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Do we need vitamin and mineral supplements? – Dr. Rizin H Kusop
To you, the answer is YES. To your ancestors who lived half a million years ago, the answer is NO.
Let me explain.
Vitamins and minerals are very important in maintaining basic function of various biological reactions in your body. These reactions determine your very own health and sickness.
Your ancestors who roamed the earth hundreds of thousand years ago lived as hunter-gatherers. That means they get their foods fresh from the wild and eat it almost immediately and often raw. There were no farming and no herding. Their foods were always fresh and full of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. They do not need supplements.
Your foods, on the other hand, come from supermarkets. They are highly processed. They are harvested probably weeks or even months ago. They are grown on the same soil year after year. They are sprayed with toxic pesticides and other chemicals. If they are animals, they are fed with various antibiotics, bad hormones and unhealthy feeds and grown in crammed and diseased filled cages. On top of that, your food probably reached to you overcooked and overdressed.
With that kind of food you are eating, what makes you think that you are getting enough vitamins and minerals? Minerals comes from soil. Planting the same crops year after year on the same patch of land will deplete the rare minerals. The chemical fertilizers often provide only Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. What about Boron, Selenium, Chromium, Magnesium and so on? These minerals are needed for vitamins to be synthesized. Even the most popular vitamin C needs at least one mineral for it to be synthesized in plants – phosphorus.
On top of that, up to 70-90 percent of these vitamins are lost or deactivated during processing, packaging, storage and transportation. Vitamin C in an average sized orange from organic farm (often they are not) in China at the time of harvesting is around 70 – 100 mg. By the time it gets to you, it ends up with as little as only 20 mg of vitamin C. That is not even enough to neutralize the toxic preservatives and pesticides on the skin of the orange which you have ingested.
You need vitamins and minerals supplements not because you are not getting them from your foods, but because your foods are not getting them from the soil (or have lost them before the foods got to you). To make matters worse, you probably are not eating variety enough to increase your chances of getting various vitamins and minerals. The last one week, you may have eaten only refined rice, refined wheat, refined sugar, refined salt, some farmed lettuce and cucumber and some farmed chicken or beef. No matter how hard you look, there are hardly any sufficient vitamins and minerals there.
So, if you think you can get all the vitamins and minerals you need from your modern foodstuffs, think again!
Let me explain.
Vitamins and minerals are very important in maintaining basic function of various biological reactions in your body. These reactions determine your very own health and sickness.
Your ancestors who roamed the earth hundreds of thousand years ago lived as hunter-gatherers. That means they get their foods fresh from the wild and eat it almost immediately and often raw. There were no farming and no herding. Their foods were always fresh and full of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. They do not need supplements.
Your foods, on the other hand, come from supermarkets. They are highly processed. They are harvested probably weeks or even months ago. They are grown on the same soil year after year. They are sprayed with toxic pesticides and other chemicals. If they are animals, they are fed with various antibiotics, bad hormones and unhealthy feeds and grown in crammed and diseased filled cages. On top of that, your food probably reached to you overcooked and overdressed.
With that kind of food you are eating, what makes you think that you are getting enough vitamins and minerals? Minerals comes from soil. Planting the same crops year after year on the same patch of land will deplete the rare minerals. The chemical fertilizers often provide only Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. What about Boron, Selenium, Chromium, Magnesium and so on? These minerals are needed for vitamins to be synthesized. Even the most popular vitamin C needs at least one mineral for it to be synthesized in plants – phosphorus.
On top of that, up to 70-90 percent of these vitamins are lost or deactivated during processing, packaging, storage and transportation. Vitamin C in an average sized orange from organic farm (often they are not) in China at the time of harvesting is around 70 – 100 mg. By the time it gets to you, it ends up with as little as only 20 mg of vitamin C. That is not even enough to neutralize the toxic preservatives and pesticides on the skin of the orange which you have ingested.
You need vitamins and minerals supplements not because you are not getting them from your foods, but because your foods are not getting them from the soil (or have lost them before the foods got to you). To make matters worse, you probably are not eating variety enough to increase your chances of getting various vitamins and minerals. The last one week, you may have eaten only refined rice, refined wheat, refined sugar, refined salt, some farmed lettuce and cucumber and some farmed chicken or beef. No matter how hard you look, there are hardly any sufficient vitamins and minerals there.
So, if you think you can get all the vitamins and minerals you need from your modern foodstuffs, think again!
Hmm.. macam mana sekarang? Korang rasa perlu ke ambil vitamin? Kalau korang mampu dapatkan kehidupan yang fresh macam nenek moyang kita, memang sangat-sangat TAK PERLU lah korang ambil vitamin..
MAMPU KE???
MAMPU KE???
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