Dr. Paul Anderson often recommends specialty supplements

Dr. Paul Anderson often recommends specialty supplements tailored to individual health needs and conditions. Some of the supplements he might suggest include:

1. Curcumin: Known for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, curcumin can support overall health and may help with conditions like arthritis and cancer.
2. Vitamin D: Essential for immune function and bone health, vitamin D levels are often optimized to support various health conditions.
3. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: These are beneficial for heart health, reducing inflammation, and supporting brain function.
4. Probiotics: To support gut health and the immune system, especially important if there are digestive issues or after antibiotic use.
5. N-acetylcysteine (NAC): This antioxidant can support liver function and detoxification processes.
6. Alpha-lipoic Acid: Known for its antioxidant properties and potential benefits for metabolic health and neuroprotection.
7. Glutathione: An important antioxidant that supports detoxification and immune function.

The choice of supplements can vary based on individual health assessments, specific conditions, and personal health goals. It’s always best to consult with a healthcare provider to determine which supplements might be appropriate for you.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to Medicine Health with doctor Paul Anderson. That's me.
I'm doctor Paul and In this section, we're going to
talk today about specialty supplements or special use supplements, et cetera.
So we've done other sections on things like vitamins and
minerals and some of the uniqueness of the fat soluble vitamins, etc.

(00:23):
We've talked in previous sessions about you know, other types
of things, So this one is really more in our
natural therapy series about nutrients and when you might be
prescribe them or when you might use them, et cetera. Again,
all of this is not medical advices, just for information
you should check with your healthcare provider before taking or

(00:44):
doing anything, rather than taking advice from the internet. But
from a point of view of why why do you
see these things being used? You see them, you know,
maybe in a supplement store, your friend might be taking
them or whatever. Some of the specialty things are used
to either support or build up particular processes in your body.

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So the first little group is three different things. They're
all sulfur containing, so not sulf like the drug, but
sulfur containing molecules that are very important for your antioxidant status,
and two of them will give rise to the third

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one as precursors, and they also happen to do unique
things anyway. So the main one in this category of
thiols or sulfur containing molecules is called glutathione, which is
a tripeptide. It's got three amino acids together. The amino

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acid in the middle of glutathione that's the rate limiting
meaning that's without that you can't make any more. Glutathione
is the amino asdis said cystine, so cystines in the middle.
It's a sulfur containing amino acid, and so some people
will be given ncetyl cysteine to help produce more glutathione.

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Glutathone on its own is not well absorbed orally, unless
you have it in a form that is a little
more highly absorbable, like liposomal glutathione is very commonly given
orally now, or there's a glutathone product called acetyl glutathione,
which is stabilized and can help you with your absorption,

(02:37):
et cetera. The other thing, though, is sometimes people will
just give the precursors because the two precursors are also
sulfur containing molecules. We talked about ncetyl cysteine. Ncetyl Cysteine
is a relatively commonly used supplement. It also happens to

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be a drug. It's one of those unique things that
kind of crosses over both sides. In the United States,
there is a drug the trade name was Muchemist, but
it's also just known as anisetyl cysteine, and there's also
a supplement version of that. So why would there be
a drug called anacetyl systeine. We talked about that. If
you go back to the respiratory or the nebulizer therapy

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is part of the show. We talked about how you
can use that in respiratory therapy to help clear up
mucus because it's a eucolytic helps break down the mucus.
So anacetyl systeine is often given for respiratory things. It's
been used in COVID patients. It is used to be

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a precursor for glutithione and other than It can have
kind of a sulfury smell to it, and you maybe
even taste If you actually taste it, it's quite useful
and then its cousin alphalipoic acid also known as ala,
but alphali podk acid is another thile and it's a
little different in that it can increase glutothione formation. But

(04:05):
also alphi poic acid does something that ncetyl systeine does
not do in glutathon don't do that has an affinity
for the mitochondria in your cells, and so that affinity
for the mitochondria in your cells can be used as
a help to help with the antioxidant status inside the mitochondria,

(04:27):
can help with the bigger picture production of energy and
a number of other things. As a matter of fact,
there are drugs and drug like products that are in
development are already available, and they're made on a skeleton
of alphali poic acid so that they go into the mitochondria.

