to having the separate fertile frond, these ferns are unusual in that they have only one frond per plant.  Each spring, Rattlesnake Fern (Botrychium virginianum) sends up one fresh new frond; if it’s mature enough, it will contain a fertile structure as well.  Each fall, Southern grapefern (Botrychium biternatum) sends up it’s new frond which persists all winter, often turning a bronze color by spring.  Here a Rattlesnake Fern unfurls, it’s fertile structure already looking like a bunch of grapes (or a rattlesnake’s tail!).

 

Grape ferns are very petite ferns, and there are plenty of other small ones in Georgia.  Brittle Fern (Cystopteris protrusa) is a tiny, delicate looking fern.  Other small ferns include Rock Cap Fern (Polypodium virginianum) and the very similar looking Resurrection Fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides), show here in it’s “dry” form in between rains.  Resurrection Fern often grows on trees, especially big, wide oak branches.

Cystopteris protrusa

Polypodium virginianum

Pleopeltis polypodioides

Thelypteris kunthii

Ferns can be found in sunnier conditions – one of my favorites in the garden is Southern Shield Fern, look for it by the scientific name as this one has many common names (Thelypteris kunthii).  This big, lush fern grows to about 36 inches tall and is happy to grow in full sun until about 1 pm (longer if there is adequate moisture).  In my old yard, spores would fall down into a mossy area and I had dozens of babies to share with other people; you can also divide the creeping rhizomes as you might do for other ferns.


Other sun-tolerant and even xeric ferns are being given more attention these days.  Be sure to visit the Botanical Gardens at Georgia Perimeter College in Decatur to see the unusual native ferns that they grow.

Health Care Myths

In the mid 1990s I started adding a factoid to the informational pamphlet I produced for CHI (Creating Health Institute).   It was not a new fact but on that I had been aware of for a long time.  In reviewing information about this new book, that piece of information is still true now, just as it was then and in preceeding years.


That piece of information, according to a study completed at the Harvard School of Public Health, tells us that just 20% of medical care in use is effective.


As Big PhRMA grabs profits first and leaves your health at risk, while Big Insurance tells doctors  and other providers what care you are allowed to have, we can truly see why health care in the US ranks so low (37).

Health Care Myth

"In America, there is no guarantee that any individual will receive high-quality care for any particular health problem. The healthcare industry is plagued with overutilization of  services, underutilization of services and errors in  healthcare practice." 

– Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, Rand Corporation researcher, and colleagues. (Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD; Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH; et al. "The Quality of Healthcare Delivered to Adults in the United States," New England Journal of Medicine 2003;348:2635-2645.)

Why we rank low in healthcare

Questioning the unquestionable
The problem is that physicians don't know what they're doing. That is how David Eddy, MD, PhD, a healthcare economist and senior advisor for health policy and management for Kaiser Permanente, put the problem in a Business Week cover story about how much of healthcare delivery is not based on science. Plenty of proof backs up Eddy's glib-sounding remark.

The plain fact is that many clinical decisions made by physicians appear to be arbitrary, uncertain and variable. Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process—from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment. Physician judgment is highly variable.

You can get better care but you do have to demand it.  To demand it you have to know the "right" questions to ask and you have to know your rights in health care.

For 20 years CHI has been offering numerous programs in the community and corporate wellness programs, as well as college sponsored workshops addressing these problems.  The programs we developed especially for senior citizens were always SRO.

Learning more about exactly what's happening in health care is important.  And learning what you can do to prevent most health concerns is CHI's primary focus.  Natural Health Care Education from an expert who just happens to be a health care professional is what you'll find when you sponsor one of our programs or workshops in your area.

Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes

What is better than waking up on Saturday morning to a piping hot plate of pancakes? Nothing really, because I was the one who was up with the kids at 6:30am actually making the pancakes. Sorry, that makes it sound like I am complaining. DH gets to sleep in on Saturday as I have mentioned before and I sleep in on Sunday. And I love getting in the kitchen to cook early in the morning. Thing 1 likes helping in the kitchen so much these days that he always just climbs up and watches what I am doing.

