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Vitamin D – The sunlight hormone.
It is well known that Vitamin D
is produced in the body by the action of sunlight on the skin. It is less known
that it functions as a hormone, in that it’s active form is produced in the
body and regulates body functions. Basically, a precurser, of vitamin D3,
7-dehydrocholesterol, produced from
cholesterol (from dietary fats and oils) by the body, is converted by sunlight
on into Vitamin D3. The liver then must convert this form of vitamin D into
another form of D. The kidneys (recently found to occur in other tissue such as
lympth glands and skin) are the next in line to convert the Vitamin D converted
by the liver into the final active form of D3, the active form that we can use.
The parathyroid (small gands near the Thyroid) tells the kidneys how much
active D3 to produce. This active D3 determines how much Calcium and Phosporus
is absorbed from the intestinal tract and taken from the bones. D3 is also in animal products where the animal
has gone though the process and stored it in tissues that are then eaten by the
person, but it is still need to be processed by the liver followed by the kidneys.
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Seawater - Super mineral Supplement.
Researcher in Japan observed cats going down to
the beach and drinking sea water. The examined the cats and found they had high
levels of mercury in them. The scientists then found where they were coming
from. They all came from an area polluted by mercury waste from a nearby
industry. The amazing thing was that they found the cat were able to cope with
the mercury because the sea water was chelateing it, enabling them to safely
elimiate it.
Sea water has been used on
gardens watered down about 3 to 1, or even straight with and imense increase in
quality and yeild. The reason is that the needed minerals from the sea are put
back into the soil where it orginally came from. The same result has occurred
using Celtic sea salt sprinkled on the soil and watered in.
Drinking sea water, or using
sea mineral concentrate is the cheapest mineral supplement you can get, and it
is coloidal. It will stimulate the bowels, which may be desired or undesired in
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Nutritional supplements. Do
we need them?
Shouldn’t we get all the nutrition we need out of our
food? Why does it appear that modern man is unable to be healthy without extra
vitamins and minerals? Is it fallacy? Let us look at history, is man and his
environment getting better. History shows a decline. This is especially true of
the last 100 years, but evidence exists that a few thousand years ago the plants
were much better. Let us confine ourselves to the last 100years.
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Biotin – Super Vitamin
Biotin is a B complex vitamin
and is essential for human health and life. This amazing vitamin is involved in
the production of the branch chain amino acids, eg L-leucine, L-isoleucine, and
L-valine) from protein we eat. It is also essential for the production of fatty
acids from fats, and the processing of sugars by the body. Other functions
include maintaince of skin, bone marrow and sex glands, liver function and cell
growth. Biotin reduces cholesterol plaques in blood vessels. It has also be
found to inhibit the destructive effects of oxidative substance produced
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What else is in that supplement?
Words
like “pure” or “natural” may only refer to the active ingredient. “Inactive”
ingredients called excipients are often found in supplements. These substances
are as fillers to bulk up the product to a useable sized item, lubricate the
tablet mould or aid the manufacturing process in some way, enhance flow, suspend, glaze, preserve, bind, coat,
disinter grate, colour, and flavour. These can cause allergies, impede
absorption, and have undesirable effects on the body. Hence they are not really
inactive ingredients; they just don’t do what is intended by taking the
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