Interactions Between Drugs and Natural Medicines 2nd Edition; What the Physician & Pharmacist must know about Vitamins, Minerals, Foods and Herbs

Book Description Currently, there is very little information regarding how over-the-counter and prescription drugs interact with dietary and herbal supplements. This book emerged out of a great necessity to have factual knowledge concerning nutritional & herbal therapies and how they interact with drugs. The information in this book started as notes for Dr. Meletis’ pharmacology…

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Natural Approaches to Mitigating Hypertension*

Hypertension is one of the greatest health care problems facing today’s world with 50 million North Americans suffering from this often-silent killer. Elevated blood pressure is a known risk factor for heart attacks and strokes along with excess wear and tear throughout the body and hypertension is the foremost cause of unexpected death. Hypertension also contributes to comorbidity in individuals with…

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Natural Supports for Gaining and Maintaining Muscle Mass*

Chris D. Meletis, N.D., and Nieske Zabriskie, N.D. Muscle-building research is useful for athletes and bodybuilders as well as for elderly patients and those with muscle-wasting conditions. Research shows that a healthy diet, resistance exercise, and nutritional supplements are beneficial for improving body composition and the body of research on nutritional supplements for athletes is growing. However, supplementation will…

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Therapeutic Enzymes*

Using the Body’s Helpers as Healers Chris D. Meletis, N.D., and Jason E. Barker, N.D Enzyme therapies are becoming more prevalent in medicine today, with many manufacturers targeting their advantages in disease treatment. In the last 100 year s, enzymes have been increasingly used to treat various diseases. Early observations of Bacillus pyocyaneus revealed that its secretions could…

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Synergy in Nutrients*

Chris D. Meletis, N.D., and Jason E. Barker, N.D. Natural medicine had its beginnings in the use of whole foods at the outset of human history. Prior to the advent of modern encapsulated natural medicine, our ancestors utilized medicines in their natural states without improvements (other than by increasing supply and storage). A central tenet of natural medicine is that…

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