Nutritional Overview For The Man in The Street

1.    Protein (get enough).

2.    Vitamins (get a full basic complement).

3.    Minerals (get a full, basic complement).

4.    Key Minerals (even after the basic complement as in point 2 are seen to). 

       These are in two sets of two:

• Calcium and Magnesium - probably deficient in a large majority of people.

• Potassium and Salt (sodium is often oversupplied if you consume conventional refined table salt and potassium is usually deficient - use only sea salt that has not been stripped of all its nutrients such as Himalayan or Celtic Salts).

5.    Fat/Oil Utilization (seeing that it is correct).

6.   Carbohydrates (most people overdo them. Drop refined ones, see that you get vegetables.)

7.   "Stress" - understand and handle as defined nutritionally.

Protein -Why and How?

(Protein: To give you some idea how important it is, the word protein comes from the Greek word “primary” or “first”.)

Why?

• Almost all you see looking at your body is protein, your skin, nails, hair and so on. Your digestive enzymes are proteins. Without enough, you can’t digest your food so your body can't build or repair itself.

• Proteins are a complex of 22 amino acids in different combinations. Just like you can make thousands of words from the 26 letters of the alphabet, so there are thousands of different combinations and quantities of the 22 amino acids in the different foods, eight of which are essential.    
• What that means is that your body can make 14 of them but it can’t make the eight essential ones so you have to get them in the food you eat. Most animal proteins contain all of the amino acids in sufficient amounts whilst cereals, grains and vegetables may contain some or all the essential amino acids but the amounts in them is less than ideal.
• The protein requirements varies for different age groups, size and growth stage. Adults obviously need more than children and men need more than women.
• Protein is primarily used in your body to build, maintain and repair body tissues. Your digestive enzymes are also made of protein so it’s important that you consume enough if you want a healthy body.

How?

• Get at least the equivalent of 10 eggs daily from the usual sources: meat, fish, eggs, milk, yogurt, cheese, beans. If you have been lacking or ill, use a supplement like whey protein or our raw protein powder which digests well.

Rule: quantity first, then adjust quality.

VITAMINS - WHY AND HOW?

The word vitamin comes from the Latin word vita for “life” and “amine” for amino acid because it was originally thought that they contained amino acids.
Your body needs several of these vitamins: A, B, C, D, E etc. They are all complexes made up of a combination of substances. 

For example, most of us know that the B group of vitamins includes B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), biotin, choline, inositol, B12 (cyanobalamin), folic acid etc.

Some of the B complex consists of water-soluble vitamins whilst some consist of the fat-soluble ones, like choline and inositol.

What many don’t know is that vitamins A, C, D and E etc are also complexes made up of a combination of substances.

Why?

• Over several decades, scientists have isolated the nutrients vital to life and this includes vitamins. Skip any one of them for long enough and it will affect you. Marked, prolonged shortages cause death. 

How?

• The more-effort way: Eat only preservative-free, fertilizer-free food from the very best soils that is “yesterday-fresh” (Do this if you can).
• A practical way: try to get the freshest, best quality foods within your time and budget.
• Keep vitamin C very high: 1000 mg is rock-bottom.  Linus Pauling, Double Nobel prize-winner, recommended and took ten times that. We live in a toxic society and Vitamin C is the most important "de-toxer" – See section 3 below for more about vitamin C.
• Take a natural source of B vitamins: The B’s are difficult to balance no matter how good a supplement seems.  A natural source lessens the chances of artificial shortages being created by imbalances.
  The two most readily available sources are liver and brewer’s yeast. The easiest to work with is brewers’ yeast.

Minerals – Why and How

Why?

• A mineral is any element or inorganic compound needed by the human body for proper growth and functioning, such as iron, phosphorus, calcium, tin, zinc, etc. Besides the major minerals, there are dozens of trace minerals needed by the human body and this includes tin, molybdenum, cobalt, etc. Trace means exactly what it says: traces only.

