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Biological Based Systems
As defined by The National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, "Biological-Based Therapies include natural and biologically-based practices, interventions, and products, many of which overlap with conventional medicine's use of dietary supplements."
Some examples of Biological-Based therapies include:
• Herbal Therapies
Echinacea
Gingko
Milk Thistle
St. John's Wort
The Role of Dietary Supplements in Women's Health
(Reprinted with permission from Support Line, a publication of Dietitians in Nutrition Support, a practice group of the
American Dietetic Association)
• Special Diet Therapies
*Disease fighting and risk reducing diets
USDA Food Pyramid
Vegetarian
Macrobiotic
Gerson
Livingston - Wheeler
Kelly - Gonzalez
• Functional foods & Phytochemicals
• Orthomolecular Therapies
*Treating disease with varying concentrations of chemicals and mega-doses of vitamins.
• Individual Biological Therapies
*Some unproven examples include the use of shark cartilage for cancer, bee pollen for autoimmune and inflammatory disease
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