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THE NUTRI-SPEC LETTER
Volume 9 Number 9
From:
Guy R. Schenker, D.C.
September, 1998
Dear Doctor,
This month you are getting the completion of what could
be called your "NUTRI-SPEC SEMINAR LETTERS." In the last 19
issues of this letter, beginning in March of last year, we
have presented all the information that we like to present in
the second day of a NUTRI-SPEC seminar. Here is how the
NUTRI-SPEC seminars have been set up:
During the first half day we cover Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of "An
Analytical System Of Clinical Nutrition." That explains all
the key concepts of NUTRI-SPEC ...
- Objectivity in clinical testing
- Biological Individuality
- A patient-specific as opposed to a disease-specific approach
to clinical nutrition
- The specific metabolic effects of each nutrient.
The second half of day one is spent learning to perform
the test procedures, and then how to use the Quick Reference
Guide (QRG) protocol to determine your patient's metabolic
imbalances and the specific individualized supplementation and
dietary recommendations needed.
Day two of the seminar opens up with how to use your QRG
protocol to monitor your patients' progress visit to visit and
make the essential changes in their NUTRI-SPEC regimen as per
your objective findings. That leaves the remainder of day two
to explain each of the five fundamental metabolic balance
systems -- the physiology and biochemistry behind each, what
each means in terms of your patients' health, what symptoms
are likely to be associated, and how your NUTRI-SPEC
supplementation and dietary recommendation will correct that
imbalance.
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We then like to go beyond the general discussion of the
NUTRI-SPEC imbalances and cover important clinical topics that
are relevant to your daily practice such as:
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- asthma
- diabetes
- cardio vascular disease
- high cholesterol
- depression and anxiety
- various gastro intestinal symptoms
- pain control
These are the prime movers of your practice. In other
words, these are the conditions that bring people into your
office. These are also conditions that respond effectively
and, over the long term, only with an individualized patient-
specific approach to each of these conditions. With NUTRI-
SPEC you find that any one of these symptoms or conditions may
be expressed identically in two different people and yet have
entirely different and even opposite causes. That's what
NUTRI-SPEC is all about -- finding the fundamental metabolic
imbalance(s) in each patient that is causative in their
symptom or condition.
We make an attempt to cover all of this in the second day
of a seminar -- and guess what? We never give any where near
as much material as we would like to. It is with that in mind
that we did these last 19 issues of The NUTRI-SPEC Letter.
You have been given in these last 19 months a nice over-
view of each of the 10 metabolic imbalances. You have been
given a review of how to find each imbalance and how to fix
it. You have been given case histories illustrating the
tremendous impact you can have on biochemistry with the high
biological activity NUTRI-SPEC supplements at your disposal.
Along with an over-view of each of the imbalances we have gone
into some depth discussing the symptoms and conditions in
which you are most interested.
If you keep these last 19 Letters together as a package
they make a convenient review and a nice supplement to your
NUTRI-SPEC manual.
[If you would like us to send you this package of Letters
to review, we'll be happy to do so for only the 10 bucks it
costs us to put them together and ship them to you. Or --
we'll be happy to send them at no charge with your next order
of $200 or more.]
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We will complete the "seminar presentation" in this
letter by wrapping up some odds and ends.
The last three Letters emphasized the essentiality of the
NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet and gave an in-depth explanation
of how, with nothing more than this diet and Oxy B, you can
eliminate the cause of the vast majority of health problems.
This is achieved by the capacity of these simple dietary
recommendations to a) help each patient maintain glycemic
control, and to b) minimize free radical oxidation, while at
the same time c) providing all the macro and micro nutrients
needed to maintain health. You had it hammered into your head
that loss of glycemic control and excessive free radical
oxidation are the causes of premature aging and virtually all
degenerative diseases. What tremendous power you have to help
people with nothing more than these few simple dietary
recommendations.
There is one vital component of The NUTRI-SPEC
Fundamental Diet, however, that we omitted. Can you think
what it might be?
SUNLIGHT.
We closed last month's Letter by saying that as long as
your patient has not achieved glycemic control, nothing is
going to work. We further said that as long as your patient
is eating polyunsaturated oils, nothing is going to restore
vitality. Similarly, it can be said that as long as your
patient does not obtain the benefits of natural light in the
eyes, health will never be regained and maintained.
Do you have any patients suffering from depression or
anxiety? Chances are, inadequate light intake is a part of
the problem. Do you have any patients with osteoporosis?