I had promised the kids pancakes the night before. I had thought of making a soaked flour pancake recipe. But I just didn’t get around to it. I know it is easy, but it is one more thing to do! It feels so overwhelming to need to soak flour on top of everything else I already do from scratch. I am organized for dinner, making things ahead and what not. But for lunch and breakfast I still mostly throw things together at the last minute. At some point I will tackle soaking grains and flour, but today, it is still beyond my organizational grasp. But back to the pancakes, I don’t have a great recipe. I don’t care for the thick bready pancakes that take forever to cook and are so fluffy that you have to drown them in butter and syrup to wash them down. And I greatly dislike the taste of baking soda in my pancakes. So I look for recipes without that. I couldn’t find a proper whole wheat pancake recipe in any of my books or even online, so I altered one from The Joy of Cooking. What, you are surprised?

I was so shocked to see a pancake recipe in The Joy of Cooking that incorporated yogurt, I was sold at that. Maybe there is some hope of soaking my grains after all. Some day.

Here’s the original recipe:

WHOLE GRAIN GRIDDLE CAKES
Sift together: ½ cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon double acting baking powder
¾ teaspoon baking soda
Stir in: 1 cup finely milled whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons sugar, honey or molasses
1 beaten egg
2 cups buttermilk or yogurt
2 tablespoons melted butter or bacon drippings

Here is my version:
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon double acting baking powder
Stir in: 2 tablespoons honey
3 beaten eggs
2 cups whole milk yogurt
2 tablespoons melted butter
Frozen blueberries (amount to taste)

I worried that my batter would be too runny and it was runnier than a traditional recipe. But the consistency was great, enjoyable actually. The cakes were kind of a cross between a pancake and a crepe. The batter didn’t run too much. They were thick enough like pancakes but they tasted eggy and spongy like crepes. Yum. Plus I know that the protein content is significantly higher than any recipe I have cooked before! So I feel better about this. I don't always feel good about making a meal without some kind of protein source. I plated three cakes on each plate, something I would never do if they were the traditional bready ones. These were a big hit, and will probably be playing at my theatre every Saturday for sold out shows for a couple months.

If vitamins are so bad why is FDA giving them to PhRMA

Update: April 2011 - CDC: Half of US adults take vitamins, supplements

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical WriterWed Apr 13, 1:50 pm ET

ATLANTA – About half of U.S. adults take vitamins and other dietary supplements — a level that's been holding steady for much of the past decade, new government figures show.

But the data also show a booming number of older women are taking calcium.

Federal officials released figures Wednesday showing that the use of dietary supplements has grown since the early 1990s when it was about 42 percent. The data shows use leveled off in 2003 through 2008, with about half of adults 20 and older taking at least one dietary supplement.

The biggest change was for calcium. Two-thirds of women 60 and older take it, up from 28 percent in the early 1990s.

Experts note the ranks of the elderly have been growing, and include many women who have been encouraged for years to take calcium to help protect against osteoporosis.

The information comes from national, in-home surveys in 1988-1994 and 2003-2008. The surveys in the past decade included more than 2,000 people each year. Interviewers not only asked participants what supplements they took, but also asked to see the bottles to verify their answers.

Use of multivitamins — the most popular supplement — crept up to nearly 40 percent.

Most people who take vitamins and other supplements are educated, have good incomes, eat pretty well and already get the nutrients they need from their diets, the surveys suggests.

"It's almost like the people who are taking them aren't the people who need them," said Regan Bailey, a nutritional epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health.

Federal surveys have only recently started asking people why they take supplements, Bailey said.

The government supports some supplements as an option for certain people — such as iron for women who are pregnant, folic acid for women thinking of getting pregnant and calcium for older women.

But health officials say people should talk to their doctors first, and consider enriched foods that can accomplish the same goal.

Much of the new data is in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Wednesday. SOURCE

Online: CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

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March 2011

Don’t Be a Victim of Drug Company Propaganda

It is in the economic interests of drug companies to steer Americans away from healthier lifestyles and dietary supplements. As more Americans fall ill to degenerative disease, drug company profits increase exponentially.

