Here that Dr. Strand has to say about him.
Hello. I am the Dr. Ray Strand , a GP who has practiced medicine for over 23 years. My firm, established in a rural community in the Midwest, keeps me busy, but I love my patients and I completely devoted my professional lives to protect their health.
Most of my colleagues focus their efforts solely to the fight against disease and neglect, or do not have time to consider preventive medicine and nutrition. Although I am always interested in preventive medicine, I was once lukewarm regarding nutrition. Over the years, many patients have asked me whether they should take a nutritional supplement. My answer was always the same: "If you eat healthy foods and varied, nutritional supplements are not necessary." There are some
years, articles discussing the "free radicals" and their role in degenerative diseases began appearing in medical journals. At first, thinking that the subject does little concerned with general medicine, I have little interest in these items. However, during the past year, experts in preventive medicine, including Dr. Kenneth Cooper, who launched the aerobics movement some twenty years ago, have spoken on this subject. In a recently published book, The Antioxidant Revolution, Dr. Cooper lists systematically the evidence which enabled de conclure que les suppléments d'antioxydants peuvent profiter à tout le monde. Cette déclaration courageuse, provenant d'un médecin très respecté dans la communauté médicale, a été le catalyseur de ma passion pour la nutrition et le point de départ de mes recherches dans ce domaine.
Que sont les «radicaux libres» et quel rôle jouent-ils dans les maladies dégénératives? Il est important de répondre à ces questions si nous désirons comprendre l'utilité des suppléments nutritionnels.
Les radicaux libres sont produits par les fonctions métaboliques normales du corps lorsque les cellules extraient l'énergie des aliments. Il existe plusieurs types of free radicals, but all are composed of molecules containing one unpaired electron in its orbit extreme. Each of these stray molecules endowed with a negative charge seeks another molecule with which it can be combined. Particularly volatile and active, these molecules are in constant collision with other particles and tissues. Chemical experiments have shown that collisions of these particles sometimes produce a spark of light. Free radicals are not always harmful, in fact, they allow the body to control smooth muscle tone, combat inflammation and fight against bacteria. However, the beneficial operation of free radicals depends on a delicate balance that can be destroyed by many factors, including pollutants in the air we breathe and the water and the food we eat. The ultraviolet rays of the sun, other radiation, tobacco smoke, excessive exercise and stress are also factors that greatly increase the presence of free radicals in our system. It has been shown that excess free radicals can damage cells and even the DNA structure of cells.
The body produces antioxidants that are able to neutralize the radicals Free and render them harmless. However, in our modern environment, the body can not produce all the antioxidants it needs, and our diet should compensate for that deficiency. Additional antioxidants are primarily vitamins C, vitamin E and beta carotene. When the body is unable to neutralize free radicals, they will give heart to joy in the tissues. The damage they cause is the cause of many degenerative diseases that can shorten life. Serious medical studies indicate that these molecules play an important role in the initial phase of cancer, arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the arteries), cataracts, premature aging, Parkinson's disease and other conditions too numerous to enumerate.
Research by Dr. Lester Packer, a biochemist at the University of California at Berkeley, demonstrated that free radicals pose a serious threat to health. Dr. Packer makes us particularly cautioned against the hydroxyl radical, a particularly volatile which is one of the main agents of the initial phase of cancer development. Free radicals attack the cell nucleus and damage DNA, which can cause mutation of cells and the development of cancerous tumors. Considering the
coronary artery disease, Dr. Daniel Steinberg, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego, suggests that the oxidation (the combination of free radical compound with cholesterol of low density lipoprotein or "bad cholesterol ") is responsible for the obliteration and hardening of the arteries. Gradually, as new research suggests a link between free radicals, the bad cholesterol and atherosclerosis, this position is increasingly accepted by the great names of medicine. It has been shown that antioxidants, particularly Vitamin C may reduce the rate of cholesterol consists of low density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol) while increasing the rate of cholesterol consists of high density lipoprotein (good cholesterol).
Other research has shown that cancer and coronary artery disease are less common among people whose system has a high level of antioxidants. For my part, these studies indicate an undeniable relationship between free radicals and degenerative diseases that can shorten life. They also convinced me that antioxidants, when their level is adequate, peuvent protéger nos tissus contre l'action délétère des radicaux libres et les ravages qu'ils peuvent causer à notre santé. Il est maintenant reconnu que le taux d'antioxydants requis par le corps humain est plus élevé que nous le pensions dans le passé.
Il est également démontré que l'excès des radicaux libres affaiblit notre système immunitaire et nous rend vulnérables à toutes sortes d infections. Certaines évidences semblent aussi indiquer que les radicaux libres peuvent causer la lassitude, les douleurs musculaires, la perte de concentration intellectuelle et un sentiment général de mauvaise santé. Cette condition est si fréquente que j'ai pris l'habitude to call it "immune suppression". I frequently see people who complain of a vague feeling of ill health, they can not identify a particular pain or discomfort but they know that their physical condition deteriorated. Generally, after the medical questionnaire, physical examination and the necessary battery of tests, everything seems normal and no disease can be identified. The condition of these people is usually attributed to depression or any psychosomatic disorder, but because of my research on the effect of free radicals, I suspect more and more these symptoms are phase initial damage by free radicals.
