Atherosclerotic Heart Disease: Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging

Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes [Paperback]

Product Details

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (September 9, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761514570
ISBN-13: 978-0761514572
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Burt Berkson
Price : $11.20
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Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes [Paperback]

Consumer Testimonials

I started taking a-lipoic acid and achieving great outcomes ahead of this book was published. It was encouraging to lastly read a book that validated my encounter with lipoic acid. This book explains a-lipoic acid in layman's terms and sheds light on the value of this nutrient. As a Sort I diabetic of 36 years, I have basically reversed diabetic neuropathy by taking 900 mg of a-lipoic acid per day. I very encourage diabetics to research a-lipoic acid primarily if suffering from neuropathy. This book is a amazing begin.

If you've heard of alpha-lipoic acid and its getting incredibly useful in treating diabetes, liver illnesses, mercury intoxications, or as an anti-oxidant, you can want to know additional about it prior to taking it. This book, by Burt Berkson (MD, PhD) is an outstanding answer to your worries. Berkson describes how he got to be interested by alpha-lipoic acid, it's safety record ("FDA"-authorized in Germany for 50 years), it really is utilizes, and, maybe most interesting, his views on medicine.
Not only does Dr. Berkson come across as a very competent and compassionate physician, especially in regards to lipoic acid, on which he is America's leading specialist, he is also an outspoken critic of what he properly sees as issues in modern day American medicine. In the initial chapter, he describes how he almost ended his profession when he saved the life of a dying patient against the wishes of his boss, and how he would do it once more. No insurance coverage policy and few doctor's visits can deliver the positive aspects of his invaluable candor, which serves to immunize his readers with a big and wholesome level of cynicism about medicine as it is practiced in the United States these days.
A single point that this book does not include is guidance on what dosage of lipoic acid to ingest. This might possibly be a sign of amazing wisdom in Germany, exactly where Dr. Berkson worked at the Max Planck Institute, and where lipoic acid has been on the marketplace for decades, neurologists who appear into whether their patients suffer from a heavy metal poisoning are not regarded with the sort of wonderment and bafflement that mermaids and unicorns otherwise garner. These with such a heavy metal situation can suffer some very unwelcome and perhaps permanent side-effects if they take the sort of dosages that others quickly tolerate. By not giving any suggestions on this subject, Dr. Berkson undoubtedly isn't giving any poor suggestions on this subject.
I heartily advise this book.