Dear Member,
You may have seen the CBS Evening News recent two part series on supplements. Their “expert” claimed there’s no proof that supplements actually do anything for anyone. For many, it cast doubt on their safety and usefulness.
The position that there is no evidence is shocking. There are thousands of published, peer reviewed, clinical studies showing the effectiveness of nutritional supplements. The library at my Wellness Research Foundation is packed with them.
The issue of safety and proof of effectiveness of supplements in general is not even a worthy debate. Yet a much more useful question to ask is “Do you really need a particular nutritional supplement?”
Ideally, you should be able to get nutrients from your diet. But over the last century, the levels of nutrients in your food supply have plummeted. You’d have to eat 40 bowls of today’s spinach to get the iron that you would have gotten from just one bowl several decades ago.
These days, it’s impossible for vegetables to soak up minerals from the ground when commercial fertilizers and unnatural farming practices have virtually sterilized the soil, destroying the essential mineral content that produce depend on.
And aside from low nutrient content, you simply don’t have access to a “natural diet” anymore. No food has been untouched by “progress.” Even so-called organic foods are not the same foods our ancient ancestors enjoyed. This is the central point of my upcoming I’m The Doctor’s Diet Cure.
You’ve been “dieting” since the day you were born. You’ve NEVER had access to your natural diet. And this change in your food supply constitutes an involuntary diet. A diet you started before you were old enough to understand the consequences and without your consent.
Everyone seems to suffer from a nutritional deficiency of one sort or another. Nutritional supplements can help restore balance I see it everyday when my patient’s blood tests come back.
Vitamin C is another good example that is much lower in commercial produce than the wild fruits and berries that we evolved to live on. And to get the level of vitamin C from commercial produce to give you maximal health seems practically impossible.
Dr. Mathias Rath reported on the remarkable doses of vitamin C needed to prevent heart disease. He gave one group of guinea pigs the equivalent of 80-mg of vitamin C for a human (the government’s recommended daily allowance). The other group received the equivalent of 2,000-mg. Guinea pigs – like humans – are one of the few animals that no longer have the ability to create their own vitamin C.
After six months, the group receiving 80-mg showed advanced signs of heart disease with narrow, hardened arteries. The group receiving 2,000-mg had flexible, healthy arteries with no sign of disease.
If you were to simply take extra vitamin C (2,000-mg a day), cod liver oil (4 grams a day) and CoQ10 (150-mg a day), you’d be likely to lower your risk of both heart disease and cancer.
In the battle for your health, it’s the reverse of the CBS Evening News position that is the real threat. So many times, you don’t even hear about a safe and natural cure because your doctor went straight to recommending an expensive and dangerous drug instead. In your next Doctor’s Call, I’ll tell you about the biggest oversight for your heart and healthy cholesterol.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD