Chapter 1 – What Helps

Nutrition

Someone once said all conditions known to man are caused by mineral deficiency. Others have added that nutrition is everything regarding one’s health. Certain nutrients – Vitamins, Minerals, Fats, Amino & Omega Fatty Acids are important for bone health too. As with any nutrient, whole organic food is the best source, and we’ll discuss this later. It is also important to get all the right nutrients in their best possible forms. Just as organic food is always superior, it’s wise to get any needed supplements the same way or in their most natural state or whole food form, rather than synthetic. We’ll cover this later as well. Once we know the gut is well balanced with good bacteria, we have better assurance that the nutrients we take in, whether from food or supplements, will be absorbed, activated, and assimilated more completely. If we can’t get them or don’t obtain them, we can’t use them. This is simple physics and biology! Get all the right nutrients in the right forms that the body can use, and make sure the gut can process them completely, and your body will use them as needed.

What is important to remember about supplements is that they are meant to “supplement,” not fill the whole need, so the best source for nutrients will always be from whole food first. What you can’t get from food, supplements can fill the gap. This is possibly the biggest mistake I see people make. They attempt to get everything their bones need from a supplement, but worse than that, all from one “magic pill”. The sooner it’s realized that nutrition is found in food, the sooner one will see greater results. The more you realize you can’t get all your answers from one pill or supplement, the better off you’ll be. And it’s important to understand that no company in existence is out to make you healthy – they are in business to make money. Some may use better ingredients, but one thing is very clear: Most use the least expensive ingredients that meet their standards, most don’t have a clear understanding of sound nutrition, and most supplement companies add too many ingredients together and at disproportionate dosages, as well as added antinutrients that undermine much of what they put in the supplements they sell. I’ll have more on Antinutrients later, also.

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