Liquid Nutrition

Liquid Nutrition - In June 2002, The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) published findings revealing, “Most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone,” and “insufficient vitamin intake is apparently a cause of chronic diseases.” The Journal even recommended, “it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements.”

However, it is important to realize that all nutrient supplements are NOT created equal. The grocery-store variety vitamin pill may not be supplementing your body with much at all. In fact, the Physicians Desk Reference reveals that vitamins and minerals in pill form are only 10 to 20 percent absorbed by the body. The other 80 to 90 percent of the nutrients are literally being flushed down the drain.

Instead of synthetic supplements in pill form, look for a supplement that is in liquid form. Nearly 100 percent of a liquid supplement is quickly digested and pumped into the blood stream because it is easily absorbable. In addition, people who have difficulty taking pills, like children and seniors, find that liquid supplementation is an easier vitamin to swallow.

Next, look for a supplement that is ionic. Ionic means it has the correct “charge” to be easily absorbed into the intestinal tract. As compared to 10 – 20 percent absorption for vitamin pills, up to 98 percent of the nutrients in liquid, ionic supplement solutions are available for absorption by the body.

Find a supplement that is a whole food. Whole food supplementation is made from whole foods instead of an isolated compound or a “natural synthetic.” A natural synthetic is when one or more specific compounds are synthetically extracted or isolated from a once-natural product. Most health supplements are created this way in a laboratory. These synthetically extracted supplements are missing the other macro, micro and trace elements that used to be in the natural product. When we ingest vitamins and minerals that have been chemically isolated, we miss out on the synergistic function of all of they phytonutrients within the whole plant food.

Phytonutrients are nutrients from plants. Phytonutrients include macro vitamins and minerals, amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), enzymes (the catalysts for many body functions, fatty acids and thousands and thousands of other trace elements and micro nutrients. Phytonutrients are an extremely important part of the diet. The USDA has stated, “It appears that an effective strategy of supporting health is to increase consumption of phytonutrients-rich foods.”

Liquid NutritionAloe vera is another ingredient that adds remarkable healing and soothing properties to a liquid supplement. A recent survey found that aloe vera is the most popular organic remedy on earth! This recognition is largely due to its ability to clean morbid matter from the stomach, liver, kidneys, spleen, bladder and small intestines. Aloe vera is also a great source of more than 75 nutritional compounds, including vitamins, minerals and 18 amino acids. In addition, aloe vera contains more oxygen molecules than the fluids of any other plant. This is of vital importance because the lack of oxygen in the body’s tissue is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease.

As a young man living and working on a farm in Minnesota, I will never forget this learning experience:

My father, him self a farmer’s son was working a second job to help make ends meet on the farm. He was the local grain elevator general manager. Often, he would recruit his three sons to come in and unload truck loads of bags of minerals and feed. These bags where intended for livestock not humans! Note: I was a veteran 4H’er. I say that because more often then not I was Grand Champion on my projects at the state and county fair. Those projects included everything from gardening to beef. I’m sharing this story because what took me a life time to learn – I had already known.

Anyway, the story goes like this. One day a gentleman showed up nicely dressed at the grain elevator while I was unloading bags of minerals. He introduced himself as a “Vitamin” distributor for cattle. He was wondering if my dad had time to learn about “Liquid Vitamins”? My father agreed to listen to his presentation and at 13 I listened too. Note: I just wanted a break from unloading 50 lbs bags from the truck. Much of this presentation included the very essence of what this article is talking about except for livestock. This was very interesting to me because I wanted more than anything to have the best beef steers in the state. For a 13 year old the most important thing I learned is that it wasn’t delivered in 50 lbs bags. To my father though, it appeared that the delivery system to the cell was more important than how it came off the truck.

We switched mixing pellets and powdered vitamins and minerals in the feed to liquid vitamins and minerals in these really cool lick tanks. The beef livestock would lick a metal roller and that would agitate the liquid tanks and dispense the liquid minerals to the livestock.

My brothers and my beef steers won Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion every year after that at the State Livestock Show in Minneapolis. Our steers always won the showmanship part too. When they where dressed out and butchered it never surprised us that our steers where “USA Grade – PRIME!” See if you can find that in your grocery… Not! These steaks where shuttled to Washington DC and other places around the world for a select few.

I must also note that when preparing these beef steers for show, they always had the best looking coats! Their hair was absolutely “Beautiful!”

Thirty years later, I fell victim to depression and chronic pain. When I woke up to the need to supplement with nutrition, I looked for “Liquid Nutrition”.
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