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With the large number of consumers curently supplementing with various vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, health professionals and consumers alike need a reliable, research-based source of information on these supplements. This 2nd edition maintains its status as a comprehensive resource for the entire spectrum of nutritional products. Each monograph includes the chemical nature of the compound, claims made for it and clinical research supporting or refuting those claims, risks and precautions and potential interactions. Includes entries on not only vitamins and minerals, but amino acids, probiotics, phytoestrogens, phytosterols, and more.

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• Hardcover: 788 pages
• Publisher: PDR Network; 2nd edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563637103
• ISBN-13: 978-1563637100
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 11.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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As a medical technician who helps advise patients with nutritional problems, I have read nearly every major dietary supplement guide that has been published in the last decade. This PDR is, by far, the best such guide I have found. The doctors I work with are equally enthusiastic about its in-depth analysis, full citations to the supporting literature and its refreshing objectivity. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that nutritional supplements have been accorded the same in-depth treatment given, in other guides, to prescription drugs. This book should be "must" reading for every doctor, dietician, pharmacist and for every lay person who wishes to intelligently share in the management of his/her own health. There has never been a resource like this before.

For those interested in herbal medicine, there is a separate PDR dealing with herbs; although I do not find the herbal PDR as useful as The PDR for Nutritional Supplements, which covers all the other nutritional/dietary supplements, as well as some of the active constituents of popular herbs, the herbal book is also better than most. Initially I wondered why Medical Economics, the highly respected publisher of the PDR series of books, did not combine the herbs with the other dietary supplements and cover all of them in one reference book. An editor at Medical Economics told me that had they done so they would have had to sacrifice much of the in-depth treatment they have provided--far in excess, as I have previously noted, of anything available in any of the other books--in order to squeeze all of the supplements discussed into one marketable tome. We can all be thankful that they did not do this. Both books are indispensable, as is every word in them.

By Orlando Ferrer

With all the claims and hype about one supplement or another, it's very hard to know what is legit. This book answers the need perfectly. In one or two pages (occasionally more) it condenses the chemical nature of the supplement, claims made for it, laboratory and animal and human research, risks and precautions and doses. If there is no credible basis for the claims, it says so; if there is support, it says that, too! There are indexes by supplement name, brand name, categories, needs ("indications"), side effects, etc. This is a truly handy, useful, and solid reference guide. You'll be glad to have it!

By "rstrn"