Optimal Health Starts At The Cellular Level

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We all want to enjoy better quality of life:

  • More energy
  • Better mood
  • Ability to handle stress
  • A better sleep

We want to feel great!

How have we become so sick?

Most of us have a basic understanding of what is involved in living a healthy life. We know that we should eat right, exercise, drink lots of water, get enough sleep, and manage stress. If this is common knowledge, then why are we observing an epidemic in often preventable diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer? How did we get to this point?

The Bottom Line: Nutrition is the foundation of optimal health

Healthy cells build healthy tissues, glands, and organs. Nutrients from our diet are vital for cells to grow, multiply, replicate, and renew. Although we live in the land of plenty, most of us are not getting enough nutrients from our diet. Optimizing nutrition must be the first step in the pursuit of wellness. The body has the innate ability to heal itself; nutrition provides the tools to supports this.

Why are we deficient in necessary nutrients? farming

1. The nutrient content of our produce has decreased dramatically over the past twenty years. This is largely due to green harvest practices (harvesting produce before it ripens), intensive same-crop farming, and genetic modification.[1]

Research shows that:

  • In 1951, a woman would have to eat two peaches a day to receive the US recommended daily allowance of vitamin A. Today that number has increased to fifty three peaches.[2]
  • Nine oranges today will provide the same amount of vitamin A that your peachesgrandparents got from just one orange.[3]
  • “Nutrient losses are similar in twenty-five of our most popular fruits and vegetables.” [4]

In June 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that “Most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone…it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements.” [5]

2. Growing research supports the theory that many people with compromised health may suffer from chronic parasitic infections. This is referred to as dysbiosis or a silent infection because it doesn’t display the typical symptoms of an acute infection (high fever, etc.) and is difficult if not impossible to identify with available tests. The parasite competes with its host for nutrients, causing additional nutrient deficiencies. The parasite can also cause inflammation to the lining of the digestive system, affecting the absorption of nutrients.[6]

3. The typical North American convenient, highly processed, high-glycemic diet is deficient in necessary nutrients. North Americans have been on low-fat diets for at least twenty years, yet are more obese now than ever before. The healthiest way to eat is low-glycemic. It is a lifestyle, not a diet.

Notes:

1. Proevity Continuing Education Group, “How to Evaluate Vitamin and Mineral Products” (2009). www.proevitycme.com.                                                                      2. Jeffrey Christian, “Charts: Nutrients Changes in Vegetables and Fruits, 1951 to 1999,” compiled for CTV News, July 5, 2002. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20020705/favaro_nutrients _chart_020705.                                                                                          3.Ibid.                                                                                                        4. Proevity Continuing Education Group, “How to Evaluate Vitamin and Mineral Products” (2009).                                                                                         5. R.H. Fletcher and K.M. Fairfield, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, “Vitamins for chronic disease prevention in adults: clinical applications,” JAMA ? Journal of the American Medical Association, 287, no. 23 (June 19, 2002), pp. 3127?9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12069676.                                   6. Alex Vasquez, “Reducing Pain and Inflammation Naturally. Part 6: Nutritional and Botanical Treatments Against ‘Silent Infections’ and Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis, Commonly Overlooked Causes of Neuromusculoskeletal Inflammation and Chronic Health Problems,” Nutritional Perspectives (January 2006). http://optimalhealthresearch.com/reprints/series/vasquez_part6_2006_dysbiosis.pdf.