Stephen Levine, Ph.D.
How one simple supplement may have a
dramatic effect on weight control?
Science News (Vol. 157, No. 18, p. 277,
April 29, 2000) recently reported on findings presented at the Experimental
Biology 2000 meeting in San Diego, California which demonstrated that high
dietary calcium may play a huge role in weight control.
Researchers from the University of
Tennessee used mice genetically engineered to express agouti, a gene found in
human fat cells which strongly influences whether fat cells burn or store
molecules as fat, and model human patterns of obesity.
One group of mice was put on a 6 week, low
calorie diet (30% reduction in maintenance calories) and given the human
equivalent of 500 mg* of dietary calcium per day. These mice lost 8% of their
body fat and 11% of their weight. (*500 mg is the average amount of dietary
calcium an American woman gets in her diet, the RDA is 1,000 mg).
Another group of mice from the same
strain, on identical diets but with increased calcium (carbonate) - equivalent
to about 1,600 mg for adults - lost 42% of their body fat and 19% of their body
A third group of mice consumed the extra
calcium as nonfat dry milk and lost 60% of their body fat and 25% of their
weight. A fourth group consuming twice as much dairy source calcium as the
third showed little increased benefit.
These are astounding numbers The
researchers found that in the low calcium diets, the agouti gene causes the
calcium channel to open and stimulate fat synthesis, while suppressing fat
These new findings prompted
endocrinologist Robert P. Heaney of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska to
reanalyze data from 5 calcium-supplementation studies that he had conducted in
people over the years. Heaney states: "In all five studies we found a
significant weight effect that we had ignored. In these studies they found that
women consuming the lowest amounts of calcium weighed the most."
I believe that Buffered Vitamin C,
with 350 mg of elemental calcium and 190 mg of magnesium, is a valuable tool
for weight control due to its anti-addictive properties and high calcium
levels Stephen A. Levine, Ph.D.
Lower levels of calcium increase the
storage of fat rather than the burning. This conclusion is strengthened by the
finding that the high calcium rats maintained core body temperature while low
calcium mice exhibited a dramatic reduction in core body temperature.
The high calcium diet may cue the body
that nutrition is adequate and that storage for famine is unnecessary. That
would be a very good thing for dieters and for all of us who want to experience
optimal energy and weight control.
I believe that Buffered Vitamin C, with
350 mg of elemental calcium and 1 90mg of magnesium, is a valuable tool for
weight control due to its anti-addictive properties and high calcium levels.
I have thought about weight problems and
obesity and related these in part to food allergy, and chemical allergy
(hypersensitivity), inability to stop eating, craving for specific foods and
other diverse symptoms that are often related to "food and chemical
hypersensitivity" and "addictive hypersensitivity". AM~
The concepts can be explained with what we
all know about cigarette smoking or alcohol problems. When people are able to
truly quit for a period of time, they may then exhibit more acute sensitivity
to and intolerance for those very substances. The addictive phenomenon and
adaptive phenomenon can all be tied together. From what I knew about
addictive chemistry I developed the
Buffered Vitamin C, which I used to offset my own such symptoms due to food
reactions, and/or emotionally induced pathology The Buffered Vitamin C has been
used clinically for offsetting acute hypersensitivity reactions and the
addictive craving for foods, cigarettes and other withdrawal states from
stimulants and alcohol.
A study at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
in San Francisco demonstrated that Buffered Vitamin C could offset withdrawal
symptoms for stimulants and opiates and reduce withdrawal symptoms by 90% in
outpatients. They took a teaspoon of Buffered Vitamin C whenever they felt a
Why is Buffered Vitamin C so effective at
relieving these diverse symptoms?
1. It has strong buffering actions to
offset hyperacidity associated with cell pathology.
2. Vitamin C alone has some mild
3. The ascorbate form of calcium (which
forms from the reaction of the calcium carbonate and ascorbates) appears to be
very well absorbed. High levels of calcium with additional magnesium and
potassium provide a balancing and alkalizing effect.
Why does Buffered Vitamin C so
dramatically control addictive and hypersensitive symptomatology, including
blood sugar alterations?
The high calcium body fat and weight loss
effect may well be connected with offsetting the effects of insulin in fat
storage and creating abnormal appetite. Low calcium then may allow insulin to
do its work, lowering blood sugar for storage. There may also be a neurological
stimulation by addictive and hypersensitizing chemicals which is then offset by
the high ionized calcium and other alkalinizing substances in the Buffered C.
Tying together these observations with the corresponding allergy,
hypersensitivity and addiction-blood sugar aberrations in environmental illness
and drug addiction would explain the effectiveness of the Buffered Vitamin C.
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