• Minerals are found in every life form and are needed in different combinations by your body. They are the “spark plugs” that spark the chemical reactions of your body so are very important in the production of energy and every single body function, including your nervous and digestive systems and, in fact, all your body’s systems.

• Properly grown vegetables in mineral-rich soils provide minerals and trace minerals. Modern farming methods, however, have destroyed most soils, leaving food grown on it barren of these valuable nutrients that are vital to life.

• Everything around us is composed of chemical elements. They are the basic building blocks of our lives. By combining with one another in different proportions they form everything, from the air we breathe to the wood with which we build our homes, even our bodies.

•  Our bodies use different chemical elements for different functions.For example, calcium is used to build strong bones, teeth and nervous systems.  Another mineral, sulfur is one of the most abundant of all the minerals in our bodies and is important in maintaining cell flexibility or suppleness, energy production and a good nervous system. As we use up these minerals, we have to constantly replace them through our food or dietary supplements. All the minerals play a role in good health. Without them, your body cannot start any chemical reactions.

• There are many minerals but some of more commonly known ones include:

• •    Calcium
• •    Chromium
• •    Iodine
• •    Iron
• •    Magnesium
• •    Manganese
• •    Molybdenum
• •    Phosphorus
• •    Potassium
• •    Selenium
• •    Silicon
• •    Sodium
• •    Sulfur
• •    Zinc

How?

• The more-effort way: Eat only preservative-free, fertilizer-free food from the very best soils that is “yesterday-fresh” Other soils are mineral depleted and cannot support life. (Do this if you can.)

• A practical way: try to get the freshest, best quality foods within your time and budget.

• Water: try and drink water that is as close to nature as possible as that contains minerals. Use only real Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt as they are mineral-laden.

• Mineral Supplement: Use a good quality mineral supplement.

CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM, POTASSIUM AND SALT - WHY AND HOW?

Why?

• About a third of your body protein, by weight, is collagen, a jelly-like substance that holds the cells together. Calcium is needed for this jelly to set, along with vitamin C, which is probably the most important factor in its formation. Both are necessary for building firm, disease-resistant tissues. Calcium is difficult to absorb (large molecules) and must have magnesium present in an exact ratio. Magnesium itself is vital for digestion and coats the nerve-ends – shortages leave you “jumpy”.
• Potassium is vital for muscle contraction. The heart is your busiest muscle and a lack of potassium is a frequent cause of its failure. It works along with salt.  By salt is meant a good quality whole salt like Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt. These salts have dozens of trace minerals that are vital for good health.

How?

• Calcium and magnesium: the only sure way we know of currently, in the modern life-style is by taking a properly formulated, easily absorbable calcium and magnesium supplement. Only a few of the commercial formulas fit this standard.
• Take potassium after each meal that has added salt and eat plenty of vegetables. Only use Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt as the white table salt is refined and has no life in it. It consists only of one element of salt, chloride, that has been bleached white with chlorine, which is toxic besides which your body needs all the other minerals in real salt so don’t use anything else.

FATS/OILS — WHY AND HOW?

Why?

