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| reduce the craving for nicotine. For an herbal "stop smoking" program, see my book Herbs to Help You Breathe Freely in this series. |
| Nutritional Minimums |
| How much of each vitamin and mineral do you really need for good health? Standards set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are conservative. Orthomolecular medicine, at the opposite extreme, uses megadoses. Somewhere in between are the observations of Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D., who is both a medical doctor and dentist as well as professor emeritus at the University of Alabama Medical School. Dr. Cheraskin has published over 700 papers in prominent medical journals, contributed to or written 23 books and received numerous awards for his research. |
| For over 20 years, Cheraskin monitored 1,405 dentists and their spouses, following even the most minor symptoms of physical illness as well as diet and nutritional supplements. In addition, he conducted hundreds of double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to test his survey findings. Cheraskin tested every vitamin, mineral and trace nutrient believed necessary for human health, including some that remain controversial. His goal was to establish the ideal amount of each nutrient necessary for the "most healthy" life, based on human rather than laboratory animal testing. |
| In all of these studies, Cheraskin and his research team found that optimum nutrition levels averaged five to nine times greater than government recommendations. Other scientists have since verified Cher- |
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