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Vitamins can be used in two distinctly different ways:

1)  Correcting deficiencies. When a specific vitamin or mineral deficiency is indicated, the prescribed vitamins or minerals can correct the deficiency and cure the condition caused by the nutritional deficiencies.

2)  As Drugs. Many avant-garde practitioners around the world are now using vitamins in massive doses, doses that are far above the actual nutritional needs, in the treatment of all kinds of conditions of ill health. It has been found that in large doses many vitamins have a miraculous healing, stimulating and/or protective effect on a variety of body functions – an effect that is totally different from the usual vitamin activity as nutritional and metabolic catalysts.

Here are a few examples:

Vitamin С. You need 100 mg. to 200 mg. of vitamin С a day for the maintenance of normal, healthy functions of your body. But when you take the same vitamin in huge doses, we’ll say 5,000 to 10,000 mg. a day, it will assume totally different functions and can perform such miracles as:

•   Killing pathogenic bacteria, acting as a harmless antibiotic.

•   Preventing and curing colds and infections, having a natural antihistamine activity.

•   Effectively neutralizing various toxins in the system, being a most potent antitoxin.

•   Speeding healing processes in virtually every case of ill health.

•   Increasing sexual virility.

•   Preventing premature aging by strengthening the collagen, and preventing the degenerative processes.

Vitamin E. For normal, healthy functions of all your organs and glands you need, perhaps, 100IU of vitamin E a day (the official estimation is only 45 IU). But when you take large doses of vitamin E, such as 600 to 1,600 IU or even more, it assumes a drug-like role and can perform the following activity.

•   It markedly decreases the body’s need for oxygen.

•   It protects against the damaging effect of many environmental poison in air, water and food.

•   It saves lives in cases of atherosclerotic heart disease by dilating blood vessels and acting as an effective anti-thrombin.

•   It prevents scar tissue formation in burns, sores and post-operative healing.

•   It has a dramatic effect on the reproductive organs: prevents miscarriage, increases male and   female fertility and helps to restore male potency.

Vitamin A. The official recommended daily allowance is set at 4,000 U.S J. Units. But when taken in such large doses as 100,000 U.S.P. Units per day, vitamin A has been known to:

•   Cure many stubborn skin disorders.

•   Cure chronic infections and eye diseases.

•   Increase the body’s tolerance against poisons.

•   Prevent premature aging, particularly the aging processes of the skin.

Niacin. The official recommended allowance is set at 10 mg, but many doctors around the world have been using large doses of niacin (up to 25,000 mg.) to treat schizophrenia, actually achieving dramatic cures with this so-called mega-vitamin therapy.

These few examples show that vitamins can be used successfully in large doses instead of many commonly used drugs. While drugs are always toxic and have many undesirable side effects, vitamins are, as a rule, completely non-toxic and 100% safe.

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GENERAL HEALTH

How shall elders live in the years that are still ahead? Physical, mental, and emotional health will have to be taken into consideration, as we are dealing with whole individuals who cannot be taken apart. The cardinal rule for the old-timer regarding his habits of life is, “Make no abrupt changes.” In fact if he is doing reasonably well on the plan of life to which he has become accustomed, it is probably well for him to make no change at all. Only when there is evidence of a clear and present danger in what he is doing, as for example the man with progressively failing vision who still insists on driving his car, should we call a definite halt.

Even in the case of habits generally agreed to be harmful one must remember that more harm may result from a change in the plan of living than from the bad habit, despite which life has gone on pretty well.  If one follows the motto, moderation in all things, one can often rest assured that the continuation of a bad habit, but in moderation, will be the best solution of the problem. If an eighty-odd gentleman says that a few cigars a day is his greatest comfort, let him have them even though he has a cancer of the lip. A ninety-year-old woman was under my care for a cancer of the uterus. When the family found that she was taking cold morning tubs in December they stopped her.

I am vindictive enough to wish that I could have made things uncomfortable for the officious meddlers.

My friend climbed Mt. Washington on his eightieth birthday as he had done on every birthday for a half century. Oliver Hoxsie shoed horses until he was eighty and then quit because his wife was sick. He was dead in three months. Perhaps that was not cause and effect; perhaps it was. Consider the fat old man who cuts out his lifelong use of tobacco – and gets still fatter; or another fat one who cuts down so far on his diet that he becomes unhappy and depressed. All these and many such have happened, so beware.

What about exercise as a general proposition for the aging? It is a good thing if one can do it comfortably and without evidence of distress. What kind and how much varies with the taste and training of the individual. The man who is used to playing singles at tennis, and does so without apparent symptoms, had best keep it up. You may remember that the king of Sweden did it into his eighties. I imagine, though, that he did not try too hard for some of the distant shots. Although I have no statistics on which to base my opinion, my own guess is that the old man who keeps in training by a moderate amount of regular exercise is a better bet than his sedentary colleagues. The more we learn about the human body, the surer we are that it should be kept up and doing. If we do not use our muscles they suffer a loss of tone, we become less accurate in our use of these muscles, and our joints stiffen.

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