• Oil soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) are nullified by poor oil utilization.
• There are certain oils or fats that your body needs to manufacture hundreds of hormones, maintain a strong nervous system, improve your immune function, build a strong cardiovascular system, strengthen your cell walls, prevent or reduce inflammation, build and maintain good joint function, etc. Some of these oils are what is known as essential fatty acid (EFAs). They are also known as vitamin F or Omega 3, 6 or 9. No matter what you call them, your body needs them to function properly.
• Most people are very oil/fat deficient. The main reason for this is that their bodies are unable to utilize oils/fats. Frying foods can be dangerous too if the oil or fat is rancid from being heated more than once. Rancid fats are toxic. This type of “food” is best avoided as it breaks down good health and creates disease.
• Too much of the “bad” fats clog the liver so it can’t do its job of filtering out toxins, manufacturing ingredients for your hormones, like cholesterol, helping to maintain a normal blood pressure or fight off allergies.
• Vitamin E enables efficient use of available oxygen (it oxygenates the body) and protects oils in the body from oxidization (oxidization makes oils rancid and thus toxic). Vitamin E deficiencies will often be felt as shortness of breath.
• Without quantity and quality of oils, vitamin E doesn’t work well so deficiencies of the other oil-soluble vitamins are very likely. A low/no fat diet can block the oil soluble vitamins as surely as bad oils and, of course, the essential oils will be missing to that degree.
• Vitamin A deficiencies: some likely symptoms are poor eyesight, or an inability to tolerate bright lights and sunlight, see properly at night, improper mucus production leading to sinus problems, kidney problems through blockages of its fine tubes, bladder infections, lung infections, etc.
• Vitamin D deficiencies: some likely symptoms include poor calcium absorption leading to dental and bone formation problems such as poorly developed bones or osteoporosis later in life, insomnia, depression, easily get infections due to a depressed immune system.

How?

• Take the right oils: Cold-pressed vegetable oils including all the essential fatty acids need to be taken. They have different types of molecules which need to work together – several different oils are needed to provide these.
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• Enable the oil soluble vitamins: Western diets are high in heated oils which will gum up the blood vessels — cholesterol, a key nutrient for building nervous-system and brain tissue as well as being an ingredient needed to make hormones, then clings to these oils and stays in the blood vessels.
• Cholesterol is the wrong target for attack, poor or insufficient oils the correct target. Your body produces more cholesterol in a day than you can easily ingest but we must allow it to get from the blood to the tissues where it belongs by emulsifying it with choline and inositol –B vitamins found in lecithin. Two tablespoons of lecithin daily will do it; more lecithin is wise if the situation has been neglected (up to 6 tablespoons daily).
• Protect the oil soluble vitamins: Keep Vitamin C and E high to protect the oil-soluble vitamins and the essential oils from oxidisation.

More on oils:

• Some people get their oils from cod or other fish oils whilst others get them from vegetable sources like flax, olive oil, pumpkin seeds etc.
• As part of your fat intake, it is important to ensure you get enough lecithin so that your blood is kept flowing smoothly. Lecithin protects your cells from oxidation and is largely found in the protective sheaths surrounding your brain and nervous system. It is composed mostly of the fatty components of the B vitamins: choline and inositol.
• Although it is a fatty substance, lecithin is also a fat emulsifier. Hence, it supports the circulatory system. Choline is useful for making acetylcholine, a chemical compound (often abbreviated ACh) which is a neurotransmitter in your body’s central nervous system. It helps to unclog your liver so that it can work properly and break down the fats you eat. Gall bladder attacks are very often brought on by the liver’s inability to break down the fats in a person’s body. When this happens, you become very oil deficient and can have “heartburn” or burping after eating a fatty meal. (Paint manufacturers use it in the manufacture of paint to make it smear.)

 VEGETABLES VS REFINED CARBOHYDRATES - WHY AND HOW?

Why?

• Bodies have been using vegetables for centuries. They provide bulk for transport and elimination in the digestive tract and provide key minerals and trace minerals.  They also aid the immune system in some ways that have not yet been fully understood but are seen to work in the presence of vegetables, especially green, leafy vegetables.
• Refined carbohydrates (Sugar, white flour, refined pastas, etc)  
• Cane sugar (sucrose) is quite recent in our evolution, so is large-scale refining of starches.  In a few hundred years bodies may be able to cope with these – if we survive them.  
• Sucrose gives a fast energy boost and then lets you down by causing reactions that push blood sugar below normal 60-90 minutes after ingestion.  It by-passes the body’s energy production set-up, which becomes lazy like an injured limb does if you immobilize it which, in the long term, can lead to serious disease like diabetes, etc .
• Refined starches have a similar effect and also tend to stick in the digestive tract and clog it.

