Natural Holistic Health

About Nutritional Medicine May be Killing you – by Dr. Raymond Strand was actually recommended to me by one of my favorite clients. Wow, what a great book. I read so many books about natural health, that it is rare to find one that “wows” me. Most of them are simply reference books – not what I would call “easy reading”. This one is so different. You won’t want to put it down.

Dr. Ray Strand actually connects the dots in a very concise way. If you don’t take your vitamins and supplements, you will need 33 heads of spinach, 27 pounds of butter, 80 medium avocados 80 mangos, 2 lbs of sunflower seeds, 23 cups of wheat germ and 1.5 quarts of corn oil…………. Just to get you 450 IUs of Vitamin E. Shall we move on to the requirement for Vitamin C?

The point is very simple. Our soil is depleted. You will not be awake long enough or have enough money or energy to consume the amount of depleted food to get the nutrition you need to stay healthy. Take your vitamins. It is so much easier….

So what if you don’t “believe” in taking vitamins? Well, Dr. Strand is very clear about this. Vitamin deficiencies result in chronic disease. The story is a little more complicated than this. Dr Strand does an excellent job explaining that exposure to a toxic environment, normal aging, stress and many other factors lead to “oxidative stress” otherwise known as “inflammation”. Chronic inflammation is subsequently diagnosed as one of the very familiar maladies of our day: Heart Disease, Cancer, Macular Degeneration, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus and Crohn’s Disease, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Asthma, Emphysema, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Fatigue, and Fibromyalgia.

Dr. Strand is very straight forward with his findings. He simply suggest that Asthma can be improved by adding 200-300 mg of grape-seed extract with 1,000 mg of vitamin C and 200 mg magnesium in addition to the normal daily vitamins and Omega-3 fatty Acids.

This work is definitely worth reading. Who believes that a lifetime on inhaled steroids actually heals anything?

Another refreshing aspect to this work is that Dr. Strand is honest about patient experiences of frustration with traditional Medical Doctors. He is bold about the fact that most Medical Doctors in practice simply do not know anything but “prescription in 5 minutes” or “we can’t find anything wrong with you so it’s all in your head”. They have been trained that if test results or symptoms spell out a certain condition, then certain drug groups apply. Diet, exercise, attitude, and vitamins have been avoided for the most part by the medical community. Dr. Strand even acknowledges that most patients would rather try a natural approach FIRST. He knows that many people today are simply fed up with the frustration, and are looking to help themselves as they have been unable to get help from their doctors. This is a genuine gift that Dr. Strand offers. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. I wish you the greatest health and vitality….and I wish you a powerful antioxidant….