Why Everybody Can Benefit From Taking Nutritional Supplements

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Why Everybody Can Benefit From Taking Nutritional Supplements

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by Dr. Sarah Myhill, MD* ImmuneSupport.com

07-25-2007

 

Dr. Myhill is a UK-based specialist in treatment of fatigue with a focus on

preventive care, nutrition, and patient education.

 

Everybody can benefit from taking nutritional supplements regularly. I do. My

reasons are as follows:

 

1. We evolved over millions of years requiring a high calorie diet. Man was

physically active requiring energy to keep warm, hunt, gather, fish and fight.

Modern man is a lounge lizard by comparison. We simply do not need to eat as

much. Because we eat less calories, we eat fewer vitamins, minerals and

essential fatty acids which would accompany those calories.

 

 

2. There is a one-way cycle of trace elements from the soil, into plants and

animals, into us, then out into the sea. We are not recycling composted human

sewage onto the land and so we are out of balance. Trace elements in the soil

are being depleted and not replaced, so we too are becoming deficient.

 

 

3. Plants cannot absorb trace elements directly from the soil. They rely on

fungi called mycorrhiza which cover the root hairs, absorb soil water and trace

elements, and put them into a bioavailable form for the plants to absorb.

Artificial nitrogen and pesticides kill mycorrhiza and so chemical farming gives

us malabsorbing plants.

 

 

4. Plants grown on chemical fertilizers grow rapidly and outstrip their trace

element supplies. For example, cows put on such “flushed†grass may develop

grass staggers - acute magnesium deficiency.

 

 

5. We tend to eat foods which have been processed, so many nutrients are

lost, and these losses are accelerated by sugars, caffeine, alcohol, and other

such social poisons (delightful though they may be!).

 

 

6. We are increasingly exposed to toxins which require vitamins and minerals

for their excretion. These toxins effectively increase our needs for all

nutrients. The commonest cause for iron deficiency anemia in this country is tea

drinking. Tea contains tannin which binds (chelates) trace elements including

iron and so blocks their absorption. More obvious toxins include pesticide

residues, lead, mercury (in fillings), cadmium (smoking), aluminum (water),

volatile organic compounds (perfumes, solvents, exhaust fumes), and so on - a

seemingly endless list.

 

 

7. The rate of human evolution is accelerating all the time. We are all

called upon to make changes to our lives all the time. This is very stressful.

Western man has probably never been so stressed on an everyday basis, and this

increases nutritional demands.

 

 

Importantly, 98% of all body tissues are replaced every six months. It may

take this time to get the full benefit from supplements.

 

 

My family are hopeless at taking supplements so I put them into the cooking.

Fruit salad gets a sprinkling of vitamin C, oils and minerals get squirted

into stews, mashed potato, and soups. It is impossible to disguise the B

vitamins, so they go on the table with breakfast and I bully my girls until they

get

swallowed. Actually, now they are at University, they have found they do not

feel well unless they take supplements – they even telephone me for orders!

 

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* This material is reproduced here with kind permission of the author, Dr.

Sarah Myhill, MD, from her patient-information website (DrMyhill.co.uk) R Sarah

Myhill Limited, Registered in England and Wales: Reg. No. 4545198.

 

 

 

 

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