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Ten Powerful Health Reasons Why Your Body Needs Seaweed in Supplements
10 powerful health reasons why your body needs sea vegetables in your dietary supplements.
“Knowledge of the oceans is more important than just a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.” President John Kennedy, 1961
What is the preventative health value of sea plants or vegetables? To best value and respect seaweed, it’s important to relate it to a wider “concept-map” in the context of 10 reasons, each reason comprising major fields of studies but which are only mentioned here.
ONE: THE RICHEST COMPLEX BIOME ON EARTH…THE OCEAN.
Physically and chemically, it covers ¾ of the Earth’s surface and houses 15,000 plants and 210,000 known marine life forms. The nutrient profile, developed through eons, which nurtures these living forms are estimated between 60 and 100 different elements. Scientists have yet to manufacture in a lab a bottle of sea water and if they could, it would probably cost thousands of dollars. Most interesting, the elements that circulate in the ocean are similar to what is found in human plasma. Our body is 70% salt water with blood containing all the minerals and trace elements found in the ocean.
TWO: MARINE MACROALGAE or seaweed.
These range from forests of 212 foot kelp to microscopic plankton. Three kinds of seaweed are brown, red and green, at least 50 varieties of which are used as food. Seaweed lack true stems, leaves or roots but have strong anchoring supports from which to absorb ocean nutrients through their plant tissue. It is the food chain for all marine animal life such as fish which is still the major source of protein for millions of people. Seaweed agricultural industry is growing to supply alginates especially for food, pharmaceutical and industrial uses.
THREE: ONE EXAMPLE OF BROWN ALGAE CALLED ANGEL HAIR SEAWEED OR LIMU.
It grows along shorelines and in vast fields as masses of filaments that grow 1 to 2 feet a day to lengths of 20 feet. One of the best sources of Limu comes from the archipelago of Tonga. The Tongan people routinely consume Limu and have long been known for their superior longevity, disease resistance and overall body strength.
FOUR: SPECTACULAR NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF SEA PLANTS.
They have been prized for dietary and medicinal food properties for millennia. Science can now validate them as rich sources of proteins, enzymes, amino and fatty acids, vitamins and anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, polyphenols, and alginates.
For example, briefly consider the mineral riches of ocean plants that can help to re-mineralize our bodies. The major minerals are found: calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium and sulfur. A wealth of trace minerals are also absorbed: boron, chlorides, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorine, gallium, germanium, gold, iodine, iron, lanthanum, lithium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silica, silver, sodium, zinc, tin, vanadium plus at least 40 more. Moreover, these minerals are in natural colloidal and organic or chelated forms(combined with amino acids) and easily absorbed through cell walls unlike metallic minerals that can accumulate in body tissues.
Most enzymatic functions depend on minute amounts of bioavailable trace minerals. One key to maintain health is to keep the mineral levels in balance in every tissue, fluid, cell and organ. Without minerals for transport, vitamins are ineffective. As soils become minerally depleted, the seas are looked upon as more minerally enriched.
FIVE: THE OCEAN’S GIFT …AN ESSENTIAL BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND CALLED FUCOIDAN.
This unique molecule is found only in the cell walls of certain brown sea plants (even some echinoderms). In nutritional chemical terms, Fucoidan is described as a sulfated polysaccharide molecule made up several different polymers with added sulphate groups. Research shows that the higher the count of sulphate groups in a plant, the higher its unique therapeutic value.
In layman’s terms, it is the Fucoidan that gives seaweed its slippery texture…a moisture protection barrier that allows the algae to survive in harsh environments. What if this natural protection may also help humans to better cope with an increasingly toxic environment?
SIX: SEAWEED CONTINUES TO BE ANALYZED and VALIDATED SCIENTIFICALLY.
Most bionutritional research is relatively new and exciting (seconds old on a 24 hour medical timeline). The synergy of hundreds of phytonutrients or natural biochemicals found in individual plants reveal a wide array of beneficial biological benefits for cellular health. For example, in the last 8 years, nearly 400 more studies have been added to the previous 300 on Fucoidan as the medical community has wondered how it appears to address some major health concerns, including many that seem to confound modern medicine.
SEVEN: EMPOWER YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM.
