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Registered pharmacist, nutritionist and cosmetic chemist, Ben Fuchs shared alternative health concepts, and offered tips on supplements and healthy changes to one's diet and lifestyle. It's a fallacy that the use of prescription drugs can bring people back to good health, he remarked, as they disrupt the "exquisitely choreographed biochemistry of the body." Rather, maintaining good health involves such things as movement, breathing, correct food, supplementation, and hydration, he suggested. Speaking about the problem of over-prescribed antibiotics, he noted that Vitamin C is actually one of the best natural immune boosters.
He characterized Type 2 diabetes as a "lifestyle disease" instead of something spread by germs or toxins. It's a food issue, compounded by nutritional deficiencies, he continued, and he recommended trying out a ketogenic diet, along with such minerals as chromium, vanadium, magnesium, and zinc. The supplement, alpha lipoic acid, is particularly good for peripheral neuropathy, he added. For someone suffering from cataracts, he advised reducing caloric intake (especially from sugar), eating vegetables high in certain pigments such as carotene, and taking supplements like selenium, lutein, zinc, and Vitamin E.