Re: supplements every day?

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In a message dated 10/12/04 9:02:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, apater@... writes:

>I personally wouldn't take any supplement every day of the year -

not even

>every day of the week.

What about calcium, vitamin D and vitamin E isoforms for the

individuals not receiving adequate amounts? I take iron plus vitamin

C before preparing breakfast/lunch/dinner each day.

Al, my own personal belief is that I can't know the exact amount I need each day. So some days I must get more than I need, and other days I lay off so my body can rest from having too much. I figure that earth's history has humans eating seasonally anway, so maybe it's even a good thing that supplements come in waves, too. That's my intuitive approach, as it is.

Comments from anybody on that?

I also wouldn't eat the same food every day. Most of us, I think, get "sick of" the same thing over and over, so I take that as a clue, too. Still, a long time ago, I'd read that Pritikin discovered that Borneo natives lived well enough almost solely on yams - along with killing a pig once a year for the village. But maybe there's nothing in yams that they need a rest from.

I know from experience that if I were to take two multivitamins per day, then within a week or less I start to get cranky

I lately take lecithin almost every day, because of my personal experience with it.

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Ken

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Many of the old natural healers observed that taking herbs 6 days/1

day off, 6 weeks on/6 weeks off, 6 months on/6 months off, etc..

proved more efficacious than continually.

In nature, there are natural variations over each season of the

chemicals in plants and herbs (and animals as a byproduct), so in

this age of standardized herbal extracts, nutritional supplementation

and factory farming, it's seems prudent to try and stick to the

natural cycles our species evolved on.

Logan

> Al, my own personal belief is that I can't know the exact amount I

need each

> day. So some days I must get more than I need, and other days I lay

off so my

> body can rest from having too much. I figure that earth's history

has humans

> eating seasonally anway, so maybe it's even a good thing that

supplements come

> in waves, too. That's my intuitive approach, as it is.

>

> Comments from anybody on that?

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Hi Logan:

Have you considered the possibility that the " broad " spectrum of

allergies from which you apparently suffer may be related to what

seems like a very long list of weird supplements you take? (or, at

least, recommend people take).

Rodney.

> > Al, my own personal belief is that I can't know the exact amount

I

> need each

> > day. So some days I must get more than I need, and other days I

lay

> off so my

> > body can rest from having too much. I figure that earth's history

> has humans

> > eating seasonally anway, so maybe it's even a good thing that

> supplements come

> > in waves, too. That's my intuitive approach, as it is.

> >

> > Comments from anybody on that?

[Guest guest]

> - exposure to substances that cause an allergic reaction cause

> stress that ages the body

I've never seen any evidence for that, per se. But the inflammatory

reactions can cause scarring, such as in the lungs. Chronic

inflammation is never good.

> - an allergic reaction is an immune reaction that occurs when the

> body, rightly or wrongly, identifies a bacteria, virus or protein

> as a harmful invader

An overraction, actually. Thus anything that can modulate the immune

system may dampen the response to allergens, like sterolins. I react

more to whey that contains immunological-enhancing factors than

caseine which does not. But on the other side of the coin, chronic

high cortisol actually dampens the immune system. So I don't

understand how allergies can come from both extremes of the immune

system.

> - the immune system does not operate within the gut, so large

> molecules that can't be absorbed can't cause an allergy?

Large molecules that shouldn't be absorbed can be absorbed in Leaky

Gut Syndrome.

> - once an allergy is acquired, it can't be reversed?*

Anything can be reversed when the actual cause is identified and

properly dealt with. :-)

Logan