“Whether or not a person contracts any disease or illness has less to do with their exposure to that disease and much more with how effectively their immune system is functioning at the time they are exposed…(World Health organization.)
Our own first-line defense is our innate immune system programmed to protect against chronic health problems and premature aging. The health benefits of sea vegetables, particularly, in supporting the immune system such as stimulating natural killer cells and B-Cells are well discussed in independent, third party, peer reviewed studies.
EIGHT: SCIENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
No medicinal claims are allowed with natural plants so it’s important that you challenge yourself to be your own serious health detective. One can’t assume to have all the answers to better health while walking away from this unprecedented research. Check out t references in The National Library of Medicine (government’s database) http://www.pubmed.org/. Enter fucoidan in the search box. Then enter specific conditions and note the number of studies. Example: Fucoidan anti-inflammatory (22 studies) viral (10) blood (274) liver (31) digestive system (40) bacteria (79) cancer (53) stem cells(24) heart (11) brain (30) kidneys (11) skin(16)
NINE: CHOICE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENT.
This choice is one of your most important health decisions which must verify three things: from where it’s sourced, how the contents are manufactured and what scientific studies endorse it. Current market trends are embracing whole foods as synergistic, non synthetic, non-fractionated super food supplements. Sometimes it’s hard to trust a plethora of labels and advertisements, but you can trust what Nature has composed without laboratories and private enterprises. In its natural form, seaweed offers remarkable nutritive, immune-building and disease-fighting properties.
The one recommended dietary supplement contains a blend of FOUR sea vegetables: kelp, nori, dulse and bladderwrack.
TEN: RETURN TO NATURE’S BASICS.
What would you prefer as you grow older…a vibrant healthy lifestyle or a hopeless daily struggle against aches and pains? Health is a lifelong process of prevention and commitment to wellness.
Believe the good news that your body’s programmed to be healthy…sickness is an unnatural state. Feed every cell a full spectrum of nutrients daily.
Respect Nature’s biology, ecology and immemorial wisdom and how you are an essential part of it.
Anne-Marie Berukoff is an early retired teacher and a certified Nutritional Supplement Distributor. From studies using natural whole foods for preventative health, she has compiled two workshops with CD’s and an e-booklet: 101 Reasons to Plug Into Powerful Phytonutrients for Powerful Health.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.mailto:welcome.annemarie7@telus
How Many Ways are Food, Diet, Supplements, Health and Disease Connected
What a strange paradox. We all have the inborne ability to be healthy and, yet, we also have manifested choices to be terribly unhealthy.In the last 100 years our medical time line has moved from using leeches, no sanitation, no microscopes, superstitions and infectious diseases to an antiseptic world of sanitation, miracle drugs, electronic telescopes, molecular genetics where the DNA strands of a genome can be traced and cellular degenerative disease. We can even combine different species such as splicing a fish gene with a wheat gene to grow a plant that is resistant to water damage. We can create life in a test-tube and have cloned animals as well as pondered the human cloning.
Yet after the lights are out, the lab is empty, and the diagnostic tests, drugs and surgery have played their roles, the results are the public has spent 1.6 trillion dollars on health care per year (average) Health care costs are escalating in direct medical and nursing home costs. Younger people are experiencing unheard of health problems as poor diet childhood habits mature into adulthood.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you evaluate the health condition and expectation for yourself as well as the people you know? 1 is poor and 10 is sensational. Five years ago, my evaluation would have been about 5 or 6. Now It's closer to 9.5 with right nutrition and supplements from Mother Nature's whole foods.
Perhaps we live longer, but what is the quality of longevity? Doctors cringe when a person walks in with lupus or arthritis because there is little hope for effective treatment. One out of three people will develop a cellular degenerative disease in their lifetime. This is not an outside invasion of microbes, viruses or flesh-eating bacteria. This means that our own bodies, our own cells, are "warring from within." This means there are more free radicals from various causes attacking our cells than anti-oxidants, obtained from our food, protecting them. Our own cells are not properly ingesting nutrients, eliminating waste, or neutralizing free radical damage . Over the years these multiple stages become manifested as hard-to-cure diseases.