Enormous amounts of pharmaceutical dollars are spent influencing Congress, the FDA, and other federal agencies. The result is the promulgation of policies that cause Americans to be deprived of effective, low-cost means of protecting themselves against age-related disease.
The fact that the diets of more than 90% of Americans supply less than the 12 milligrams a day of vitamin E the government proclaims to be adequate is a startling revelation. It documents an epidemic deficiency of vitamin E among Americans who do not take supplements. Despite these grim statistics, the medical establishment continues to question the value of supplemental vitamin E. SOURCE

APRIL 2010
Help protect your right to supplements -

Alert: Protect Your Right To Natural and Bio-available Vitamin B-6!
ANH-USA On April 6, 2010 @ 3:18 pm

Human beings cannot live without vitamin B-6. It is also important for the prevention of cancer and the prevention and treatment of seizures, anemia, mental disorders including schizophrenia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other conditions. Its effect on carpal tunnel can seem almost miraculous [1].

A natural form of the vitamin, Pyridoxamine, was recently yanked off the market by the FDA. Why? Because a pharmaceutical company, BioStratum, wanted sole use of pyridoxamine in a drug, a drug which may or may not ever appear. The company filed a so-called citizens petition and the FDA agreed, notwithstanding protests from ANH-USA, other organizations, and thousands of citizens. You might ask: how can Pharma take a supplement off the market and claim exclusive use of it as a prescription drug? The FDA does not presently feel obligated to answer this question.

Unfortunately, this isn’t all the bad news about vitamin B6. All forms of B-6, natural or synthetic, must be converted to P5P, another natural form, for the body to use it. Another drug company, Medicure Pharma, wants sole use of P5P and so has petitioned the FDA to ban its use as a supplement as well.

Medicure has yet to market a drug made from P5P, but wants the ban to take place now. And never mind that any individual unable to convert synthetic B6 to P5P would have to rely solely on Medicure’s product to stay alive.

How does Medicure think it can get away with this? Its petition states rather candidly: “Pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs must be protected from companies that may seek to market the ingredients in those drugs as dietary supplements. The marketing of such products has the potential to undermine the incentive for the development of new drugs because many people may choose to purchase the supplements rather than the drugs.”

This is not of course a case of supplement producers creating a product to compete with an existing prescription drug. It is just the reverse. P5P, the natural and bioactive form of B6, has existed in food for as long as there have been humans and has been available as a supplement for years. Medicure seems to be saying: If it seems profitable, let’s just turn a critical vitamin, one essential for human life, into a drug, make it available only by subscription, and mark up the price. This is truly outrageous.

The FDA has not yet responded to Medicure’s petition. We have asked you in the past to send a message to the FDA and Congress protesting Medicure’s P5P grab, and the time has come to send some more messages. So if you haven’t sent in a message to the FDA and Congress yet, or even if you have, please send one today [2].

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While we are discussing Vitamin B6, here is the latest scientific report. An analysis of 13 U.S., European and Asian studies of vitamin B6 and colon cancer, conducted from 2002-2009, has been published in a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Studies of the range of B6 doses found that vitamin B6 taken in higher doses reduced the risk of colon cancer by 21 percent. In one study, Dr. Susanna Larsson and her colleagues at Sweden’s National Institute of Environmental Medicine reported an inverse relationship between the intake of vitamin B6 or pyridoxine and the risk of colon cancer. Dr. Larsson linked the effect to bloodstream levels of pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP), the main active coenzyme form of vitamin B6 [3]. Pyridoxal-phosphate is also known as pyridoxal 5-phosphate or (as we referred to it above) P5P.

Don’t let the FDA take away our access to the natural and most bioavailable form of B6, P5P. Please take action now [2].


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[1] Its effect on carpal tunnel can seem almost miraculous: http://search.vitasearch.com/search?q=pyridoxine+carpal+tunnel+syndrome&restrict=Summaries&site=CP&client=CP&proxystylesheet=CP&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&getfields=*

[2] please send one today: https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=334

[3] inked the effect to bloodstream levels of pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP), the main active coenzyme form of vitamin B6: http://www.physorg.com/print187978106.html