Let’s start with vitamin A – the first vitamin to be discovered. The scientific name for vitamin A is Retinol and we can take this as a supplement or we can buy Beta-Carotene as a supplement which the liver converts to Retinol when it needs it. Vitamin A boosts the health of your skin and supercharges your immune system. General dose for Retinol is up to 10, 000 iu daily and Beta Carotene dosage should be around 10 mg whichSee More… How To Buy Vitamins | Vitamins A to K2 MK7
Minerals For Our Health | Buying Guide
Physicists tell us that we are stardust and that most of the elements in our bodies were made, were “cooked” in stars. I am going to use the words Element and Mineral interchangeably and we’re going to focus on making it easier to get the best type of each mineral when we shop for supplements. To begin with some minerals are essential for our health, some are optional and some are even dangerous. For example, Essential: Zinc, Magnesium and PotassiumSee More… Minerals For Our Health | Buying Guide
No Deaths from Supplements and 225,000 deaths from Hospitals
Got an email this morning from Andrew Saul the author. He edits the Orthomolecular News – in other words how to use vitamins and other natural nutrients to help keep us safely. In the email he shares some disturbing facts and I share them here not to make you feel worried but to help you make better decisions about the health of yourself and your family… There were many thousand phone calls from people concerned about taking supplements That highSee More… No Deaths from Supplements and 225,000 deaths from Hospitals
3 Steps to Purification: Cleanse, Detox, Chelate
In one word we focus in this blog on “purification” the process of ridding your body and brain of the thousands of industrial chemicals in our air, water and food supply. We have 3 main ways to do this Cleansing: People have felt the need to cleanse and purify themselves since ancient times using streams, natural geysers and hot baths. Detox They also added the use of healing plants to help us detox the liver and other organs with herbsSee More… 3 Steps to Purification: Cleanse, Detox, Chelate
High Dose Vitamin C Saves Another Life
When is a vitamin not a vitamin? No this is not a Nutrition Quiz but an issue so serious that it nearly cost Alan Smith his life. Maybe it was a mistake for the scientists who discovered Ascorbic Acid to call it vitamin C. Why is that a mistake? …Because vitamins are used in tiny amounts to prevent and cure disease. But vitamin C can and should be used not in tiny sprinkles of a few milligrams but in spoonfulsSee More… High Dose Vitamin C Saves Another Life
Diesel Deception – Is Dieselgate The Door To a Cleaner Future?
The revelation that VW, the carmaker, has been cheating environmental standards is slowly working its way through official circles, clean air campaigning groups and the public. Labelled #Dieselgate by the media it promises to have enormous consequences for VW and for diesel cars generally. The deception was found and published by West Virginia University although it seems that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic were aware of the problem and had been for several months. The Problem In ASee More… Diesel Deception – Is Dieselgate The Door To a Cleaner Future?
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Bisphenol A and How You Can Limit Its Health Risks
Bisphenol A often called BPA is a widely discussed chemical that has been causing concern and even alarm since the 1990s. The worries focus on the ability of the BPA molecule to trigger hormone pathways in the body. So the popular press has used the word, “gender bender” to describe some of the effects of BPA and the scientific press describes it as an “Endocrine disruptor” and of materials with BPA having “EA” – that is of having “Endocrine activity”.See More… Bisphenol A and How You Can Limit Its Health Risks