Nutrition related diseases are manifold: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, allergies, GIT disturbances, osteoporosis, kidney problems, and various weight and eating disorders. The US Surgeon General reports that 75% of cardiovascular disease, 60% of women's cancer and 40% of men's cancers are related to diet and nutrition.
A new enemy is emerging in the 21st century---our appetite, fueled by high volume and billion dollar businesses that endorse it. "Modern diets because of food processing, storage, transport and preparation cannot provide the optimal levels of nutrients needed for health and well-being. Supplementation is the only practical answer to this growing problem." Dr. Laz Bannock
Proper nutrition then becomes the basis by which to fortify the body's cells to function properly and heal itself. Unfortunately, proper nutrition even with whole foods is seriously compromised for 3 main reasons.
(1) Degraded soil. It was decided as early as the 1930's with the advent of large farming enterprises that only three nutrients would be used as fertilizers---Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. Soil scientists argued for inclusion of more minerals but were denied by food companies because of expense. Amazingly, it was predicted more than 50 years ago that chronic degenerative disease would result with little hope for treatment
(2) Degraded sick plants. If soils are de-minearlized, then plants are de-minearlized. Plants are our only source of vitamins and minerals and they need the same nutrients in order to transfer them to living cells. Huge factory farms have depleted soil conditions as well as allowable chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.
(3) Diminished digestive system. Our eating patterns have vastly changed from raw food stuffs to manufactured name brand foods with long shelf lives. Mass production and distribution of industrialized products account for at least 50,000 food stuffs by food engineers.. Contamination in; contamination out.
The soil, the plants, the food are all interconnected. As humans, we are at the top of this vast food chain and whatever benefits or deficiencies that exist are magnified at the top.
Where are the seeds of truth buried? Have we forgotten the laws of nature are based on a balanced reciprocal relationship that applies to all environments as vast as the spaceship Earth and as miniscule as a drop of water, a grain of dirt, or a living cell? The butterfly effect is never more true on a human scale that the smallest change, inclusion or omission, can amplify effects in the body.
The human body is programmed with the inborn potential for abundant survival and regeneration of healthy strong cells, not damage or degeneration. Our biochemistry is complex with 75 trillion individual cells or miniature biochemical factories, intricately linked with every major sysytem. All cells are literally structured from what we eat and all nutrients need to be present in each and every cell. A smart, careful diet should provide all the nutrients in bioavailable form to maintain the cells' metabolic energy, growth, repair and protection against disease.
For example, the bacteria in the digestive tract can affect the cardiovascular health or auto immune defense. Just picture that one half of your nerve cells are located in your digestive system…esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines. By building your body's own natural anti-oxidant supplies, your immune system becomes your best defense against free radical stress. If our food is deficient then the cells' infrastructures will be defective, and the disease process will begin its gradual erosion---like acid rain over decades denuding an entire ecology.
Where are the seeds of truth buried? My faith is with Mother Nature's millennia old ethno-botany as the basis for nutritional healing. Phytonutrition with 14,000 natural plant phytochemicals identified to date, can provide these essential micronutrients to the body for healthy benefits.
It has also been established by many surveys that chronic degenerative diseases can be reduced by improving diet through the addition of dietary supplements. Once more, this call is your informed choice to trust a chemist and a synthetic recipe in a laboratory, or Mother Nature's synergy. I even solidify my choice to include sea vegetables with their 70 plus unadulterated minerals.
Health, as defined by preventative wellness, is attainable by every single person. It's not rocket science, a commercial enterprise and it doesn't require prescriptions around every turn. Once you lose your health no amount of money will restore it.
Do You Feed Your Cells the Right Food or Junk Food?
The concept of nutrition for the average person is vastly uneducated, underestimated and unappreciated. At one time, I would have fallen into that group. I am not a nutritionist but am a certified nutritional supplement distributor from study courses at The International Institute of Cellular Nutrition. What I learned has transformed my view of nutrition. I no longer take for granted that my choice of food and/or dietary supplements doesn't seriously matter for preventative wellness. For the first time, I did research on the word phytonutrient and its relation to our bodies and the earth.The understanding is so much clearer that vital health begins with the spoon and fork in the direction of your mouth. The good news is that you control this movement. In my opinion, any discussion about food, diet and supplements needs to include the topic of cellular nutrition.
