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1. Health Conditions - What is good Health?
2. The Difference Between Drugs and
Nutrition Supplements
3. Well Known Health Tips that No Longer Apply
4. Vitamin C - The Missing Vitamin
Health Conditions - What is good health?
Years
of man made foods open the door to all sorts of disease.
What should you do?
Health is the optimum
operation of all your organs and cells. If you viewed your
health on a scale:
100% - Perfect Health
80%
60%
40%
20%
O% - Death
100% would be perfect health.
Everything functioned just the way it should. You would have lots of
energy and would not have attention on your body. It would just work.
On the bottom of your scale = 0% would be the non-functioning of all your
cells and your body. This would be Death.
Now what about all those
ranges in between? Well, around 20%, on your way down, you would go
into the realm of Disease. This is the Medical Doctor's area of
expertise and where they save people from incapacity and death. The
Medical Doctors are experts in this area and their tests and protocols will
handle these situations. This is where their energies are placed.
100% - Perfect Health
80%
60%
40%
20% - Disease
O% - Death
But, have you ever felt really
bad, you're not functioning at you best, you've got aches and pains, or
maybe you're really tired all the time. You go to see your medical doctor
and he/she does all the standard tests and they are all normal. You
may even take some highly sophisticated tests and they still show within the
normal range. But, you feel bad......???
Well, you're in that range
somewhere below 100% and above 20%. Here is where you aren't in the
range of disease, but in something we like to call dis-ease. It
isn't life threatening, but it threatens your well being and ability to live
happily.
Around 80%, things aren't bad,
but not perfect, Around 60% you start getting those aches and pains and
other non-optimal feelings. You start feeling bad.
100% - Perfect Health
80% - Less than perfect
60% - Dis - Ease
40% - Dis - Ease
20% - Disease
O% - Death
How do you stop the plummet
down the scale? Well, you pay attention to what you eat. You
pay attention to the poisons in the air and the poisons you put in your body.
You find out what foods you need, or what supplements you need and start up the
ladder again. You make sure you exercise your body.
The body given the right fuel
will run optimally. Each cell will run well and the DNA will
make a new perfect cell when it is time to reproduce itself. However, if
you don't give it the right nutritional ingredients, it won't be able to make a
perfect copy.
How does that work?
As an example, let's say you
hired a contractor and asked him to build you a perfect replica of the Taj Mahal.
He could do it; he is that good a contractor. He knows the tools of his
trade. But, the only materials you give him is plywood
and nails. He would do the best he could, but he wouldn't
build that perfect replica. And it wouldn't stand up the way the original
has.
You get the picture?
Well, why would your body behave differently. If you only give it
sugar, caffeine, and an imbalance of what it needs, it isn't going to build
really good cells that are capable of doing their job.
In fact, continually getting the wrong foods and you body has
deficiencies which become disease.
What about when you get the
best food, when you can't always eat right. The answer
supplementation.
Let's get back up the scale
Lots of non-optimum conditions
are the result of years and years of poor eating. Giving the body
"plywood" instead of what it really needs to survive well.
What can you do about it?
Start giving your body the vital ingredients it has been depleted of.
Continue to give your body all the ingredients it needs to build a healthy body.
Stop giving it that "plywood" and give it what it some
"steel". Or if there isn't a lot of good "steel"
around, give it concentrated nutrients - supplementation.
Now the body is a bit more
complicated. It needs a lot of ingredients to create good health.
Ingredients for health
There are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential
fatty acids, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. Collectively these
forty nutrients are spoken of as the body's requirements. From these our bodies
synthesize an estimated 10,000 different compounds essential to the maintenance
of health. All the forty nutrients work together, therefore, the lack of
any one might result in the underproduction of hundreds of these essential
compounds. Probably no one nutrient is ever totally lacking from an otherwise
adequate diet, but partial simultaneous deficiencies of many nutrients is
common.
Now, you have to remember that
it took years and years of bad eating and living in a polluted environment to
bring the body into the condition that will produce non-optimum health
conditions, and thus, you can't take the correct vitamins, minerals, fatty acids
and amino acids for a day or two and expect to handle the situation.
True sometimes just a day or two makes you feel much much better because you've
given your body those things it most needs.
But. supplements aren't drugs, they don't create instant results. Nutrition,
both food and supplements, supply the body with those things it needs to build
the cells that will make the body function correctly.
So, maybe it might take a few
months to start seeing real changes, but you will see those changes.
One rule of thumb is that it will take you one month for each year that you have
had a non-optimum health condition to make a change. But, then
again, the body is resilient and it can start re-building and changing
things very quickly. But, remember, your body needs
these things every day to function. Don't drop our your supplement
regiment because you feel better. Start paying attention to what you eat,
and make sure you take those vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids
that are missing in your diet.
Now
that you know the basics of supplementation, we want to introduce you to our
index on Health Conditions and what you can do about those non-optimum body
problems.
The Difference Between Drugs and Nutritional Supplements
For what every ails you, , a person has only a few choices about what to do about it..
The Drug Approach
What a drug does is it forces the body to do something that it normally wouldn't do.. When it comes to a medication, the body reacts in certain ways to this medication and it is done in order to achieve a desirable effect. For instance, in order to balance itself and handle the effects of a drug, the body has to lower its blood pressure. If this is what you want to happen because its a blood pressure medication, it's a good thing. However, there are also various other ways the body can react to the drug and sometimes this is not such a good thing - this is called a "side effect". It is the reason someone can wind up on 4 blood pressure medications. Each drug is given in an attempt to balance another drug so as not to create the various side effects of the other drugs. It is a balancing act.
The Natural Approach
What a nutritional supplement does is give the body the actual tools it needs to fix the body.
In the case of neuropathy, it is the nerve cell that is damaged. The body needs certain tools (nutritional factors) to do this repair. Drugs don't repair anything; they treat the symptom, not the cause of the problem.
As with our example of blood pressure, if they don't know what is causing the high blood pressure, the drug just lowers it artificially. the supplement doesn't force the blood pressure low, but addresses the cause of high blood pressure and brings your body into better balance, and the blood pressure goes to normal.
The cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, the chemicals used in cancer treatments, injury to the nerve, etc. - but one thing is known, the damage is done to the cell and this causes the pain.
You can cover this up with pain killers, or with other drugs that are manufactured to handle this, but the drugs aren't repairing anything. They are trying to forces the body to not give you pain, not give you numbness, etc., And sometimes more damage to the nerve cell might happen due to the drug or other drugs you are taking,
The Nutritional Approach
Nutritional supplements are actually vitamins and minerals that the body needs to repair the cells. The body needs certain nutrients to function properly.
In the case of neuropathy, there are specific ingredients needed by the body to repair the cells. These are the supplements you want to take.
Another difference is that if you are taking a drug and just covering up symptoms, you have to continue to take the drug to get relief and sometimes even have to increase the drug to get the same relief.
If you take natural supplements, the body can fix the problem, and as long as you don't do anything to damage the cells again, there is an end to taking the supplements.
For neuropathy see: Nerve Support Formula
For High Blood pressure see High Blood Pressure
For other health challenges, see McVitamins.com
Well Known Health Tips that No Longer Apply