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So alphali poic acid, NiCl systeine, and glutathone are are related,
but they all do slightly different things, and you might
be given one as precursor to the other, or might
be given one as an addition. So you might have
glutithione and you may also be given some alfly potk
acid for two different targets in the body. Another real

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common one is coq ten or ubiquinone. Coq ten is
a molecule that is made by the human body, but
if manufacturer can be slowed down. And one of the
things that's famous for is helping in the transport of
electrons inside of your mitochondria where we make energy. So

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coenzyme q ten is important for cell maintenance, cell energy, etc.
There are some drugs that deplete co q ten, for example,
the statin drugs that are used for cholesterol. A lot
of times we have to prescribe that, we'll prescribe coq
ten alongside of it. And coq ten is known kind

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of for not only its use in healing processes, maybe
after an injury or after surgery or something like that.
Sometimes it's also used in people with fatiguing syndromes, etc.
Of course, with fatigue, there's many things that have to
be worked up and worked on and fatigue. But to

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keep in mind as we're looking at these unique supplements,
these are all sort of what I would say, parallel
to your diet of course, to what should be first,
and then you know global say water soluble vitamins that
you might be taking. These may be a parallel prescription
or recommendation from a healthcare provider to help a specific process,

(06:43):
whether it's antioxidant status or as we said with NAC
being a eucalytic, helping you kind of get rid of
the thick mucus or to prime go to thound function,
or help with energy, help with mitochondrial function, etc. In
many cases, these are not in like a multi vitamin.
They certainly generally or not within a B complex vitamin.

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There's a lot of things that these things do, but
they kind of have to be added on right. Another
one is a group of fats that are not fat
soluble vitamin, but just fats that are used as supplements.
You may have heard of fish oil or omega three,
or you know omega three and six, et cetera. And

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those are essential fatty acids that are required by the
body because our body can't make those particular fatty acids,
and they're used in the cell membranes to help stabilize them,
help keep them working and fluid and behaving properly. So
the medical uses of fatty acids like omega three include

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things like hygh triglycerides and some types of cholesterol problems,
et cetera. We also use it a lot with people
again who are healing, because your cells are going to
need to be repairing, people who are very inflamed, etc. Now,
beyond essential fatty acids like the famous Omega three, the
other thing that you want to think about in the

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fat soluble area are what we call phospholipid. So I said, well,
you put the omega oils, especially Omega three, into your
cell membranes, Well, those go into a bigger structure called
a phospholipid. Sometimes healthcare provider may actually give you a

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phospholipid as a prescribed agent or a recommended agent, and
that could be something like they all start with the
word phosphatityle, so that might be something like phosphatyl choline, phosphatityle, seerine,
phosphatyl enocetol. In days gone by, which people still do,

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but it was very common for people to get their
phospholipids from a mixture something like less than okay, so
less than, which often came from soy call soy less
was full of these phospholipids. And they're very critical, as
I said, for maintaining the membranes in your cells for

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cell communication and for healing, and in some cases these
things because they have these fatty acid tails and a
phosphate had on the top, so a phospholipid become oxidized
very easily and that leads to some cell damage, et cetera.
The other thing that these fat soluble items are often

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used for, whether it's coenzyme Q ten or postatize pospitile coline,
omega threes, et cetera, is a nervous system tissue because
the nervous system tissue is very fatty, your brain and
your perferal nerves very fatty, and so when you're having
inflammation in those areas or recovery problems, sometimes these things

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are used in that respect as well. Now there's other
things we've talked about, like in our post COVID discussions
about neuro repair and helping the brain and the sensory
nerves and stuff with post COVID where they'll do a
mixture of these things. So there's a supplem I mentioned before.
I have no financial connection to any supplement I'm talking

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to you about. Just one we use a lot with
our post COVID neurological repair called COVER three, and it's
a little gel and it's a mixture. So it's got
some essential fatty acids, it's got some phospholipids, and then
it's got something called resveratrol, which is the larger structure
that you find like in red wine and grapes and

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things of that nature that can be very repair oriented
in the body, antioxid and etc. It's got a few
other things so that the person can take one thing
and get a number of things. And you know in
that one supplement. So that's another one that we use
a lot, and those are a lot of fat solubles

(11:11):
in that supplement. I'll cover three. Another one that we
use individually a lot that's not a vitamin or a
mineral is the bioflabinoid family, and so that is things
that generally come from the fruiting bodies of plants. So
you see them like in the peel orange, for example,

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there's the pulp or the white part. There's a lot
of bioflabinoids in there. It's protecting and keeping oxidation away
from the fruiting body. Now, bioflabinoids are often used to
calm down mass cells and allergy type activity, et cetera.

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And so they're very very commonly used as well. Now
we'll do a separate video on amino acids because those
are not vitamins or minerals and they're not really like
these others, but they're often supplemented separately. But we're going
to have to stop our discussion of specialty supplements, take
a little break, and come back with our next topic.
So we'll be right back