They undoubtedly need more sunlight on their skin for vitamin
D, but even more importantly in their eyes to regulate the
hormonal and biochemical systems it controls -- related to
mineral metabolism in general and osteoblastic activity in
particular. Do you have any patients suffering from chronic
fatigue? Adequate sunlight can be an important part of
increasing their vitality. Do you know of any children (or
adults) with attention deficit disorder? This condition is
strongly correlated with unnatural light entering the eyes.
You see, when the light hits the optic nerve it is
carried to other parts of the brain in addition to the vision
centers. Particularly it is carried to the hypothalamus where
it is an essential nutrient to regulate hormone balance and
autonomic nerve balance.
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It has been shown beyond all doubt that the depression and
lethargy associated with seasonal affective disorder is
nothing more than inadequate natural light and/or excess
unnatural light. I think it is reasonable to conclude that
virtually all cases of depression and lethargy include some
element of "seasonal affective disorder." Think of the
millions of poor souls that are dependent upon Prozac and
other feel-good drugs just to make life tolerable. How many
of these people spend at least 22 out of 24 hours either in
darkness or in un-natural indoor lighting (not to mention the
hours spent in front of the TV or computer monitor)? Suppose
you get these people on the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet to
restore glycemic control. Are you going to have an impact on
their depression, anxiety, and lethargy? You betcha. Now,
suppose you also get this person to take their eyeballs for a
walk in the sunlight for a couple hours a day? You will have
lifted the dark cloud that surrounds them and distorts their
view of life.
One modern American sociological problem that
particularly irks me is that nearly three million children in
American public schools are now being given Ritalin, an
amphetamine, for a condition called Attention Deficit Disorder
(ADD). It seems that ADD can mean whatever you want it to
mean. In other words, any child who does not perform up to
either teacher or parental expectations (in other words is not
a perfectly model American socialist robot) is tagged with
this label and drugged into submission. (I find it amusing to
ponder how many of my elementary school teachers would have
wanted to put me on Ritalin, had it been available.)
Most of these children and their parents are never
informed that fully 25% of the children tagged ADD soon
develop the symptoms of manic depression, which requires
additional medication. Neither are they told that the very
common long-term side effect of Ritalin is bed wetting that
persists through the teen years and on into early adulthood,
many years after going off the drug.
Many of these children do have real problems. But
consider this -- how many of these children begin their day by
filling their belly with sugar, artificial flavors and
artificial colors? How many of them proceed to spend their
entire day under fluorescent lights or in front of a TV or a
computer monitor?
Upon NUTRI-SPEC testing the majority of these children
test as glucogenic with a strong sympathetic compensatory
response. What is happening here? They are all in a hypo-
glycemic crisis with a valiant attempt by their over-
stimulated sympathetic nervous system to maintain blood and
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brain sugar levels. These kids are therefore continuously
dealing with the neurological effects of crashing brain sugar
accompanied by the neurological effects of excess
catecholamines. Is it any wonder they cannot focus?
How is it that so many NUTRI-SPEC practitioners achieve
such success with ADD children? They do so only when they can
get parental compliance on the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet,
and, when they can get the parents to turn off the TV and kick
the kids out the door where they can get some sunlight.
Here is just one interesting study to illustrate the
amazing metabolic effects of natural light. This study was
done on hamsters and was concerned with the effect of a high
sugar diet on tooth decay.
The experiment was done in two phases. Phase one divided
the hamsters into two groups. One group was given their
normal diet; the other group was given a high sugar diet.
Guess what happened? The high sugar hamsters developed a lot
of rotten teeth. No surprise. In the second phase of the
experiment they divided hamsters into two groups and gave both
groups the high sugar diet. The difference was they put one
group in natural light and the other group in fluorescent
lighting. Guess what happened? The hamsters in the unnatural
light developed five times as many caries as the sugar eating
hamsters in natural light.
So -- let me ask you, is sunlight an essential part of
the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet? Absolutely. Advise your
patients accordingly.
There is one other component of your NUTRI-SPEC
Fundamental Diet that it seems requires further elaboration.
That is the proper place for meat in the diet. We talk
repeatedly about the importance of meat, fish, poultry, eggs
and so forth in the NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental Diet. We talk
about it so much that many of you have concluded that
NUTRI-SPEC recommends a "high protein diet." Nothing could be
further from the truth. In fact, the amount of animal protein
we recommend is probably less than a lot of your patients are
presently eating. Furthermore, The NUTRI-SPEC Fundamental
Diet -- as the foundation from which your specific dietary
recommendations are put together for each patient -- allows
flexibility in the amount of animal foods eaten. The
requisite 3 ounces of meat, fish, or poultry can be considered
a minimum for your glucogenic and parasympathetic patients,
and a maximum for your ketogenic and sympathetic patients.
