Be smart but don’t try to outsmart Nature

by Antonina Ramsey, www.inharmonypeople.com

Our Nutrient Needs or Biochemistry is a very complex science.There is still very little know about many of the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, & visible and non-visible bacteria: their function, impact on us, synthesis, production, and interactions with the rest of the body and life that surrounds us.
Our physiology and chemistry is endlessly complex. Every vitamin and mineral is involved in a million or a billion of functions and is absolutely necessary for us.
Media tends to single out this or that “miracle” nutrient creating just another piece of sensational news, a diet fad or a call to action (buy).  Super foods, kale, antioxidants. This is the nature of media. Its better not to turn to the media for health advice, period.
Now long criticized eggs are back in fashion named “hidden super food” :).  They have always been and will be one of the best sources of nutrition for us. All food is Super Food, except, of course, processed, chemically treated, and engineered products (not food!).
I have been studying modern nutrition, alternative medicine and treated my own digestive problems for more than decade and I can assure you, folks, that the safest thing you can do to improve or maintain your gut heath, which leads to overall physical health (strong immunity) is to eat everything in balanced amounts. Unless you are trying to treat an established or a chronic condition. In this case, you need to take special measures and treat your particular case with the help of a specialist + your own intelligent research.

These are basic/average recommended DVs (Daily Values) of the World Healthiest Foods Foundation in comparison with the US FDA.
If you for example, do not assimilate biotin, it is likely you will have a myriad of conditions related to this because it is one of the most important components in the synthesis of amino acids. And if you don’t synthesize amino acids, you don’t absorb vitamin B12, which can lead to a type of anemia because vitamin B12 is involved in iron assimilation. As you can see, it is complex.

Indispensable Nutrients.

* Units: mcg = micrograms; mg = milligrams; g = grams; kcal = kilocalories; RAE = retinol activity equivalents; IU = international units; aEq = alpha-tocopherol equivalents.

Indispensable Amino Acids Recommendations.

* Chart abbreviations: MET = Methionine; CYS = Cystine; PHE = Phenylalanine; TYR = Tyrosine; NHANES III — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III