But how many times have you recently thought that the food I am eating now is to structure and fuel any number of individual cells? We forget about these 'invisible miracles' or masterpieces of design and function.
The cell is the basic unit of the body. It manufactures all the structures and performs all the functions including protection from damaging effects of a toxic environment.
Do you ever wonder about the biology of a single cell like these three doctors?
"Just think that we have 75 to 100 million trillion cells and millions must be regenerated every minute, along with organ systems, entire intestinal lining and our skin."(Dr. Laz Bannock's seminar.)
"We see the cell is an extremely busy place. In the space of about one-tenth of a millimeter, some twenty-thousand different proteins are manufactured on a regular basis. Each of these proteins requires a half dozen or more steps for synthesis…all these reactions require energy input, which is obtained from the breakdown of sugars… Each day about seven percent of the molecules of the body are "turned over"---disassembled from the structures they are part of and reassembled into new structures. That means that most of the molecules in your body are turned over every two weeks! ( Dr. Wentz: Invisible Miracles 2002)
"Every year over 97% of your body is completely replaced, even the structure of the DNA of your genes, reconstructed entirely from the nutrients you eat. The quality of those nutrients determines the quality of your renewed cellular structure, the level at which it can function and its resistance to disease." ( Dr. Colgan The New Nutrition 1995)
Here is my greatest revelation. The purpose of the food is to feed the biology of the cell.
Food is not just to satisfy our appetites, some mass advertising spiel, store specials or celebrity endorsement.
Each cell needs major macro-nutrients like proteins, fats or lipids and carbohydrates. Each cell requires major micro-nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids . As well, a proper diet includes fibre, probiotics, phytochemicals and anti-oxidants .
We need vitamins because they cannot be manufactured by the body and must be obtained from our foods or diet.
We need at least twenty amino acids for the synthesis of proteins that form living structure, nine of which must be drawn from our diet because our body doesn't produce them.
We need dietary minerals which are chemical elements in inorganic forms which participate in a multitude of biochemical and physiologic processes. Minerals can be divided as three groups with major minerals required in amounts of greater than 100 mg per day. Trace minerals are required less than 100 mg per day but they participate in thousands of biochemical activities and their insufficiencies occur more often than lack of vitamins. There are even micro-trace minerals that comprise the largest group about which we know the least.
Did you know that our mineral intake represents only about 0.3 percent of our total intake of nutrients, yet they are so important that without them, the cells wouldn't be able to utilize the other 99.7% of food stuffs?
In fact, it must be emphasized that all these nutrients are essential substances that interact with each other to maintain optimum health. If even one is missing, or in short supply, then the functions of all the others are impaired. Again the focus is on the healthy activity of each living cell.
Most people who value healthy eating have read copious charts outlining various nutrients, their functions and food sources. Are you surprised to learn how many different elements it takes to make the living body?
The question then becomes a matter of a healthy natural spectrum for a total dietary supplement that can accomplish all these requirements. In my opinion, only the synergy of whole foods and sea vegetables for minerals can begin to address this valuable cellular nutrition.
In conclusion, I hope you do not take the food in your mouth for granted.
Food goes beyond taste and convenience. It fits into multiple parts that built the temple of your body.
It contains nutrients; it's digested, absorbed and utilized by your galaxy of cells; it's the very components of cellular structure, function, immune system protection and anti-oxidant protection.
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Next time you look at a hot-dog or a plate of french fries, let these tangents become part of what you wish to eat. More and more we have a greater responsibility for our health. The last words are Dr. Bannock's as he paraphrases the British Society for Nutritional Medicine: "Nutritional medicine, the importance of which is now being more fully realized, may be defined as the "study and regulation of interactions between nutritional factors and human biochemistry, physiology and anatomy. Now the clinical application of our knowledge of these interactions can be used for the prevention and treatment of disease as well as for the betterment of health."
How To Tell the Difference Between Liquid And Whole Food Supplements
Good nutrition is fundamental to good health. Good health is based on nutrition, a complex system based on a total balance of macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients in correct amounts and synergy."It is one of the key factors in maintaining human optimum growth and development, structure and function, immune system competence, prevention and management of disease states...as well as healthy lifestyle and fitness." Dr. Laz Bannock
Good nutrition is more than your shopping list for the week or the dinner on your plate.
