Vitamin Supplements

Salt

Sodium and chlorine are both very powerful substances when they are alone. When combined they form a useful combination called sodium chloride. This is ordinary table salt. Without sodium chloride in our bodies, we could not live. This salt is necessary in maintaining the normal acid-base balance of the body. This is good news, for most of us like a little salt with our food. Read the rest of this entry »

Selenium

FACTS:

Vitamin E and selenium are synergistic. This means that the two together are stronger than the sum of the equal parts.

Both vitamin E and selenium are antioxidants, preventing or at least slowing down aging and hardening of tissues through oxidation.

Males appear to have a greater need for selenium. Almost half their body’s supply concentrates in the testicles and portions of the seminal ducts adjacent to the prostate gland. Also, selenium is lost in the semen. Read the rest of this entry »

Phosphorus

FACTS:

Present in every cell in the body.

Vitamin D and calcium are essential to proper phosphorus functioning.

Calcium and phosphorus should be balanced two to one to work correctly [twice as much calcium as phosphorus]. Involved in virtually all physiological chemical reactions. Necessary for normal bone and tooth structure.

Niacin cannot be assimilated without phosphorus.

Important for heart regularity.

Essential for normal kidney functioning. Read the rest of this entry »

Tissue salts are inorganic mineral components of your body’s tissues. They are also known as Schuessler biochemical cell salts, after Dr. W.H. Schuessler, who isolated them in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Schuessler found that if the body was deficient in any of these salts, illness occurred, and that if the deficiency was corrected, the body could heal itself. In other words, tissue salts are not a cure, but merely a remedy.

The twelve tissue salts are:

Fluoride of lime [calc. fluor.] — Part of all the connective tissues in your body. An imbalance can be the cause of varicose veins, late dentition, muscle tendon strain, carbuncles, and cracked skin. Read the rest of this entry »

Effects of Caffeine on the Body

There are no doubts about it, caffeine is a powerful drug. That’s right, drug. Chances are you’re not just enjoying your daily coffees or colas, you’re addicted to them.

Caffeine acts directly upon the central nervous system. It brings about an almost immediate sense of clearer thought and lessens fatigue. It also stimulates the release of stored sugar from the liver, which accounts for the “lift” coffee, cola, and chocolate [the caffeine big three] give. But these benefits may be far outweighed by the side effects.

The release of stored sugar places heavy stress on the endocrine system. Read the rest of this entry »

The Worst Things in Life Are Free

You still have some control over the food you eat and the water you drink, but you’re stuck with the air you breathe. And if you live in any major urban area today, you’re breathing polluted air.

With each breath you subject your lungs and body to a wide range of pollutants. No part of you is immune. Pollutants affect your nose, eyes, throat, skin, and internal organs as well. In fact, it has been estimated that breathing air in the Los Angeles basin is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. And since each cigarette is estimated to cut twelve minutes off your life, every breath you take in a polluted environment brings you that much closer to where you don’t want to go. Read the rest of this entry »

First keep in mind the dangers of too much sugar and salt. And, in case you don’t think you eat too much sugar and salt let me remind you of the “invisible” sugar and salt you can be taking.

Kinds of Sugars

More than a hundred substances that qualify as sweet can be called sugars. The ones we come in contact with most often are fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit and honey; glucose, the body’s blood sugar and the simplest form of sugar in which a carbohydrate is assimilated; dextrose, made from cornstarch and chemically identical to glucose; lactose, milk sugar, maltose, the sugar formed from the starch by the action of yeast; and sucrose, the sugar that is obtained from sugar cane or beets and refined to the product that reaches us as granules. Read the rest of this entry »