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Nutritional Medicine

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Specialist in Nutritional  Medicine helps better protect your health or even regain your health by applying concepts of cellular nutrition and diet to your own life.

Concept of Oxidative Stress
  In the process of utilizing oxygen within your cells to create energy,  you also create a by-product referred to as free radicals.  Free radicals are charged oxygen molecules that  are missing at least one electron and desire to get an electron from the  surrounding area.  If it is not readily neutralized by an antioxidant, which has the ability to give this free radical the electron it desires, it can go on to create more volatile free radicals, damage the cell wall, vessel wall, proteins, fats, and even the DNA nucleus of the cell. Diseases like coronary artery disease,  cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, arthritis, macular
degeneration, MS, lupus,  among others are the result of small oxidative changes
that occur over a long  period of time.

 It is all about Balance
The number of free radicals you produce is not  steady.  In other words, some days you  produce more than others.  Because of our  stressful lifestyles, polluted environment, and over-medicated society, this  generation must deal with more free radicals than any previous generation that  has ever walked the face of the earth.   If you want to prevent oxidative stress, you need to have more  antioxidants available along with their supporting nutrients than the number of  free radicals you produce.  You see, we  are not defenseless against this process.   Antioxidants are the answer.  The  question is whether or not we are able to get all the antioxidants we need from  our food. 

 Modern Nutritional Research
Today’s research is focused on trying to find the magic  bullet in regards to a particular disease.   For example, there were many studies that showed that those smokers who  had the highest antioxidant levels in their blood stream had a significantly  lower risk of developing lung cancer than those smokers who had the lowest  level of antioxidants.  Most of the  researchers felt that it was
primarily due to the high levels of beta  carotene.  So they decided to do a study  and supplement a large number of smokers with just beta carotene.  They were dismayed when they found that the  group that received the beta carotene alone actually had a higher incidence of  lung cancer than the control group. This  led researchers and the media to actually claim that beta carotene was 
dangerous and should not be taken in supplementation in smokers.  A review of the same data reported a couple of  years later showed that those smokers who had the highest levels of total  antioxidants in their blood stream had a significantly decreased risk of  developing lung cancer compared to those who had the lowest levels of  antioxidants.

Beta carotene is NOT a drug.  It is merely a nutrient that we get from our food; however, because of supplementation we are now able to get it at levels you cannot obtain from your food.  Beta  carotene works in only certain parts of the body and against only certain kinds  of free radicals.  Beta carotene needs the other antioxidants along with the antioxidant minerals and B cofactors in order to do its job effectively. However, researchers are focused on trying to find the magic bullet  instead of stepping back and understanding the basic principles and concepts of  cellular nutrition.  The amazing thing is  how so many of these studies that look at just one or possibly two nutrients  actually show a health benefit.  What  would the health benefit be if you would put all of these nutrients together at  these optimal levels?  Enter in the  concept of cellular nutrition.

Concept of Cellular Nutrition
There are over 180 epidemiologic studies (studies that  involve a very large number of people) that all show the very same thing.  Those individuals who have the highest levels  of total antioxidants in their body compared with those who have the lowest  levels have a 2- to 3-fold decrease risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes,  and even Alzheimer’s dementia.   Obviously, those individuals who consume more of the fresh fruits and  vegetables, which contain a large amount of these antioxidants, had the highest  levels of antioxidants in their body.   This only makes logical sense when you understand the concept of oxidative stress as being the root cause of over 70 of these chronic degenerative diseases.  Therefore, a  physician would conclude the best thing that they could advise their patients  to do is to be consuming at least 8 to 12 servings of fresh whole fruits and  vegetables each and every day.  The  second best thing would be to recommend high quality, complete and balanced nutritional supplements that provided cellular nutrition. Cellular nutrition would be defined as providing ALL of the micronutrients to the  cell at these optimal or advanced levels that have seen shown to provide a  health benefit in our medical literature.   In other words, you would want your supplementation to be balanced and  complete, much like a healthy diet is. The only difference is the fact that,  unlike today’s
food supply, supplementation can provide all of these nutrients  at optimal levels.  We all need to be  supplementing a healthy diet; however, because of our stressful lifestyles,  polluted environment, and over-medicated society we do need to be  supplementing.

Cellular nutrition has been shown in our medical  literature to build up our body’s natural immune system, antioxidant system,  and repair system.  You not only  replenish any nutritional deficiency within 6 months of supplementation, but  you also optimize all of the body’s micronutrients.  You are given the absolute best chance to  reverse or prevent any oxidative stress and protect your health.  You see, nutritional supplementation is  really about health—not disease.   Nutritional supplements are natural to the body and the nutrients the body requires to function at its optimal level.

Every man, woman, and child needs to be supplementing a  healthy diet and be involved in a modest exercise program.  This is the key to protecting and maintaining  your health.  However, what if you have  already lost your health and have developed one of these chronic degenerative  diseases? 

Does supplementation provide any hope?
Come and find out with one of our Nutritionists at MDI!

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