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I apologize if this seems a bit off topic in this group, but I believe 
you�ll find it well worth the bandwidth:

New Approaches To Nutrition:
New Technologies In Supplement Development

an article by Dr. Craig Werner, D.C.


Much of the nutritional supplementation doctors have offered
their patients is the "Same Stuff" made by different companies.
Oh, one may have more minerals to improve its action, or fewer
"Artificial" ingredients, but the truth be told, most of them are
the same products in different wrappers.

Now, along has come a company with a whole new approach, which
is the result of a new patented technology focusing on helping the
body "Fire Up" its ability to produce its own needed chemicals,
rather than introducing new/strange ones from the outside.  Let's
peek at some of the pathways involved in the body "maintaining
itself".

With all the notariety about DHEA (sometimes called "The
Mother Hormone") and its fat-burning, age-reversing effects, I
doubt if anyone reading this article has escaped the media parade
that has surrounded the recent findings about this natural
molecule.  For those who don't remember your Term II chemistry,
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is the intermediate step between
Pregnenolone and Androstenedione in the
Estradiol/Testosterone/Estrone pathway.  But it is not involved in
the Progesterone/Cortisol
(hydrocortisone)/Cortisone/Corticosterone/Aldosterone pathway (the
body's own natual anti-inflammatory substances).  In other words,
it promotes production of the sex hormones but not of the
mineralocorticoid, aldosterone, which accounts for 95% or more of
mineralocorticoid activity. (*1) So, by it's use, you are
supporting or enabling one side of the basic hormonal cellular
cholesterol pathway, but not the other.  Secondly, administration
of DHEA produces a variety of side effects, none of which are
particularly pleasant.

Recently, there has been significant research on a food
product called "Wild Yam" or "Mexican Yam" (Dioscorea) which
contains a precursor molecule which is chemically, so close to the
natural molecular structure of the beginning molecule present in
these pathways in the body, that it may be perceived as the same by
the body. The value of this food, when used as a metabolic
supplement, has previously been difficult to regulate, since
previous oral preparations of wild yam have not delivered the most
valuable nutrients in a stabilized, consistant form.

A Texas company has developed a method of extracting,
concentrating and encapsulating Dioscorea with a 10:1 concentration
of the extract and a standardized level of several hormonal
precursors, as well as the stabilized, active molecule from the
aloe vera plant.  (High pressure liquid chromatography [HPLC]
demonstrates retention of 91.5% of the mucilaginous polysaccharides
which are present in fresh aloe, after processing) (*2) This
combination seems to make the precursor molecules more bioavailable
and, therefore, more active in human physiology.  The upshot of
this development is that use of this concentrated food product
which provides medicinal-type effects, stimulates both hormonal
pathways, allowing the body to "choose and use" which of them it
needs more.  By providing the precursors in quantity, and in
standardized, stable dosages, the hormone production system is
enabled and potentiated.

Since these products display 'medicinal' properties, they
don't fall under the usual FDA description of "Nutritional
Supplements".  Since they are not "Pharmaceutical" products,
neither can they be placed under that classification by the FDA.
Because of this seemingly 'in-between' position such products
occupy, in October of this year, (as a result of the Hatch-Harkins
bill) the FDA is preparing to open a new classification:
Nutraceuticals.

What does this mean to you?  Since most persons over the age
of 20 are (at the very least, minimally) deficient in endocrine
function(*3), to be able to stimulate the natural production
pathways through administration of a 'Nutraceutical' food product
should provide dramatic improvement, over a period of time, in the
functions controlled or influenced by those hormones.

i.e.:
Weight management
Metabolism and energy levels
Aging processes
Menstrual difficulties and PMS
Tissue Healing Process
Diabetes/Sugar metabolism
Autoimmune diseases
Arterio/atherosclerosis
Menopausal symptoms
Inflammatory diseases

...and so many more


One of the most startling findings has been the role that
hormones play in the prevention of nerve diseases.  Progesterone
has been found, in animal studies, to promote the formation of
myelin, surrounding the nerve axons.  In the June 1995 Journal of
Science, findings published suggest that for some diseases that
result in the loss of myelin (M.S. and A.L.S. come to mind),
hormonal therapy may be developed.(*4)

What a healthcare leap; to have 'Food Source' (Nutraceutical)
products that actually assist the body in healing, in a way we've
never been able to do before; by stimulating the body's own
endocrine pathways.

References available on request.

For more information on cellular hormonal production
stimulation therapy that you can use and give to your family, or
for doctors who would like to be able to offer this "Cutting Edge"
therapy to their patients, contact Dr. Werner at dadoc@maui.net.
http://www.maui.net/~dadoc/mana.html