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Our Modern Diet - The Bad / What are Vitamins?
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While I believe everyone has an inalienable right to treat themselves, it's always best to work with a physician when treating a specific disease. At the very least, read up on the subject-public libraries, book stores, and health food stores carry many health books. Even then, a licensed clinical nutritionist is your best insurance in getting expert advice. After all, have you ever tried to repair your car by reading a manual and proclaiming yourself as an expert?
Free radicals are damaged molecules missing an electron. Because electrons prefer to come in pairs, free radicals steal electrons from healthy molecules. This may not seem like a big deal, but it adds up. Oxygen free radicals are the most dangerous type because they can damage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic program in every cell, and cause cancerous changes. Free radicals also oxidize cholesterol, making it more dangerous.
Forty years ago, Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., proposed the free radical theory of aging. He said-and the evidence backs him up-that free radicals inevitably accumulate and age the body. This is significant because the risk of disease increases with both age and large numbers of free radicals. Researchers have documented that free radicals are involved in more than 50 diseases.
Antioxidant nutrients quench many of these free radicals by donating extra electrons. As a result, the aging process slows and the risk of disease decreases. Some of the best nutritional antioxidants are vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, selenium, coenzyme Q10, and flavonoids.
If you're already taking a high-potency multivitamin, or individual antioxidants, you probably don't need an actual antioxidant supplement. If you aren't taking any supplements at all, an antioxidant formula is a good way to start. If you're shopping for an antioxidant formula for the first time, think in terms of this easy-to-remember suggestion: ACES, for vitamin A (or beta-carotene), vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium. OPC Synergy and Super EFF are the two supplements for this purpose.
This is the most common question I'm asked-and the most difficult to answer without an analysis. Take a free test to see how we go about evaluating this.
It's important to know that when you take Standard Process™ supplements, you're taking a very concentrated food. For example, one supplement that we use is called Organic Minerals. This product is produced by starting with 80 pounds of organically grown vegetables, taking the water and fiber out without cooking the vegetables, and then converting the remainder into one bottle of 90 tablets of Standard Process Organic Minerals.
Use the following guidelines when you take Standard Process™ supplements:
- Take your supplements three times during the day. If you miss a dose, double it the next time you take the supplements.
- Always take your supplements with food (with exceptions listed below).
- Do not take Cataplex B during or after your evening meal. It may keep you from sleeping at night.
- If you should experience a feeling like "I don't want to take my supplements", contact us immediately. It's important that the program you're on agrees with you.
- If you feel the number of supplements that have been prescribed are too much to take, communicate this to your doctor. To get the desired result, it is very important that you follow your exact supplement schedule.
All supplements should be taken either with food or after you eat with the following exceptions:
Take the following BEFORE meals on an empty stomach:
- Zymex II
- Calcium Lactate
- Calsol
- Cataplex F Perles
- Chlorophyll Complex Perles
- Cataplex D
- Wheat Germ Oil Perles
- Sesame Seed Oil
- Linum B6
- For-Til B12
Take the following BEFORE meals:
- Cholacol
- Neuroplex
- Take the following AFTER meals:
- Zypan
- Betacol
- Cholacol II
- Betafood
Take the following with a FULL GLASS OF WATER:
- A-C Carbamide
- Disodium Phosphate
- Cyruta
- Cyruta Plus
- Fen-Cho
- Fen-Gre
- Ferrofood
- Spanish Black Radish
- Phosfood Liquid
- Collinsonia Root
Yes, definitely. Read here.
Standard Process™ supplements are only sold through health care practitioners. So you won't find them in health food stores or drug stores. But to answer this question, yes. There's a big difference. Health food brands generally avoid the use of sugar, lactose, artificial colors, and common allergens as excipients-that is, the non-nutritional substances that hold tablets together. Drug store brands are generally not as discriminating in the types of excipients used.
Supplements won't make up for a bad diet. If you eat only junk food, supplements can't provide you with every nutrient found in good, nutritious organic food. As the terms suggests, supplements are supplements to-not replacements for-food. So, eat a good diet with a lot of fruits and vegetables and a large amount of protein.
Yes, you can lessen the cost by eating more nutritious food. What's more nutritious? Well, cut out all of the preservatives, chemicals, hormones and dyes in food by going to a health food store. Buy organic meat. Whether you're buying a house, a car, or vitamins, you always have to balance cost versus benefit. "You get what you pay for" applies here.
First, and most important to you, you'll feel better. If you suffer from allergies, symptoms will lessen. If you catch colds, you'll probably have fewer. If you've had stiffness in your joints, you'll have better flexibility. Often, the worse a person's health, the more dramatic the response to treatment.
Second, if you've had laboratory tests, they can improve. Perhaps you've had a low number of red cells for a long time. Perhaps your ratios of fats in the blood are out of ratio. These can improve. You may have toxic metals as revealed in the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis. These levels can lessen. There are numerous methods of determining your progress. Your assigned health care practitioner will define what tests will be used to determine your progress.
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