Minerals
Zinc
Magnesium
Magnesium
If you have white spots on your finger nails like the one in the picture, you are most likely defficient in Zinc. Supplement zinc (citrate / gluconate) 25 to 50 mg per day until the spots disappear and add to your diet lots of nuts.
Zinc is specifically critical to:
- Digestive health
- Sperm count and prostate health in males
- Egg quality, estrogen and progesterone metabolism in females
- Fertility in males and females
- Thyroid function
Magnesium
Magnesium
Magnesium
If you are one of the constipated majority on planet earth, I have a quick fix for you, Magnesium citrate (or oxide) is a magical and mild quick fix for constipation.
Magnesium is a muscle relaxant and improves peristalses. Along with that, it is essential for hundreds of other body functions.
Most of the constipated people will be deficient in magnesium because your body will prioritize where it goes and which functions will use it first until it is depleted.
And let me tell you..in the jungle where
a lion might be running after you (alternatively, your 9 to 5 job), peristalses will not be a priority function. After all, you will survive with constipation longer than if you are not running fast enough from the lion because your adrenals are not getting enough magnesium!!!
600 to 800 mg of magnesium CITRATE (or oxide) before bed should take care of your constipation first thing the next day.
If you are chronically constipated, see your nutritional practitioner. Your body is sending you a signal, do not ignore it.
Top 10 magnesium rich foods: spinach, chard, pumpkin seeds,yogourt and kefir, almond, black beans, avocado, dark chocolate, banana.
Vitamins
Vitamin C
Vitamin C
Vitamin C
Does your gum bleed every time you brush your teeth?
Gingivitis is a sign of vitamin C deficiency. A deficiency that produces symptoms of hemorrhage from different organs - your gum is the visible part that communicates with you the message.... Similar reaction could be happening in your eyes, kidneys, and other vital organs!
Unlike other mammals, humans cannot manufacture vitamin C due to a genetic mutation. So, they have to ingest it continuously in high amounts.
Goats for example, produce 200mg/kg daily (not to mention the amounts they ingest). Apply that to an average human of 70 kg it will make 14g (14000mg)!!! But we are lucky, our blood can recycle vitamin C so we need much less than that.
Vitamin C plays important roles as an anti-oxidant, in collagen synthesis, increasing absorption of iron, tissue and organs health, bones and joints health and brain health.
You need to build tolerance to vitamin C. If you take too much your body will get rid of it in the form of diarrhea.
Start with 1000 mg and reach 3000mg to 4000mg gradually.
Foods that are rich in Vitamin C include:
Red pepper, citrus fruits and leafy greens
Vitamin C is destroyed by very low heat, so make sure you eat those foods RAW.
Vitamin D
Vitamin C
Vitamin C
It is the time of the year when we start feeling the winter blues, depression and low level of energy.
This is the perfect time to start taking your vitamin D3 to avoid having all those sysmptoms.
By now the reserves of vitamin D that your liver stocked during summer are depleted.
Depression is the main symptom of vitamin D deficiency. Also having frequent colds and flus is related to the dificiency as this great vitamin supports the immune system.
Number 1 and almost only source of vitamin D is the sun
Helpful Facts
Swimming
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Sexual Health
The swimming pool's water has a high dose of chlorine to prevent bacteria growth.
Swimming for 30 minutes or an hour in this amount of chlorine will generate a huge amount of free radicals in your body. And will kill most of your skin flora (good bacteria) and even reach your gut bacteria.
Help your body deal with this oxidative stress by taking powerful anti-oxidants right before (or after if you forget) your workout.
800 mg of (mixed) vitamin E (my favorite is Mixed Vitamin E from #Natural_Factors ) and 1000 mg of vitamin C (non-GMO from #Costco has a very reasonable price) will take care of those nasty free radicals or at least a good part of it. Also make sure you do not shower with hot water your workout and take probiotic supplement.
Sexual Health
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Sexual Health
Adrenals are two little glands located above the kidneys. Those are your best friends in this stressful life. The Suprarenal Glands "Adrenals" are the "maestro" of both your sex hormones and stress hormones. It is no surprise that a person under stress will experience low sex drive. Adrenals have a switch, they work either on sex hormones (male sex hormones mainly dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and testosterone) or on stress hormones (adrenaline for short-term stress and cortisol for long-term stress).
Imagine a tiger hunting you in the jungle, what would your priority be? To run as fast as you can or to look for a mate and reproduce?
The adrenaline rush will block any sex hormone and will push the blood away from your internal organs (including your reproductive system!!) to your muscles getting you ready to "Fight or Flight".
Once the stressor is gone and you either killed the tiger or escaped, the stress hormone levels go back to normal and now the blood goes back to your reproductive system and your adrenal switch to sex hormones.
Now imagine, this tiger is your 9 to 5 job!!!! It never stops hunting you and your stress hormone levels never go down! 😳
Support your adrenals with vitamins rich diet (vitamins C, B5, and magnesium are essential) and adaptogen to help you adapt with different levels of stress (St. John's Wort, Ashwagandha, Rhodiola, etc..)
Gallbladder Removed
Gallbladder Removed
Gallbladder Removed
Got your gallbladder removed?
It does not end here!
Removing the gallbladder means that your body will never be able to properly emulsify your dietary fats. The bile produced by the liver is concentrated in the gallbladder and then used to emulsify fats in order for the body to be able to use it for energy and other functions.
Why is this so important when we don't need any fats for energy?
Your body will not be able to absorb or use all the fat soluble vitamins. Vitamins A - D - E and K are fat soluble vitamins, they will not be absorbed in the absence of emulsified fats.
As a result, symptoms of deficiency will start showing as the years go by. Vitamin A deficiency will cause eyes disease such as night blindness, dryness and thickness of the coronae leading to its destruction. Skin conditions such as complete dryness and keratinization of the skin, eczema and rashes.
Vitamin D and vitamin K deficiency will eventually lead to osteoporosis. And vitamin E deficiency will cause invisible damages on the cell level (vitamin E is a powerful anti-cancer anti-oxidant).
The solution is to supplement bile for the rest of your life. Commonly extracted from bovine sources (ox bile), it will act as the natural bile and emulsify the fats leading to better absorption of fat soluble vitamins.
#Now_Foods included ox bile in the #Super_Enzymes product. I did not find ox bile in the health stores, but it is sold on #Amazon
Finally, do not freak out if you feel the same pain after gallbladder removal. This is the "PHANTOM" effect .. your body still thinks it has a sick gallbladder!!!