Natural Supplements. Fat, Sugar, Protein, Enzymes, Amino Acids

NATURAL

SUPPLEMENTS

Fat

Sugars

Proteins

Enzymes

Amino Acids

Dr. Sergio A. Chacón M.

NATURAL  SUPPLEMENTS

Fat

Sugars

Proteins

Enzymes

Amino Acids

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© Dr. Sergio A. Chacón M.

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About Dr. Sergio A. Chacon M.

Venezuelan doctor graduated in 1986 from the University of Los Andes and practiced Conventional Medicine exclusively for 15 years. He worked in more than 10 health institutions in different cities in Venezuela and traveled the long road from rural medicine and rotating internship to internal medicine residency and then cardiology.

In 1999, being the District Cardiologist of the western axis of the Carabobo State based at the Bejuma Hospital and feeling highly disappointed by the ineffectiveness of conventional medicine to heal heart patients, he decided to venture into the paths of other medicine starting with Naturopathy.

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After seeing better results in his patients when applying natural treatments, he decided to delve deeper into this field and moved to the US to train in Phytotherapy, Nutrition and Holistic Iridology.

In 2008 he managed to homologate his medical degree in Spain and settled in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he founded a 3-year Naturopathy program for professionals from different fields and coordinated it for 10 years, achieving several promotions of Naturopaths.

In 2016 he founded the first Integrative Medicine Center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria incorporating the services of Medicine, Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Nutrition, Psychology and Physiotherapy, and was the Medical Director of said center until February 2020.

In the last 3 years he has dedicated himself to private medical consultation, the completion of new master's degrees, such as the one in Microbiota taken with the Regenera group of Barcelona, Spain, in 2022, the production of online courses and editing books, this being his second book.

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Note to Readers

This book is based on bibliographic research and the author's personal experience. It is offered to the public with the understanding that it is not intended as a medical or other consultation for the individual reader. No one should use the information contained in the work as a substitute for the advice of a licensed medical professional, and the reader should consult with his or her licensed primary care physician before using any of the remedies, supplements, plants, medications, and the like described in this book. The Author disclaims any type of responsibility in relation to any loss, injury, or damage, caused directly or indirectly using this book.

Foreword

The book you are going to start reading is the result of 37 years of medical experience and the evolution that I have experienced as a therapist throughout those almost 4 decades.

When I finished my studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Los Andes (ULA) in the city of Mérida, Venezuela, in December 1986, like any other newly graduated doctor from any university in the Western world, I knew something about pharmacology, the only therapeutic tool they taught me throughout the seven years of medical training, and I knew nothing about nutrition; since my teachers taught me that the doctor's job was to correctly diagnose and treat diseases with the necessary drugs and I did not have to worry at all about the patient's diet, because that is what nutritionists were for.

By December 1994, 8 years after graduating, I had already completed a 3-year Rotating Internship, a 4-year Internal Medicine Residency and was finishing the first year of the Cardiology Residency at the Dr. Enrique Tejera Hospital in the Valencia city. By that time my knowledge in pharmacology had advanced considerably, however, although in the first years of my medical practice the use of chemical remedies prepared and distributed by the pharmaceutical industry made me feel safe and supported when it came to solving most of the acute problems that I faced daily in hospitals, such as infections, allergies, pain, and trauma, etc., etc., the same did not happen with chronic diseases, such as bronchial asthma, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis or saccharine diabetes, to name a few, which turn patients into eternal consumers of medications and slaves to pharmacies, barely achieving some control of their diseases, although sometimes paying a high price for the side effects they must endure, but without being able to even dream of the possibility of a definitive cure or total healing of their ailments.

As part of my training in the Cardiology Residency, every day I had to see about 10 patients in the Service's outpatient clinic, with all kinds of cardiovascular diseases, and although the majority of the patients managed to stabilize their disorders, there was always a percentage of patients , which was between 10 and 20% who resisted achieving the desired pharmacological control and were constantly unstable and visiting the hospital medical emergency room. During the 3 years that my training in cardiology lasted, I always cared for the same population of patients who went to the outpatient clinic every 3 months and none of them managed to recover from their illness and depended on taking their medications to avoid serious complications that threatened their lives, which on many occasions occurred, despite being correctly treated.

In those early days of 1995, the impossibility of offering my patients the desired cure or healing of their cardiovascular ailments, as well as keeping them free of the severe side effects of the medications that I prescribed, prompted me to look for other alternatives of treatment.

In mid-1995, while I was in the second year of the Cardiology Residency and already experiencing the uncertainty and dissatisfaction of practicing a medicine absolutely based on drugs that cured nothing, had little control, showed many side effects and were incapable of stopping the advance towards the complication and death of many of the heart patients that I treated daily, was when I took my first step towards the search for an alternative medicine.

In those days I joined a research project with patients who suffered from high blood pressure (hypertension), under the hypothesis that all these people suffered from a disorder in the potassium channels of the cell membrane, which affected their normal exchange of said mineral with the extracellular space and as a consequence, they tended to have a low intracellular potassium value, even though they showed a normal extracellular or blood potassium value. By giving potassium supplements to patients who had a low level of potassium inside their red blood cells, their blood pressure levels dropped and normalized, to the point that many of these people had to stop the anti-hypertensive medication. For two consecutive years we followed hundreds of these patients and the result was always the same, when correcting their intracellular potassium concentration, the hypertension condition simply disappeared.

