


In the last 100 years, we went from not having any vitamin supplements, to having them over the counter and readily available. And yet most people don’t know how important vitamins really are. And if they take large enough doses, they can use them to prevent illness. And if they take large enough doses, they can use them to treat illness.
Why do we not hear this more, in fact, on the news we hear the opposite, that we shouldn’t take too many of those vitamins. Yet they don’t provide any evidence of that, they just say it. In fact many Drs say ’I don’t believe in vitamins’. But what about the actual facts.
Well over the last 23 years, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centres, there had been a total of 10 deaths alleged to be caused by vitamins. That’s 10 in 23 years. That’s less than half a death per year. And these are unproven, unverified, but they are attributed to vitamin consumption.
We have a nation where the very thing that will help people is being presented as actually dangerous. There have been studies that report to show that if you take an extra multi-vitamin every day that it’s going to hurt you. There are studies that say that vitamin C will cause a kidney stone. Well according to Andrew W. Saul, Therapeutic Nutrition Specialist and Author;
"I’ve searched the medical literature and I’ve asked all my students to search the medical literature, and my colleagues to search it, and as soon as they find scientific evidence of a Vitamin C caused kidney stone send me the paper, send me the reference. It’s been 30 years and I’ve never gotten one. Now either everybody’s dumb or it’s a myth.
There’s an assumption that vitamins are basically like drugs and should be regulated like drugs. There’s an assumption that if it’s therapeutically valuable, it must be dangerous, because drugs are. So, we have been taught our whole lives to be consumers, mostly consumers of modern medicine, which is pharmaceutical medicine.
A doctor goes to medical school, gets a medical education, practices medicine, prescribes medicines and is called an MD. Well, let’s put nutrition into that and see how it sounds. My Dr is a nutritionist who went to nutritional school, studied nutrition and has a nutritional degree and prescribes nutrients. It sounds very strange. When we say ‘I went to the Dr’ it’s implicit that the Dr was a medical Dr."
As far as I am concerned as much as medical doctors can help us when we are sick, proper nutrition and this can include taking nutritional supplements, can prevent us from getting sick in the the first place. To me there is not better medicine than making sure your body gets what it needs and that vitamins and mineral.
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