How?

• Get the freshest, best quality vegetables you can. Organic is best (no pesticides, no fertilizers, no preservatives – all toxic). Raw is best.

UNDERSTANDING STRESS?

Per world-famous nutritionist, Adelle Davis: 

“Any condition that harms the body or damages, breaks down, or causes the death of few or many cells is defined as stress”…

“The nutritional needs increase tremendously at the very time eating is most difficult; and a diet adequate for a healthy individual becomes markedly inadequate for an ill one.” 

At times like this it is important to ensure you are getting the basics plus additional to help your body with the additional stress.

NOW WE ARE READY TO TUNE THAT SPORTS CAR!!! 

Get all of this right, keep it tuned and you may well find poor health has vanished and good health has returned.

We wish you and your loved ones good health!!!

Vitamin A:Vitamin A is a colorless substance found only in animal foods. It is formed in the animal or human body from a yellow pigment, carotene, found in carrots, apricots, yams, all green vegetables, green pasture crops and seaweeds, the quantity roughly paralleling the intensity of the color. We get vitamin A itself from such animal foods as liver and fish-liver oils; egg yolks, butter, and cream supply both carotene and vitamin A.

Mild deficiencies of vitamin A are so common that you have probably experienced them. A slight deficiency impairs vision. A substance containing vitamin A, visual purple, is formed in the eyes; any light reaching the eyes breaks down part of the visual purple (this includes TV, computer screens, sunlight, glaring lights etc), and the products of this purposeful breakdown set up nerve impulses which tell the brain what the eyes see. More visual purple is formed and again destroyed. This cycle of regeneration and breakdown continues throughout life. Vitamin A is therefore somewhat like the film in a camera in that it photographs what you see but the “film” is used up.

Both day and night vision require vitamin A, but night vision depends on the vitamin-A mechanism entirely; therefore a subtle vitamin-A deficiency first causes difficulty in seeing in the dark. You can test your vitamin-A adequacy any time you drive at night. The lights of on-coming cars destroy vitamin A in your eyes; if your ocular fluid contains ample vitamin, you can see again almost immediately; if you are deficient, you will be blinded, the length of time depending on the severity of your deficiency. Tests have shown that persons having auto accidents at night are pathologically deficient in this vitamin. When better lighting of highways results in fewer accidents, it is because day vision rather than night vision is used and vitamin A is less relied upon.

There are varying degrees of night blindness. The person with a mild deficiency believes his vision to be normal but sees more efficiently in daylight. With a slightly greater deficiency, he experiences eye fatigue after watching television, for example, but he usually assumes that others have similar difficulty. If his need for vitamin A is still greater, he may suffer pain in his eyes, especially after long use, and experience nervousness, headaches, and visual fatigue. A severe deficiency can cause such discomfort and eyestrain that he may refuse to drive at night.

Such a person is sensitive to bright light during the day and feels more comfortable wearing dark glasses; thus less light reaches his eyes and less vitamin is destroyed. The majority of people who wear dark glasses eat too little vitamin A to allow normal vision.

People who work in bright light, which destroys vitamin A quickly, or dim light, which requires night vision entirely, use relatively more vitamin A than do persons working in moderate light. Typists and bookkeepers who face the glare of light on white paper frequently suffer from eyestrain preventable by diets richer in vitamin A; persons who sew, read, or watch television a great deal, miners working in dim light, welders facing flashing fire, photographers working both with bright lights and in darkrooms, and people living on the desert or beach where the sunlight is reflected by white sand often have visual difficulties because their need for vitamin A is unusually great. Perhaps no glare is so destructive to the vitamin A in the eyes as sunlight on clean snow; trappers, hunters, and skiers are often too familiar with this vitamin deficiency.

When the lack becomes severe, burning, itching, and inflamed eyelids, eyestrain, perhaps severe pain in the eyeballs themselves or frequently occurring sties are experienced in addition to nervousness and exhaustion. Mucus may accumulate in the corners of the eyes, ulcers or sores sometimes appear on the covering of the eye, or cornea.