In recent years, the results of numerous studies on nutrition and the state of public health have been published. There are about two years of very serious research indicated that approximately 300.000 annual cardiac disorders are caused by magnesium deficiency in the United States. Thanks to the awareness raised by this research, cardiologists automatically check the magnesium level of patients visiting their practice or cardiology department. Last summer, Dr. Jacob Selhub, professor at Tufts University in Boston, published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that about 20% of heart attacks and strokes are caused by a deficiency of folic acid. Other researchers go even further and assign 30 to 40% of heart attacks and strokes suffered from attacks by the Americans for that deficiency. Dr. Selhub mentions in his article that his research tests were rerun more than 30 times by other researchers who have all reached the same conclusions.
Having myself studied the results of this research, I asked two questions: 1) Why in North America (the attic the world), we suffer so many nutritional deficiencies? "and 2)" Why the medical need to obtain the same result more than 30 times before informing the public? "If this research had been to the testing a new drug to treat ulcers, the public got wind of it before the conclusion of the second experiment!
As I mentioned earlier, for years I believed firmly that it was enough to eat a healthy and varied food and nutritional supplements were not necessary. Unfortunately, because of soil depletion and intensive treatment of all our food support this view is more correct now. Food preservation has made great strides, but these advances were made at a price: medical experiments have clearly demonstrated that the nutritional value of food in already poor when we buy them, is further reduced when we prepare .
It is daily becoming more and more evident that people are now exposed to more pollutants, drugs and physical and emotional stress that in the past. In addition, physicians are recognizing that with age the body absorbs less of antioxidants and uses them less efficiently. This is one des raisons qui font que les personnes âgées meurent plutôt de maladies dégénératives que de vieillesse. Ces observations ont convaincu beaucoup de docteurs qui, comme moi, recommandent maintenant des suppléments nutritionnels à leurs patients.
Mes recherches auraient pu s'arrêter à ce stade mais je voulais aussi trouver des suppléments que je pouvais recommander avec confiance à mes patients. Il y a environ un an, ma femme et moi suivions un programme de nutrition et d'exercice. Un supplément nutritionnel bien connu nous avait été recommandé. Bien que ma femme ait toujours été active, elle n'avait jamais suivi un programme d'exercice régulier; ce programme représentait So a change of lifestyle important. Despite a healthy diet and supplements she took, she began to suffer from various minor illnesses of viral origin. In early April, she became suddenly very ill, the victim of a bad pneumonia. This disease was the most serious condition of his life. The experts we consulted were concerned the need for surgery to remove a lobe of her lung! The disease was finally defeated by massive doses of antibiotics and respiratory therapy but was replaced by a chronic asthmatic condition which required therapy continuous respiratory, antibiotics and oral steroid use. Incapable of any sustained physical activity, my wife could not work for two hours and then had to rest. This depressing situation for each of us has dragged on for three long months.
One day my wife told me that one of our friends had suffered similar problems after it acquired pneumonia during the winter, but with nutritional supplements that her sister was sent to Idaho, he had handed in within 10 days. My wife then suggested to try these remarkable supplements. Short resources, I told him that she had nothing to lose because we did not get a positive result so far. Received immediately, my wife took the key USANA Proflavanol, and Fibergy Nutrimeal. After three days she was feeling better and after a while it was restored and had stopped taking his medication.
After seeing the amazing results that my wife had obtained using the USANA products, I was eager to try them personally. For a year I suffered from degeneration of the retina. Two ophthalmologists and a neurologist examined me in vain and taches flottantes commençaient à sérieusement gêner ma vision. Deux semaines après avoir commencé à utiliser les essentiels USANA et Proflavanol, ma vision est revenue à 20/10 et les taches flottantes ont commencé à disparaître. À l'heure actuelle, j'estime que 70% de ces taches ont disparu et je remarque que mon niveau d'énergie et ma concentration mentale se sont considérablement améliorés. Deux mois plus tard, j'ai été atteint d'une éruption de zona sur la poitrine. Tout d'abord déprimé d'avoir contracté cette infection virale souvent très douloureuse, je me suis aperçu que mon système immunitaire fonctionnait bien puisque la douleur était supportable et que l'éruption était limitée à quelques centimètres carrés.J'avais observé, au cours de mes vingt-trois années d'exercice de la médecine, que la santé de mes patients s'améliorait parfois lorsqu' ils prenaient des suppléments nutritionnels, mais jamais de façon aussi remarquable. J'ai alors décidé d'évaluer les suppléments USANA et d'essayer de comprendre pourquoi ces produits nous avaient fait tant de bien. La première chose que j'ai découverte, c'est que USANA avait été fondé par le Dr. Myron Wentz , un immunologue et spécialiste de la culture des cellules. En tant que médecin je suis familier with several tests that it has developed Gull Laboratories, including the famous test for the Epstein-Barr virus. Because the diagnosis of a disease is generally easier to develop than the treatment of that disease, Dr. Wentz has understood the importance of developing products that enhance the immune system and allow the patient to be less vulnerable to infections and degenerative diseases. Dr. Wentz has fully exploited its expertise in the complex field of nutrition for cells to develop nutritional supplements without equal in the marketplace.
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