The result of this finding aroused my interest in Nutrients, since we had only used Potassium, a mineral that is commonly present in foods such as fruits and vegetables, although it is usually deficient in the diet of most hypertensive patients, because they don't usually eat that kind of food.

Motivated by the results I had observed in potassium research in patients suffering from high blood pressure, I decided to continue researching in the field of nutrition, the factor that we should never worry about, according to our professors in medical school, and which apparently had many more surprises than any doctor could suspect.

The second step I took in this search was to carry out a small 48-hour workshop entitled Healthy Eating, taught by Dr. Rafael García Chacon.

He was an internist who had completed a Diploma in Natural Medicine in Cuba and had written a book that contained the elements basics of what a healthy, balanced and natural diet is, with a semi-vegetarian approach.

Towards January 1996, beginning the third year of the Cardiology Residency, I began to use the basic concepts of healthy eating, learned with Dr. García Chacon, and I observed an important change in the evolution of all the patients that I saw with cardiovascular diseases. To my surprise, all the patients who complied and followed the dietary guidelines that I offered them, in addition to the relevant medication, showed a much better clinical evolution, compared to those who did not follow them and only limited themselves to taking the medication. Many these patients lost weight, managed to control their blood pressure numbers faster and with a much lower dose of medication, others stopped feeling the tachycardia they suffered from, and many others felt a notable improvement in their lung capacity and cardiovascular.

In December 1996 I finished the Cardiology Residency and obtained the title of Specialist in that discipline, and by that time, I was already fully convinced that food and nutrition played a role of great importance in maintaining health and well-being, as well as the prevention and recovery of many diseases, and as a consequence, I felt committed to the task of continuing to train myself along these lines to be able to help my patients in a more effective and forceful way, instead of settling for only offering them the usual drugs that, as I had already mentioned, only produce frustrating results, both for patients and treating doctors.

During the years 1997 and 1998 I ventured into a philosophy called the Tropical Naturism Movement directed by the professor and Doctor of Botany, now deceased, Dr. Keshaba Bhat, with whom I did some in-person workshops and read some of his best-known books such as The Tropical Herbalist. , The bases of Naturism, The Guide to Good Eating, The Meaning of Life and Return to Conuco. As a result of this experience, I began to handle the concept of a healthy lifestyle, I deepened my training in healthy eating, I even became a vegetarian and began to study Medicinal Plants as a useful therapeutic tool in complementary therapies, and I learned the importance of Detoxification in healing processes that seek to restore health to sick people.

Between 1999 and 2002 I completed a Diploma in Naturopathy with Doctors Germán Alberti and Antonio Castro, at the Hogar de Vid Natural (HOVINAT), in Cubiro, Lara state, thereby deepening my training in food, nutrition and medicinal plants.

Between 2003 and 2005 I ventured into the field of Ortho Molecular Nutrition in the city of Miami, led by Dr. Luis Romero Manrique, training me in the use of nutritional supplementation to manage most diseases. In 2007 I learned about the work of Dr. Mathias Rath, one of the fathers of the so-called Integrative Cardiology who founded a research center in Santa Barbara, California and launched a private line of specific nutritional supplements for the management of cardiovascular diseases.

Between 2009 and 2019 I was involved with the Master of Ortho Molecular Nutrition at the Nutergia Laboratory in Spain, of which I was a part as a teacher and lecturer in Integrative Cardiology.

During those two decades of training and practicing alternative therapies predominantly in Nutritherapy, I have experienced a total transformation as a therapist, going from being an absolutely and totally allopathic doctor (only drugs), to becoming an Integrative doctor, who uses many other therapeutic disciplines to solve my patients' health problems, including nutrition therapy, phytotherapy, and naturopathy, to achieve that goal.

In this book I have summarized in six chapters much of what I have learned during those 2 decades of training in the field of Nutritherapy and I am presenting them to you in the best way I can to help you incorporate this discipline into your life with the goal so that you can better manage your health and well-being.

*-In chapter 1 I will tell you about Carbohydrates, their great importance as a source of quick energy, their metabolism and the problems that can arise when we eat them in excess.

*-In chapter 2 we will talk about Proteins, an essential nutrient for forming and repairing tissues, but which also fulfills many other vital functions in the body, such as the transport of other nutrients in the blood and the synthesis of hormones, a type of substance that helps regulate and control many vital functions for the human body.

*-In chapter 3 we will address Amino Acids, the building blocks of proteins, and I am going to teach you an alphabet of 20 nutrients that fulfill interesting and crucial specific functions, in addition to applying them as a therapeutic tool to treat countless disorders and improve many diseases. .

*-In chapter 4 I will show you the world of Enzymes, the great catalysts, and activators of metabolism, which are responsible for more than 5 thousand chemical reactions that make life possible at the molecular level.

*-In chapter 5 we continue with Lipids or Fats, the nutrients that provide us with reserve energy, those that form and fill the body's adipose tissue, which in addition to fulfilling a thermogenic and protective function, is also