Although eye symptoms may be the first to be noticed in a mild vitamin-A deficiency, even earlier changes take place in the skin. Cells in the lower layers of skin die and slough off. They plug the oils sacs and pores, thus preventing oil from reaching the surface; the skin may become so dry and rough that the entire body sometimes itches. The pores plugged with dead cells cause the skin to have the appearance of “goose pimples” although they are unaffected by temperature changes. This roughness usually occurs first on the elbows, knees, buttocks, and back of the upper arm.

Pores enlarged by an accumulation of dead cells and oil are spoken of as whiteheads or blackheads. If these cells become infected, pimples may result. The skin is likewise susceptible to such infections as impetigo, boils, and carbuncles. These abnormalities can usually be corrected by increased amounts of vitamin A, provided the diet is adequate in other respects.

When vitamin A is undersupplied, the hair becomes dry and lacks sheen and luster. Dandruff usually accumulates on the scalp. The nails may be affected and peel easily or become ridged.

Simultaneously with the visual difficulties and the changes in the skin, a vitamin-A deficiency allows abnormalities to occur in the tissues spoken of as mucous membranes. These tissues line the body cavities such as the throat, nose, sinuses, middle ears, lungs, the gall bladder, and the urinary bladder. If the diet is adequate in vitamin A, these membranes continuously secrete a liquid, or mucus, which covers the cells and prevents bacteria from reaching them and also cleanses the surface.

Furthermore, bacteria cannot live in mucus. Worn tissues are digested by enzymes, and the wastes are removed; therefore healthy tissues contain no accumulation of dead cells. Because of substances known as antienzymes which counteract the effect of the enzymes produced by bacteria, live cells can protect themselves from bacterial destruction. Millions of bacteria find their way to these healthy tissues but cannot reach the cells because of the mucus covering or are made ineffective by the mucus; they are offered no food and/or are rendered harmless by the antienzymes. Since they cannot get a foothold, no infection occurs.

Individuals deficient in vitamin A allow conditions ideal for bacterial growth to be set up in their bodies; bacteria can grow only when they are provided with warmth, moisture, and food.  During vitamin-A deficiency the cells of the mucous membrane grow more rapidly than usual but quickly die. These cells are crowded forward by other rapidly growing cells which likewise die until there accumulates a cheesy-like surface of layer upon layer of packed, dead cells. Since dead cells cannot secrete mucus or produce antienzymes their surface is no longer washed and their self-protective mechanisms are gone. Heat, moisture, and a continually replenished food supply combine to set up conditions ideal for bacterial growth; bacteria themselves are ever present. Infections are usually the result.

Changes in the mucous membranes occur early in the bronchial tubes and lungs, where air sacs may be completely plugged with dead cells, and in the middle ears, sinuses, kidneys, urinary bladder, and prostate gland. What has been described as an “accumulation of profuse debris” may cause irritation or obstruct narrow ducts, such as those from the salivary gland or the pancreas; the mouth may become dry; the pancreatic juices may fail to reach the intestine. Dead cells from the uterus and vagina may slough off, causing leucorrhea, often accompanied by profuse menstruation. Cysts may be formed around the accumulated dead cells in almost any part of the body.

Taken from Adelle Davis "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit"

Almost everyone in America now appears to have abnormal fatty substances- of which part is cholesterol – deposited in the walls of the arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. These deposits, which have the same composition as the fats in the blood, may narrow the channels through which blood passes to the point that circulation is markedly decreased. Such a partial blockage, limiting the blood supply in the eyes, hastens the onset of cataracts and other abnormalities, in the legs, feet, or hands, it causes coldness, discomfort, cramps, pain, and sometimes gangrene, making amputation necessary; in the brain it may cause confusion, forgetfulness, premature senility, or strokes; and in the heart, angina or attacks known as coronary occlusion.

