Reviews | 7 |
From the author. | 9 |
Acknowledgments. | 11 |
Introduction. | 12 |
What medicine is, and what it should be. | 14 |
Treating the symptoms—but what about the cause? | 21 |
Treating illness or causing greater problems? | 23 |
Is the pharmaceutical industry the culprit? | 25 |
Will PubMed (Medline) tell you the truth? | 28 |
The immune system. | 29 |
Vitamin C. | 31 |
How much vitamin C do we need? | 32 |
Two mechanisms for maintaining vitamin C levels in the body. | 32 |
How long does vitamin C survive in the body?. | 32 |
Vitamin C removes heavy metals. | 35 |
The myth of vitamin C toxicity. | 35 |
Vitamin C and kidney stones. | 37 |
Other side effects. | 38 |
The pharmacokinetics of vitamin C (for interested readers only). | 40 |
Intravenous vitamin C. | 41 |
Vitamin C and cancer. | 48 |
Vitamin C and chemotherapy. | 51 |
The naysayers. | 55 |
Vitamin D: Facts and myths. | 58 |
Vitamin D in the prevention of chronic diseases and cancer. | 59 |
The myth of vitamin D toxicity. | 61 |
Types of vitamin D. | 64 |
How safe is vitamin D from the sun?. | 64 |
Osteoporosis and the unknown side of vitamin K2. | 70 |
Types of vitamin K2: MK-4 and MK-7. | 83 |
Vitamin K2: The MK-4 form. | 84 |
Vitamin A: What we don’t know about it. | 93 |
The unknown vitamin E. | 99 |
Vitamin E: Cholesterol and cancer. | 101 |
Minerals: Their significance for human health. | 107 |
Iodine and thyroid disease: A disgrace of modern medicine. | 109 |
Iodine: Safe and unsafe forms. | 109 |
Iodine and the treatment of “incurable” thyroid disease. | 112 |
The “Wolff–Chaikoff Effect” and its hold over modern medicine. | 117 |
Thyroid therapy: The great step backwards of modern medicine. | 118 |
The influence of iodine on the endocrine system ... and more. | 121 |
The simple but little-known side of fat. | 124 |
The myths of essential unsaturated fatty acids debunked. | 126 |
Primary and derivative essential unsaturated fatty acids. | 127 |
The unknown role of primary omega-3 and omega-6 fats: Which is better?. | 131 |
Conclusion. | 133 |
What next? | 136 |