WHAT ARE PROBABLE REASONS FOR CHANGES IN HEALTH AFTER INGESTING VITAMINS AND MINERALS?

Can we brand illusive reasons for changes in illness after ingesting vitamins as well as minerals?

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R.O. March 31, 2010 at 11:04 pm

It is a wellknown fact that there is a “competition” between healthy eating/living and pollution. The more pollution (in the food we eat, the air we breathe etc), the greater is the need of vitamins and minerals.

If we inherit a less good health, it means we need to set higher demands to our diet.

Increased strain by one metal (cadmium as an example) requires a better protection of the opposite mineral zink.

Let me for a moment refer to our aging process as a rust-process. Areas in the body that only get sufficient oxygen only now and then, easier gets weakened – sometimes referred to as a “reperfusion-injury”. This process is hurried up by certain vitamins and minerals, also called pro-oxidants because they hurry up the oxidation-process, or say the rust-process.

To stay healthy is to take sufficient – not too much and not too little – antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. That way, our body is helped back to the homeostasis – the optimal balance.

Hope it helps
R.O.

annie42 March 31, 2010 at 11:38 pm

Of course. It can correct underlying deficiencies and have dramatic effects. Scurvy (from low C) causes sores to not heal, for instance. Overdoses have effects also.

greydoc6 April 1, 2010 at 12:24 am

Reason one: Placebo effect.
Reason two: The patient had a terrible diet.
Reason three: The patient has a condition that prevents natural uptake of the vitamin, eg pernicious anemia.

Reason four: If the patient’s health worsens, he is probably taking too many vitamins and minerals.

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