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1. Multivitamin- Digestion consists of breaking foods down into micro-particles for use by the body. The purpose of digestion is to extract the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc., from the food you eat. All the necessary enzymes, HCl, and other chemicals that are needed for digestion and absorption, are released during the eating process. Beginning at the age of ~21, our bodies start producing less digestive enzymes and HCL; therefore, in order to get maximum absorption of micronutrients, from the foods we do eat, we do need to supplement these. Our present day food supply is extremely deficient in vitamins and minerals; some foods are even void of all nutrients, like the genetically-modified “foods” that have entered our food supply. Since our foods are deficient and our soils are depleted, everyone needs to supplement their diet with a multivitamin. Our multivitamin needs to be bioavailable, which means, the body can absorb and use them, so we get the benefits from them and we aren’t throwing our monies away. If we can’t absorb the vitamins, why buy them? You think you are getting all the nutrients that your body needs, when you really aren’t.
Our food supply is critically deficient in minerals, too, due to many factors; soil depletion being one and processing being another. Mineral deficiencies are more common than Western medicine has acknowledged. We are seeing many diseases disappear with the use of minerals! Without minerals, vitamins, enzymes, and many other biochemical processes cannot occur in our bodies! Taking one specific mineral, without the others, is not good for you. This is why you must take minerals with other minerals AND in the correct ratios to each other! For example, taking a calcium supplement without taking vitamin D, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc will put your body out of balance. Calcium is kept in “check”, so to speak, by these other minerals. When you take calcium by itself, you throw the balance off and then you begin to have signs of calcium excess; high blood pressure, breathing difficulties, kidney stones, “hardening” of the arteries, gall stones, brittle bones, nails, and hair, etc. Vitamins and minerals play a key role in our health and well-being. Many diseases can be linked to vitamin and mineral deficiencies! Isotonic form of multivitamin is 90-95% bioavailable to our body!
2. OPC-3 – Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins are extremely powerful antioxidants! With the massive amounts of free radicals and oxidative stress that we are exposed to DAILY, OPC-3 helps to keep free radicals to a minimum! OPC-3 not only is a powerful antioxidant, it also promotes cardiovascular and joint health, helps maintain healthy cholesterol and blood glucose levels, demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity and supports normal blood vessel function. This is a must, along with an isotonic multivitamin.
3. Omega 3 Fatty Acids - Fish oils, or omega-3 fatty acids, are a special class of essential fatty acids (EFAs). Essential fatty acids are needed by our body for many functions, especially as an anti-inflammatory! Essential means that our body does not make these, they must be gotten from our diet. Only two are found in fish oils: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Both of these are found in seafood, especially cold-water fish. Fatty fish like albacore tuna, cod liver, halibut, herring, mackerel, lake trout, salmon, sardines, as well as whale and seal blubber are high in these omega-3 fatty acids, containing roughly 1 gram of omega-3 fatty acids per 3.5 ounces of fish. The third omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), is found in items like flaxseed, tofu, and nuts. The typical American consumes far too many omega-6 fatty acids, (which are pro-inflammatory), in their diet while consuming very low levels of omega-3’s. The ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fats is 1:1. Today, our ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 averages from 20:1 to 50:1! The primary sources of omega-6 are corn, soy, canola, safflower and sunflower oil; these oils are overabundant in the typical diet, which explains our excess omega-6 levels. Avoid or limit these oils. Omega-3s, meanwhile, is typically found in flaxseed oil, walnut oil, and fish, as stated above.
4. Vitamin D3 – As you have heard more and more, we are deficient in vitamin D and this is causing many problems for our society. Vitamin D has been linked to many diseases and we therefore, must take a supplement. Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins that our body can actually make BUT, only when we are exposed to the sun. We have receptors in our eyes and skin that receive the sun’s rays and trigger our body to produce vitamin D. This is a problem since our windows are tinted in our homes, cars, and work places. We wear sun screens and sun glasses and are told to AVOID the sun; all limiting our production of vitamin D! Our body makes 10,000 IUs of vitamin D for every 10 minutes of sun exposure we have. That tells us how important our body considers vitamin D to be! This also tells us how low the RDA for vitamin D is at 400 IUs! The current research shows us that babies need at least 1000 IUs, children need at least 2000 IUs and adults need 5000 IUs; a far cry from 400 IUs.
5. Digestive enzymes - Digestive enzymes are proteins which are used by the body to break down food into nutrients which are then digested. The human body produces around 22 different digestive enzymes, each of which acts on a different type of food. Enzymes are also found in fruits, vegetables, meat and other foods. Clients are often lacking sufficient digestive enzymes because of poor diets and many other factors like cooking vegetables with high heat and pasteurization. Temperatures > 105 destroy enzymes. Microwaving foods destroys enzymes! If our foods are not properly broken down they cannot be absorbed by the body, we then become deficient and disease develops. Part of the normal aging process, our production of enzymes and HCl decreases. If you have any digestive problems and/or disease present, you need to supplement.
