Consumer's Guide to Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicines: Servings of HopeLearn the benefits—and hazards—of certain dietary supplements The term “dietary supplement” can include vitamins, minerals, herbal, and botanical products. Consumers freely use supplements for the promoted claims of benefits, but often without consideration of the potential risks. The Consumer's Guide to Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicines is a critical, balanced look at the different classes of supplement products and whether many claims of benefits are true or simply product hype. Respected supplement authority Dr. W. Marvin Davis exposes what is truth, what is fiction, and what is not known for many supplements you may be taking. If you take dietary supplements—or even think about taking them—this book clears the mystery behind the product claims. The term “dietary supplement” can include vitamins, minerals, herbal, and botanical products. Consumers freely use supplements for the promoted claims of benefits, but often without consideration of the potential risks. The Consumer's Guide to Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicines is a critical, balanced look at the different classes of supplement products and whether many claims of benefits are true or simply product hype. This book, by respected supplement authority Dr. W. Marvin Davis, exposes what is truth, what is fiction, and what is not known for many supplements you may be taking. If you take dietary supplements—or even think about taking them—this book clears the mystery behind the product claims. The Consumer's Guide to Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicines brings you the benefit of Dr. Davis's extensive knowledge about physicians, the pharmaceutical industry, and research in pharmacology and toxicology in order to shatter misconceptions about supplements and the supplement industry. The book's no-nonsense discussion about this much-hyped industry is even-handed and straightforward, and provides clear-headed advice every consumer of supplements needs. The guide explores various supplements' interactions with prescription drugs, the placebo effect as a factor for beneficial claims, historical instances of supplements that have proved hazardous to consumers, and receiving directions for supplement use from an unconventional medical/healthcare practitioner. It clearly explains the potentials of supplements through the use of illustrative clinical case studies from medical literature in simplified, easy to understand language. This extensive source is comprehensively referenced and includes tables of supplements with their possible benefits and hazards. The Consumer's Guide to Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicines exposes the truth about:
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Contents
Basic Scientific Principles of Using Natural | 5 |
The Uncertainty Principle in Medicine | 29 |
Whos a Quack? Conflict on the Current | 43 |
Afternoon of Alternative Medicine | 56 |
Historical Natural Remedies | 63 |
Major Myths and Misconceptions | 75 |
Natural Botanical Supplements | 85 |
FDA Regulations 55825 | 97 |
More Certain Supplement Marvels | 287 |
Essential | 309 |
Amino Acids | 321 |
Chemoprevention | 335 |
Resveratrol Red Wine Extract | 343 |
Nonflavonoid Chemopreventive Agents | 349 |
Marvelous Aloe Vera | 363 |
Eye Health | 369 |
Botanicals and Prescription Drugs | 109 |
Supplement Labels | 119 |
If a Little Is Good for You a Lot Will | 129 |
Another Hazard from Good Juice Turned Bad | 135 |
Fountain | 155 |
Fountain | 171 |
Antioxidants and Dementias | 177 |
A Metabolite Useful for Failing Memory | 186 |
Nonsupplemental Approaches to Fight Aging | 193 |
Nonestrogenic Adverse Responses to Soy | 200 |
Good Fat and Bad Fat | 221 |
Are They Believable? | 235 |
What Is the Price of Globalism? | 281 |
Functional Fruits | 381 |
Most Certain Supplement Marvels | 389 |
The LTryptophan Disaster | 397 |
The Future of Dietary Supplements | 409 |
Who Is Looking After JohnJane Q Public? | 417 |
Would You Bet Your Life on Good Advice? 41 | 423 |
Spiritual Aspects of Health | 435 |
BookLength Resources 44 | 449 |
Glossary 43 | 455 |
Bibliography 4 | 467 |
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