That is about the level at which experience shows that
everyone can maintain glycemic control.
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You also know that it is not the protein in the meat so
much as it is the saturated fat that is important. Yes, the
protein is important for reversing excess catabolic effects in
the body. It is also essential because of its specific
dynamic effect by which it accelerates metabolism 30% compared
to the same number of calories consumed as carbohydrate.
Nevertheless, it is the saturated fats in the meat, fish,
poultry, and especially eggs that are so critical -- for all
the reasons discussed in the last few Letters.
Furthermore, meat is a very high nutrient density food
and the only source of trace minerals in our diet since
livestock is supplemented with trace minerals that have been
depleted from our soils and therefore are not obtained from
any vegetable source foods.
So -- if meat is a high nutrient density food that helps
us maintain glycemic control and prevents excess catabolism in
our body as well as giving us the saturated fats we need to
maintain youthful vitality of our brain, skin, and other
tissues -- are there any problems with eating meat? The
answer is yes and no.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH EATING MEAT,
BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE MEAT WE EAT.
There are three potential sources of problems when eating
meat:
1. The meat is over-cooked.
2. The meat is processed and thus contains nitrites,
monosodium glutamate and all manner of other chemical
garbage.
3. The meat contains polyunsaturated fat.
A brief explanation of each of these three points: First,
cooking meat de-natures the proteins. The temperatures used
in cooking (and microwaving) cause the nitrogen to be split
off from the protein, thus totally destroying the amino acid.
The essential amino acid methionine is particularly heat
labile. Two other important amino acids which are largely
destroyed at cooking temperatures are glutamine and taurine.
These amino acids are critical to so many metabolic processes.
The bad news associated with cooking does not stop with
protein destruction. The other thing that happens when you
cook meat is that the fatty acids are split off into free
fatty acids. The fatty acids are then further de-natured by
undergoing cys trans isomerism, such that the natural cys
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isomer of the fatty acid is converted into the unnatural
deadly trans isomer. This change in the fatty acid structure
of the meat creates a tremendous amount of free radical
oxidative tissue destruction in the body.
You must advise your patients to decrease the cooking
time of their meat.
The second potential problem that comes from meat is that
a lot of meat has been adulterated by the food processing
industry and includes particularly the toxic nitrites and
monosodium glutamate. These could be a discussion that would
take up an entire Letter. Suffice it to say for now that
everyone is better off to minimize the amount of sausage,
bacon, luncheon meats, and canned meats that they eat. Stick
to fresh, natural meat.
The third and final consideration with respect to meat
has to do with the type of fat in meat. The common wisdom of
our day (which we all know is a lot of bunk) would have us
avoid meat because it is high in saturated fat. We at NUTRI-
SPEC know that quite the opposite is true. That is the number
one reason why we should eat meat. It is saturated fats that
are healthful and polyunsaturated fats that are deadly.
It turns out, however, that the fat in meat is a problem
precisely because so much of it is polyunsaturated.
Polyunsaturated fats in meat? Yes. As you probably know,
Agri Business raises meat, fish and poultry by force feeding
animals to fatten them in a hurry. And, their feed consists
largely of soy and corn. Soy and corn are loaded with soy oil
and corn oil. So as a result, much of the fat in meat and
poultry (as much as 30% or more) consists of rotten deadly
polyunsaturated corn and soy oil -- precisely the oils that we
have made such a point to avoid.
So, what do you do when a patient begins the NUTRI-SPEC
Fundamental Diet and claims they do not feel well eating "so
much meat?" As long as the patient is eating the amount of
meat, fish and poultry recommended in the NUTRI-SPEC
Fundamental Diet (including the additional quantitative
considerations associated with any Glucogenic/Ketogenic or
Sympathetic/Parasympathetic tendency they have), the reason
for not thriving on the indicated quantity of meat almost
certainly relates to the three problems described above.
Since we are limited in what we can do about the excess
polyunsaturated fats in our meat, all we can do is be certain
that our patients minimize the amount of cooking time and
minimize the quantity of processed meats. This will eliminate
most patient reactions that may appear to be a reaction to
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meat per se but which are actually a reaction to the
adulteration of meat by cooking or processing.
You now know everything you need know to maximize the
dietary component of healthful living for yourself, your
family, and all your patients. Add to that the knowledge from
the total over-view in the last 19 months of your NUTRI-SPEC
patient-specific objective approach to clinical nutrition --
and there is no symptom or condition whose nutritional
component you cannot correct.
Sincerely,
Guy R. Schenker, D.C.
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