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Prescription-Induced Deficiencies
Taking medications? Check this out to see if your medication might be impacting your nutritional status. PRESCRIPTION INDUCED NUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES
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Osteoporosis: Slowing it down!
It starts with getting adequate calcium in your first 30 years of life. There are a number of lifestyle factors that can help with the latter: Getting regular exercise, especially weight-bearing and muscle strengthening exercise. Getting adequate vitamin D, whether through diet, exposure to sunshine, or supplements. Look for a multivitamin that supplies 800 to 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day. If your multi only has 400 IU of vitamin D, consider taking an extra supplement. Many people may need 2,000 IU per day (or more) of vitamin D for adequate blood levels, particularly if they have darker skin, spend winters at higher latitudes (such as the northern U.S.), or…
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Are you getting enough calcium? [calculator]
Calcium is a mineral that the body needs for numerous functions, including building and maintaining bones and teeth, blood clotting, the transmission of nerve impulses, and the regulation of the heart’s rhythm.The recommended intake as per the National Academy of Sciences is: 1,000 milligrams/day for those age 19 to 50 1,200 milligrams/day for those age 50 or over 1,000 milligrams/day for pregnant or lactating adult women Click here for calculator: This will walk you through the foods you eat, and the amount of calcium you get on a daily basis. It will then tell you if you are deficient. The body gets the calcium … From your food:Dairy products, dark leafy…
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Fat Deficiency Symptom Checker
Too little fat in your diet? Say what? Yes, you, might be getting too little. Not eating enough fat can create all sorts of problems including, believe it or not, making you fatter. [more on that later] Even the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has changed their recommendations on fat intake. It no longer includes an upper level of total fat intake AND even more importantly, it doesn’t recommended low fat foods or diets for obesity prevention. Yo udefinitely want to avoid the bad fats – transfats, overheated fats, hydrogenated fats [read labels, limit fried and grilled food, and get rid of the margerine and processed meats. – but you need the…
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A Supplement Strategy
It sure would be convenient if a vitamin supplement could take the place of real food, but unfortunately, that is not how we are designed. We are designed to eat real food, mostly vegetables [and some fruit] throughout the day. That does not mean we do not need supplements. I’m with Dr. Walter Willett [Harvard School of Public health] who agrees that supplements do play an important role of filling in the gaps we have in our diet due to lifestyle choices or deficits in our food supply. If you think you might quality as someone who DOES NOT NEED supplements. Heres the check list. – You eat lots of…
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Low Energy? How to stoke it.
You have an engine inside your cells that generates energy. This engine is called “the mitochondria.” This is where the air you breath and the nutrients you eat meet to create ENERGY. If your mitochondria is not working well, you feel depleted and you will age faster. A mitochondrial dysfunction might produce symptoms such as chronic fatigue, sluggish metabolism, digestive disorders, memory loss, brain fog, blood sugar irregularities, and chronic pain. Even a predisposition to cancer is related to mitochondrial function. When working properly, mitochondria can effectively kill off the damaged, potentially cancerous cells we produce every day, replacing them with healthy cells. Here are some simple ways to boost…
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CLA – fat-burning, immune boosting
To Enroll in the Live Well Now System click here The following information is for educational purposes only. Always check with your supervising health professional before making diet and lifestyle changes. KEY POINTS Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a polyunsaturated fat found in linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid found mostly in plant oils. CLA helps your body build muscle rather than store fat and has anti-inflammatory properties. It may even help prevent cancer. The best natural sources of CLA are grass-fed beef, butter and full-fat dairy. Animals need real grass and greens in their diets to make CLA, so it’s important to go for grass-fed sources. Another source is…
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Good Bug Bad Bugs
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Why I Choose Isotonix Supplements
To Enroll in the Live Well Now System click here The following information is for educational purposes only. Always check with your supervising health professional before making diet and lifestyle changes. Here are seven reasons why Isotonix delivery is superior. 1) Nutrients are delivered at full concentration. Isotonix products are formulated to have the same osmotic pressure as our own body fluids, allowing the isotonic solution to pass through the stomach with minimal exposure to the stomach’s acidic environment, where nutrient degradation might otherwise occur. 2) Nutrient absorption begins in minutes, not hours. It can take several hours for the stomach to digest and the make food isotonic for passage…