Human nutrition is an essential study of both biochemical and socio-economic factors such as food habits, behaviour, ethnicity, geography, soil, environmental pollution, transportation, markets, physchology, food processing, food technology, storage, advertising, education, income, and exercise.
Nutrition is based on the nutrients found in food. How would you define "nutrients?" The best definition I can share is "nutrients are any substance ingested and assimilated in the process of maintaining growth, metabolic energy, repair, healthy structure, and maximum immune system function." As well, there are essential nutrients which can not be synthesized by the body and must be obtained from food
The value of food becomes indispensable when we realize that degenerative health problems and inflammatory conditions begin with poor or lack of necessary nutrients.
"Illness is inevitably linked with an abnormal biochemistry and an alteration in the metabolism of nutrients and their byproducts." Dr. Bannock
Nutritional diseases can be considered in terms of undernourishment and over-nourishment, varying from lack of specific vitamins or minerals to obesity, an expanding problem. Now scientific evidence continues to verify that many diseases are preventable through diet and good nutrition is linked to long-term proactive aging and health.
Our choice of food cannot be taken for granted. A balanced diet should provide all the nutrients in bioavailable form to maintain energy, body building and protection againts disease.
A healthy diet should have an "ancestral" flavour with servings of raw, natural, unprocessed foods such as whole grains, seeds, nuts, low in fat and rich in fruits and vegetables and plant protein. In fact, the less bar codes on your grocery list the better.
In the same manner, our choice of dietary supplements should not be taken for granted. youThis choice for the right synergy of vitamins and minerals is probably the most important decision you can make for your family's health. But where do you begin to make an informed decision that also draws from a synergy of wholefoods?
Health food stores are filled with a plethora of manufactured "natural" products many with isolated nutrients. Many network marketers promote their special brands of drinks with various super fruits and blends. Juice products such as Noni, Goji, Mangosteen and Acai have become general household names.
As biosciences have evolved, so have the supplements' industries and so has my personal choice. Chews-4-Health is the world's first dietary supplement based on the most nutrient rich sources of both land and sea. This delicious chewable contains over 70 essential nutrients and combines Noni, Goji, Mangosteen, Acai plus 4 sea vegetables, 4 super fruits, resveratrol, B12 and Alpha-Lipoic Acid.
A common question asked is, "How can I compare a liquid superfruit product to Chews-4-Health?" There is really no comparison because Chews-4-Health uses the actual fruits and berries, minus the water. Even Dr. Earl Mindell, who formulated the best selling liquid goji product of all time, recently said, "Chews-4-Health's formulation is far superior because the product contains WHOLE FOOD ingredients and not the watered down version of the berry."
This is such a key point when looking at the health benefits of fruits and berries. God did not design us to DRINK our fruits and berries…we are supposed to eat our food. Our teeth break down the food and our digestive enzymes assimilate them, and this all happens before the ingredients reach the stomach.
Would you drink a pizza, chicken or hamburger, or would you chew and eat them? Doesn't the same logic apply when considering whether to chew and eat your fruits or drink them?
Also, WATER contains no health enhancing phytonutrients, protein or fiber. Chews-4-Health contains only raw materials of the fruit or berry such as the pulp, rind, seeds and skin and that means you are not spending your money on WATER. The average liquid product contains 75-98% water. The human body already contains 75% water and its FREE!
Also, because this supplement contains no liquid, it doesn't require heat pasteurizing, chemical defoaming agents, nor does it contain any chemical preservatives like sodium benzoate (the same chemical used in silver polish and fireworks). These unnatural processes used in the manufacturing of liquid superfruit products can end up destroying the natural potency of the fruit. What is available are whole food vitamins, minerals,amino acids, enzymes and anti-oxidants as Nature intended.
So, there is a choice. You can pick these fresh superfruits directly from the tree or go deep-sea diving and travel over 10,000 miles. Or you can enjoy the economical Chews-4-Health as the best daily source for attaining a full spectrum of superfruits and their nutrients. Your family can benefit from 16 fruits and vegetables daily for less than a dollar.
We hope you can join Dr. David Friedman every week on his Good Health Radio show with other nutritional experts. Your healthy cells will thank you.
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