Product Description

Fat blockers, antioxidants, sport supplements, nutraceuticals, natural hormones, and natural antidepressants are just some of the cutting-edge products that have recently been brought to market. All can be purchased over the counter. But which ones are right for you?

Bestselling author Earl Mindell will help you negotiate the bold new world of supplements with this unique and comprehensive guidebook.

• Trying to build muscle? Creatine monohydrate and HMB can help you get more out of your workout
• Feeling blue? 5-HTP and Saint-John's-wort can give you a lift
• Want to lose weight? Fight fat with chitosan
• Looking to enhance your sexual performance? Try tribulus and ashwagandah
• Not as sharp as you used to be? Phosphatidylserine can help you regain twelve years of brain power
• Searching for a natural alternative to estrogen? Soyconcentrate is a rich source of plant estrogens that can help prevent cancer.

Don't miss out! Let Earl Mindell show you how to look better, feel younger, and stay healthier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #444681 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

From Amazon.com
The boom in nutritional supplements has been bewildering to most health-conscious people. One camp, made up mostly of traditional scientists and nutritionists, says that supplements are unnecessary, that you can get all the nutrients you need from a well-balanced diet. Then there's the group that says a normal diet can't supply all the super-duper stuff that researchers of varying degrees of credibility discover on a regular basis. Which set is right? Earl Mindell, for one, is solidly in the latter, recommending virtually everything you'll find on the shelves of your neighborhood nutrition store. He answers questions you might have about supplements you've heard of but don't understand, and he explains what all the excitement (if any) is about. From DHEA to cat's claw, bovine tracheal cartilage to chromium picolinate, he endorses all.

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The bestselling author of "The Herb Bible" and the groundbreaking "Soy Miracle" now presents a one-of-a-kind guide that shows readers how to get the most from the explosion of new dietary supplements National print ads & publicity. 12-city author tour.

About the Author
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., is the bestselling author of Earl Mindell's New Herb Bible, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century, Earl Mindell's Peak Performance Bible, Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine, Earl Mindell's Secret Remedies, Earl Mindell's Anti-Aging Bible, and Earl Mindell's Soy Miracle. He is a registered pharmacist, a master herbalist, and a professor of nutrition at Pacific Western University in Los Angeles; he also conducts nutrition seminars around the world.

Customer Reviews

The scriptures of health
The introduction to these scriptures explains exactly how vitamins, minerals, nutraceuticals, RDAs are defined and provides thorough background information about supplements and we need to take them.

Then follows the Hot Hundred nutritional supplements from Alpha Carotene to Zeaxanthin. Each entry provides the potential benefits and interactions of these substances, plus the food sources in which they are found. These are verily the 100 golden talents for good health, if not the 100 commendments.

The chapter Hot News About Old Favorites discusses aged garlic, capsaicin, reishi mushroom, GLA, Ginseng, Omega fatty acids, magnesium, selenium and many other well-known substances that for a very long time have been known to promote health.

In the chapter Fat Burners and Sports Supplements, stuff like androstenedione, CoQ10, creatine, pyruvate, amino acids and other supplements are investigated, whilst Mood Enhancing Supplements deals with inter alia SAMe, 5-HTP, St John's Wort and Tyrosine and contains a section Stress Busters with information on Kava Kava, DHEA and flower essences.

The other chapters are titled Supplements For Your Sex Life, A Brief Guide To Homeopathy, Hot Supplements From Around The World (including those from the Ayurvedic and Chinese traditions, and from the rain forests), Supplements For Sensational Skin and Get Smarter With Supplements (including discussions on Grape Seed Extract, Lipoic Acid, Vitamin E, DMAE, Ginkgo Biloba, Pregnenolone, Phophatidylserine and other major discoveries).

This excellent guide to what is hot on the supplement scene concludes with a bibliography and concordance. I also recommend The A - Z Guide To Supplements (Prescription For Nutritional Healing) by Phyllis A Balch, Renewal by Timothy J Smith, The Superhormone Promise by William Regelson and Forever Ageless by Rothenburg. Let these tried and trusted works of wisdom be a lamp unto your feet.

Cutting Edge Stuff
Dr Mindell proves once again that he is on the cutting edge in nutrition... Dr Mindell is years ahead of any other nutritional author.

In this book you'll find nutrients that the massive health food store doesn't even sell-yet. But after a couple of years everyone will find out about them, and there'll be a demand for them.

I found previews of soon to be popular nutrients, along with some 'tried and true' nutrients that I already knew about and Dr. Mindell gave me more information about them...

If you are into health and nutrition than this, and all of Dr. Mindell's books should be referred to often.

Valable health information which goes beyond vitamins.
Earl Mindell is justly famous for his best-selling book Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible (Currently available as Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century). Thousands -- perhaps even millions -- of people have strengthened their health and even extended their lives with the information contained in Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible. Now Dr. Mindell has written an equally well-written and authoritive book which discusses dozens of nutritional supplements which are not normally covered in books on vitamins. Many of the supplements discussed in this new book -- including Coenzyme Q10, L-carnitine, and DHA, to name a few -- are every bit as important to human health as vitamins are. If you are seriously interested in learning about the broad scope of nutritional supplements which are currently available you will not want to be without this book.