Main description:

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.

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