I agree that it is much better to get everything you need from your diet. In my case however, I have never made a lot of time in my schedule for meals. I recently started eating breakfast and up until December 1st of last year I was eating 1 meal a day (salad, rice, and chicken/fish). I would snack some days and have an occasional second meal earlier in the day. Cancer happens, the 405 freeway causes cancer so I am not too concerned about that. I would be willing to be though that most of the studies where supplements=cancer that the subjects probably had upper moderate to heavy use of supplements. I would not expect ayurvedic herbs to be a part of this study.
The only supplements I’d like to push other than B12, Vitamin D (or a multivitamin a couple times a weeks) is ‘raw foods’.
Regardless of diet (omnivore, vegetarian, vegan) I strongly think anyone that has only 5 percent or less raw food in their diets is heading for trouble.
There are plenty of tasty raw food recipes to easily increase a persons diet to 20 percent or more raw foods.
I have tried most popular supplements and never really continued any of them, maybe they helped but I didn’t really notice. An exception might be Creatine, it increased my chin-ups from 10 to 12 but I discontinued that when it ran out because I believe most supplements have harmful effects too along with any healthful benefits. The creatine didn’t help my omnivore friends so maybe it tends to help vegans like me, nevertheless without it I am still stronger than most in any judo or ground fighting groups I’ve attended.
Best wishes, Gil.
I make smoothies for breakfast with hemp protein and take flax seed oil, echinacea and goldseal vitamins and a multivitamin.
I've begun taking these liquid vitamins recommended by my chiropractor:
I began to feel a difference within two weeks. Very subtle, but a difference nonetheless, which I never noticed before with any other multiples I've tried.
I didn't even realize when I bought them that they contained enzymes, but immediately after starting on them, my daily stomach pains disappeared. I have only had one day where my stomach has hurt in the past month and a half, and that was when I missed my vitamins for three days.
I also take the calcium version, and take a double dose as my chiropractor did kinesic testing and that was the recommended dose for me.
I have never had a vitamin make me feel better like these have, and they don't even have high doses. They taste good, too. 
I take those daily and about 6-8,000 iu of vitamin D daily. I live in Alaska, we don't get the sunshine to make our own much.
I have severe food allergies and stay away from supplements in general -but I have recently added black strap molasses and apple cider vinegar with a bit of baking soda as a partial electrolyte replacement. I’m also from the Caribbean, so coconut water is pretty routine for me too. Apart from that it is just regular home cooked food for me.
Dr. Budwig diet is quite good. It was meant to fight severe diseases like cancer, but the use of such diet from time to time can only help.
Basically, it helps repair the cells:
I do not use supplements…unless sick
[QUOTE=CityMonk;61122]I do not use supplements…unless sick[/QUOTE]
When all the food was natural, probably the use of supplements was not necessary.
Nowadays though…
There are many dietary supplements, most of them good. Too many of them-bad.
“The bad does not come from bad things, but from the abuse of good things.”
Arrthur Schopenhauer
I am going to quote a great dietary book, written by a great medical doctor: Russell Blaylock. He had a few specialties. He even cured cancer patients with the right nutrition.
and supplements. You can read about him on the net.
There are many books on nutrition, but this one is written by a an expert, who explains
the biological mechanisms of nutrition:
Eg: did you know that turmeric is a great cancer inhibitor ? Did you know that the absence of even ONE single basic nutrient can cause severe diseases ?
I was reading about taking vitamins and what I found was that if your vitamin doesn’t digest in x amount of time you pee out the unused nutrients. If this is true then if I had a high fiber food before taking a vitamin it would have more time to dissolve?
I am currently using
New Chapter Every Man, and Neurozyme
coQ10
Fish oil ( 160mg EPA, 100mg DHA, 60mg other(…?) Neurozyme also has 75mg from wholemega which is another New Chapter product.
Bee Pollen (infrequently)
I am on my first week as a pescetarian and have added quinoa to my diet. I suppose I should try to get this daily.
Hi Rd,
What among the list you outline above do you consider a “vitamin”?
Or more to the point, what are you referencing when using the term “vitamin”? Is that an all-encompassing term for you?
gordon
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;64629]Hi Rd,
What among the list you outline above do you consider a “vitamin”?
Or more to the point, what are you referencing when using the term “vitamin”? Is that an all-encompassing term for you?
gordon[/QUOTE]
I never really thought about it that. I would say that the multi and neurozyme would be vitamins since they are blends while the fishoil and coq10are supplements like the pollen.
