In the article  "Make Sure You're Using Unleaded" we discussed the kind of fuel our bodies need.  Specifically we talked about the fact that our bodies need vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and essential fatty acids, and that if a food does not contain these things, even if it is edible, it is not really a food.  We learned that only fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, and animal products contain the nutrients we need.

However, according to a 1988 Department of Agriculture report, our food supply is dangerously low in nutrients.  Because of farming practices which concentrate on growing the same food item on the same land year after year, the soil has become depleted of nutrients, and therefore the food grown on that land is also nutrient-deficient.  This situation was of some concern to the Department of Agriculture, and it should be of some concern to consumers as well.  Why?  Because even if we do consume the healthiest possible diet, we will still not be able to meet our bodies' nutritional needs with food alone, because that food does not contain the vitamins and minerals it was originally designed to contain.

That's why food is not enough to keep us healthy.  If our food supply was at it's optimum level, then perhaps we could hope for optimum health.  The only thing we can do is supply our bodies with the nutrients which are missing from our food supply. Also, some people think that if we follow the Recommended Daily Allowance that we will have optimum health.  The RDA was constructed after World War II, and based on the minimal requirements for prevention of severe deficiency disease, rather than on the requirements for optimum health or deficiency correction.  The RDA will not correct your vitamin deficiencies because it only contains enough nutrients for you to barely survive.  It's like making the minimum payment on your credit card.  It just barely moves you along toward getting out of debt....but if you have an emergency and have to use the card again, you're back where you started quickly.  If you are only getting the RDA, and you have a lot of stress or get sick, you are back in the hole again.  You need much larger amounts of nutrients for optimum health.  If you were to try and get all these nutrients from food alone, you would be eating all day.  We must also consider that we live in very stressful times.  Our jobs, our relationships, the time pressures we are under, the fact that we often don't get enough sleep, all conspire to make our nutritional needs more significant.

Over the last few years, I have searched out and tried many, many supposedly high quality nutritional supplements.  Many turned out not to be very helpful.  Right now I am working with a company whose supplements are out of this world!  I highly recommend that you try them.  The company is Nutronix International.  Here's a summary of their products:

Biomins - This is a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement.  It also contains the Glucose Tolerance Facter and many amino acids.  The way I can tell if a vitamin is synthetic or natural is whether or not it turns my urine bright yellow.  If it does, I know that the capsules are full of synthetic vitamins, since they aren't discarded in the urine unless they fail to be absorbed by the body. Synthetic vitamins have low absorbability, so you will often notice this bright yellow color in the urine. The Biomins do not give me this bright yellow color in my urine. My urine is only a light straw color, which is acceptable.  This supplement contains the minerals you need, in the proper ratios, and also contains several amino acid and herbs.

SangoCaps - Coral Calcium capsules also containing the whole mineral spectrum.  Highly recommended.

O2 Performance Hydration - This product has minerals little tea bags which you drop into a glass of water, and this water is converted into an ionic solution which delivers these minerals in a form that quickly absorbed.  The O2 in this product may:

Assimilate vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat and the supplements you take
Combat arthritis and heart disease
Cleanse the kidneys, intestines, and liver
Protect your body from free radical cell damage
Increase muscle and joint mobility
Increase your oxygen levels
Control digestive problems
Regulate blood sugar
Manage blood pressure
Neutralize harmful acids that lead to illness
Help in fighting the battle against cancer and other diseases

Also, it takes 32 glasses of alkaline water to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz soda.  So even if you only drink one can of soda a day, I'm sure you are not following that up with  32 glasses of water.  While I wouldn't recommend soda at all, if you drink it you certainly need something to neutralize that acid.

Shu-Li Pouches - These are pouches that contain powdered ingredients, and are affixed to the bottom of the feet during the night while you sleep, and they draw toxins out of the body through the bottom of the feet.  You can also affix one to any part of the body that is painful and it will assist in removing the toxins that are causing the pain. Stimulates the reflexology points on the bottom of the feet.

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