Bio-Blog

by BIOMETICSLADY

Do you still think Big Pharma is your friend?  Don’t quite believe they actually market drugs that will hurt you?  Think again, as the FDA has just approved, in it’s wisdom, a drug not approved for use in children.  On the Forest Labs own Lexapro website, you’ll find this very clear warning: Antidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. 

Please, for the children, do NOT give your child these Antidepressants & Stimulants (as for ADHD) AKA “Kiddie Cocaine”, including any “patches” which is just a transdemal delivery system for Ritalin.  Instead use vitamins and minerals and try correct the imbalences, which very often result from nutritional deficiencies. BIOMETICS Scholastic Enhancement will address many deficiencies that result in mood or attention disorders. The Bio-Fuel is a MICELLIZED multi vitamin that can restore vitamin balences.  Bio-Alert and Get-Go-N are both B Vitamin Complexes, containing Choline and Tyrosine respectively. Choline is an important componant for focus and concentration, Tyrosine is a mild anti depressant.  NONE of these things have the potentially deadly side effects of perscription meds.

Critical Role of Choline

Five years ago, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers reported that choline played a critical role in memory and brain function. They found that choline positively affected the brain’s physical development.

Since then, UNC researchers have been working more closely to find the reason for the connection between choline and brain development. They have been working with nerve tissue derived from human cancer cells and recently discovered that choline causes stem, or parent, cell growth. They also found that there is less cell growth if choline is lacking in the diet.

“We found that if we provided (cells) with less choline, those nerve cells divided less and multiplied less. We then went on to try to explain why, by looking at genes known to regulate cell division,” said Dr. Steven H. Zeisel, professor and chair of nutrition at the UNC schools of public health and medicine.

Cell division is necessary for the development of the body. It is the process by which one cell divides into two cells causing reproduction and growth. It was found that when there was not enough choline in the diet, cell division was halted or slowed down.

The process of cell division is very important for developing babies. Babies get choline from their mother during pregnancy and from breast milk after they are born. Breast milk contains much more choline than many infant formulas.

Zeisel said that women who are pregnant or nursing are much more susceptible to choline deficiency. At these times, they need much more choline in their diet to support the growing baby.

Choline is a vitamin-like substance that is sometimes treated like b-vitamins and folic acid in dietary recommendations. Good sources of choline include eggs, meat, peanuts, and dietary supplements.

Williamson, David. Scientists discover why not enough choline results in fewer brain cells, poorer memory. University News Services, UNC. March 18, 2004.
Cellular Division. TheFreeDictionary.com. 2004.

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CHOLINE: “ADEQUATE INTAKE” LEVELS NOT FOR ALL

Choline (pronounced co-lean) is often an overlooked nutrient. Most people do not know what it does, and do not know how important it is for the body. News of a recent study may change choline’s status, as the results of the study challenge the amount of choline that experts thought was necessary for everyday health.

Choline was determined to have an “Adequate Intake” level of 550 mg per day for men, and 425 mg per day for women. This is the amount that is considered adequate for the body to perform its basic processes, including maintaining organs like the liver. However, the results from a recent study suggest that for some people, this “Adequate Intake” level is still not enough for the body to perform the basic processes.

This study had 57 people participating in it. There were 26 men, and 31 women. Of the women, 16 were premenopausal and 15 were postmenopausal. All the participants followed a diet for 10 days designed to contain the 550 mg choline per day recommended in the “Adequate Intake” level. After this period, their diets consisted of less than 50 mg of choline per day for various time periods of up to 42 days.

The researchers found that the “Adequate Intake” level of choline was actually not enough for six of the men in the study. These six men had signs of muscle damage or fatty liver while following the higher choline intake diet, the amount that was supposed to be adequate for their daily needs. Other results of the study show that 19 percent of the study participants needed more choline than the diet provided: up to 825 mg of choline per day was needed to prevent fatty liver and muscle damage.

The numbers of people affected while consuming the higher choline diet contrast to the period of time when the participants were eating the diet with less than 50 mg of choline per day. During the period of the low-choline diet, either muscle damage or fatty liver were reported in 77 percent of the men, and in 80 percent of the postmenopausal and 44 percent of the premenopausal women.

These results suggest that a review of the “Adequate Intake” levels of choline may be due, and the amount of choline recommended per day may soon increase. The researchers note that the health issues were not permanent. The people who had the health problems were able to correct them when they slowly added choline back into their regular diet.

What exactly is this nutrient that is so important to liver health? Choline is in the B-vitamin family. One of the most important functions of Choline is to be turned into both Phosphatidylcholine (PS) and Acetylcholine by the body. PS is essential for normal brain function, and proper liver health and function. Acetylcholine is important for normal brain development in infants, and for conduction of nerve signals and brain function in adults. Researchers have concluded that during pregnancy, the Choline intake of the mother can influence memory and brain development in the growing infant. For this reason, the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences has recommended that pregnant and nursing women increase their intake of Choline.

- Halliday, Jess. “Choline Recommendations May Be Too Low, Study.” NutraIngredients USA.
    June 7, 2007. http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com
- Supplement Watch. Supplement Library: “Choline.” http://www.supplementwatch.com/
- Physician’s Desk Reference for Nutritional Supplements: First Edition. “Choline.” Page 90-93.

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Doctor’s Orders: Take Your Supplements

Does your doctor take nutritional supplements? The answer may surprise you. The stereotype says that doctors completely disregard nutritional supplements, and instead place their faith in ”mainstream medicine.” It turns out that the number of physicians and nurses who take dietary supplements is higher than the number of average Americans who take supplements.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a trade association representing ingredient suppliers and manufacturers in the dietary supplement industry, conducted a survey of health care professionals, “to determine the personal attitudes toward dietary supplements of those people working in healthcare and how this impacts whether or not they recommend supplements to their patients.”

The survey results showed that, contrary to the stereotype, 89 percent of nurses, and 72 percent of physicians take dietary supplements, while only 68 percent of Americans overall take dietary supplements. Of the doctors taking supplements, 85 percent of them recommend supplements to their patients. What the survey also discovered is that even physicians who do not take supplements are comfortable talking about supplements with their patients. Of the 28 percent of physicians who do not take dietary supplements, 62 percent recommend supplements to their patients.

This last bit of news, while extremely positive, is rather surprising. What could be causing so many physicians who do not take supplements to recommend them to their patients? One theory is that the physicians are recommending patients take supplements for specific conditions (such as glucosamine for arthritis, or calcium for osteoporosis), while the doctors themselves do not suffer that condition.

The data from this survey suggests that physicians are following the recommendations from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which in 2002 began recommending that everyone, regardless of age or health status, take a daily multivitamin. The American Medical Association’s recommendation was based on comparisons of many long term studies, which showed that vitamin deficiencies are strongly linked to a wide range of illnesses and diseases, such as cancer and coronary heart disease. The JAMA’s researchers concluded at the time that, “It’s rare to find a health-promoter that offers such a substantial benefit with a relatively low cost and low risk of problems, and when you have such a thing,  you ought to jump on it.” The most recent research seems to agree that Americans should “jump on it” and take their multivitamins to obtain the vitamins and minerals they are missing by not eating a healthy diet.

- Douaud, Clarisse. “Most Healthcare Professionals Take Supplements, Says CRN Survey.”
   NutraIngredients USA. November 15, 2007. http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com
- Vitamin Research Products. “Multivitamins Should be Taken By Everyone, According to AMA.”
   http://www.vrp.com/art/824.asp
- “About CRN.” Council for Responsible Nutrition Website. http://www.crnusa.org/

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