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Book Report

Nutrients-the New Treatment of Choice

Alternative Medicine Magazine

Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution-Nature's Answer to Drugs

For more than 25 years, New York physician Robert C. Atkins, M.D., has been treating patients with dietary therapy and nutritional supplements. Through his six previous best-selling books on health and diet, his radio shows, and his popular monthly newsletter (Dr. Atkins' Health Revelations), Dr. Atkins has been in the forefront of alternative medicine in the U.S.

His belief in the subject is grounded firmly on the excellent clinical results he's observed in more than 60,000 patients over the years at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. In fact, with 80 staffers and an eight-floor facility in downtown New York City, Dr. Atkins runs one of the largest alternative medicine clinics in the U.S. Now he's put all his medical knowledge together in a single, comprehensive reference work, Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs.

Whether it's headache or hypertension, diarrhea or diabetes, Dr. Atkins says he would "match a vita-nutrient solution against a combination of pharmaceuticals any day." Vita-nutrients is Dr. Atkins' term for nutritional substances, in foods, supplements or herbs, which are filled with life-force energy and vitality and that support life. The majority of modern illnesses, especially the chronic, degenerative ones such as cancer, heart disease, and arthritis, are diet-related disorders, says Dr. Atkins. People are nutrient starved, and their bodies register this deficiency through a variety of illnesses.

While dispensing nutritional supplements is not in itself new, it's the emphasis that has changed. The use of vita-nutrients in clinical practice is gaining increasing acceptance. "What is new now is that medical science itself, through research and experiment, is beginning to legitimize the nonpharmaceutical prescriptions used for so long by progressive health practitioners," Dr. Atkins explains.

The use of nutritional supplements, either through doctor prescription or self-prescribing, satisfies the classical adage of medical education, he says. The treatment of choice should be the therapy that gives the highest benefit-to-risk ratio; it should have a healing effect on the illness and produce a minimum of side effects. That's why Dr. Atkins concludes that "virtually all patients would be far better off with nutritional supplements."

His new book puts the practice (and rationale) of using vita-nutrients firmly in the hands of the lay prescriber. Dr. Atkins devotes some 200 pages of his book to a concise summary of the clinically demonstrated benefits and supplementation guidelines for about 125 substances, based on over 3,000 research studies and his own clinical experience.

Some are familiar nutrients-vitamin B1, "the brain energizer," and zinc, "the immune booster"-with new research only bolstering their already public reputation. But other substances, such as cetyl myristoleate ("the real arthritis cure"), phosphatidylserine ("the smart nutrient"), and NADH ("the cell energizer"), are less well known to most readers.

Still others are old standbys with new (or newly remembered) uses, such as charcoal, "the poison absorber." Charcoal, available as tablets or capsules, is an excellent emergency treatment for food poisoning, especially when mixed with 2-4 drops of oregano oil, says Dr. Atkins; it can also help relieve gas and bloating, but it's best not to take it as an everyday supplement because, in excess, it can absorb nutrients in the intestines and pull them out of the body.

Herbs, or what Dr. Atkins calls "Nature's pharmacy," have their place in the vita-nutrient program, too. Some herbs have multiple purposes (ginseng, aloe vera, licorice), others aid the immune system (mistletoe, astragalus), or fight infection (echinacea, goldenseal, tea tree oil), and some address male health problems (saw palmetto, Pygeum africanum) while others work for women's conditions (black cohosh, Mexican yam, vitex).

Dr. Atkins rounds out his book with "individualized vita-nutrient treatment 'protocols'" for about 45 different self-treatable conditions, from high blood pressure to ulcers, low libido to PMS. "Nutrients are not only safer than drugs; they are natural to the body," says Dr. Atkins. "Our bodies are geared to handle nutrients because they belong there." And they belong in America's health-care system, too, front and foremost, adds Dr. Atkins. "I hope you will agree with me that vita-nutrients can and should replace pharmaceuticals."