Another interaction that bears mention is that of zinc and cadmium. Suffice it to say that cadmium is a metal that is often found in nature with zinc. But where zinc is physiologic, cadmium is toxic and capable of causing kidney damage and high blood pressure even at very low doses. Since cadmium acts by interfering with zinc containing enzymes, zinc supplementation is restorative. Zinc competes with cadmium for absorption and supplementation is protective.
It is hard to believe that this metallic element, present in the human body in small amounts, about 2,000 milligrams total, can be so vital to health and recovery from almost every disease. Obvious as the beneficial role of zinc appear to you now, you can bet it is not as obvious to most health
professionals. It is up to you to insist on Putting Nutrition First for your health.
Written by Richard Kunin, MD. a contributing writer for Healthy Referral based in San Francisco.
Richard Kunin, MD is a Founding President: Society for Orthomolecular Health Medicine.
*Dedicated to continuing education for multi-disciplinary health professionals, including MD, DO, PhD, ND, DDS, DC, RN, PA, LAc, TCM, RD, RPT, MSW, CCN, - and patients.
*University of Minnesota Medical School class of 1955. US Army Medical Corps, Captain, 1959-1961.
*Fellow in Neurology (neurophysiology) Stanford Medical Center (1963) and
Consultant in Behavior Therapy (1964).
*Prevention Magazine 1972: first to combine computer diet, hair mineral analysis, nutrient blood testing in
treating mental illness and brain disease.
*Discovered manganese treatment for drug-induced tardive dyskinesia (1973).
*Discovered aspirin as antidote for flush reaction to vitamin B3 (niacin) (1974).
*Innovated Balance Point Test and Listen To Your Body Personalized Diet (1975).
*Co-Founder: Orthomolecular Medical Society -- with Linus Pauling, Bernard Rimland, Julian Whitaker, Michael Lesser (1976). Book: MegaNutrition (1980). Book: MegaNutrition for Women (1983).
He has impresively produced over 70 presentations at major medical symposia. Dr. Kunin has been a ‘nutrition physician’ since 1967 and is fully active with patients while leading in the exciting development of Health-Medicine.