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Living Longer And Feeling Better

Lately, there has been a trend to recommend supplement to people. Have you heard of the book “How to live longer and feel better” by Linus Pauling, that book has rave reviews on Amazon.com.
There is an article out there about Pauling on MedicalNews:

Linus Pauling’s claim, that he knew a cure for heart disease, cancer and infections, was greeted with ridicule. His remarkable health claims concerned the substance we know as vitamin C. Now, ten years after his death on 19th August 1994, his revolutionary ideas are finally on the way to vindication. Given his history, it should not surprise us if Pauling was right all along. He was, after all, the leading chemist of the last century and, arguably, the greatest ever American scientist. He remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, the first for Chemistry (1954) and the second for peace (1962). In addition to being one of the greatest scientists ever, he was a renowned humanitarian…..

….A new scientific theory, called the dynamic flow model, explains all the observed responses to vitamin C in the literature. This model is described in the book “Ascorbate”, mentioned above. According to the model, people should ideally be in a state of dynamic flow, which means they should ingest more vitamin C than they need, in the form of divided dose supplements. The extra ascorbate flows through the body and is excreted in the urine. It is not wasted, however, as the excess acts as a reservoir when extra vitamin C is required. Dynamic flow is the closest we humans can get to restoring our physiology to how it was before we lost the ability to make vitamin C in our bodies, as most other animals still do.

In his book Pauling gives a complete system to stay in good health. Someone also recommended to me coral calcium. In a story published on NaturalNews:

It’s difficult to get sufficient calcium from a balanced diet

There are quite a few other related issues to this question beyond just whether or not Bob Barefoot is telling the truth about coral calcium. The biggest question, I think, is “Can people get sufficient quantities of usable calcium from the typical diet?” Now this is a favorite myth of conventional medicine, which is to say that all you need to have adequate nutrition is to eat three balanced meals a day, and you’ll get all the vitamins and minerals you need. You don’t need any supplementation whatsoever…..

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That’s a common myth promoted by people in conventional medicine who really don’t have the education or the understanding in nutrition that we would now consider to be authoritative. There have been significant advances in the understanding of nutrition over the last couple of decades. And yet, medical schools are still teaching nutrition as it was taught in the 1960s.

So, conventionally trained medical professionals are not going to understand this point, and most likely, they’re going to argue with you if you present them with this information because they’re not only wrong, but they also operate under the misimpression that they are right. The point I’m trying to make here is that based on my own calculations of the nutritional makeup of typical American food, the average person would have to consume 10,000 calories a day just to meet the minimum USRDA requirements for all the vitamins and minerals that are tracked by the USRDA chart.

10,000 calories a day is five times the food intake that an average adult human being should be consuming. In other words, you would have to eat ravenously — you would have to engage in non-stop, belly-splitting consumption. You’d be chewing food constantly just to get the essential vitamins and minerals into your diet that you’re supposed to get to avoid chronic disease.

And yet, at the same time, you’d be getting 10,000 calories, which is five times the calories you need, meaning that you’d be packing on pounds at the rate of around two pounds of body fat per day.

So, obviously this is not a strategy for being healthy. Yes, you would get all the vitamins and minerals you need, but you’d be spending five times as much on food and you’d be adding two pounds of body fat a day, unless you were engaged in some superhuman cardiovascular exercise program. Remember, even a guy like Lance Armstrong only burns about 5000 calories a day during the competition. So, to burn 10,000 calories a day is virtually impossible.

Supplementation is the answer for nutrition
What does this all mean? It means you have to supplement if you’re going to be healthy, and meet the minimum requirements for vitamins and minerals. So, what I’m saying is that the average American must take nutritional supplements if they want to prevent chronic disease, or even meet the basic minimum requirements for nutrient intake.

So coral calcium, vitamin C, I got recommendation for other supplements as well, this is a huge topic, I’m not sure, I want to go the supplements route at this time, I do not want to be dependent of some companies for my health and I also believe that stress reduction is a lot more important than a so-called good diet. You can have the best diet on earth with the best supplements and still age very fast, if you put your body under stress, you age. The body age because it doesn’t have enough time during sleep to eliminate all the toxins, the accumulation of toxins cause is part of the ageing process and diet and supplements can’t change that.

I will educate myself some more on this topic, this is so interesting.
Do you take supplements, what was your experience with them ?

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