The term "food supplement" is supposed to mean a nutrient that adds to your diet an ingredient or group of ingredients that nourish your body that you are not getting in your typical diet each day.
A vitamin is a cofactor that your body uses to create enzymes and nourishes cells. Minerals cannot be manufactured by your body, like many vitamins can. Minerals must be ingested each day to nourish the body. Each organ in the body is very dependent upon one of the minerals in particular to nourish it. If the organ doesn’t get this mineral, it enlarges to compensate for the lack of this mineral. A good example is the Pancreas needs chromium. Each of the minerals compete with another mineral for absorption. Copper and Zinc compete. If you get too much copper in your body, you will become zinc deficient. Copper is used by the Adrenal Glands and Zinc by the Prostate, as well as many other functions. If you eat lots of zinc tablets for colds, for instance, you can become deficient in copper and your adrenal glands will not work well. Balance is the key.
If you take multi-vitamin tablets, you will do more damage to your body and not live as long as someone who doesn’t. This is because single vitamins, not in their complete complex as nature intended, will scavenge the body looking for the other members of the complex and extract it from the body. A very good example of this is people who take Ascorbic Acid as a vitamin C supplement. This is terrible for you. The natural vitamin C complex is made up of many cofactors that are required to make up the real vitamin C. You will become deficient in calcium and many other nutrients when you take this single chemical activator (some call vitamin).
If our food supplies were grown on rich, fertile, organic soils, and not chemical waste lands, we would be getting all the nutrients we needed from the foods, but they are not, thanks to the food industry. We have lost 50% of the nutrients in foods that we had in them just 25 years ago. Because of this, we are forced to take "food supplements," but only those that are totally natural with good cell resonance like we find in our bodies, naturally, and in their complex form with all the cofactors.
Is it no wonder when you walk into a food mausoleum where all the dead food is stored (super markets) you walk out with toxic chemicals and dead food that has little nutritive value.
It typically has referred to a vitamin, mineral or other "substance" that they believe helps the body in some way or another, but it hasn’t been approved by the FDA.
The crazy thing is that most medicines that are derived from nature (i.e.: plants) would qualify as a "food supplement," and it is common knowledge that many substances effect mood, health, etc., however, for some reason the government won’t take a stand on things that are not "provable" to some unknown degree. If you were to read the Physician’s Desk Reference on medicines, many of them have less-than-exact explanations as to how medicines work, and some are labeled as just "unknown" as to how they work, they just have the desired effect.
So, your question is excellent, but kind of hard to answer because the whole subject seems to be skewed in its definitions and evaluations of what is a "drug" and what is not.
a food supplement isnt a healer. It replaces nutrients your body needs to function. Like for instance, people who are on feeding tubes, they get their nourishment through a bag filled with (food supplement). It is kinda like taking a vitamin by providing you with all the necessities your body needs.
The term "food supplement" is supposed to mean a nutrient that adds to your diet an ingredient or group of ingredients that nourish your body that you are not getting in your typical diet each day.
A vitamin is a cofactor that your body uses to create enzymes and nourishes cells. Minerals cannot be manufactured by your body, like many vitamins can. Minerals must be ingested each day to nourish the body. Each organ in the body is very dependent upon one of the minerals in particular to nourish it. If the organ doesn’t get this mineral, it enlarges to compensate for the lack of this mineral. A good example is the Pancreas needs chromium. Each of the minerals compete with another mineral for absorption. Copper and Zinc compete. If you get too much copper in your body, you will become zinc deficient. Copper is used by the Adrenal Glands and Zinc by the Prostate, as well as many other functions. If you eat lots of zinc tablets for colds, for instance, you can become deficient in copper and your adrenal glands will not work well. Balance is the key.
If you take multi-vitamin tablets, you will do more damage to your body and not live as long as someone who doesn’t. This is because single vitamins, not in their complete complex as nature intended, will scavenge the body looking for the other members of the complex and extract it from the body. A very good example of this is people who take Ascorbic Acid as a vitamin C supplement. This is terrible for you. The natural vitamin C complex is made up of many cofactors that are required to make up the real vitamin C. You will become deficient in calcium and many other nutrients when you take this single chemical activator (some call vitamin).
If our food supplies were grown on rich, fertile, organic soils, and not chemical waste lands, we would be getting all the nutrients we needed from the foods, but they are not, thanks to the food industry. We have lost 50% of the nutrients in foods that we had in them just 25 years ago. Because of this, we are forced to take "food supplements," but only those that are totally natural with good cell resonance like we find in our bodies, naturally, and in their complex form with all the cofactors.
Is it no wonder when you walk into a food mausoleum where all the dead food is stored (super markets) you walk out with toxic chemicals and dead food that has little nutritive value.
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It typically has referred to a vitamin, mineral or other "substance" that they believe helps the body in some way or another, but it hasn’t been approved by the FDA.
The crazy thing is that most medicines that are derived from nature (i.e.: plants) would qualify as a "food supplement," and it is common knowledge that many substances effect mood, health, etc., however, for some reason the government won’t take a stand on things that are not "provable" to some unknown degree. If you were to read the Physician’s Desk Reference on medicines, many of them have less-than-exact explanations as to how medicines work, and some are labeled as just "unknown" as to how they work, they just have the desired effect.
So, your question is excellent, but kind of hard to answer because the whole subject seems to be skewed in its definitions and evaluations of what is a "drug" and what is not.
Hope this helps!
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If it is not bearing "drug facts" on the label, but instead says "Nutrition facts" then the FDA has not recognized the item as a medicine.
That does not mean it won’t help you. But, truly, if your probleme is serious, seek a doctor’s help.
a food supplement isnt a healer. It replaces nutrients your body needs to function. Like for instance, people who are on feeding tubes, they get their nourishment through a bag filled with (food supplement). It is kinda like taking a vitamin by providing you with all the necessities your body needs.