These fatty deposits seriously complicate such diseases as diabetes and nephrosis¹ and delay recovery from almost every illness. They may be localized as tumors, or atheromas, on the skin or be so generalized that they clog all arteries uniformly, the space left for the blood so decreased that high blood pressure results and becomes progressively more elevated as the atherosclerosis advances. High blood pressure from other causes, however, makes atherosclerosis worse.

Although atherosclerosis has been described as “universal and life-long,” it has been produced in hundreds of thousands of animals, and when the diet is made adequate, health is restored. The same is equally true of humans.

Atherosclerosis² is reversible. Deposits containing cholesterol can often be seen in the skin around the eyes as yellow fatty accumulations; these tiny tumors quickly disappear after the diet is improved. A woman who consulted me had dozens of them under pendulous breasts; six weeks later none remained. On one occasion I was asked to see a ten-year-old child who had more than 200 such deposits on her back and abdomen and a blood cholesterol above 1000 mg; after her diet was made adequate, the deposits seemed to melt away. A retired postman, brought to see me in a wheelchair, had such constant, severe pain in his legs because of atherosclerosis that his physician had recommended amputation; two months later he walked in to see me. Such cases indicate that this problem can be corrected.

Countless experiments with healthy volunteers, survivors of heart attacks, persons in prisons and mental institutions, and innumerable animals show that when fatty substances are being deposited in the arterial walls, the blood cholesterol is invariably high and in abnormally large particles and that the fat in the blood which is combined with phosphorus, known as phospholipids, or lecithin, is too low. Yet these abnormalities are corrected as soon as all nutrients needed to utilize fats are supplied. Atherosclerosis and such seemingly unrelated problems as gallstones and much obesity appear to be caused by a combined undersupply of many nutrients essential before fats can be used normally. Cholesterol is merely the innocent little pig that got stuck in the barn door. More on Those "Cholesterol" Problems

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This includes your brain, your heart, your liver, your nerves, etc, etc.  Some cells get renewed in a few days, some months, some years but at the end of a 7-year period, you have a completely new body. Old cells die and are replaced by new cells. More on Want a New Body? Here’s How!

In healthy cells, magnesium remains inside your cells while calcium remains outside. When calcium is needed for the cell to perform its function - such as firing a nerve, contracting a muscle or secreting a hormone - the channels in your cell membrane are induced to open and allow the calcium to rush into your cell.

It's the calcium inside the cell at a certain critical level that sets off activity, sparks off whatever your cell needs to do but then the calcium needs to be removed from the cell so it can stop contracting if it's a muscle, firing if it's a nerve, or secreting a hormone if it's a gland cell.

Then your cell has to relax and be ready to function again when required so the calcium is pumped out from it.

Magnesium is essential for the proper functioning of both the channels that let calcium into your cell as well as the pumps that transport calcium out again. Magnesium protects your cell from being overloaded with calcium.

Before calcium can be absorbed into your body, it needs to be accompanied by magnesium in an exact ratio of two parts calcium to one part magnesium, along with some kind of acid base to create the correct pH so that it can be absorbed and used by your body.

What is pH?

pH is an abbreviation for the "power of the concentration of the Hydrogen ion" present in a solution. It is expressed as a number on a scale of degrees of pH, from 0 to 14.

The pH scale indicates the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, which is an indicator of the number of hydrogen atoms present. A pH of 7 is neutral, a pH of less than 7 indicates an acidic solution, and a pH greater than 7 indicates an alkaline solution.

Because calcium and magnesium are too alkaline to be used by your body, the ascorbic and citric acids bring them to an optimum pH for absorption. That's what makes Instant CalMag-C so effective.

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Nerves and Relaxation

“Although 99% of the calcium in the body is in the bones and teeth, symptoms resulting from an undersupply to the nerves and soft tissues can make life quite unbearable. For example, calcium aids in the transportation of nerve impulses. When this mineral is undersupplied, nerves become tense, and you become grouchy.

The calcium-deficient person wastes energy, and his nervous tension and inability to relax induce fatigue out of all proportion to the work he actually does.

He is usually so restless that it is tiring to be around him. His irritability and quick temper add nothing to his popularity…..”

Insomnia

“….A calcium deficiency often shows itself by insomnia, another form of an inability to relax…..”

Cramps/Spasms

“….An undersupply of calcium also causes irritability of the muscles which may take the form of cramps or spasms. If the blood calcium drops extremely low, convulsions known as tetany can occur; fortunately the usual muscle symptoms are less severe. Leg or foot cramps are the most common although either cramps or spasms may occur in almost any muscle.

Spastic Colitis and/or Constipation

“For example, spasms in the intestine, spoken of as spastic colitis or spastic constipation, are usually relieved by adequate calcium….”

Pre-menstruation, Menstruation and Menopause

“…..The amount of calcium in a woman’s blood parallels the activity of the ovaries; the blood calcium falls to such an extent during the week prior to menstruation that nervous tension, irritability, and perhaps mental depression result. At the onset of menstruation, the blood calcium takes a further drop, often resulting in cramps of the muscular walls of the uterus. This condition is especially severe during adolescence, when the demands of growth exaggerate the need for calcium. Menstrual cramps usually disappear within ½ an hour after calcium is taken.

“During the year before menstruation begins and again during menopause, the lack of ovarian hormones cause severe calcium-deficiency symptoms to occur; at these times unusually large amounts of calcium should be obtained, and every step be taken to insure its absorption into the blood and to prevent its loss from the kidneys. When these steps are taken, the girl at purberty often becomes more pleasant and manageable, and the woman at menopause usually loses her irritability, hot flashes, night sweats, leg cramps, and mental depression. Even after cessation of menstruation, a pseudo-menstrual cycle can usually be observed, and calcium-deficiency symptoms can be particularly noticed during one week of each month. The calcium intake should be increased at such times.”
 
Natural Painkiller

“….this mineral is a pain killer par excellence. Old medical textbooks give as the treatment for the sharp stabbing pains of pleurisy-than which there are few worse- injections of calcium. Why calcium has not been used more widely in alleviatinig other pain remains a mystery. (Comment: I guess that might just be because you can’t patent it!) One physician tells me that he uses no opiates but injects one to four grams of calcium gluconate into the veins of patients suffering even excruciating pain and that relief occurs almost immediately…..”

Editor’s comment: I have personal experience with calmag’s painkilling qualities. When I had my son, I drank about two litres (a bit more than two quarts) of calmag during labor. I had absolutely no pain and no contractions. My muscles were so relaxed I didn’t feel anything. Obviously that isn’t optimum. I didn’t even have a loose bowel from all the calmag, which I drank in a pretty short space of time. I definitely don’t advocate anyone try and stop the contractions like this because you need them to help deliver a baby. However, it demonstrated to me the power of calmag as a painkiller.

Hyperactivity

Kids running around acting a bit crazy or driving you nuts is a symptom of low calcium and magnesium levels and B complex. Too much refined carbohydrates and sugar deplete calcium and magnesium rapidly. Sugar alkalizes the stomach acids and this further prevents absorption of calcium and magnesium which both need an acid environment (correct pH) to be absorbed and used by the body.

So, you have a two-fold destruction or loss of calcium and magnesium when consuming refined carbohydrates (they convert to sugar in the body) and/or sugar-loaded foods or candy. One, your stomach becomes alkaline and can’t absorb the calcium or magnesium – and many other things like protein – and, two, it burns up any calcium and magnesium you might have in your body – creates deficiencies.

Muscle Contraction and Relaxation

Vitally important for the contraction and relaxation of your muscles, calcium and magnesium work together in this activity. Calcium contracts your muscles while magnesium relaxes them. The heart contracts  and relaxes to pump blood through your body. If you have insufficient calcium, it will be too slack and if you have insufficient magnesium, it can’t relax. This is basically a heartbeat. All your muscles work in this way.