6. HCl – Hydrochloric acid, produced by the lining in our stomach. Hydrochloric acid serves many functions, the three most important are:
1. It is the primary digestive juice responsible for breaking down proteins, preparing them for assimilation/absorption.
2. It acts as a protective barrier, killing many potentially harmful micro-organisms in our food.
3. When we consume acid forming foods and / or engage in acid forming activity, the production of stomach acid assists in the elimination of excessive tissue acidity (hydrogen ions).
As we get older and/or over use this acid producing system, we deplete the production of HCl that is needed for proper digestion. Unfortunately, too many people are misdiagnosed with acid reflux and are put on acid- blocking drugs which only make all of this worse. More than 50% of Americans are deficient in HCl!!! Supplementation is a must in today’s world.
7. Probiotics – Probiotics means “with life” vs. antibiotics which means “against life”. Probiotics are live microbial organisms that are naturally present in the digestive tract and vagina. Probiotics are considered beneficial and are sometimes referred to as "friendly" or “good” bacteria. Some of the ways they are thought to promote health include suppressing the growth of potentially harmful bacteria, improving immune function, enhancing the protective barrier of the digestive tract, and helping to produce vitamin K. There are over 400 species of microorganisms in the human digestive tract, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. Because the nutritional origin of many diseases we face is connected to a lack of balance in our intestinal bacteria, or normal “flora”, one of the first suggestions I make to a new client is for him or her to start taking a probiotic. Our digestive tract is full of trillions of microorganisms that help to keep our body healthy. A number of medical, diet, and lifestyle factors are believed to disturb the balance in the colon. This imbalance is called dysbiosis. Antibiotics are one example; not only do they kill off the “bad” bacteria, but, they also kill off the “good” bacteria. Every course of antibiotics kills off more “good bacteria”! America is “Pro-antibiotic”…everything is antimicrobial; hand soaps, dish soaps, etc., to say nothing about all the household cleansers that are full of chemicals, the radiation that our foods receive, etc…… These are just a few examples of how we lose our “normal flora”, on a daily basis! Good bacteria fight disease and we must replace what we lose.
FYI: (OPC-3 is 10x more potent antioxidant than Vitamin C and/or Vitamin E……)
8. Vitamin C – This is another vitamin that we are deficient in. Unlike vitamin D which is a fat-soluble vitamin (it needs fat to be absorbed into our body), vitamin C is water-soluble. This means that within a few hours of taking it, you excrete excess vitamin C through your urine. It does its job and leaves. This is why you need to take vitamin C in divided doses throughout the day. Vitamin C has many important functions in our body; one being a potent antioxidant. It attaches to free radicals and neutralizes them. (Free radicals cause oxidative stress in our body. They do the same thing that causes iron to rust or “oxidize”.) It also assists in the manufacturing of many biochemicals and is essential to the development and maintenance of scar tissue, blood vessels, and cartilage. Scurvy is an avitaminosis (any disease caused by chronic or long-term vitamin deficiency or caused by a defect in metabolic conversion, such as tryptophan to niacin), resulting from lack of vitamin C, since without this vitamin, the synthesized collagen is too unstable to perform its function. Scurvy leads to the formation of liver spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from all mucous membranes. The spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized. In advanced scurvy there are open, suppurating wounds and loss of teeth and, eventually, death. The human body can store only a certain amount of vitamin C, and so the body soon depletes itself if fresh supplies are not consumed. Trying to consume the amount of fruits and other foods high in vitamin C would be almost impossible, very improbable, in today’s world, therefore, supplementation is a must!
9. Vitamin E – This is an excellent antioxidant, as vitamin C is. Where vitamin C is a water-soluble antioxidant and does it work in our blood and plasma, vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant and it works on cell membranes and other cell parts, neutralizing free radicals there. Vitamin E also boosts the immune system, inhibits platelet adhesion, improves the action of insulin, protects vitamin A and increases its storage, helps prevent Alzheimer’s, lung, esophageal, and colorectal cancer, can stop oxidized cholesterol therefore protects your blood vessels, can act as an estrogen substitute and relieve hot flashes, and is needed by the ovaries to function properly.
For more information about your customized nutritional supplement plan, please go to www.nutrametrix.com/soulitudes and complete the FREE Nutri-Physical. If you still have questions, please call Bonnie at 585-747-4818 or email Bonnie at bonnie@soulitudes.com. We are always available to help you on your journey to Wellness!