The question I had about high fiber foods before taking, “vitamins” was in regards to the the multi, neurozyme, fish oil, and coq10.
dictionary for vitamin which does not match what I was thinking.
?noun
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
[QUOTE=Rdlagrand;64624]I was reading about taking vitamins and what I found was that if your vitamin doesn’t digest in x amount of time you pee out the unused nutrients. If this is true then if I had a high fiber food before taking a vitamin it would have more time to dissolve?
I am currently using
New Chapter Every Man, and Neurozyme
coQ10
Fish oil ( 160mg EPA, 100mg DHA, 60mg other(…?) Neurozyme also has 75mg from wholemega which is another New Chapter product.
Bee Pollen (infrequently)
I am on my first week as a pescetarian and have added quinoa to my diet. I suppose I should try to get this daily.[/QUOTE]
While some supplements have no side effects (bee pollen, eg) some supplements present hidden dangers. Eg fish oil capsules. They are highly oxidative. They have to be kept in the fridge and taken with vitamin E.
[QUOTE=oak333;64677]While some supplements have no side effects (bee pollen, eg) some supplements present hidden dangers. Eg fish oil capsules. They are highly oxidative. They have to be kept in the fridge and taken with vitamin E.[/QUOTE]
My multi has 30iu 100% dv of vitamin E. I have kept my fish oil on a shelf near my desk since they were not refrigerated at Mother’s Market. Thank you for letting me know. I was only aware that you should watch for fish oil that has been molecularly distilled.
Medicine has clearly established that most degenerative diseases are accompanied, if not
caused, by a lack of GLUTATHIONE, a powerful anti-oxidant found in all body cells.
Note that antioxidants act at specific body cells: in the eyes, in the blood, in the kidneys, etc.
Once an anti-oxidant does its duty, to react and destroy free radicals, it is depleted and becomes itself a free radical. Gluthathione reestablishes the initail state of the antioxidants (vitamin C, E, etc)
Note that vitamins act synergistically: you have to take always vitamin C together with viatmin E. One cleanses the other, after performing their duties…
Another powerful antioxidant, acting in the whole body, is alpha lipoic acid (do not confuse it with alpha linoleniic acid from the flaxseed oil). It cleanses even glutathione, after its use.
Probably I should have mentioned, in my previous message, that all degenerative diseases
are caused by free radicals.
Oxygen acts at the cell level: 95 % is used to produce energy in the cell and the remainder 5 % oxidates and creates free radicals, which damage the cells.
[QUOTE=Rdlagrand;64686]My multi has 30iu 100% dv of vitamin E. I have kept my fish oil on a shelf near my desk since they were not refrigerated at Mother’s Market. Thank you for letting me know. I was only aware that you should watch for fish oil that has been molecularly distilled.[/QUOTE]
You should check how vitamin E was manufactured.
If it is made of naturally mixed tocopherols or tocotrienols…it is OK.
If it is d-alpha tocopherol… forget about it.
Accept only “mixed tocopherols.” d-alpha tocopherol, beta, gamma and delta tocopherols.
Never buy synthetic vitamin E; it is bad for your health.
Modern medicine has started to recognize again the effectiveness of herbs. Medical drugs may be more potent, but they create too many side effects and they lack the complexity of
the herbs, which act synergistically.
In the immune system, herbs are all important. There are many types of immune cells, each type being helped by specific herbs. More frequently on the list you find:
Ginseng -probably the best is the Siberian ginseng
Garlic
Pycnogenol- whose anti-oxidant powers are 50 times more potent than vitamin C and
20 times more potent than vitamin E. It has many other great properties.
Indeed modern medicine recognizes more and more the importance of herbal treatment.
In the report below, there are described angiogenesis inhibitors ,stimulators, and
modulators.
Angiogenesis is a process of formation of new blood vessels. in cancer angiogenesis forms new blood vessels which provide fresh nutrients to cancerous tumors. In eye diseases, angiogenesis forms new blood vessels which supply nutrients to the eye. Trouble is that these new blood vessels are fragile, break and spill bllod in the eye,
leading to wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
Angiogenesis can be also a good process in other cases. That is why there are
angiogenesis “modulators” switching angiogenesis off and on.
The importance and efficiency of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is recognized more and more. Eg some herb components might be toxic, but are automatically thy are
counteracted by other components, in the same herb. The side effects of Western medicine are well known.
[QUOTE=David;52061]What is the difference between supercritical tumeric and tumeric? I’ve been taking tumeric for its anti inflammatory properties and you have me curious.[/QUOTE]
The active component in turmeric is curcumin, cca 4 % concentration in turmeric. It is a great dietary supplement.