Insufficient calcium and/or magnesium makes your nerves tense up and they pull on the muscles and this can cause misalignment of your spine too.

Calcium Absorption

In order for your body to absorb calcium, it needs to be in a certain ratio with magnesium – 2:1 – and it needs some kind of acid to create the correct pH so it can be absorbed. This can be in the form of apple cider vinegar or some kind of vitamin C.

Furthermore, your body needs vitamin D to be able to be absorbed into your bloodstream and it needs vitamin F (essential fatty acids) to be pulled into your tissues.

The best source of vitamin D is the sun but if you don’t get enough sun because you spend a lot of time indoors or its winter and there’s very little sun, you definitely need to make sure you’re getting it. The best nutritional source is cod liver oil.

Sunburn

The effects of sunburn come (besides the radiation aspect) come from insufficient tissue calcium. This occurs when people are deficient in the essential fatty acids.

Vitamin D helps with the absorption of calcium but vitamin F helps pull it into your tissues.

Fever Blisters

Breakouts are caused by the presence of the herpes virus in its various forms but the fever blisters manifest when there is insufficient tissue calcium. That’s one of the reasons why we need vitamin F (essential fatty acids). These are a mere drop in the ocean of why your body needs calcium and magnesium. There are many more chemical actions in your body just from these two minerals.

With kind acknowledgement to Adelle Davis.

“We received the shipment from you quite quickly. I am not sure of dates exactly, however, I believe it had come quicker than I thought it would be. The kids have been taking the CalMag-C also. It took a couple of days to get them onto it. We started mixing it with frozen berries (blueberries, saskatoons, etc.) and now they make it themselves to drink!“ WB, Canada

My husband use to get an epileptic fit every weekend and since I started him on the CalMag-C and took him off the medication, his fits completely stopped and we started to live a normal life again!  Thanks very much for this fantastic product!  Now we can be a family again!  JM

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Please note: A dose of Instant CalMag-C is different to other similar brands.  Whereas most others call for a heaped teaspoon or a tablespoon of powder, with Instant CalMag-C one slightly rounded teaspoon is a dose and provides 290 mg calcium gluconate and 145 mg magnesium carbonate.
 
You can take as many per day as your body can tolerate and as needed. Being water soluble, it does not "build up" in your body. You lose it through your urine, stools, sweating and living (exercise, work, junk food, drugs, alcohol, sugar, etc, etc) so you don't have to worry about overdosing.
 
Rest assured that stress will chew it up too so use as much as your body can tolerate.
 
Here are the dosages you can try for various ages:
 
Babies: Tip of a teaspoon in their water bottle made exactly as you would for adults with a bit of boiling water. You can give them more than one per day, depending on their tolerance. It's great for helping to prevent the usual teething problems as it coats the nerve endings and helps prevent pain and discomfort. (Calciuim is a natural painkiller.)
 
Toddlers: 1/4 teaspoon. They too can take more than one per day, depending on needs and personal tolerance.
 
Young children: 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon: They too can take more than one per day, depending on needs and personal tolerance.
 
Teens: Can take adult dose. They too can take more than one per day, depending on needs and personal tolerance.
 
Mixing directions: Place required dose into a cup and add boiling water, stir till dissolved. Add ice blocks, favorite herbal tea (no sugar, please) or just top up with more hot or cold water.
 
Taste: For children who need to have a different taste, you can add unsweetened fruit juice. Or, you can put into a smoothie - no sugar, please.
 
Note 1: Sugar or any sweetener will affect the pH negatively so don't use any.
 
Note 2: The boiling water is vital for the release of ions needed to break down the calcium particles and to create the correct pH, which improves absorption remarkably.
 
We are available to help you and can be reached at: info@calmag-c.com