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Selenium Human females should do
as well, but they don't. We go out of our way to
supply selenium to cattle, particularly in geographical regions that have
selenium-poor soil ( Women with endometriosis,
on the other hand, mean economic success for all the many, many systems we
have to capitalize on their sickness. Doctors, nurses, support staff,
surgeons, hospitals, administrators, HMO's, insurance companies,
pharmaceutical manufacturers, drug salespeople, and lots of others' jobs
depend on people being unwell. The uterus has always been irresistible
to money-medicine, and, with an estimated half a million unnecessary
hysterectomies annually, I would say that little has changed. The secret to
endometriosis is to see it for what it is: an end result of malnutrition. Farmers see this.
Physicians do not. Cows are raw food
vegetarians who obtain their minerals from grains, leafy greens, and smart
dairymen who provide mineral supplements preventively. Physicians and
their ilk try to treat endometriosis 1) after it has occurred and 2) with
drugs. Endometriosis is not due to a drug deficiency. The secret to this
disease is found in the barnyard.
Selenium is probably
important in stopping endometriosis because this important trace mineral
works so closely with vitamin E. Vitamin E has been known to ensure
that animals have healthy uterine linings since the 1930's. There is a
research trail on this as long as your arm. Therefore, supplementing
the diet of a human female with (natural) vitamin E, 400 to 1,000 IU daily (Balch, 1990, p 167), plus 100-200 micrograms (mcg) of
selenium, is a good move. Folate (folic acid) Folate, once known as
vitamin B - 9, is named after the dark green leafy vegetables it was first
extracted from. "Folium" is Latin for leaf. Folic acid
contains three parts: pteroic acid glutamic acid,
and para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA). Folate is an
important coenzyme in your body which helps to move carbon units about, and
is necessary for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing purines
and pyrimidines, which are essential for the
synthesis of nucleotides... which make up your RNA and DNA. Folate is
also necessary for making the heme (the iron-containing, nonprotein
part of hemoglobin) for your red blood cells Too little folate causes
nutritional megoblastic anemia (that's large,
immature red blood cells that can't carry oxygen well). This is especially
important during growth situations, such as pregnancy, infancy and childhood. Cows get plenty of folate
because they eat plenty of foliage (green leafy stuff, like grass). They are
also blissfully free from a silent folate-stealer: the birth control
pill. Oral contraceptives dramatically increase (at least double) the
need for folic acid in women. Disease in general increases need for folic
acid. Adolescent girls in
particular are likely to have folic acid deficiencies (Williams, 6th, p 245)
Why? Because food sources of folate are often quite unpopular. They
are: 1. green
leafy vegetables (Teens LOVE these. Not.)
It is likely that, during
the pre-adult growth period when they need it most, teenagers are not getting
adequate dietary folic acid. Female teenagers reaching menarche (beginning of
menstruation) are therefore malnourished. Folate undernutrition
is probably a factor in endometriosis. Other nutrients that James F. Balch, M.D. recommends for
endometriosis include vitamin C in quantity, the vitamin B-complex, essential
fatty acids (found in lecithin or primrose oil), iron, iodine, calcium, and
magnesium (Balch, p 167). His concise discussion of
endometriosis (pages 165-168) includes a discussion a theory that
endometriosis may actually be an "unrecognized congenital birth
defect." If this is true, surgical correction may be warranted. But
likewise if true, prevention must be emphasized. Since there is no question
whatsoever that malnutrition causes birth defects, dietary revision makes
sense. What is good for heifers is good for humans. I vote for
a bovine diet. Raspberry leaves are rich in magnesium and have a long tradition of uterine
usefulness. I have seen raspberry leaf tea reduce pregnancy problems
and delivery times in humans. We fed piles of raspberry leaves to our
rabbit, who rewarded us with ten young
practically while our backs were turned. This is a large litter even for a
rabbit. Pregnancy and
endometriosis are not in a cart-and-horse relationship: it is not known for certain
which one influences the other. But I think the less sure we are, the more we
should look to nature for our examples.
References: Williams, Sue R. (1989) Nutrition and
Diet Therapy, sixth edition. Copyright 2005, 2003 and
prior years by Andrew W. Saul. Andrew Saul is the author
of the books FIRE YOUR DOCTOR! How to be
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) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
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