New Research Shows Nutritional Supplements Dramatically Reduce Sickness and Chronic Disease

LENOX, MA, Apr 10 (MARKET WIRE) --
Most doctors won't recommend vitamin supplements to their patients,
saying there is no scientific proof that they actually work, but new
research shows that spending just pennies a day on a few key nutritional
supplements can dramatically reduce sickness and chronic disease -- and
greatly decrease health care costs as a result.

"Based on the research, I strongly believe that we should all be taking
certain
basic nutritional supplements," said Mark Hyman, M.D. of UltraWellness. "The
cost is low,
the benefit is high, and the risk is non-existent for these vitamin
supplements."

Researchers from the Lewin Group looked at four key areas of research
whichexamined the use of dietary supplements, and determined that:

-- Providing Medicare-age citizens with 1,200 mg of calcium and 400 IU of
vitamin D would result in reduced bone loss and fewer hip fractures,
preventing 776,000 hospitalizations and saving $16.1 billion in health care
costs.
-- Giving the Medicare population about 1,800 mg of omega-3 fats a day
would prevent 374,000 hospitalizations from heart disease over five years
with Medicare savings of $3.2 billion
-- Taking 6-10 mg of lutein and zeaxanthin daily would help 190,000
individuals avoid dependent care and save $3.6 billion over five years.
-- If only 11.3 million women began taking 400 mcg of folic acid on a
daily basis before conception, neural tube birth defects could be prevented
in 600 babies with $344,700,000 saved in lifetime health care costs and
$1.4 billion saved over 5 years.

"Vitamin deficiency may cause long-latency deficiency diseases which
include conditions like blindness, osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer,
diabetes,
dementia, and more," said Hyman. "These vitamin supplements, which cost pennies
a day,
can improve immunity, cognitive function, and mood and produce a combined
savings of $24 billion in health care costs over five years."

For more information on dietary supplements that everyone should be taking
daily, visit The UltraWellness Blog (www.ultrawellness.com/blog).

REFERENCES:

Fairfield KM, Fletcher RH. Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention in
Adults: Scientific Review. JAMA 287: 3116-3126.

Willett WC, Stampfer MJ. What Vitamins Should I Be Taking, Doctor? N Engl
JMed 345:1819.

About UltraWellness:

UltraWellness -- lifelong health and vitality -- is based on the emerging
field of
functional medicine, which addresses health problems not by treating the
symptoms,
but by balancing the 7 core underlying biological processes that govern
health.This is done by finding imbalances, getting rid of the things that cause
those
imbalances, and providing the necessary things to restore balance, which then
allows the body's natural intelligence to facilitate healing and take care of
the rest. Co-founder of UltraWellness, Mark Hyman, M.D., is a respected
medical consultant, New York Times bestselling author, lecturer, practicing
physician and leader in the emerging field of functional medicine.

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