Health Theory Development

HEALTH THEORY DEVELOPMENT is an important concept to nail down. It reveals why it is not only very difficult to construct and prove vitamin theories, but that this is an arena that lends itself to widespread fraudulent studies.  

Analytical applications for Developing New Vitamin Health Theories

      Flaws in understanding human physiology perpetuate faulty vitamin function theories leading to incorrect research results plus mistakes in vitamin forms and dosages.

    Here are bullet examples of these FALSE premises (simply not true):

• Water soluble B vitamins are safe because in excess they are flushed out of the body 
  • Excess Vitamin B6 nerve damage (also with deficiency too)
  • Excess Vitamin B6 on increased diuretic action leading to water elimination, dehydration
  • Excess Folic acid on reduction of killer cell activity and cancer acceleration
  • Excess Folic acid with low vitamin B12 on impairment of cognitive functions
  • Excess vitamin B1 on cancer cell multiplication and promotion                                           
• That excess anti-oxidants would prevent disease by limiting free radical damage  
  • Excess anti-oxidants limit positive functions for some radicals 
  • Excess of some anti-oxidants turn around their actions into pro-oxidants instead
• Taking extra vitamins always increases their function or activity 
  • Vitamins and minerals have a range of intakes that is optimal
  • Both too low as well as too high can generate detrimental effects
• Only the most active one of the 8 member vitamin E family is necessary or given vitamin E units 
  • Vitamin E is a family of 8 related forms, 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols, alpha, beta, delta & gamma
  • While d'alpha tocopherol remains active the longest, the other 7 members have unique functions that d'alpha tocopherol does not perform, I.E. cholesterol reduction, dementia protection, cancer influence, nitrous oxide breakdown 
• Natural and synthetic vitamins are the same 
  • See this article for discussion why this statement is false
• The body has elaborate mechanisms to balance mineral levels so maintaining dietary ratios is not important 
  • Balance and ratio of minerals is corrected and maintained by the Kidneys
  • Minerals control pH, or acid & alkaline balance
  • This balance uses up energy and minerals in this process
  • This mineral balance activity takes them away from other important functions, like bone density
  • 2 cellular mineral pumps control balance of minerals within cells, the sodium/potassium and the calcium/magnesium pumps
  • These pumps and the mineral exchanges are necessary for muscle contraction, nerve impulses, enzyme actions, etc 
• The body has extensive balancing ability to maintain the acid / alkaline pH of blood, other fluids, and tissues within narrow ranges so dietary control of acid balance is unnecessary 
  • Yes, pH levels of tissues and fluids vary very little in the body, 
  • But the process for this maintenance takes energy and uses up minerals, either alkaline forming or acid forming
  • This use of minerals takes them away from other vital body functions
• Modern medicine, based on the germ theory, fails to satisfy all known and observed health and disease facts 
  • Immune system protection levels can vary from strong to weak against disease causing germs.
  • The medium or conditions inside the body, especially intestinal bacteria, either control and kill germs or feed and allow germs to grow in numbers and cause a disease. 
  • This explains why everyone exposed to the same germ may not become ill.
• Modern medicine's approach to heart disease control by lowering cholesterol is only partially correct 
  • Research is looking more at chronic inflammation as the chief cause since cholesterol levels vary widely in heart patients from low to normal to high
  • Cholesterol is needed to fight infections as well as control fluid movement into and out of cells
  • A person who takes drugs to lower cholesterol is more likely to develop infections during hospital care than a person with their naturally low or normal or high cholesterol levels.

Below is an attempt to show the multiple complex aspects of how vitamin functions interact and may be associated with the unfortunately common disease of breast cancer. 

Understanding Vitamin functions in Breast Cancer to clarify controversial findings in next article.